Rapporteur's Report of the Meeting of Foreign Ministers

Tor TOP SEGRITI Rapporteur's Report of the Meeting of Foreign Ministers, Saturday Morning, July 21, 1945 I. Council of Foreign Ministers The Foreign Ministers discussed the date of the formal establishment of the Council and agreed that it should be set up not later than September 1. It was also agreed that telegrams of invitation to participate in the work of the Council should be dispatched to the Government of China and the Provisional Government of France before public announcement of the establishment of the Council is made. At the request of the British Delegation, the drafting committee which has been dealing with this question was asked to make a few S. minor changes in the present text of the proposal. ARCHIVES AND other U.S. SERVICE SECURDS II. German Economic Questions HM 4 : Since the report of the subcommittee on this question had only just been presented and the various delegations have not had an opportunity to give it adequate study, it was agreed to delay the discussion of this subject until tomorrow. other III. Polish Question - Liquidation of the London Government and Implementa- tion of the Yalta Declaration The Chairman of the subcommittee which has been dealing with this subject presented the subcommittee's report. Since the subcommittee have been unable to reach full agreement, the points of disagreement were discussed at length. The Foreign Ministers were able to reach an understanding on several of these points, but the following were referred to the Heads of Governments for final decision: A. The paragraph relating to the transfer of assets and the recognition of liabilities by the Provisional Government. (The U.S. substitute draft of this paragraph was presented for consideration.) B. The paragraph relating to the holding of elections and to freedom of the press. DE or IV. Implementation E.O. 11002, bec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E) 5700334560 Dept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1972 By NLT-HC NARS Date 42676