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FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES 1964-1968 Volume XV Germany and Berlin DEPARTMENT OF STATE Washington, DC Book Index A-E

Abrasimov, P. A., 296, 357-359, 444-446, 490
Berlin, 621, 624-625, 770-771
Berlin access restrictions, 659-660, 674, 688-690, 701-703, 705, 707, 710-712
FRG policies toward the Eastern bloc, 501-503
Acheson, Dean, 93, 103, 298-299, 402
Action Committee for the United States of Europe, 153
Adenauer, Konrad:

Berlin Wall, 304
CDU/CSU internal disputes, 141, 204
De Gaulle attitude toward, 481
Death and funeral of, 512n, 514-515, 523, 632
European unity, 145-146
French-FRG relations, 530
FRG foreign policy disputes, 68, 77
FRG political situation, 406-407
FRG Soviet bloc policy, 502, 564
Gaullism, 169-171, 274, 323
GDR-FRG relations, 327, 329
Johnson, view of, 536
Military briefing, 427
Morgenthau Plan, 532
Nonproliferation treaty, 492
Reunification of Germany, 240
Soviet Union, 101, 147, 531, 534
Standstill proposal of, 6, 14
Troop level reductions, 405-406
U.S.-FRG relations, 389, 519, 533, 662

Adriatic Sea, 764
Adzhubei, Aleksei, 53, 147
Aeroflot, 298, 614
Africa, 236, 239, 562, 728
Agriculture, 236
Ahlers (FRG), 767
Air pollution, 156, 236
Akalovsky, Alexander, 175, 185
Albertz, Heinrich, 460, 586
Algeria, 120
Algiers conference, Oct.-Nov. 1965, 285
Alliance for Progress, 232
Alphand, Herve, 26, 225, 228, 249-250, 253-255, 261, 326, 712

"The American Challenge," 729

Anderson, Robert, 46
Anschluss, 474
Antarctic Treaty, 365
Antiballistic missiles, 583, 587, 602, 620, 636, 740
Anti-Semitism, 665
Apel, Erich, 281, 336
Appling, Hugh G., 249
Arab-Israeli conflict, 112, 138, 543, 548, 636, 703, 739
Arab states, 53, 54, 112-113, 233, 237, 240-241, 245, 285, 338, 498, 544, 567
Arms control. See Disarmament; Nonproliferation treaty.
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), 497n
Arndt (FRG), 23, 670
Asian Development Bank, 353-354
Atlantic Alliance (see also North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)):

French renunciation of, 561-562
FRG position, 140-141, 652, 666
Loosening of, 602
Nuclear force, 223-224, 242, 378-379

Atlantic Policy Advisory Group (APAG), 234-238, 240-241
Ausland, John C., 1n, 64, 82, 89, 98n
Australia, 115-116
Austria, 47, 474, 595, 605, 693-694
Austrian State Treaty, 1966, 195

Bahr, Egon, 88-89, 91, 94, 566, 588-589, 763-764
Baker, Vincent, 344n
Balance of payments, U.S. (see also Military offset payments), 368, 434, 626-627, 658, 667, 725-726, 732, 769, 775
Ball, George W., 17n, 127, 132n, 241, 623

Berlin, 246, 298, 455, 691-695
Eastern Europe, 269-270, 284, 287, 591
European Economic Community, 248
European unity, 145
Kennedy Round, 350-351
Military offset payments, 377, 386-389, 413, 420-421, 428-430
NATO, 284
Nuclear defense, 330-331, 423, 425
Oder-Neisse border issue, 60
Reunification of Germany, 8, 58, 172, 225, 227, 264-269, 283-284, 327
U.S.-FRG relations, 46-52, 654-655
Vietnam conflict, 341, 345
Western trade with the GDR, 271-272

Bank of England, 644
Barber, Arthur W., 344
Barghoorn, 40
Barnes, E.J.W., 82, 267
Barzel, Rainer, 194, 201, 230-232, 234, 236, 241

