Archive Report
Archive Report
Procedure of Peace Settlement in Europe
The Council of Foreign Ministers, now meeting at Paris, has as its principal task the drafting of peace treaties with Italy, the Danubian countries, and Finland. After the conference opened, British objections to consideration at this time of French demands for separation of the Ruhr Valley and the Rhineland from Germany were withdrawn, and the foreign ministers agreed to take up that question after completing the peace treaty drafts. Foreign Minister Molotov of Russia, however, still opposed Secretary of State Byrnes' proposal that the conference attempt to work out an agreement to normalize relations with Austria and reduce the Allied forces of occupation in that country.
Establishment by the Allied Control Council of central German administrative agencies in such fields ...