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United States Delegation Journal

September 26, 1946, 10 a.m.

USDel (PC) (Journal) 53

The Records of the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st meetings were adopted and the annexes. Approval of the Record of the 22nd meeting was deferred because of a reservation of Admiral Karpounin, the Soviet Delegate, with regard to the interpretation of the words “total tonnage”. The Record of the 23rd meeting was adopted.

Articles 10 and 11 of the draft peace treaty with Bulgaria were adopted unanimously. The Belgian amendment to Article 12 (CP Gen Doc. 1 C 3) as amended by the UK Delegation (see USDel (PC) (Journal) 30)54 was adopted unanimously. The first part of the Greek amendment CP Gen Doc. 1 J 22 forbidding naval torpedoes was withdrawn and a debate developed on the second part forbidding motor torpedo boats. The Soviet Delegation and Delegations of the countries which follow their lead opposed the amendment and the UK and US Delegations supported it.55 The question did not come to a vote and the debate will be continued. The Polish Delegate proposed that the Bulgarian representatives be invited to appear following provisional adoption of the draft treaty and the proposal was agreed to unanimously.

  1. The reference is to the United States Delegation Journal account of the 7th Meeting, August 31, p. 329.↩
  2. Captain Mackay (U.K.) contended that it was only as the result of an oversight that the Council of Foreign Ministers had neglected to prohibit motor torpedo boats in the satellite treaties. Such craft had been forbidden to Italy. Captain Pryce (U.S.) added that it had never been the intent of the Council of Foreign Ministers to discriminate between ex-enemy states in regard to offensive armaments. Admiral Manola (Yugoslavia) stated that Bulgaria presented no threat to Greece by sea. The amendment was designed only to reduce Bulgaria’s defensive power and to humiliate her. (CFM Files: United States Delegation Minutes)↩