Chapter IV: April 25–May 7, 1945

Opening session of Conference; consultative meetings of Foreign Ministers of the four Sponsoring Governments completed on questions of organization, procedure, admission of States to the Conference, and suggested amendments to the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals; amendments proposed jointly by the four Sponsoring Governments; additional amendments to the Proposals suggested by the United States; beginning of a new series of informal consultations on proposed amendments, which included the Foreign Ministers and Ambassadors of the four Sponsoring Governments and France; United States proposals on trusteeship presented at the first preliminary five-Power consultative meeting on trusteeship; participation of the United States delegation in first meetings of the various Commissions and Committees of the Conference.


[181] Minutes of the Eighteenth Meeting of the United States Delegation, Held at San Francisco, April 26, 1945, 9:30 a.m.

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[185] Draft United States Proposals for Trusteeship

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[186] Minutes of the Twentieth Meeting of the United States Delegation (A), Held at San Francisco, April 27, 1945, 9:30 a.m.

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[192] The Soviet Embassy to the Department of State

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[197] The Chairman of the United States Delegation (Stettinius) to the Acting Secretary of State

500.CC/5–145: Telegram


[201] Minutes of the First Four-Power Consultative Meeting on Charter Proposals, Held at San Francisco, May 2, 1945, 9 p.m.

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[205] Minutes of the Third Four-Power Consultative Meeting on Charter Proposals, Held at San Francisco, May 3, 1945, 9:40 p.m.

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