Editorial Note
The Senate of the United States in its Resolution 213, 80th Congress, 2d session, referred to President Truman’s address to the Congress on March 17, 1948, wherein he declared that one nation (the Soviet Union) had “persistently ignored and violated” agreements which “could have furnished a basis for a just peace”. The Resolution requested the President “to furnish to the Congress full and complete information on the specific violations of agreements” by that nation.
In keeping with this request the Department of State submitted on June 2, to the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate a document entitled “Soviet Violations of Treaty Obligations.” The provisions of the agreements involved were listed, and the matching violations of these provisions were set forth. This document was included on the Senate Report No. 1440, 80th Congress, 2d session, June 2, 1948. It has been reproduced in the volume A Decade of American Foreign Policy, Basic Documents, 1941–49 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1950), pages 919–933, and in the Department of State Bulletin, June 6, 1948, pages 738–744.