§ 38. Mr. Healeyasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what official information he has received from the West German Government of a conversation between Dr. Schaeffer, Minister of Justice in the German Federal Republic, and General Mueller, of the East German army, regarding German reunification.
§ Mr. R. AllanNone, Sir.
§ Mr. HealeyWill the Joint Under-Secretary of State say whether the Government have any unofficial information of these conversations? Will he inform the German Government that, while we have no objection to contacts of this type between the regimes of the two German States, we cannot agree that the West German Government should demand of their Allies standards of conduct in this repect totally different from those which they observe?
§ Mr. AllanThe answer to the first part of the supplementary is, No, Sir. We have not had an approach, official or unofficial.
§ Mr. HealeyI asked whether the Government had had information, not approaches.