Contents

• List of Illustrations and Maps
• Introduction
• List of Abbreviations, Symbols, and Code Names
• Lists of Persons:
  • Principal Members of Delegations
  • List of Persons Mentioned
• List of Papers
• V. THE PRESIDENT’S LOG
  • Log of the President’s Trip to the Conference
• VI. MINUTES AND OTHER RECORDS OF CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
  • Monday, July 16, 1945
    • Meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 10 a.m.
    • Truman–Churchill meeting, 11 a.m.
    • Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 2:30 p.m.
  • Tuesday, July 17, 1945
    • Meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 10 a.m.
    • Truman–Stalin meeting, noon
    • Stimson–Churchill conversation, early afternoon
    • Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 2:30 p.m.
    • First plenary meeting, 5 p.m.
  • Wednesday, July 18, 1945
    • Meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 10 a.m.
    • First meeting of the Foreign Ministers, 11 a.m.
    • Truman–Churchill luncheon meeting, about 1:30 p.m.
    • Byrnes–Eden luncheon meeting, about 1:30 p.m.
    • Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 2:30 p.m.
    • Truman–Stalin meeting, 3:04 p.m.
    • Second plenary meeting, 4 p.m.
  • Thursday, July 19, 1945
    • Meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 10 a.m.
    • Second meeting of the Foreign Ministers, 11 a.m.
    • First meeting of the Economic Subcommittee, 11 a.m.
    • Stimson–Cherwell conversation, noon
    • Stimson–Alexander conversation, early afternoon
    • Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 2:30 p.m.
    • Third plenary meeting, 5 p.m.
    • Tripartite dinner meeting, 8:30 p.m.
    • Mosely–Vyshinsky conversation
  • Friday, July 20, 1945
    • Meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 10 a.m.
    • Meeting of the Economic Subcommittee, 10:30 a.m.
    • Byrnes–Gromyko conversation, morning
    • Third meeting of the Foreign Ministers, 11:30 a.m.
    • Byrnes–Churchill luncheon meeting, early afternoon
    • Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 2:30 p.m.
    • Land–Leathers conversation, 3 p.m.
    • Informal meeting of the Foreign Ministers, 3:45 p.m.
    • Fourth plenary meeting, 4 p.m.
    • Truman–Churchill conversation
    • Truman–Stalin conversation, about 6:45 p.m.
    • Meeting of the Economic Subcommittee, evening
  • Saturday, July 21, 1945
    • Fourth meeting of the Foreign Ministers, noon
    • Meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 12:15 p.m.
    • Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 3:30 p.m.
    • Stimson–Churchill conversation, about 4:30 p.m.
    • Fifth plenary meeting, 5 p.m.
    • Tripartite dinner meeting, about 8:30 p.m.
    • Meeting of the Economic Subcommittee, evening
  • Sunday, July 22, 1945
    • Stimson–Churchill conversation, 10:40 a.m.
    • Fifth meeting of the Foreign Ministers, 11:10 a.m.
    • Truman–Churchill meeting, 12:15 p.m.
    • Sixth plenary meeting, 5 p.m.
    • First meeting of the Subcommittee on Implementation of the Yalta Declaration on Liberated Europe, evening
  • Monday, July 23, 1945
    • Meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 9:30 a.m.
    • Byrnes–Molotov meeting, 10:30 a.m.
    • Byrnes–Eden conversation
    • Byrnes–Churchill conversation, morning
    • Sixth meeting of the Foreign Ministers, 11:30 a.m.
    • Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 11:30 a.m.
    • Morse–Weston conversation, 2:30 p.m.
    • Informal meeting of the Foreign Ministers, 4 p.m.
    • Land–Leathers conversation, 4:30 p.m.
    • Seventh plenary meeting, 5 p.m.
    • Tripartite dinner meeting, 8:30 p.m.
    • Mosely–Gusev conversation, evening
  • Tuesday, July 24, 1945
    • Seventh meeting of the Foreign Ministers, 11:15 a.m.
