Council of Foreign Ministers Files: Lot M–88: CFM London Decisions
Record of Decisions of the Twenty-Fifth Meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, London, September 28, 1945, 11:30 a.m.69a
1. Austria: Food Supplies
The Council agreed that telegrams should be despatched to the Allied Control Commissions in Bulgaria, Hungary and Roumania [Page 429] and to the Governments of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia in the terms set out in C.F.M. (45) 65.70
2. Germany: Control and Administration
The Council decided that the questions raised by the memorandum of the French Delegation of 14th September, 1945, on the control and administration of Germany71 should, without delay, be the subject of preliminary study through the diplomatic channel. The problem would then be submitted for consideration by the Council of Foreign Ministers with a view to decisions being taken.
- The participants were the same as those at the 24th meeting, p. 421, with the addition of M. Fouques Duparc for France.↩
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September 28, 1945, not printed. The agreed text of the telegram read as follows:
↩“The Council of Foreign Ministers has decided to clarify through the Allied Control Commissions in Hungary, Roumania and Bulgaria and also with the Governments of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia whether there are in the above listed countries surpluses of foodstuffs which could be used for supplying Austria.
“Therefore, by instruction of the Council of Foreign Ministers, I request you to inform me whether . . . . . . . . . country can set aside foodstuffs for supplying Austria. In case there are such surpluses, the Council of Foreign Ministers would like to learn in what quantities they can be set aside for Austria now and from the proceeds of the next harvest. The Council requests that the information in respect to the present surplus be made available within one month, and as to the next harvest, within three months.” (Council of Foreign Ministers Files: Lot M–88: CFM London Documents)
- C.F.M. (45) 17, September 13, p. 177.↩