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effort toa conciliatory attitude prior to the summit was evident ln its handling of the iSsue of passes for the Allied military liaison missions accredited to Soviet forces in East Germany. The announcement onarch, which rescinded the passesreferences towith tbe "German Democraticppears designed to portray the movere-sum-mlt concession, in order not to "worsen the atmosphere between the great powers."
Moscow probably considered that the highly publicizedhad becomoparticularly in the light of Khrushchev's public statementarch calling on all states to refrain from any action which could endanger the favorable pro-summit atmosphere. Tbeleadership probablythat the Americanthat there would bo no high-altitude flights to Berlin at this time and the Western statement onarch recalling Khrushchev's state-ment placed ths USSR ln anreasingly unfavorablen this Issue.
Privately, Moscow hasto gain some advantage from the dispute by linking the duration of tho validity of the original passes to the over-all solution of the questions at tho summit. General Vorontsov informed the Western military offlciale of this onarch. Moscow apparently intends to retain this issue as an element Of pressure on the West.
Soviet efforts to appear conciliatory were alsoln the prompt rescheduling Of the Khrushchev visit to France in order to forestall speculationossibleIllness." Khrushchev's Illness appearsemilno
irmany and Berlin will ba main items in KJirushchov'a talks
wlthnpthe AlgerlarTquestlon will be raised by Khrushchev and not the French, but that this will leadeneral discussion ofGuinea. Disarmament will also bo on the :enda
Soviet bloc officials are also continuing their efforts privately to oncourage Western apprehension over some definite Soviet actioneparate peace treaty after the summit conference. An East Germanspelled out the detailed "consequences of suchisting specifically road tolls and rail transit fees among the measures that East Germany would undertake to Isolate West Berlin/
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