Council of Foreign Ministers Files: Lot M–88: CFM London Decisions
Record of Decisions of the Eighteenth Meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, Lancaster House, London, September 24, 1945, 11 a.m.
Present
| U.K. | U.S.A | U.S.S.R |
| Mr. Bevin | Mr. Byrnes | M. Molotov |
| Sir R. I. Campbell | Mr. J. Dunn | M. F. T. Gousev |
| Sir A. Clark Kerr | Mr. B. V. Cohen | M. K. V. Novikov |
| Mr. A. Duff Cooper | Mr. J. F. Dulles | M. S. A. Golunski |
| Mr. C. E. Bohlen | M. V. N. Pavlov |
| France | China |
| M. Bidault (Chairman) | Dr. Wang Shih Chieh |
| M. Couve de Murville | Dr. Wellington Koo |
| General Catroux | Dr. Victor Hoo |
| M. Fouques Duparc | Dr. Hollington Tong |
| M. Alphand | Mr. Yang Yun Chu |
1. Japan: Allied Control Machinery
At a later meeting consideration should be resumed of the question whether the Soviet Memorandum (C.F.M.(45) 4984) should be added to the Agenda for the present Conference.
2. Austria: Food Supplies
The Deputies were directed—
- (1)
- To instruct the Allied Control Commissions in Bulgaria, Hungary and Roumania to make available to the Allied Council for Austria full information regarding the food situation in each of these countries and the possibility of making food supplies available to Austria from these countries.
- 2.
- To arrange for the Governments of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia to be invited to provide similar information to the Allied Council for Austria regarding the possibility of food supplies being sent from those countries to Austria.
- (3)
- To frame a directive to the Allied Council for Austria authorising them to examine the long-term arrangements for food supplies to Austria on the basis of obtaining, in the light of the replies received to (1) and (2) above, the maximum supplies possible, not only from within Austria, but from the neighbouring countries of Bulgaria, Hungary, Roumania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. The Allied Council to report the result of this examination to the Council of Foreign Ministers together with such further information on the supply position in Austria as they may deem useful.
- (4)
- To consider means of meeting the immediate problem of securing emergency supplies of food for Austria after the termination of certain existing arrangements for supplies from Allied sources at the end of October, 1945.
3. Austria: Central Government
Consideration of the proposal of the United Kingdom Delegation in C.F.M.(45) 4885 was deferred.
4. European Inland Waterways
An exchange of views took place on the proposals of the United States and Soviet Delegations. Further consideration was deferred until the next meeting.