    • Leahy–Churchill conversation, morning
    • Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff with Truman and Churchill, 11:30 a.m.
    • Tripartite military meeting, 2:30 p.m.
    • Byrnes–Eden–Molotov luncheon meeting; Byrnes–Molotov meeting immediately thereafter, 3:30 p.m.
    • Truman–Bierut conversation, 4:30 p.m.
    • Eighth plenary meeting, 5 p.m.
    • Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 5:30 p.m.
    • Morse–Weston conversation, afternoon
    • Truman–Stalin conversation, 7:30 p.m.
    • Byrnes conversation with members of the Polish Delegation
    • Morse–Weston conversation, evening
    • Second meeting of the Subcommittee on Implementation of the Yalta Declaration on Liberated Europe, evening
  • Wednesday, July 25, 1945
    • Truman–Mountbatten conversation, 9:20 a.m.
    • Truman–Stalin conversation, about 11 a.m.
    • Ninth plenary meeting, 11 a.m.
    • Dunn–Harriman–Mikołajczyk conversation, 11 a.m.
    • Stimson–Stalin conversation, 12:25 p.m.
    • Eighth meeting of the Foreign Ministers, 12:30 p.m.
    • Clayton–Mikołajczyk conversation
    • Mosely–Strang and Mosely–Gusev conversations
    • Conversation concerning the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations
  • Thursday, July 26, 1945
    • Meeting of the United States and Soviet Chiefs of Staff, 3 p.m.
    • Third meeting of the Subcommittee on Implementation of the Yalta Declaration on Liberated Europe, afternoon
    • Harriman–Grabski conversation
    • First meeting of the Protocol Subcommittee
    • Conversations among United States officials regarding war criminals, 9 p.m.
  • Friday, July 27, 1945
    • Ninth meeting of the Foreign Ministers, 4 p.m.
    • Byrnes–Molotov meeting, 6 p.m.
    • Meeting of the Subcommittee on Inland Waterways
  • Saturday, July 28, 1945
    • Clayton–Mikołajczyk conversation, 2:30 p.m.
    • Truman–Attlee meeting, 9:15 p.m.
    • Tenth plenary meeting, 10:30 p.m.
  • Sunday, July 29, 1945
    • Truman–Molotov meeting, noon
    • Truman–Attlee meeting, 4:30 p.m.
    • Forrestal–Bevin conversation
    • Despres–Minc conversation
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  • Monday, July 30, 1945
    • Conversation between members of the United States and Polish Delegations
    • Byrnes–Molotov meeting, 4:30 p.m.
    • Tenth meeting of the Foreign Ministers, 5 p.m.
    • Lane–Modzelewski conversation, 6 p.m.
    • Meeting of the Communiqué Subcommittee, evening
    • Byrnes–Attlee meeting [?]
    • Mosely–Ward and Mosely–Gusev conversations
  • Tuesday, July 31, 1945
    • Truman–Rowan conversation, 10 a.m.
    • Meeting of the Technical Subcommittee on Disposition of the German Navy and Merchant Marine, 10:30 a.m.
    • Byrnes–Molotov conversation, morning or early afternoon
    • Eleventh plenary meeting, 4 p.m.
    • Harriman conversation with members of the Polish Delegation, afternoon or early evening
    • Meeting of the Communiqué Subcommittee, evening
  • Wednesday, August 1, 1945
    • Truman–Bierut conversation, 10 a.m.
    • Eleventh meeting of the Foreign Ministers, 11:25 a.m.
    • Harriman–Mikołajczyk conversation, 12:30 p.m.
    • Twelfth plenary meeting, 4 p.m.
    • Meeting of the Communiqué Subcommittee
    • Thirteenth plenary meeting, 10:40 p.m.
