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OCR Page 1 of 18August 2, 1945
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REPORT ON THE TRIPARTITE CONFERENCE OF BERLIN
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On July 17, 1945, the President of the United States of America, Harry
S. Truman, the Chaiiman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics, Generalissimo J. V. Stalin, and the Prime Minister
of Great Britain, Winston S. Churchill, together with Mr . Clement R. Attlee, met
in the Tripartite Conference of Berlin. They were accompanied by the foroign
secretaries of the three Governments, Mr. James F. Byrnes, Mr. V. M. Molotov,
and Mr. Anthony Eden, the Chiefs of Staff, and other advisers.
There were nine meetings between July 17 and July 25. The Conference
was then interrupted for two days while the rosults of the British goneral elec-
tion were being declared.
On July 28 Mr. Attles returned to the Conference as Prime Minister, a.c-
companied by the new Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Ernest Bevin.
Four days of further discussion then took placo. During the course of the Con-
L'erence there were regular mootings of the Hoads of the Throe Governments ac-
companied by the foreign secrotaries, and also moetings of the Foreign Secret-
aries. Committees appointed by the Foreign Secretaries for preliminary consider-
ation of questions before the Conference also met dailyo
The mectings of the Conference were held at the Cocilionhof near Pots-
dam. The Conference ended on August 2, 1945.
Important decisions and agrecments were reached. Views were exchanged
on a number of other questions and consideration of those matters will be con-
tinued by the Council of Foreign Ministers establisho by the Conference.
President Truman, Generalissimo Stalin and Prime Minister Attlee leave
this Conference, which has strengthened the ties botween the three governments
and extended the scope of their collaboration and understanding, with renewed
confidence that thoir govornments and peoples, together with the other United
Nations, will ensure the creation of a just and enduring peaco.
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ESTABLISHMENT OF A COUNCIL OF FOREIGN MINISTERS
The Conference reached an agroement for t he establishment of a Council
of Foreign Ministers representing the five principal Powein to continue the
necessary preparatory work for the peace sottlements and to taxo up other matters
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