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The Commission had before it a memorandum of the Italian Delegation on the Preamble to the Treaty (OP(IT/P) Doc. 1).32 It was agreed that the Italian proposals would not be treated as amendments unless they were put forward by one of the Delegations. It was agreed, nevertheless, to proceed with a discussion of the Italian memorandum paragraph by paragraph. The Polish, Yugoslav, Czechoslovak, Byelorussian and Ethiopian Delegations spoke against the proposal contained in paragraph 1 of the Italian memorandum. The Netherlands and Belgian Delegations denied the allegation that they had not been in a state of war with Italy; the latter stated that Belgium could not accept a change in the Preamble which would discriminate between the Allied and Associated Powers with respect to their belligerent relationship with Italy.
- The memorandum is identical to the memorandum on the Preamble contained in “Observations on the Draft Peace Treaty with Italy by the Italian Government,” vol. iv, p. 117.↩