• VII. CONFERENCE DOCUMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY PAPERS
  • General Questions
    • Establishment of a Council of Foreign Ministers and dissolution of the European Advisory Commission
    • United Nations:
      • Admission of Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Rumania, and Spain
      • Possible trusteeship for Italian colonial territories and Korea
      • Officers of the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations
    • Constitutional restraints on the President’s treaty-making powers
  • European Questions
    • General European questions:
      • Implementation of the Yalta Declaration on Liberated Europe; freedom of the press in eastern Europe
      • Inland waterways
    • Austria:
      • Extension of the authority of the Renner government
      • Reparations
      • Agreements on zones of occupation and control machinery; occupation of the western zones and of Vienna; provisioning of Vienna
      • Alleged anti-Soviet activities
    • Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, and Rumania:
      • Governments, control commissions, elections, conclusion of peace treaties, and diplomatic relations
      • Use of Allied property for reparations or war booty
      • Control of external assets
    • Germany:
      • Principles to govern the treatment of Germany in the initial control period
      • Reparations, restitution, and war booty
      • External assets
      • Disposition of the German Navy and Merchant Marine
      • War criminals
      • Soviet annexation of Königsberg and northern East Prussia
      • The Rhineland and the Ruhr
      • The French zone of occupation and the French sector in Berlin
      • The “additional requirements” agreement
      • Coal and food
      • Transfers of population
      • Alleged anti-Soviet activities
      • German forces in Norway
    • Greece:
      • Government and elections
      • Relations with Albania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia
    • Italy:
      • General policy, revision of surrender terms, and conclusion of a peace treaty
      • Reparations
      • Retention of Allied forces and of a combined command in Italy
      • Admission to the United Maritime Authority
      • Proposed appointment of James H. Douglas, Jr., as Chief Commissioner of the Allied Commission
    • Poland:
      • Government and elections; liquidation of the affairs of the Government-in-Exile
      • Frontiers and areas of administration
      • Economic assistance from the United States
    • Soviet Union:
      • General policy; sharing of information on atomic energy
      • Participation in European economic organizations
      • Repatriation of alleged Soviet nationals
      • Air traffic between the United States and the Soviet Union
    • Spain: General policy
    • United Kingdom:
      • Lend-lease; need for Anglo-American financial discussions
      • Civil aviation policy
      • Allocation of shipping
      • Combined Chiefs of Staff machinery
    • Yugoslavia:
      • Implementation of the Yalta Declaration on Yugoslavia
      • Attitude on civil administration in Venezia Giulia
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  • Far Eastern Questions
    • China: Negotiations with the Soviet Union
    • Japan:
      • Peace feelers through the Soviet Union
      • Issuance of a proclamation calling for the surrender of Japan
      • Basic military objectives, strategy, and policies in the war against Japan
      • Control and command in the war against Japan
      • Relationship of the Soviet Union to the war against Japan
      • British Commonwealth participation in the war against Japan
      • French and Netherland participation in the war against Japan
      • Portuguese participation in the war against Japan
      • Use of atomic weapons in the war against Japan
      • Release of tankers for the war against Japan through altered distribution of European oil supplies
  • Near Eastern and African Questions
    • Iran: Withdrawal of Allied forces
    • Lebanon and Syria: The crisis in Franco-Levantine relations
    • Palestine: Jewish immigration; suggestion for Anglo-American discussions
    • Tangier: Future of the international zone; Soviet participation in the Paris conversations on Tangier
    • Turkey: The Straits question; relations with the Soviet Union
  • Preparation of the Conference Communiqué
  • Final Documents
    • Report by the Combined Chiefs of Staff, approved by the Heads of Government of the United States and the United Kingdom
    • Proclamation calling for the surrender of Japan, approved by the Heads of Government of the United States, China, and the United Kingdom
    • Protocol of Proceedings and Communiqué, approved by the Heads of Government of the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom:
      • Protocol of Proceedings
      • Communiqué
• APPENDICES
  • A. Mikołajczyk notes on a meeting of the Foreign Ministers and on Polish-American and Polish-Soviet conversations at the Berlin Conference
  • B. French reaction to decisions of the Berlin Conference
  • C. Protocol of Proceedings and Communiqué of the Yalta Conference
  • D. Bohlen post-Conference memoranda on two Truman–Stalin meetings at the Berlin Conference
  • E. Addenda
• Index