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vember 1945 sent a note to the Turkish Government, proposing that:
(1) The Straits should be open at all times to merchant
vessels.
(2) The Straits should be open at all times to Black
Sea powers.
(3) The Straits should be closed to warships of non-
Black Sea powers, within limitations to be agreed upon.
(4) There should be certain other revisions of the
Montreux Convention, such as substitution of the United
Nations system for that of the League of Nations and the
elimination of Japan as a signatory.
Not long after (22 November 1945), Great Britain sent a some-
what non-committal note on the subject to the Turks. On 7 August 1946,
the USSR in its turn delivered a note to the Turkish Government, charg-
ing that the regime established at Montreux "does not meet the interests
of the Black Sea Powers and does not insure conditions under which the
use of the Straits for purposes inimical to the Black Sea Powers would
be prevented. 11 The note then listed a series of alleged wartime inci-
dents "when the Axis Powers directed their warships and auxiliary craft
through the Straits into the Black Sea and out of the Black Sea. " It
was then proposed by the Soviets that:
(1) The Straits should always be open to passage of mer-
chant ships of all countries.
(2) The Straits should always be open to passage of war-
ships of the Black Sea powers.
(3) The Straits should be closed to warships of non-
Black Sea powers "except in cases specially provided for . "
(4)
Turkey and other Black Sea powers should establish
the regime of the Straits, as the "sole sea passage" leading
to and from the Black Sea.
(5) Turkey and the USSR should "organize joint means
of defense for the Straits. "
(The first three points of the United States and the USSR notes are
similar.)
On 22 August 1946 the Turks, who had agreed to the calling of a
revisionary conference and welcomed United States participation therein,
replied to the Soviet note with a defense of their wartime position in
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