REPORTS OF THE COMMISSIONS



   As a result of consideration of articles, proposals and amendments
 listed above, the Commission came to the following conclusions.
              PART IV. REPARATION AND RESTITUTION
   Article 22-Reparation. With regard to this Article, the Australian
 Delegation withdrew its amendments (C.P.(Gen)Doc.1.B.64, C.P.-
 (Gen) Doc.1.B.67,C.P. (Gen) Doc.l.B.68).
   The U.S.A. Delegation introduced an amendment to reduce the
 sum of reparation to 200,000,000 American dollars. At the meeting it
 declared that this amendment was based on the observations of the
 Finnish Government.
   After consultation with the Deputy General Secretary the President
 declared that the U.S.A. amendment had been submitted contrary to
 the decision on final date, which had been taken with regard to the
 submission of amendments, and was also not in accordance with the
 timetable of work which the Commission had adopted, and in view of
 this the Chairman declined to include the American amendment on
 the agenda.
 In the course of the voting on the Article in the wording set out by
 the Council of Foreign Ministers, 9 Delegations (Byelorussia, France,
 U.K., Greece, India, Czechoslovakia, Ukrainian S.S.R., U.S.S.R. and
 Yugoslavia) voted in favour and 4 Delegations (U.S.A., Canada, New
 Zealand, Union of South Africa) voted against. One Delegation (Aus-
 tralia) abstained.
 Article 23. Article 23 was unanimously adopted by the Commission
 in the wording proposed by the Council of Foreign Ministers.
                   PART V. ECONOMIC CLAUSES
  Article 24. Paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of this article were
unanimously adopted by the Commission in the wording proposed by
the Council of Foreign Ministers.
  With regard to paragraph 4 of this article, the Commission makes
no recommendation as none of the proposals secured the necessary ma-
j ority of two-thirds.
  In the consideration of paragraph 4, a vote was taken first on the
suggestion that full compensation should be paid. The vote resulted
in 6 Delegations being in favour of compensation in full (Australia,
Canada, U.K., Greece, New Zealand, South Africa). 6 Delega-
tions voted against (U.S.A., Byelorussia, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine,
U.S.S.R., Yugoslavia). 2 Delegations abstained (France and India).
Thereafter a vote was taken on the proposal by the U.S.A. Delegation
which was supported by the Delegation of the U.S.S.R. that compen-
sation should be to the extent of 25%. There were 6 votes in favour
of this proposal (U.S.A., Byelorussia, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine,
U.S.S.R., Yugoslavia) and 8 against (Australia, Canada, France,



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