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

C.F.M. Files: Lot M–88: Box 2063: Records of Decision

Record of Decisions, Council of Foreign Ministers, Second Session, Seventeenth Meeting, Palais du Luxembourg, Paris, May 14, 1946, 4 p.m.

Luxembourg Paris, May 14, 1946, 4 p.m.

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C.F.M. (46) 17th Meeting, 14 May, 1946.

Present

	France
	M. G. Bidault (Chairman)
	M. Couve de Murville
	Gen. Catroux
	M. H. Alphand
	M. Fouques Duparc
U.S.A.		U.K.
Mr. J. Byrnes		Mr. E. Bevin
Senator Connally		Mr. H.M.G. Jebb
Senator Vandenberg		Mr. A. Duff Cooper
Mr. J. C. Dunn		Mr. Dixon
Mr. Bohlen		Mr. Marjoribanks
	U.S.S.R.
	M. V.M. Molotov
	M. A.Y. Vyshinsky
	M. V.G. Dekanozov
	M. F.T. Gousev

I. Peace Treaty With Italy

1. Austro-Italian frontier.

The Council agreed to refer the question to the Deputies who, after preliminary consideration, would hear the representatives of the Italian and Austrian Governments.

2. Italian Colonies.

Referred to the Deputies for consideration.

3. Italo-Yugoslav frontier.

Referred to the Deputies for consideration.

II. U.S. Delegation’s Proposal Concerning the Further Work of the Council of Foreign Ministers and the Convening of the Peace Conference

The U.S. Delegation proposed:

1°) that after considering German questions the present session should recess until June 15th;

2°) that the Council should now call a Peace Conference for 1st or 15th July or, if this were not agreed, that it should be left to the next session of the Council to decide on the date of the Peace Conference;

3°) that the revised Armistice terms with Italy should be signed immediately;

4°) that the question of drafting the treaty with Austria should be placed on the agenda of the 15th June session, the Deputies to be instructed to prepare in the meantime proposals for the consideration of the Council.

The Council agreed to discuss the U.S. Delegation’s proposal on the following day.

III. Next Meeting of the Council

The Ministers decided to meet at 11 a.m., 15th May informally, under the chairmanship of Mr. Bevin and in his room, to discuss the German question and decide an agenda for the other meetings of the day.

IV. Revision of the Armistice Terms With Italy

The U.S. Delegation circulated a redraft of the original U.S. proposal for an agreement modifying the Italian Armistice regime (C.F.M. (46) 84⁴⁴). Consideration of the U.S. Delegation’s proposal was deferred.

44. Not printed. The proposed agreement on the revision of the Italian armistice terms, as finally approved by the Council of Foreign Ministers on May 16, was circulated as document C.F.M. (46) 95, May 16, 1946, p. 436. Differences between C.F.M. (46) 84 and C.F.M. (46) 95 are indicated in footnotes to the latter document.