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DOCUMENT C
Foreign Minister Bidault to Foreign Minister Wang,
letter dated at Paris, October 15, 1946,
enclosed in despatch no. 6465 from Paris, October 19, 1946
(file 740.00119 EW/10-1946)
I have noted with the greatest attention the
memorandum which you were so good as to communicate
to me on September 3 last on the procedure which
should be adopted in the preparation of the peace
treaty with Germany
The agreements signed at Moscow on December 24,
1945 by the Governments of the U.S.S.R., the United
Kingdom, and the United States of América, to which
China and France adhered, envisaged the procedure
applicable to the conclusion of peace treaties with
Italy, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland. On
the basis of these agreements, confirming certain
provisions of the Potsdam agreements, the prepara-
tion of draft peace treaties was entrusted to the
States signatory to the armistice terms imposed on
the enemy, State in question. The Mosców agreements
provided that after the preparation of these drafts,
a Conference charged with examining them would be
convened by the Council, of Foreign Ministers.
Nothing in these agreements applies to the prep-
aration of the peace treaty with Germany. On this
point the only texts to which we can refer are the
provisions of the Potsdam, agreements `relating to the
creation of the Council of Foreign- Ministers, pro-
visions to which the Chinese Government, like the
French Government, adhered in due course. They do
not envisage the convocation of a Conference of the
United Nations charged with discussing the condi-
tions of peace to impose upon Germany. If the con-
vocation of such a Conference is, as I think,
judged necessary, it will be for the Council of
Foreign Ministers to discuss it in good time and
to agree upon the steps to be taken for its organ-
ization. It is at that moment that the question
which you have raised should be examined.
Accept, my dear Minister, the assurances of
my highest consideration.
-SECRET
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