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The Department of State to the British Embassy 56
The proposal contained in the British Embassy’s Aide-Mémoire of August 13, 1945 has been carefully considered. In view of the fact that Rumania and Italy were represented by observers at the Lancaster House Conference last October, it is felt that it would be undesirable to deny them a similar privilege when the conference reconvenes.
It does not seem to this Government necessary that the Allied Control Commissions for Rumania, Bulgaria, and Hungary, and the Allied Commission for Italy should be represented through representatives of each of the Governments which have established them. It would seem to this Government that it would be preferable if each of the Commissions were represented by one official designated by the Commission who should be a transport expert and who might be accompanied by a national observer.
- A summary of this note was transmitted to London in telegram 6970, August 17, 1945.↩