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UNCLACSIP IED
G-109
DOCUMENT MM
EXTRACT
Report by Secretary Byrnes,
broadcast October 5, 1945
The Berlin agreement envisaged the naming
of highranking deputies who could carry on the
work of the Council in the absence of their chiefs,
the Foreign Secretaries. The Coundil, as President
Truman and I understood it, was to be a sort of
combined staff to explore the problems and prepare
proposals for the final peace settlements.
At Berlin it certainly was never intended
that the three powers present or the five powers
constituting the Council should take unto themselves
the making of the final peace. The Berlin declara-
tion setting up the Council begins with the state --
ment "The Conference reached the following agreement
for the establishment of a Council of Foreign Minis -
ters to do the necessary preparatory work for the
peace settlements.
11
The Council was not to make the peace settle-
ments but to do the necessary preparatory work for
the peace settlements
Before work could be commenced upon the direc-
tives for the Hungarian treaty the Soviet Delegation
announced they felt obliged to withdraw their assent
to the procedure previously accepted by the Council
for dealing with peace treaties.
No one present at the Council on September 11
questioned the decision taken by the Council that
day inviting all five members to be present at all
meetings.
Directives for the Italian treaty were under
discussion for several days with China, not a party
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