Evening star., 1962-04-22
By EARL III. VOSS
Star Staff Writer


The next move in the seven
month Soviet-American dia-
logue on Berlin is up to Soviet
Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin.
Secretary of State Rusk still
is looking for a detailed Krem-
lin reaction to two papers, ap-
proved by the Western allies,
which Mr.. Rusk passed to So
Wet Foreign Minister Gromyko
in Geneva last month.
Mr.. Dobrynin was not pre-
pared with these detailed COM
mentS at his first meeting with
Mr.. Rusk at the State Depart
ment last Monday. American
officials speculated. yesterday,
that the Soviet Ambassador
may be ready some time this
week, however, so that he can
seek a second meeting with Mr..
Rusk in the current Washing
ton round of probing" for a
way to ease tensions over Ber-
lin.
Lists Four Steps
One of the papers Mr.. Rusk
presented Mr.. Gromyko lists
four steps East and West might
take to ease international ten
sions; the other advances a
tentative plan for a 13-mem-
ber international access author
ity to guarantee Western land
and air travel to West Berlin.
The four tenSion-easing steps
listed would be: establishment
of technical commissions COM
posed of East and West Ger
mans to increase contacts
across the Iron Curtain; paral-
lei declarations by NATO and
the Warsaw Pact powers re-
nouncing aggression; pledges
by the same two alliances
against transferring nuclear
weapons beyond the four pow
ers now possessing them; and
establishment of an interna-
tional access authority to guar
antee Western travel to Berlin.
The West would not be in
terested in joining pledges of
or nondispersion
of nuclear weapons unless some
system for easing the Berlin
crisis could be worked out.
Mr.. Gromyko rejected the
International access authority
proposal out of hand when
Mr.. Rusk presented the paper
in mid-March, but the United
States is not taking this first
no" as a final answer.
At the two foreign ministers
last meeting in Geneva, Mr..
Gromyko came back with a
modified proposal for an in
ternational access authority
which would adjudicate differ
ences that might arise after
the Berlin corridors were turned
over to the control Of Com
munist East Germany. Ameri-
can officials quickly spurned
the Soviet counterproposal be-
cause it would accord too much
recognition to East Germany,
put Western travellers under
East German control and bring
international authorities into
the Berlin situation only after
trouble started, not before, as
the West wants.
The United States, neverthe-
less. regards the Soviet counter
proposal as an expression of
interest in the Vests idea for
an access authority. No Soviet
official has commented on it
since, and the State Depart
ment is still seeking detailed
Kremlin views on the plan.
The tentative Western pro-
poSal was cleared with West
German Foreign Minister
before Mr.. Rusk pre-
Sented it. None of the Western
allies regard it, however. as a |
firm proposal. only as a basis
for discussion.
The 13 members of the access
group would be the four occu-
pying powers-Britain, France,
the United States and the
Soviet Union. as we'll as Poland,
echoslovakia, East Germany,
West Germany, East Berlin,
West Berlin, Sweden, Switzer-
land and Austria.
This composition breaks
down into five Western powers,
five Soviet-bloc powers, and
three neutrals.
Majority Decisions
Decisions would be made by
majority vote. thus giving the