Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1945, General: Political and Economic Matters, Volume II

Council of Foreign Ministers Files: Lot M–88: CFM London Minutes

Record of the Ninth Meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, Lancaster Home, London, September 18, 1945, 3:30 p.m.

London, September 18, 1945, 3:30 p.m.

C.F.M.(P) (45) 9th Meeting

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. J. F. Dulles	M. K. V. Novikov
Sir N. Charles	Mr. C. E. Bohlen	M. S. A. Golunski

France	China
M. Bidault	Dr. Wang Shih Chieh
M. Couve de Murville	Dr. Wellington Koo
General Catroux	Dr. Hollington Tong

Australia	New Zealand	South Africa
Dr. H. V. Evatt	Mr. R. M. Campbell	Mr. Heaton Nicholls

Yugoslavia	Italy
M. Edward Kardelj	Signor de Gasperi68 (for Item (b))
M. Ljubo Leontic	Count Carandini69 (for Item (b))
M. Sava Kosanovic66

Italian Peace Treaty: Yugoslav-Italian Frontier and Trieste

(Previous Reference: C.F.M.(P) (45) 8th Meeting)

(a) Views of Yugoslav Government

M. Kosanovic made a statement, the text of which is reproduced in C.F.M.(45) 26.⁷⁰

(b) Views of Italian Government

At this point in the meeting, representatives of the Italian Government were admitted to the Conference Room.

Signor de Gasperi made a statement, the text of which is reproduced in C.F.M.(45) 27.⁷¹

At the end of his statement, Signor de Gasperi obtained the leave of the Council to submit through the Secretariat further statistical and other material in support of his case.

The Council agreed to meet again at 9 p.m. that evening to hear the views of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

68. Italian Foreign Minister.
69. Italian diplomatic representative in the United Kingdom with the personal rank of ambassador.
66. Yugoslav Minister of Information.
70. Yugoslav Minister of Information Kosanovic’s statement, which was included as the third annex to C.F.M. (45) 26, September 18, p. 229, is not printed. Kosanovic confined himself to the general political aspects of the Adriatic problem and Italo-Yugoslav relations, reviewing the course of these relations during and since World War I, characterizing Italian policy during this period as “aggressive” and “chauvinistic”, and proposing that peaceful and harmonious relations would only obtain in the Adriatic area if the ethnic frontier were adhered to.
71. September 18, p. 232.