Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, Paris Peace Conference: Proceedings, Volume III

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United States Delegation Journal

September 30, 1946, 10 a.m.

USDel (PC) (Journal) 57

The Records of the 24th, 25th, 28th and 29th meetings were adopted with several corrections and additions.⁷ The Czechoslovak Delegation withdrew its amendment (CP Gen Doc 1.Q.7) to the Hungarian treaty, which proposed a new article to precede Article 10.⁸ It also withdrew its amendment (CP Gen Doc 1.Q.8) to Article 10 of this treaty. The U.S., U.K. and Indian Delegations had expressed their support for the latter amendment before it was withdrawn. The Soviet Delegate had said that he would oppose it. Articles 10, 11, 12 and 13 were adopted unanimously. Article 14 was adopted with the correction previously adopted for the corresponding article in the Rumanian treaty.⁹ Since identical amendments to the Australian amendment (CP Gen Doc. 1.B.49) to Article 15 had been rejected during the previous consideration of other treaties the Australian amendment to Article 15 was considered as rejected. The Polish Delegation withdrew its amendment (CP Gen Doc 1.0.9) to Article 15. Articles 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19 were adopted unanimously.

The U.S. withdrew its reservation regarding war graves.¹⁰ Annexes 2 and 3 were adopted unanimously and all the military clauses and annexes as a whole were adopted. The Hungarian representatives were heard. They asked that Hungary be allowed to use some weapons which might be considered of German design but which were used by the armies of many countries and should be considered of international pattern, i.e., the Mauser 7.92 mm. rifle and the Stokes mortar. They also asked to be allowed to use a small anti-tank weapon using rocket propulsion. They asked for the prompt return, after the signing of the treaty, of Hungarians who were being held as prisoners of war of whom there were approximately 300,000, the majority in Russian hands.

Article 13 of the Finnish treaty was adopted. The Chairman noted that the U.K. Delegation had reserved the right to insert a supplementary article between Articles 13 and 14 which supplementary article was not yet ready for presentation. Articles 14 and 15 were adopted. Article 16 amended in a manner similar to the corresponding article in the Bulgarian treaty was adopted. Article 17 was adopted, amended in a manner similar to the corresponding article in the Bulgarian treaty. Article 18, with a Soviet correction, was adopted and Articles 19, 20 and 21 were adopted. Annexes 2 and 3 were adopted without amendment. The Finnish representatives had nothing to add to the written memorandum they had presented.¹¹

7. The Commission then began consideration of the Hungarian treaty.
8. See the extract from the United States Delegation Minutes, infra.
9. The change under reference was a minor alteration of the French text of article 15 of the Rumanian treaty made at the 15th Meeting, September 12.
10. The United States reservation followed article 19 in the draft treaty, vol. iv, p. 105.
11. C.P.(Gen) Doc. 6, Observations on the Draft Peace Treaty with Finland by the Finnish Government, is printed ibid., p. 282.