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Hiss Collection

United States Delegation Memorandum1
[Yalta, February 9, 1945.]

Ret to AH

P. M. & President, Eden & Cadogan approved on 2/9 at Plenary session during intermission

(Insert A)Add to ERS report of 2/9 Territorial trusteeship would apply only to:

(1)
Existing mandates of the League of Nations.
(2)
Territory to be detached from the enemy as a result of this war.?
(3)
Any other territory that may voluntarily be placed under trusteeship.

It would be a matter of subsequent agreement as to which territories within the above categories would actually be placed under trusteeship. No discussions of actual specific territories are contemplated now or at the United Nations Conference. Only machinery & principles of trusteeship would be formulated at the Conference for inclusion in the Charter.

  1. It appears that this paper, which is in the penciled handwriting of Alger Hiss, was written during a brief intermission in the plenary meeting on February 9 (see ante, p. 845). The paper consists of draft language which was subsequently incorporated in the report of the Foreign Ministers’ meeting of the same day (see infra).↩