Military offset payments, 632, 634
Nonproliferation treaty, 632, 634-637
Political situation in the FRG, 140, 385-386, 409-410
Reunification of Germany, 355-356, 523-525
Troop level reductions, 523
U.S.-FRG relations, 372-374, 652, 654
Vietnam conflict, 630-632

Basic Law, 452
Bator, Francis C., 331, 350, 372, 420-421, 429, 504n, 512-513, 553-554, 558-560, 563, 569
Bavaria, 749
Beaumarchais, Jacques de, 82, 225, 267, 326, 630
Behrends, Wolfgang, 172
Behrendt, Heinz, 670
Behrens, Fritz, 280
Beitz, Berthold, 228, 288, 489, 586
Belgium, 238, 241, 425, 475
Bell, David E., 87
Benary, Arne, 280
Berg, Fritz, 141, 550
Berger, Hans, 366
Beria, Lavrentia, 227
Berlin (see also East Berlin; Washington Ambassadorial Group):

Access issues:

Airline service from Hannover, 686, 698
Autobahn arrests of West Germans, 411
Barge and rail traffic, 299-301, 753-754
British position, 660, 673-674, 685, 713
Contingency planning for threats around, 753-755
Czech position, 714
Four-power arrangement of 1949 on, 700
Berlin--Continued
Access issues--Continued
French position, 660, 681, 685, 712-713
FRG position, 684, 773
GDR measures regarding, 658-662, 678-680
Italian position, 714
Pass arrangements, see under East Berlin
Quadripartite talks on, 708-716
Soviet-FRG talks on, 688-690
Soviet position, 669-670, 738, 759
Transport of civilians by military vehicles, 712
U.S.-FRG talks on, 691-696, 701-708
U.S. position, 122, 663-665, 672, 674, 681, 685
U.S.-Soviet talks on, 682-683, 699-700, 772
Yugoslav position, 714

Allied Declaration on, 759-761, 763
Allied reserve rights in, 458
Allied troops in, 101, 185
Brandt-Abrasimov meetings, 357-359, 444-446
British letter regarding, 770-771
Bundestag meetings in:

Committees, Oct.-Nov. 1968, 759-760
Defense Committee, 625, 629, 672, 698
Plenary group, 246, 248, 293, 335, 358, 453, 461, 672
Soviet position, 502, 700, 703, 710

Bundesversammlung meetings in, 166, 774, 777, 778-780
Civil unrest in, 548-549, 586, 756-757
Contingency planning, 752-757
Crisis of 1961, 356, 365, 634, 704
Defense, 756-758, 761-762, 770-771
Eastern Europe support for new crisis in, 643-644
Economic situation, 650-651
Four-power dialog, 181, 287
Free-city status, 131, 245, 335, 444, 613-614, 624-626, 779
French obstructionism in, 611, 774
FRG, ties with:

Application of treaties, 270
Globelgesetz, 94, 165-166, 686

GDR-FRG relations and, 162-163, 299-301, 303, 305, 606
GDR helicopter flights, 293, 296-299, 304305, 309-310
GDR pressure on Soviets over, 66
Inclusion in FRG agreements of, 381-383
Interzonal trade agreement, Aug. 1960, 687
Morale, 548-551, 651, 739
Non-use of force agreement exclusion, 547
NPD, banning of, 764
Police trade union meetings in, 698
Quadripartite talks on, 708-715
Reichstag building, 686-688
Reunification of Germany, 605
RIAS funding cuts, 651-652
Soviet cultural exchanges, 358-359
Soviet memorandum, 621-622
Soviet position, 181, 287

Berlin as separate entity, 131, 245, 335, 444, 613-614, 624-626, 779
Continuity, 620-621

Soviet pressures on:

Air harassment, 650, 754-756
Increase in, 735
Lessening of, 467
Military maneuvers around, 247-248
Propaganda campaign, 747-750, 759-760
Soviet position, 761-762
U.S. position, 297-298, 340
Vietnam conflict, as counterbalance, 297

Soviet Trade Center, 650
SPD branch, problems in, 651
Status of:

