Foreign Relations of the United States, 1947, Council of Foreign Ministers; Germany and Austria, Volume II

740.00119 Council/4–1747: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Acting Secretary of State

confidential
urgent

Moscow, April 17, 1947—5 p.m.

1420. Delsec 1433. For the President, Vandenberg, Connally and Acheson from Marshall. Thirty-first CFM meeting 11 a.m. April 17, Bevin presiding, heard representatives of the Yugoslav Government present their views on the draft Austrian treaty.

Edward Kardelj, deputy of the President of the Yugoslav Council of Ministers, stressed the assistance given by Austrians to Hitler during the war and sought to convince the Council that it should transfer Carinthia from Austria to Yugoslavia on economic, ethnic and strategic grounds. He said he would submit written proposals concerning the other problems which should be dealt with in the Austrian treaty, including the surrender of war criminals, displaced persons, the prohibition of Nazi propaganda and the creation of a demilitarized zone in Austria along the Yugoslav frontier.⁷⁵

Stanoje Simić, Yugoslav Foreign Minister, presented his government’s views in the economic articles of the draft treaty. He repeated Yugoslavia’s claim for $150,000,000 in reparations from Austria and insisted on the restitution of all objects removed from Yugoslavia which are now in Austria.⁷⁶

Austrian representatives will be heard at the morning CFM meeting tomorrow.

Repeated London 161, Berlin 28.

Dept please pass to Vienna as 40, Rome as 37 and to Paris as 146.

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75. The text of Kardelj’s statement was circulated to the Council as document CFM(47) (M)139, not printed.
76. The text of Simić’s statement was circulated to the Council as document CFM(47) (M)140, not printed.