Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, Germany and Austria, Volume VII, Part 2

No. 601
Editorial Note

From January 25 to February 18, the Foreign Ministers of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and the Soviet Union met at Berlin to discuss Germany and the Far East. For documentation on the conference, see Documents 352 ff. When it became obvious that the conference would not produce any results on Germany, a tripartite steering committee drafted letters to Semyenov and Dengin calling for the elimination of obstacles to freedom of movement between the zones of Germany and the sectors of Berlin. The letters were delivered on February 22 and released to the press the same day. For text of these letters, the replies by Semyenov and Dengin on March 6, and two further letters to Semyenov and Dengin, dated March 17, see Department of State Bulletin, April 5, 1954, pages 508–511. Documentation on these exchanges including text of the letters is in files 396.1 BE and 762.0221.