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WORK OF THE COMMISSIONS
               MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1946
  SEVENTEENTH MEETING OF THE POLITICAL AND TERRITORIAL
       COMMISSION FOR ITALY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1946, 10 A. M.
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  The Chairman said that the Commission was now ready to hear the
final defense., in brief and pertinent terms,, of the various amendments
submitted on Article 3. Those amendments relating only to the Italo-
Yugoslav frontier would be considered first. Baron de Gruben (Bel-
gium) recommended the establishment of a, small drafting committee
for Articles 3 and 4 but the Chairman suggested that this be deferred.
At the request of the Australian and Yugoslav representatives the
Chairman agreed to ask the General Secretariat to distribute (1) the
Report of the C.F.M. Commission of Experts on Venezia Giulia, and
(2) Observations of the Yugoslav Government on the Report of the
Commission of Experts.57  M. Bebler (Yugoslavia) formally pro-
posed the establishment of a subcommission to consider all amend-
ments relating to the first part of Article 3, but in the face of obvious
defeat finally withdrew his, motion. He thereupon proceeded to the
final defense of the Yugoslav amendment (CP (Gen) Doc 1U3),
dividing his statement, however, into four parts geographically, and
limiting his remarks this morning to the northern-most sector of the
line, that is, the Kanal Valley. He merely elaborated on Yugoslav
claims already advanced. He was not prepared to speak on the other
three (southern) sectors of the Yugoslav line in today's meeting.
THIRTEENTH MEETING OF THE ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR THE
       BALKANS AND, FINLAND, SEPTEMBER 9, 1946, 10 A. M.
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  The Commission considered a U.S. draft to be substituted for the
disagreed portion of paragraph 4 of Annex 4A (industrial literary
and artistic property) of the Rumanian treaty, which provided for
reciprocity as between Rumania and the Allied and Associated Powers
" The Report of the Commission of Experts, .F.M. (46) 5, April 27, 1946,
is
printed in vol. ii, p. 140. For a summary of the Yugoslav observations, C.F.M.
(46) 42, May 4, 1946, see telegram 2142 (Delsec 458) from Paris, May 4, 1946,
ibid., p. 224.
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