Evening star., 1961-11-27


milan and Gen. de Gaulle re-
garded the talks as useful and
that there had been a thorough
exploration of the Berlin prob
lem and of Britain's application
to Join the European Common
Market.
To See Adenauer
Gen. De Gaulle was expected |
to reserve his final decision on
East-West negotiations until
he discusses with Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer the West
German governments attitude
toward a new Western ap-
proach to the Russians.
Mr.. Adenauer, if he is Suffi-
GENTLY recovered from the
grippe. will meet with Gen de
Gaulle in Paris Thursday.
Mr.. Adenauer as we'll as Gen.
de Gaulle has been reluctant
to approve negotiations on
Berlin. but the Chancellor
talks with President Kennedy
in Washington are believed to
have shown that West Ger
many's policy generally Is in
line with that of the United
States and Britain.
Mr.. Kennedy and Mr.. Mac
milan believe negotiations with
the Russians are inevitable and
are anxious to start the allies
on the involved task OF pre-
pairing a Western negotiating
position.
Gen. de Gaulle has contended
that the West must not go into
a meeting under the pressure Of
Soviet threats and that the
Russians must show willingness
to relax their Berlin demands
before the West agrees to a
meeting. If the Russians don't,
he thinks the three Western
allies must stand fast on their
position that they are in West
Berlin legally and must not
even discuss modifying it.
UIbricht Firm
Meanwhile, Walter Ulbricht,
Easel Germany's Communist
chief of state, showed no yield
ing in a speech made public
yesterday.
When his government signs
a separate peace treaty with
the Soviet Union, he said, the
Western allies will have to
withdraw their garrisons from
West Berlin gradually and ne
gotiate with East Germany for
access rights to the Red-sur-
rounded city.
Mr.. Ulbricht made no men
ton of Premier Khrushchev's
recent statement that he would
postpone signing a separate
treaty with East Germany If
the West shows willingness to
negotiate. But Mr.. Khrushchev
has said he will not wait in
definitely.
Mr.. Ulbricht declared the
position of East Berlin, the
East German capital, is not
up for negotiation.
He said it was high time the
Western powers respected in
ternational law as to East Ger
many's sovereignty ION water.
on the land and in the air"
Mr.. Ulbricht proposed nor
NAL relations" between East
and West Germany by ac-
knowledging each others SOW
ereignty. He said both should
renounce nuclear arms and be-
gin negotiations toward a Ger
man confederation.
Trade Pact Urged
AS a first step. he suggested
that the two Germans recoe-
nlze each others passports and
conclude a trade treaty at gov
ernment level. An unofficial
West German office now han
dies the big exchange of goods
to avoid the appearance that
West Germany recognizes the
East German regime officially.
West German government
sources said the Bonn govern
ment would take no notice of
Mr.. Ulbricht's proposals and
would make no comment on
them.
Frav6a, the Soviet Commu-
mist Party organ, said today the
Kennedy Adenauer talks
showed that Mr.. Kennedy has
been won over to the Ger
man leaders hard, hopeless
policy" and that "peace-loving
peoples have again been faced
with a close alliance between
the extreme reactionary and
aggressive circles of the U. S. A.
and the West German mill
tarists and revanchists.
"A sop has been flung to
the international public in the
form of demagogic desire to