Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, Council of Foreign Ministers, Volume II

C.F.M. Files: Lot M–88: Box 2061: CFM Documents

Proposal by the United States Delegation to the Council of Foreign Ministers⁸⁵

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C.F.M. (46) 57

Paris, 8 May, 1946.

Frontiers of Hungary

1. The frontiers of Hungary with Austria and with Yugoslavia shall be those which existed on January 1, 1938.

2. The decisions of the Vienna Award of August 30, 1940, are declared null and void. The frontier between Hungary and Rumania existing on January 1, 1938, is hereby restored.

3. The frontier between Hungary and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, from the point common to the frontier of those two states and of Rumania to the point common to the frontiers of those two states and of Czechoslovakia, is fixed along the former frontier between Hungary and Czechoslovakia as it existed on January 1, 1938.

4. The decisions of the Vienna Arbitration Award of November 2, 1938, are declared null and void. The frontier between Hungary and Czechoslovakia, from the point common to the frontiers of those two states and Austria to the point common to the frontiers of those two states and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, is hereby restored as it existed on January 1, 1938.

Note—This text should be considered as tentative until the Governments of Czechoslovakia and Hungary have had an opportunity to present orally to the Council of Foreign Ministers or to the Peace Conference their respective views on this subject.

85. Circulated to the Council of Foreign Ministers during its 12th Meeting, May 7, 1946, 5 p.m.; see the United States Delegation Record and the Record of Decisions of the meeting, pp. 272 and 283, respectively.