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OCR Page 1 of 67th Meeting Big Three Conference at Berlin July 23, 1945
Molotov reads the report of the Foreign Secretaries.
1. The economic subcommittee was instructed to consider Sov-
iet proposals on reparations.
2. Economieprinciples for Germany were discussed. Russia
withdrew her proposed anendment to paragraph 13 thereof. Russia
asked the deletion of paragraph 18 for further study by the
Allied Control Commission. No agreement was reached, and the
question was referred to the Big Three.
3. Proposal for council of Foreign Ministers was approved with
verbal amendments.
TRUHAN
4. Trusteeships were discussed. It was agreed that the dist
position of the Italian colonies should be taken up by the
RECORDS
council of Foreign Ministers.
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5. It was agreed that all decisions of the conference affecting
the work of the Allied commanders in Germany should be communi-
cated to. them, and that 8. committee should be empowered to
draft such communication.
6. The matter of collaboration of the three powers in European
economic problems was discussed.
7. Tangiers. It was agreed that Tangiers should be returned to
its international status, and that the question should be dis-
cussed in a conference of the four powers, including France,
in the near future. The invitation to China and France to
partid pate in the council of Foreign Ministers was approved,
and it was agreed that this should be sent 48 hours before the
release of the final communique.
The agenda proposed for the Big Three discussion today included
Turkey, Syria and Lebanon, and Iran.
TRUMAN: First subject is Turkey.
CHURCHILL I thought we would renew the discussion of the prob-
lem of feeding Germany.
(It was agreed that matters referred to the Foreign Secretaries
and agreed to by them could be regarded as accepted by the Big
Three, unless some objection was raised.)
CHURCHILL: Before I finished talking yesterday, I made it
clear that we could not support Russia's claim against Turkey
for a military base in the Black Sea.
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Potsdam Conference, 1945
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