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United States Delegation Journal

USDel (PC) (Journal) 20

The Commission accepted the proposal of the Secretariat that the following articles of the draft treaty be considered as referred to the Commission: Preamble, Articles 1–10, 21, 35–38, and Annex I. The Chairman suggested beginning the discussion of the treaty immediately, article by article, on the understanding that Delegations which had amendments to submit might reserve their position. The U.K. Delegation thought it would be a mistake to adopt the texts of any articles until the Commission was in possession of all amendments tabled before the deadline of midnight and of the views of the Rumanian Government on the articles before the Commission. It was decided to postpone discussion on the individual articles until the next meeting. Meanwhile, it was understood that the Secretariat would inform the Commission concerning any contemplated general procedure for hearing the views of the ex-enemy states. The Commission agreed, however, that under the Rules of Procedure of the Conference the Commission itself had considerable latitude in determining the procedure under which representatives of the ex-enemy states would appear before it to be heard.