Central (C): General (C). Political Exchanges Leading Towards Four-Power Talks on the Future of Germany

A file containing correspondence, Parliamentary Questions and reports about German reunification and four-power talks. The file contains a letter from president Eisenhower to Konrad Adenauer, the German chancellor, and discussions about this correspondence; Parliamentary Questions relating to the British position on four-power talks; the talks' venue; West German policy toward reunification; the Soviet response to the invitation to the talks, and three-power reactions to that response; discussion of Adenauer's actions with regard to the talks, neglect of the Allied High Commission, and American policy in dealing directly with him; Pravda and other press comments on German reunification and rearmament; German government and press reaction to the Soviet response; United States State Department thoughts on the Soviet response; correspondence involving Winston Churchill, the British prime minister, about responses to the talks; discussion of the timing of responses and how the reply would be drafted; and possible NATO involvement in the reply.