294. Editorial Note
Assistant Secretary of State Kohler had informed the other members of the Washington Ambassadorial Group on February 11, 1962, that the United States favored a protest to the Soviet Ambassador in the German Democratic Republic concerning traffic in the air corridors to Berlin. (Telegram 2196 to Bonn, February 10; Department of State, Central Files, 962.72/2-962) Coordination of the protest note was done in Bonn, and it was delivered on February 13. (Telegram 1865 from Bonn, February 12; ibid., 962.72/2-1262)
In view of the continued Soviet exclusionary use of the air corridors, on February 15 the three Western powers addressed an additional protest to the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For text of this note and the Soviet reply of February 17, see American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1962, pages 687-689.