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

C.F.M. Files: Lot M–88: Box 2080: Records of Decisions

Record of Decisions, Council of Foreign Ministers, Third Session, Thirteenth Meeting, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, December 2, 1948, 4 p.m.²¹

New York, December 2, 1948, 4 p.m.

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CFM(46) (NY) 13th Meeting

Present

	France
	M. Couve de Murville (Chairman)
	M. Bonnet
	M. Alphand
	M. Bérard
U.K.		U.S.A.
Mr. Bevin		Mr. Byrnes
Mr. Jebb		Mr. Dunn
Mr. Gregory		Mr. Cohen
Lord Hood		Mr. Thorp
	U.S.S.R.
	M. Molotov
	M. Gousev

I. Motor Torpedo Boats	{	Treaty with Italy Art. 50	}
		Treaty with Roumania Art. 14
		Treaty with Bulgaria Art. 12
		Treaty with Hungary Art. 13
		Treaty with Finland Art. 16

After an exchange of views, the Council decided to resume the consideration of this question at its next meeting.

II. Regime of the Danube	Treaty with Roumania Art. 34	}
	Treaty with Bulgaria Art. 32
	Treaty with Hungary Art. 33

Decision is deferred.

III. Human Rights for Jews (Articles 2 bis [2] and 3 bis [3A] of the Treaties with Hungary and Roumania)

The Council decided to include Article 3 bis in the Treaty with Roumania and Article 2 bis in the Treaty with Hungary.

IV. Restitution of Jewish Property (Articles 24 bis and 23 bis of the Treaties with Roumania and Hungary)

The Council adopted the first paragraph in these Articles on the understanding that the words “full compensation” would be replaced by the words “fair compensation”.

The Council adopted paragraph 2 subject to final drafting of this paragraph by the Economic Experts.

V. Southern Tyrol (Article 10 bis [10A] of the Treaty with Italy)

Decision deferred.

VI. Right of Albania to be Considered as an Associated Power

(Article 25 bis of the Treaty with Italy)²²

The Council decided to incorporate the principle of this Article in the text of Article 77, which would be amended as follows:

“Any other member of the United Nations not a signatory to the present Treaty, which is at war with Italy, and Albania, may accede to the Treaty and upon accession shall be deemed to be an Associated Power for the purposes of the Treaty.

“Instruments of accession shall be deposited with the Government of the French Republic and shall take effect upon deposit.”

VII. International Financial Commission in Greece

The Council decided not to retain this Article and to amend Article 32 as follows:

“Italy undertakes to accept any arrangements which have been or may be agreed for the liquidation of the League of Nations, the permanent Court of International Justice and the International Financial Commission in Greece.”

VIII. Non-Application of the Benefits of the Treaty to Non-Ratifying States. (Article 77 bis of the Treaty with Italy)

The Council decided to refer the text of Articles 77 bis [77A] and 78 to the Legal Experts for consideration.

IX. Greco-Bulgarian Frontier and Demilitarization (Articles 1 and 11 bis of the Treaty with Bulgaria)

The Council decided to consider these two articles jointly. After an exchange of views, the U.K. Delegation reserved until the next meeting its position on the solution adopted by the three other Delegations, (i.e. adoption of 11 bis and retention of 1 bis in its present form).

X. Report of the Naval Experts

The Council decided to study this report at a later date.

XI. Reparation

After an exchange of views, the Council decided to fix at 150 million dollars the total amount of reparation to be paid to Greece and Yugoslavia, respectively. Discussion of the allocation of these amounts as between Italy and Bulgaria, as well as of the allocation of repatriation [reparation] to Albania, was deferred until a later meeting.

XII. Next Meeting of the council

Tuesday, December 3, 1946, at 4 p.m.

New York , December 4, 1946.

21. The individual articles referred to in this Record of Decisions are identified in the United States Delegation Minutes of this meeting, supra.
22. The article under reference here is presumably the new article 25 proposed by the Yugoslav Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference and rejected, 12 votes to 6, by the Political and Territorial Commission for Italy at their 34th meeting on September 26, 1946; for a summary of the proceedings at that meeting, see vol. iii, p. 562.