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(' 	1. Iii REFEllEllCE. TO PRESS srORElS COllCERllill6 us-SOVIET coLLUSIOll .. SIEl!M ING FROM '1l'E . SHPKLRES. OF INFLUENCE UNQUOTE, DEPARTMEHT SPOKESMAN !~SUED . FOLLOVING SI'ATEL'IENT AT NOON TODAY. 
2. BEGIN TEXT THE ' UNITED SIATES GOVERNMENT HAS NEVER .ENTERED 
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00 DISCUSSION OF ANY SUCH IDEA 'lN CONNEC'I.ION WITH RECENT DEVELOP-­HINTS IN CZECKO~OVAKIA NOR HAS ANY GOVERNMENT ATTEMPTED TO ­
ll.ICIT FROM THE UNITED SI'ATES GOVERNll&NT .Atel SUCH UNDERSIANDING• . 
ANY SUGGESIION THAT : THE UNITED SI'ATES,,· TACITLY CR OTHERWISl,. GAVE THE SOVIET UNION TO Uti>ERSTAti> THAT THE : UNITED STATES wouU> BE INDIFFERENT TO THE ACI ION WHICH THI SOVIET UNION··AND OfHER VARSAV PACT COUNTRIES . HAVE NOV TAKEN IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA IS llALICIOUS AND TOTALLY WITHOUT FOUNDATION. ·· ' 
3. IT HAS eUN INT llATED .THAT "THE YALTA CONFERENCE ·LED TO THE CREATION OF QR SPHERES OF INFLUENCE UNQfE IN EtliOPE. IN FACT THE YALTA..: a>NFERENCE, HELD FROlt .FEBRUARY. 1 • 11. ~~51 
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EETVEEN THE u~s., GREAT BRITAIN, AND THE SOVIET UNION, DID NOT DI ANY MANNER-Eirl£R. DIRECTLY OR INDIRECI'LY DEAL WITH ANY QUESIIOHS OF SPHERES OF INFLUEN<2:. THE ENTJRE RECORD OF THE CX>HFEHENCE, vnHOut EXCEPTION, WAS PUBLISHED BY THE u.s. EOVEalllENT IN 1955 IN THE SERIES QTE : FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UHITED STATES DIPLOllAT IC PAPERS -THE CONFERENCES OF llALTA AND YALTA UNQTE • . THE U.S. ATTlllJlE TOWARDS SPHERES OF INFLUENCE lS SEt FORTH IN A PRE.-CONFEREHCE PAPER-ON PAGES 103-188. 
THE ·ZONAL ·ASREEUHTS, ·vHICK. llERiL.Y DELntiTED THE ZONES OF. llILITARY OCCUPATION OF GERIANY-AND AUSTRIA, VERE OFFICIALLY All> FINALLY Ct>llFIRllED AT YALTA. THE ZONAL LIMITS VERE ACTUALLY t£QOTIATED IN THE llEET'Dl&S. OF THE ElllOPEAN ADVISORY COUNCIL MD VERE SUBll IT.TED TO SOVERtllENTS IN NOVEMBER 1944.-THE CH.Y SUBSTANrIAL CHANGE AFFECTING THE.· ZONES.·VAs··yffE'. FINAL S>VIET COHSEHT, U~ER BRlllSH AND ~DUCAN tRGINGS, TO A<EEE TO QRAHI-ING A ZONE TO FRANCE AND A PLACE. FOR HER ON THE CONTROL a>UHCD. FOR 6ERllAHY. . 
THE-DOCUllENI ADO PIED BY THE -CONFERENCE, ENTITLED QTE DEa.ARATION OF LIBERATED ElJlOPE UNQTE, A DOCll!ENT OF AMERICAN auaIN, HAD AS ItS PURPOSE THE EXACT OPPOSITE .. OF SPHERES OF 
JNn.UENC& IM· EASTERN EtJIOPE, SINCE .IT PROVIDED FOR TRIPARTITE ' PARTICIPAtIOlt IN THE CONTROL. COUNCILS AND ADIIlUSIRATION OF ( ~RIER ElllU'f SfA~S lH E.~OP~. RUSK . .