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    "ocrText": "TOP SECRET\nH-5\nwhich the Generalissimo agreed to withdraw his ob jec-\ntion to China's being present at the peace confer-\nence and expressing its views (Doc. F, p. H-85).\nThe question was debated at length by the Con-\nference on December 21. Agreement was finally\nreached that all five members of the Council of For-\neign Ministers should be included among those invited\nto consider and make recommendations concerning the\npeace treaty drafts prepared by the powers which\nhad signed surrender terms, and that China and France\nshould be informed of this decision and asked to\nagree (Doc. I, p. H-100) Mr. Byrnes on December 22\ncommunicated to the Chinese Government the text of\nthe agreement on preparation of peace treaties with\nItaly, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Finland, and\ninvited its concurrence (Doc. L, p. H-109). On\nDecember 24 Mr. Byrnes announced to the Conference\nthat China had signified its willingness to concur\n(Doc. R, p. H-126). . Foreign Minister Wang verified\nthis concurrence in a telegram to Secretary Byrnes\ntransmitted through the American Embassy at Chung- -\nking on December 26 (Doc. M, p. H-112).\n.\nThe terms of the agreement relating to the\nsatellite peace treaties were made public in the\ncommuniqué signed at the close of the conference on\nDecember 27, but since French concurrence had not\nyet been received, the communiqué stated merely\nthat the Governments of France and China had been\nrequested to adhere to the agreed procedure (Doc. W,\np. H-134). Only a general outline of this agreed\nprocedure was included in Secnetary Byrnes' broad-\ncast report of December 30 on the conference\n(Doc. x, p. H-144).\n3. Far Eastern Commission and Allied Council\nAt the first meeting of the Conference on\nDecember 16, Mr. Byrnes circulated a statement of\nthe American policy regarding the Far Eastern Com-\nmission and the Allied Council (Doc. A, Encl. 3a,\np. H - 35) and also drafts of proposed revisions of\nthe terms of reference of the Commission (Doc. A,\nEncl. 3b, p. H-36) and of the Council (Doc. A,\nEncl. 3c, p. H-40) The subject was passed over at\nthe second meeting (Doc. B, p. H-44) and when it\nTOP SECRET"
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