Allied-FRG differences over, 163-165, 469-470
Soviet position, 131, 245, 335, 444, 613-614, 624-626, 779
U.S. position, 165-169, 614, 627-628

University reform, 651
U.S.-Soviet talks on, 205, 245
USMLM house demonstration, 293, 296-297, 299
Viability of, 586, 709, 714
Voting rights for Bundestag Deputies, 451-455, 458-461, 467, 478, 483, 551
Wall, erection of, 304, 596
Wall shootings, 293, 411, 467

Berlin clause, 120, 269

British position, 382
GDR position, 281
Negative clause, 381-383, 686
U.S. position, 134, 167, 270, 381-383

Berlin Task Force, 678, 685
Berlin Wall, 293, 304, 411, 467, 596
Bern Union (European Payments Union), 49, 287
Bewerunge, Ulrich, 284
Bilderberg Group, 500
Birrenbach, Kurt, 234, 391, 440, 495, 647, 677, 734-735, 737-740, 743, 749
Bismarck, Otto von, 154, 595
Bismarck, Philipp von, 610
Blessing, Karl, 421-422, 430, 541, 627, 648
Blumenfeld, Eric, 234, 498
Boeker, Alexander, 691-696, 704
Bohlen, Charles E., 225, 227, 229, 257, 260, 263, 326-327, 470, 661-662, 699-700, 772
Boie, Gen. Werner, 345, 511
Bonn Working Group, 195, 198, 270
Botho, Prince, 631
Bowie, Robert J., 420, 429, 496, 542, 544, 569, 608
Boyesen, Jens, 234
Brandt, Willy, 543, 567, 761n, 765

Berlin:

Access restrictions, 659, 673, 674n, 678, 688-690, 693, 695, 698, 701-716, 759, 773
Civil unrest in, 586
GDR actions in, 763-764
Incidents of harassment in, 305
Meetings with Soviet Ambassador regarding, 357-359, 444-446
Morale in, 548-549
NPD banning in, 764
Pass arrangements, 7, 23, 38, 94, 162
Status of, 163, 469-470, 614-615
U.S. position, 627-629
Viability commission, 586
Voting rights for Deputies in the Bundestag, 451, 458-461, 478

Czechoslovakia, 738, 741-742
Defense budget levels, 775
Defense strategies, 577
Eastern borders issue, 151, 464-465
Eastern Europe-FRG relations, 151-159, 216-218, 486, 498, 546-547, 561-562, 566
East-West relations, 488-490, 544-545, 610
Elections, 296, 323
EEC, 485-486, 545, 557, 568, 641
European special trade arrangements, 776
French-FRG relations, 477, 638, 765-766, 775
FRG defense budget levels, 555
FRG foreign policy, 68, 456-459, 473-478
GDR-FRG relations, 282, 468-469, 546-547
International liquidity, 574
Military offset payments, 484-487, 626-627, 765
Multilateral Force, 94
NATO, 555, 568, 614, 764
Nonproliferation treaty, 475-476, 485, 542-543, 585-586, 593, 622-623
Non-use of force agreements, 614
Nuclear weapons, 247
Polish-FRG relations, 91-92
Reunification of Germany, 94, 259, 328, 466-468
Soviet bloc, policy toward, 622, 627-628
Soviet-FRG relations, 547-548, 565-566, 588, 612, 670, 777
Soviet-U.S. relations, 565
Troop level reductions, 505-506, 576, 592
Tsarapkin talks, 547, 582, 588, 608, 612-614, 622, 628, 664, 673
U.S.-FRG relations, 497, 515, 569, 573, 718, 773-777
Vietnam conflict, 619, 642, 646
Visits:

Bucharest, Aug. 1967, 566, 572
To Khrushchev in East Berlin, proposed, 60
Morocco, Feb. 1968, 626
Paris, Feb. 1968, 638-641
Washington, May 1964, 87-94
Washington, April 1965, 247-249
Washington, Feb. 1967, 486, 491
Washington, Aug. 1967, 544, 565-569, 573
Yugoslavia, 1968, 715

