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FOREIGN RELATIONS, 19 4 6, VOLUME IV



Argument.
  Czechoslovakia proposes that the six years period imposed on Hun-
gary in the Armistice Agreement for the payment of reparations
should remain in force. Czechoslovakia concluded a bilateral agree-
ment with Hungary on reparations payments on April 6, 1946 in
which Hungary also accepted a period of six years.
  Czechoslovakia does not rule out the possibility of a new settlement
by bilateral agreement, but she maintains that the conditions laid
down in a bilateral agreement cannot be altered to her disadvantage by
a multilateral act.

C.P. (Gen) Doc.1.Q.10.
                           ARTICLE 2 2
  Point 2.-At the end of Point 2 after the words "has secured pos-
session" a further sentence is to be inserted as follows:
  "As an exception to the above principles, objects (including books,
manuscripts and documents) of an artistic, historical, scientific (ex-
cluding equipment of an industrial character), educational or religious
character which have been looted by the enemy occupying power, shall,
so far as possible, be replaced by equivalent objects if they are not
restored."
  A further paragraph is to be inserted under point 2 as follows:
  "Hungary shall restore to Czechoslovakia the administrative docu-
ments now in her territory and at her disposal, all manuscripts, an-
tiques and works of art, all scientific and library equipment which by
their destination, origin, or character relate to Czechoslovak territory
since January 1st, 1868, and that Hungary should have restored them
under the terms of former agreements and has not done so up to the
present."
  Point 4.-After the words "the search" add the words "by
their own
agencies".
  Point 6.-At the end of this point, after the words "of the present
Treaty" add the following sentence: "Hungary is bound to satisfy
the claim thus presented in the year following the receipt of the claim
to this effect."
Argum'nent.
  The principle laid down in the amendment to point 2 of article 22
regarding the obligations to restore artistic, historical and certain other
objects in genere has been recognised by the representatives of all the
occupied states at the Reparations Conference and adopted by the
Allied Control Commission in Berlin. It is just that Hungary should