740.00119 Council/4–1947: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Acting Secretary of State
urgent
1472. Delsec 1443. For the President, Vandenberg, Connally and Acheson from Marshall. 35th CFM meeting, April 19, a.m., Bevin presiding, resumed the discussion of the draft treaty for Austria. Agreement was reached on parts of several articles dealing with economic questions, including the renunciation by Austria of claims against the Allies.90 Molotov prevented agreement on a clause stating that the Allies would support in the German peace treaty a provision waiving German claims against Austria. He said discussion of this question was premature.
Some progress made on the clause dealing with United Nations property in Austria but final agreement was not reached. Molotov requested additional time to allow the USSR to make new proposals on several paragraphs of this clause. An important unagreed paragraph defines the extent to which Austria will pay compensation for war damage done to United Nations property in Austria. In an attempt to reach agreement on this paragraph, Marshall supported the UK–French position but Molotov maintained his position. The Council adjourned after agreeing to discuss Austria’s frontiers at this afternoon’s meeting.
Department please pass to Vienna as 48, Rome as 41, and Paris as 157.
Repeated London 170, Berlin 300.
- For the specific articles under discussion by the Council and the decisions made, see the Record of Decisions of this Council meeting, supra.↩