Yugoslavia, 489

Braun, Baron Sigismund von, 411
Brentano, Heinrich von, 219n
Brezhnev, Leonid I., 295, 690, 702
Brooke, Gerald, 615
Brotesser, K. F., 411
Brown, George, 466-467, 469-470, 546-547, 548, 566, 612, 614-615, 680, 682
Bruce, David K. E., 244, 658
Brunner, Guido, 411
Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 285, 496, 595n, 627
Buchs, Gen., 512
Bulgaria (see also Bulgarian subheadings under other subjects), 269, 281, 361, 412, 432, 507, 566, 643, 722, 738
Bundesbank, 386, 434, 627
Bundestag:

Berlin access restrictions, 686
Defense budget levels, 745
Kiesinger problems with, 521-522
Meetings in Berlin:

Committees, Oct.-Nov. 1968, 759-760
Defense Committee, 625, 629, 672, 698
Plenary group, 246, 248, 293, 335, 358, 453, 461, 672
Soviet position, 502, 700, 703, 710

Nonproliferation treaty, 532
Preferential economic treatment of Berlin by, 706
Troop level reductions, 523-524
Voting rights for Berlin Deputies, 451-455, 458-461, 483, 461, 467, 478, 551

Bundesversammlung, 166, 774, 777-780
Bundy, McGeorge, 27n, 30n, 39n, 40, 95n

Berlin:

Bundestag meeting in, 246
Incidents of harassment in, 298, 305, 309-310
Pass agreements, 162

FRG foreign policy as election issue, 248
Johnson-Brandt meeting, 87-89
Nuclear defense policy, 331
PRC-FRG relations, 119
Reunification of Germany, 6, 18-19, 68, 139, 209-210
Soviet-GDR friendship treaty, 121, 126
Soviet-FRG relations, 73
U.S.-FRG relations, 93, 103

Burdett, William C., 15, 72
Butler, Richard A., 18-19, 24, 35-36, 45, 59-61, 66, 68, 71-72, 82-83, 85, 189

Caccia, Harold, 72, 245
Calhoun, John A., 151-152
Cambodia, 719
Canada, 242, 567, 730
Carstens, Karl, 33, 38, 66, 82, 85-86, 380, 396, 585

Berlin, 167, 301, 680
CDU/CSU internal disputes, 204
Czechoslovakia, 734, 743
GDR relations, 238
Kennedy Round, 350
Military offset payments, 366, 429
Multilateral Force, 242-243
NATO, 496, 498
Nuclear defense, 423
PRC-FRG relations, 119
Reunification of Germany, 267, 269, 442-443
Soviet-FRG relations, 167, 336, 490
Soviet-GDR friendship treaty, 108, 121, 125
Troop reduction proposals, 450n
UN role for the GDR, 365
U.S.-FRG relations, 234, 273, 368
Vietnam conflict, 345, 369
Voting rights for Berlin Deputies in Bundestag, 451, 454-455, 458

Casper, Walther, 234, 236, 652-653, 716
Castro, Fidel, 28, 374
Ceausescu, Nicolae, 599
Central Europe (see also individual countries):

Arms control in, 313-314
Division of Germany as threat to, 329
Security measures for, 313-314
Trilateral talks on defense of, 561n
Troop reduction, 24-25, 36, 73-75

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA):

Berlin Task Force, 678
Special Reports:

SC No. 00692/65B, 276-282
SC No. 00756/66B, 354
SC No. 00766/66A, 357
SC No. 00792/67A, 593

U.S. helicopter flights over East Berlin, 160

Ceylon, 31, 38, 62, 242
China, People's Republic of (PRC) (see also PRC subheadings under other subjects; Sino-Soviet conflict), 273n

British trade with, 545, 707
Communism, survival of, 734
French diplomatic recognition, 21-22, 138, 116, 120
Geneva Accord violations by, 109
FRG, relations with:

Agreement on Industry and Commerce, Beijing, Sept. 1957, 102
Trade, 113, 119-120, 167
U.S. position, 101-102, 391, 545

