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The Commission considered a U.S. draft to be substituted for the disagreed portion of paragraph 4 of Annex 4A (industrial literary and artistic property) of the Rumanian treaty, which provided for reciprocity as between Rumania and the Allied and Associated Powers [Page 406] in the extension of rights under the Annex. The Commission requested the representatives of the U.S., U.K., U.S.S.R., and French Delegations to meet and prepare an agreed draft for submission to the Commission on the basis of the U.S. proposal, which was acceptable in principle to each of these Delegations.58 The Commission then considered paragraph 7. The representatives of the U.S.S.R., Yugoslavia, and Poland objected to the provision, but indicated that it might be acceptable if the extension on a reciprocal basis of the benefits of the Annex to the United Nations other than Allied and Associated Powers were made permissive rather than mandatory and if its application were limited to United Nations which had broken off diplomatic relations with Rumania. The representatives of the U.K., France, and the U.S. defended the provision and emphasized that its purpose was not to grant special privileges, but to settle problems which had arisen as a result of the disruption of commercial communications during the war. The Commission approved paragraphs 1, 2, and 3 of Annex 4A and deferred final decision on the remainder of the Annex until the four drafting powers had reached agreement on a text for paragraph 4 and until the Rumanian Delegation had expressed its views on the paragraph. The Commission rejected a proposal by M. Gerashchenko (U.S.S.R.) to hear the Rumanian Delegation on Annex 4, Sections B, C, and D, before the Commission had had a general discussion of these Sections.
- Representatives of the four delegations met after the meeting and agreed upon a text which is printed in C.P.(Plen) Doc. 29, the Report of the Commission on the Draft Treaty with Rumania, vol. iv, p. 344.↩