§ 52. Mr. S. O. Daviesasked the Lord Privy Seal why Her Majesty's Government agreed to the Western Plan, which included the strategy for the capture of the East German control posts on the autobahn between Western Germany and Berlin by British, French and American troops, with the concentration of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation forces elsewhere along the East German frontier, and which was made public on 30th May, a few days before the proposed meeting between Messrs Khruschev and Kennedy