Independent nature of, 314
Military threat of, 143, 404
Nuclear capability, 587
United States, relations with, 716, 719
U.S. citizen travel to, 704
Western aid to, 22

China, Republic of, 22
Christian, George, 527, 534, 563
Civil aviation, 156
Clay, Gen. Lucius D., 93, 299
Cleveland, Harlan, 591, 606n, 658
Clifford, Clark, 656, 675, 721-725, 731n, 767-770
Cline, Ray, 504-505
Cohen, Wilbur J., 771
Commission on Germany and Central Europe. See under Peace and reunification planning.
Common Agricultural Policy, 48n, 126-127, 234
Common Market. See European Economic Community (EEC).
Congo, Republic of the, 241
Congress, U.S. (see also Senate, U.S.):

Defense Appropriation Bill, 1968, 732
East-West trade, 365
Executive branch difficulties with, 521-522
Johnson Debt Default Act, 1934, 49
Multilateral Force, 378
NATO, 768
Nonproliferation treaty, 636
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, 351
Soviet downing of U.S. aircraft, 40
Trade Expansion Act, 1962, 351
Troop level reductions, 398-404, 519-521, 528-529, 534, 724, 729

Conscientious objectors, 280
Coordinating Committee on Export Controls (COCOM), 49, 545
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CEMA), 603-605
Council of Europe, 604
Council of Foreign Relations, 236
Couve de Murville, Maurice, 471

Berlin, 614, 680, 682
Eastern Europe, 361-362
European Economic Community, 545
European security, 362-365
GDR-FRG relations, 360361, 469, 546-547
Nonproliferation treaty, 629
Non-use of force agreements, 614
Peace conference proposal, 556 Poland, 474
Reunification of Germany, 189, 197, 206, 225-229, 326-327

FRG draft initiative, 61, 66
Quadripartite Foreign Ministers talks on, 335-337, 340, 466
Three-power initiative on, 82-83, 85
Western Three Declaration, 263, 267-268, 342

Soviet Union, 362, 469
Vietnam conflict, 141
Western trade with the GDR, 271-272
Yugoslav-FRG relations, 612

Crawford, R. S., 244
Creel, Robert C., 17n, 46, 58, 60, 61, 63-64, 89, 92, 103, 104n, 108, 119, 121, 128n, 132n, 264, 267, 270, 284
Crowley, Edwin D., 397n
Cuba, 20n, 28, 80, 92-93, 109, 112, 113, 116, 286, 365, 374, 525, 704, 707, 731, 745
Curtius, Klaus, 411
Cyprus dispute, 20n, 79

FRG peacekeeping forces for, 27-28, 100, 241
U.S. position, 126-127

Cyrankiewicz (Poland), 489
Czechoslovakia (see also Czechoslovakia and Czech subheadings under other subjects), 432

Berlin crises, 643-644, 692, 697, 703
Film production in, 156
GDR, relations with, 714, 722, 748
FRG, relations with, 156-157, 269, 336, 412, 458, 489, 507, 544, 665

Cultural exchanges, 156-157
Improvements in, 719
Sudeten Germans, 110, 120, 396
Territorial claims, 148, 150-151, 211
Trade missions, 89, 486, 546-547, 566, 572, 613

Liberalization in, 84, 665, 745
Soviet invasion (1968), 692, 697

Bulgarian position, 722
French-FRG talks on, 741-742, 745
FRG position, 730-735, 737-739, 767-768
GDR position, 700, 711, 722
Hungarian position, 705, 722
NATO reaction to, 746
Polish position, 722
Romanian position, 705, 722
Soviet position, 703, 719, 732-733
U.S. position, 704, 736, 739-740, 743, 751, 768, 776-777
Yugoslav position, 705

Soviet support for territorial integrity of, 603
Western relations with, 287, 364

Dahlgruen, Rolf, 421-422
Danube River shipping, 156
Davis, Nathaniel W., 58, 98n, 643-644, 685
De Brebisson, Gen., 585
De Courcel, Geoffroy Chodron, 267
De Gaulle, Charles, 27n, 557, 570, 732

