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Bohlen Collection

Soviet Amendment to the Draft Declaration on Liberated Europe1
Leningrad, February 9, 1945, 4 p.m.
top secret

Amendment proposed by Mr. Molotov at Plenary Session of Feb. 9: At the end of the fourth paragraph, omit the period, insert a comma, and add the following:

“and strong support will be given to those people in these countries who took an active part in the struggle against German occupation.”

  1. Attached to the Page minutes of the Foreign Ministers’ meeting on February 10, 1945. See ante, p. 848. Copies are also in the Matthews Files and the Hiss Collection.↩