REPORTS OF THE COMMISSIONS



quired to be restored under this Article, and which for a period of six
months after the date of coming into force of the present Treaty have
remained ownerless, heirless or unclaimed."
  The U.S. Delegation suggested discussing the following two
provisions:
  "1. Hungary undertakes that in all cases where the property, legal
rights or interests in Hungary of persons, organisations or communi-
ties which were the object of racial, religious or other Fascist measures
of persecution or discrimination (other than those entitled to the bene-
fits of Article 23) have been subjected since September 1, 1939 to meas-
ures of seizure, sequestration or control or to transfer by force or
duress, such property shall be returned, such legal rights and interests
shall be restored and such forced transfers shall be invalidated. In
the event such return or restoration is impossible, compensation shall
be paid in local currency on a basis no less favourable than that ac-
corded to Hungarian nationals generally for any losses suffered in
Hungary as a result of the war."
  "2. All property, rights and interests passing under this Article
shall be restored free of all encumbrance and charges of any kind to
which they may have become subject since the date of seizure, seques-
tration, contro or transfer, and no charges shall be imposed in con-
nection with their return."
  2 Delegations (U.S.A. and France) voted for the U.S. proposal, and
11 Delegations voted against (Australia, Byelorussia, Canada, Greece,
India, New Zealand, Ukraine, Union of South Africa, U.K., U.S.S.R.
and Yugoslavia), and 1 Delegation (Czechoslovakia) abstained.
  The U.K. Delegation's proposal was voted for in two parts. 8 votes
were cast in favour of paragraph 1 of the proposal (Australia, Canada,
France, Greece, India, New Zealand, Union of South Africa, U.K.)
and 5 votes against (Byelorussia, Ukraine, U.S.A., U.S.S.R., Yugo-
slavia) with 1; abstention (Czechoslovakia). For paragraph 2 of the
proposal there were 8 votes in favour (Australia, Canada, Greece,
India, New Zealand, Union of South Africa, U.K., U.S.A.) and 4
against (Byelorussia, Ukraine, U.S.S.R., and Yugoslavia), with 2
abstentions (Czechoslovakia and France).
  The U.S.S.R. Delegation declared that there was no need to include
in the text of this Treaty with Hungary a special Article: the U.S.S.R.
Delegation would submit its observations on this question.
  Article 24. The Commission unanimously adopted this Article in the
wording as proposed by the Council of Foreign Ministers, deleting
from the French text the words "qui ont 6t6" before the word "trans-
feres" so as to bring the French text into harmony with the Russian
and English texts.
  Article 25. No recommendation was adopted by the Commission on
this Article as the two proposals set out in the draft Peace Trealy-one



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