Adenauer attitude toward, 170, 323
Atlantic Alliance, 561, 563, 571
Czechoslovakia, 735, 743, 745, 751

Détente, 482
Eastern Europe, 153, 302
Erhard government, fall of, 447-448, 571
European Economic Community, 325, 482, 545, 557, 567, 639-641
European unity, 135-138, 140-141, 145-146, 224, 276, 619
French-FRG treaty, 481-482
French-FRG relations, 20, 134-138, 210, 220-221, 273-274, 292-293, 477-478, 513, 567, 572, 623, 638-641
French role in Europe, 473-474
FRG view of, 235, 563, 570
German border issues, 395
Indochina, 110
International monetary affairs, 222, 575
Kennedy Round, 202, 324, 627
Kiesinger, meetings with, 472, 481-482, 499-500, 529
Military offset payments in the FRG, 388, 769-770
Multilateral Force, 112, 201, 243, 293
Nationalism, 662
NATO, 274-275, 289-290, 425, 571, 575-576, 595, 599, 631, 745
Political situation in France, 732
PRC-French relations, 120
Reunification of Germany, 193, 206-207, 220-221, 223-225, 285, 406, 720
Soviet-French relations, 644
Soviet-FRG relations, 412
Troop level reductions, 398-399, 405, 534
U.S.-French relations, 203, 487, 580, 775
U.S.-FRG relations, 389, 529, 533, 632
Vietnam conflict, 482, 631
Visits:

Bonn, 1966, 392
Bonn, July 1967, 505, 556-557, 563-564
Canada, July 1967, 567
East Asia, Aug.-Sept., 1964, 21
Latin America, Sept.-Oct. 1964, 21
Mexico, Mar. 1964, 21
Soviet Union, 1966, 362

Western Three Declaration on Germany, 254, 256, 260n, 261, 263

De Jong, Piet, 747-748, 762
De la Grandville, Jean de la Chevadiere, 82, 267
De Maziere, Gen., 571, 776
Debre, Michel, 574-575, 627, 741-742, 759, 763, 776
Dechamps, Bruno, 234
Defense, U.S. Department of:

Berlin Task Force, 678
GDR helicopter flights over Berlin, 310
Military offset payments, 420
U.S. helicopter flights over East Berlin, 161

Defense Production Committee (DPC), 512, 775
Deming, Frederick L., 420, 626-627
Denmark, 47, 141, 233, 238, 694, 715, 765-766
Detente:

Erhard government, fall of, effect on, 449
French position, 482
FRG position, 103, 470, 480, 482, 596, 702, 728, 738-739
NATO as instrument of, 620
U.S. position, 308, 562, 599-600

Dibelius, Bishop Otto, 280
Die Welt, 137, 192, 209, 254, 274, 372
Diehl, Oskar, 544, 684
Dillon, C. Douglas, 413n, 416
Dirksen, Everett M., 732
Disarmament, (see also Nonproliferation treaty; Nuclear weapons), 239, 313-314, 525, 751-752:

Denuclearization of Germany, 176
FRG position, 5, 80, 206, 376-377
McCloy/Zorin statement of principles on, 344
Negotiations with the Soviet Union, 9, 176, 178
Soviet position, 178, 245, 262
U.S. position, 492
World conference proposal, 365

Disosway, Gen. Gabriel P., 39, 161
Dobrynin, Anatoly F., 56n

Berlin, 661-662, 682, 699-701, 703-704, 771-772
Nonproliferation treaty, 746-747
Reunification of Germany, 175, 185
Romania, 758
Soviet downing of U.S. aircraft, 41-43
Soviet-FRG relations, 483, 747-749, 762-763
Soviet-GDR friendship treaty, 123

Dollinger (FRG), 550
Dominican Republic, 264n, 291, 374
Douglas-Home, Alex, 18-19, 153
Dubcek, Alexander, 738, 745-746
Duckwitz, Georg F., 485, 611, 613, 629, 652, 654, 680, 686-688, 701, 708
Dufhues (FRG), 141
Duke, Angier Biddle, 126
Dulles, John Foster, 466

