Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, Paris Peace Conference: Documents, Volume IV

C.P.(Gen)Doc.1.Q.9.

Article 21

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Paragraph 1:

Replace the words “payable over eight years” by the words “payable over six years”.

Argument.

Czechoslovakia proposes that the six years period imposed on Hungary in the Armistice Agreement for the payment of reparations should remain in force. Czechoslovakia concluded a bilateral agreement with Hungary on reparations payments on April 6, 1946 in which Hungary also accepted a period of six years.

Czechoslovakia does not rule out the possibility of a new settlement by bilateral agreement, but she maintains that the conditions laid down in a bilateral agreement cannot be altered to her disadvantage by a multilateral act.