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The Czechoslovak Ambassador (Hurban) to the Secretary of State
The Czechoslovak Ambassador presents his compliments to His Excellency, the Secretary of State, and has the honor to transmit herewith for the consideration of the Department of State the following remarks of the Czechoslovak Government in London concerning the Draft Agreement for United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation:
“The Czechoslovak Government welcomes the Draft Agreement regarding the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and will do all in its power to promote the fulfilment of the Agreement in its final form. The Czechoslovak Government approves of the main lines of the Draft Agreement and accepts it gladly. In view of the fact, however, that the Draft was intended as a basis of discussion it ventures to make the following comments:
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- The Czechoslovak Government considers that the composition of the Central Committee would better correspond to the natural desire of the European Allies, whose territories have suffered under enemy occupation to collaborate in the most effective manner in an organisation that is to bring relief to their own nations if these European Allied states also received the right to be represented on the Central Committee in some appropriate form.
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- The Czechoslovak Government also ventures to suggest whether Article II of the Draft should not be modified in such a way as to make the final validity of the admission of new members by the Central Committee dependent upon the approval of the Council. In this respect the Czechoslovak Government bases its attitude upon the consideration that the Agreement on Immediate Relief will be one of the first agreements towards international organisation of the liberated world and will in many respects provide a model for the post-war organisation of the world in other spheres as well.
The Czechoslovak Government submits these suggestions also because it realises that, as compared with the original proposal, they do not involve any changes regarding the position of the United States of America, Great Britain, the USSR and China, while at the same time a solution would be reached by which the principle of close cooperation on the part of all the Allies would be indicated even more plainly.”
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