1.
GV ALLIED CONTROL AUTHORITY BUILDING
0.05

2.
SV US AMBASSADOR OUT OF CAR AND UP STEPS
0.16

3.
SV CAMERAMEN
0.17

4.
CU GUARD OF HONOUR
0.20

5.
SV AMBASSADOR ENTERING
0.22

6.
SV PAN BRITISH AMBASSADOR ARRIVES AND ENTERS
0.43

7.
SV FRENCH AMBASSADOR ARRIVES
0.53

8.
SV PAN SOVIET AMBASSADOR ARRIVES
1.12

9.
SV AMBASSADORS PARKED CARS
1.15

10.
SV BUILDING AND GROUNDS
1.20



Initials AJC/VS/BOB/OS



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Background: AMBASSADORS OF THE UNITED STATES, BRITAIN AND FRANCE PLAN ANOTHER MEETING WITH THE SOVIET UNION NEXT MONTH TO EXCHANGE VIEWS ON BERLIN. THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE BIG FOUR POWERS MET IN WEST BERLIN TODAY.....THE SECOND SESSION OF THE FIRST CONFERENCE ON BERLIN IN ELEVEN YEARS.

THE TALKS WERE HELD IN THE LONG-DISUSED BUILDING OF THE FORMER ALLIED CONTROL AUTHORITY IN THE AMERICAN SECTOR. AFTER-WARDS, M. FRANCOIS SEYDOUX DE CLAUSONNE, FRANCE'S AMBASSADOR IN BONN, SAID THAT THE TWO-HOUR SESSION WAS INTERESTING AND CONSTRUCTIVE.

THE ONLY COMMUNIQUE, A STATEMENT FROM THE WESTERN POWERS, SAID THAT THE NEXT SESSION WOULD TAKE PLACE ON MAY 14TH. IT WAS REPORTED UNOFFICIALLY THAT THE MEETING WAS FRIENDLY.

M. SEYDOUX, WHO PRESIDED THE MEETING, OPENED THE DISCUSSION WITH A STATEMENT FROM HIS GOVERNMENT. HE WAS FOLLOWED BY SIR ROGER JACKLING, THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR, AND MR. KENNETH RUSH OF THE UNITED STATES. PYOTR ABRASIMOV, THE SOVIET AMBASSADOR IN EAST BERLIN, SPOKE LAST.

THE WESTERN NATIONS WANT RUSSIA TO USE HER INFLUENCE WITH EAST GERMANY TO ALLOW GREATER FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT FOR WEST BERLINERS BETWEEN THE TWO HALVES OF BERLIN AND ON THE ROUTES THROUGH EAST GERMANY TO THE WEST.