East Africa, 241
East Berlin (see also Berlin):

Pass arrangements for West Berliners, 1, 279, 293

Berlin position, 23, 94
FRG political conflict over, 38, 88
FRG position, 7-8, 22-23, 94, 467-468
FRG public opinion on, 7

U.S. helicopter flights over, 160-162, 219-220, 309-310
U.S. military traffic violations in, 57

Eastern bloc. See Eastern Europe; Soviet Union.
Eastern Europe (see also East-West trade; individual countries):

Brandt memorandum, 151-159, 216-218
British policy toward, 153
Cultural exchanges, 155-157
Economic reforms in, 603
European Economic Community, relations with, 154-155, 598
French-FRG talks on, 456
French policy toward, 153, 238, 361-362, 487
FRG, relations with, 4-5, 103-104, 325, 394-396, 457-458, 486

Berlin clause, 120, 134, 167, 269-270, 381-383
French role in, 581-582
GDR position, 84, 468
German reunification as factor in, 315-316
Improvements in, 380, 483, 546-547, 627, 730-731
Non-use of force, 467, 475, 547, 607
Soviet role in, 468
Trade, 84, 106-107, 544
U.S. position, 90, 320-322, 498, 590-591, 606-607, 633-634

FRG policy toward, 50-51, 480, 566, 589-591, 609-610, 657-658

Soviet and GDR position, 501-503
U.S. position, 495-496, 504, 561-562, 663, 665-666

FRG-U.S. talks, 565-567
Ideological evolution in, 602-603
Liberalization in, 314
NATO, effect of, 746
Netherlands policy toward, 238
Northern and Southern blocs in, 432
Political assembly, establishment of, 604
Radio jamming, 92
Reconciliation in, 601, 603-604
Reunification of Germany, 339
Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, effect on, 740
Soviet position, 750
Soviet threat to Berlin, 643
Soviet Union, relations with, 338, 664
United States, relations with, 67, 286:
U.S. trade with, 49, 190, 227
U.S. policy toward, 227, 236, 561
Western policies toward, 151-159, 216-218
Western relations with, 375

East-West relations. See Eastern Europe; individual countries)
East-West trade, 48-51, 155, 190, 248, 284-289, 302-303, 365, 544-545
Echo der Zeit, 654
Eckhardt, Felix von, 170
Economic Commission for Europe, 155-156, 509, 604
Economic relations between the Germanys, extension under peace plan of, 4, 8
Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Conference, Geneva, 28-29, 31, 80, 492-493, 495, 629
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 115, 406, 517, 530, 534, 636, 775
Elections:

In the FRG, Sept. 1965:

Berlin passes, 88
Foreign policy as issue in, 248, 304
GDR attempts to influence, 133, 296
Grand coalition, 307, 323
Multilateral Force, 213
Reunification of Germany and, 72, 76-78, 88-90, 111-112, 183, 195-196, 205-206, 238
Soviet position, 110, 296

In the FRG, Apr. 1967, Schleswig- Holstein, 492, 530, 532
In the FRG, 1968, Baden- Wurttemburg, 671, 676
In the FRG, Oct. 1969, 777
In Italy, 1968, 674
Referendum on German reunification, proposal, 3-4
In the U.K., 1964, 72, 231
In the U.S., 1964:

East Berlin helicopter flight issue, 161
Soviet position, 110
Three-power initiative on German reunification as issue in, 70, 72

In the U.S., 1966, 515-516
In the U.S., 1968:

Berlin access restrictions, 697, 704
Czechoslovakia, 734
FRG defense spending, 744

Elizabeth II, Queen, 292
Emminger, Otmar, 541, 574-575
Erhard, Ludwig:

