Council of Foreign Ministers Files: Lot M–88: CFM London Documents
Memorandum by the United Kingdom Delegation to the Council of Foreign Ministers
C.F.M.(45) 24
London, 18 September,
1945.
Proposals for a Peace Treaty With Hungary
The United Kingdom Delegation offer the following preliminary observations upon the Soviet Delegation’s memorandum circulated to the Council as paper C.F.M.(45) 4.72
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- The United Kingdom Delegation agree with the Soviet Delegation that the relevant Articles of the Armistice with Hungary signed at Moscow on 20th January, 1945, provide a basis for the drafting of certain parts of the Treaty of Peace with Hungary. The United Kingdom Delegation suggest that the action already taken by the Hungarian Government under Article 15 of the Armistice may make it unnecessary to repeat in the Peace Treaty the whole substance of Article 15.
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- Taking as a basis Article 1 (d) of the Armistice, the United Kingdom Delegation propose that the Peace Treaty should lay down the character and numbers of the armed forces which Hungary would be allowed to retain; should impose the necessary limitations upon the manufacture of war material in Hungary, and should provide for a small inter-Allied military Inspectorate to supervise the execution of the military clauses of the Treaty in succession to the Allied Control Commission which would be dissolved upon the entry into force of the Treaty.
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- The United Kingdom Delegation assume that on the conclusion of the Peace Treaty all Allied Forces will be withdrawn from Hungary, (except as may be provided for the maintenance of the lines of communication of the Red Army with the Soviet zone of occupation in Austria) and that all unused requisitioned goods and currency will be returned to the Hungarian Government.
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- The United Kingdom Delegation consider that the provision in Article 9 of the Armistice, governing the return of Allied vessels to their owners and compensation for their damage and destruction should be included in the Peace Treaty.
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- With regard to paragraph 2 of the Soviet Delegation’s memorandum concerning Transylvania, the views of the United Kingdom Delegation are given in paragraph 9 of their memorandum on the Peace Treaty with Roumania circulated to the Council as Circular No. 21 (revised).73
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- [Here follow texts the same, mutatis mutandis, as sections 10, 11, and 12 in Proposals for a Peace Treaty with Roumania (C.F.M. (45) 21), page 219.]