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Hiss Collection

United States Delegation Draft of Announcement Regarding the United Nations Conference1
February 11, 1945, 4:20 p.m.

Joint Communiqué on International Organization

The proposals for a general international organization resulting from the informal conversations at Dumbarton Oaks have been considered, and agreed proposals have been worked out on the major points left open at those conversations. Our views are being transmitted to the Government of China and to the Provisional Government of the French Republic for their consideration. As soon as these consultations have been completed, the proposals agreed upon will be made public and invitations will be issued to a United Nations Conference to be held in the United States about April 15. This conference will prepare the charter of the general international organization.

  1. Undated carbon copy; authorship not indicated. For an earlier draft of this paper, see ante, p. 85. That draft was revised to the wording here printed in the handwriting of Alger Hiss (UNA Files). See Section IV of the communiqué, post, p. 971, for the announcement as issued.↩