Berlin, 22-23, 162, 299-305
British-FRG relations, 476
Cuba, 80
Cyprus, 79, 126-127
Disarmament, 80
Eastern Europe, 158-159, 190, 216-217, 284-289, 375
Economic aid to the GDR, 36
Economic aid to less-developed countries, 80
European unity, 134-140, 145-146, 276
French-PRC relations, 21-22
French-FRG relations, 20-21, 134-138, 274, 292293, 379, 476, 530
FRG budget, 387
FRG-Israeli arms deal, 230
FRG Soviet bloc policy, 502
Indonesia, 438
International liquidity, 541
Johnson view of, 536
Johnson-Khrushchev exchanges, 97
Kennedy Round, 350-352, 376, 437
Khrushchev visit proposal, 167
Meetings with Johnson:

June 1964, 111-118
June 1965, 291-293

Military offset payments:

FRG position, 124, 353, 408, 417, 478, 531
Loan prepayments, 367-368
U.S. position, 348-349, 366, 368-369, 374, 387-388, 392-393

Multilateral Force, 52, 189-190, 201-204, 231, 243, 408
NATO, 289-290
Nuclear defense, 423-428
Nuclear sharing, 353
Political weakening and fall of, 195-197, 385-386, 390-391, 407-410, 446-449, 494, 530, 571
Reunification of Germany, 188-189, 193, 327

Four-Power Council on, 209
FRG draft initiative, 12, 14, 17-18, 37-38
Three-power initiative on, 95-96
U.S. position, 212, 223
Western Three Declaration on, 254, 342

Soviet-FRG relations, 73, 101, 147, 537
Soviet-GDR friendship treaty, 108-109, 125-126
Troop level reductions, 73-75, 417-420, 435, 552n
U.S.-FRG relations, 27-29, 34, 43-44, 111, 115-118, 356, 368-369, 374, 476, 513, 654, 662
U.S.-Soviet relations, 431-432
Vietnam conflict, 370

Balance-of-payment problems arising from, 347
FRG support for, 27-28, 80, 124-125, 273, 341, 345-346, 349, 354, 369

Visits:

France, Jan. 1965, 193, 197, 201, 203-204, 206, 213-214, 216, 220-222
Soviet Union, proposed, 53-54, 60
U.S. (LBJ Ranch), Dec. 1963, 27, 29, 34, 68, 75-76, 81, 114, 187, 210, 323
U.S., June 1964, 52-53, 87, 107-119, 123-129
U.S., June 1965, 273
U.S., Dec. 1965, 341, 345-354
U.S., Sept. 1966, 380, 392, 408-410, 417, 420-433, 436-439, 478, 562

Western credits for the Soviet Union, 10

Erler, Fritz, 211, 234, 247-248, 407, 477, 548
Eshkol, Levi, 53
Ethnic minorities:

Germans in Poland, 462-463
Sudeten Germans, 110, 120, 149-150, 396, 474, 595
Yugoslavs in the United States, 362

Euratom:

French role in, 616
IAEA negotiations with, 459, 594, 629, 633-635, 638
Nonproliferation treaty, 586

European Conference of Transport Ministers, 156
European Economic Community (EEC), 273

Austrian membership, 605
British membership:

French-FRG understanding, 639-641, 646647, 652
French position, 482, 545, 557, 623, 776
FRG position, 456, 482, 485-486, 557, 567, 571, 631, 668, 728-730
Netherlands position, 557
Reunification of Germany aided by, 602
U.S. position, 44, 248

Common Agricultural Policy, 48n, 126-127, 234
Czech invasion, effect of, 750-751
Eastern Europe, relations with, 154-155, 598
Enlargement of, 638, 641
European special trade arrangements, 776
French threat to, 234, 292, 325
GDR membership, 605, 666
FRG position, 104, 390
Heads of States and Governments Conference, 221
Highway construction, 156
International liquidity, 541, 575
Italian position, 557, 640
Kennedy Round, 79, 351, 376
Political integration, 145, 426, 557, 568, 602, 640-641
Soviet position, 490
Yugoslav membership, 604-605

European Free Trade Association (EFTA), 482
European Payments Union, 49
European Security Commission, 604
European Security Conference proposal, 715
Evangelical Church, 280

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