740.00119 Control (Hungary)/8–1445
Memorandum by the State-War-Navy
Coordinating Committee to the Secretary
of State
14
Washington, 14 August,
1945.
Subject: Proposed Statutes for Allied Control Commission
for Hungary.
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SWNCC 151/D15
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SWNCC 151/116
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The State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee has considered the proposed
Statutes for the Allied Control Commission for Hungary recommended by
the Chief of the U.S. Section, Allied Control Commission for Hungary.
The Committee recommends the amendment of the proposed Statutes as
redrafted in the form attached. As so amended, the Committee recommends
that the Secretary of State endeavor to secure the adoption by the
Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States of a Protocol
embodying those Statutes, or so much thereof as may be possible.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff have no objections from a military point of
view.
For the State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee:
James Clement Dunn
Chairman
[Enclosure]
Draft of Statutes of the Allied Control
Commission in Hungary17
(Note: By this draft it is intended to
prescribe the organization and procedure of the Commission during
the second period of the
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Armistice, i.e., from the end of hostilities against Germany, May
8th, to the conclusion of peace. In their present form the Statutes
prescribe the organization and procedure, in certain respects, only
for the first period of the Armistice, i.e., from the date of the
Armistice Agreement, January 20th, to the end of hostilities against
Germany. Consequently certain old provisions, applicable only to the
first period, may now be omitted, and certain new provisions are
required. So far as feasible the form and terminology of the present
Statutes have been retained.)
- 1.
- The functions of the Allied Control Commission in Hungary
shall consist of the regulation and control, for the period up
to the conclusion of peace, over the exact fulfillment of the
Armistice terms set forth in the Agreement concluded on the 20th
January 1945 between the Governments of the Soviet Union, the
United Kingdom and the United States, on the one hand, and the
Provisional National Government of Hungary on the other.
- 2.
- The Allied Control Commission shall be headed by a Chairman
who shall be a representative of the Soviet Government and of
the Soviet Military Command in Hungary. The Chiefs of the
American and British Missions shall be Vice Chairmen of the
Commission. The Chairman may also appoint a third Vice Chairman
of the Commission and such political and military assistants as
may be required, and a Chief of Staff of the Commission.
Representatives of the United Kingdom and the United States will
be included in the composition of the Control Commission and of
each division thereof. The Allied Control Commission shall have
its own seal and its headquarters shall be at Budapest.
- 3.
- The Allied Control Commission shall be composed of:
- (a)
- A staff.
- (b)
- A political division.
- (c)
- An administrative division.
- (d)
- A military division.
- (e)
- An air force division.
- (f)
- A river fleet division.
- (g)
- An economic division.
- The staff will include officers of the armed forces of all
three participating governments and will have a liaison section.
The duties of the liaison section will include receipt from and
transmission to the Hungarian Government of all communications,
reports, directives, or other documents relating to the
fulfillment of the Armistice terms.
- 4.
- The Chairman shall call meetings of the Commission at least
twice each month and shall cause agenda, which will include
proposals of any of the principal representatives of the three
participating governments, to be prepared for such meetings and
delivered to
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each of
them at least two days in advance of the meeting for which
prepared. In the absence of unanimous agreement of such
principal representatives, only matters appearing on the agenda
shall be considered at each meeting. Decisions of the Commission
shall be made only upon the concurrence of the principal
representative of each of the three participating
governments.
- 5.
- Representatives of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and
the United States shall have the right
- (a)
- To receive oral and written information from any
official of the Commission on all matters connected with
the fulfillment of the Armistice Agreement;
- (b)
- To receive promptly copies of all communications,
reports and other documents which may interest their
respective governments;
- (c)
- To make journeys and move freely anywhere, and by any
means of transportation, on Hungarian territory, with
complete freedom of entrance from outside Hungary to any
point within Hungary, and with complete freedom of exit
from Hungary;
- (d)
- To communicate with the Hungarian Government or any of
its agencies, through the liaison section of the
staff;
- (e)
- To determine the size and composition of their own
delegations;
- (f)
- To communicate directly with their respective
governments by cypher, telegram and by diplomatic mail,
for which purpose they shall have the right to receive
and dispatch diplomatic courier by air at regular
intervals, upon notification to the Chairman;
- (g)
- To determine the amount of money required from the
Hungarian Government for the expenses of their
respective staffs and to obtain such funds through the
Commission;
- (h)
- To transport personnel, mail and supplies to and from
Hungary by airplane or by motor or other transportation,
upon notification to the Chairman of the Allied Control
Commission;
- (i)
- To call in specialist-officers or other experts for
consultation, for making surveys or for, working out
special questions which arise during the work of the
Allied Control Commission.
- 6.
- The Allied Control Commission shall have its representatives
in the provinces, districts, ports and at the most important
enterprises for the organization of local control.
