APPENDIX I
 
          MOSCOW DECLARATION ON AUSTRIA
                    November 1, 1943
 
     The Governments of the United Kingdom, the Soviet
Union and the United States of America are agreed that
Austria, the first free country to fall a victim to
Hitlerite aggression, shall be liberated from German
domination.
 
     They regard the annexation imposed on Austria by
Germany on March 15, 1938 as null and void. They con-
sider themselves as in no way bound by any changes 
effected in Austria since that date. They declare
that they wish to see reestablished a free and inde-
pendent Austria and thereby to open the way for the
Austrian people themselves as well as those neighboring
states which will be faced with similar problems, to
find that political and economic security which is the 
only basis for lasting peace.
 
     Austria is reminded, however, that she has a 
responsibility, which she cannot evade, for participa-
tion in the war at the side of Hitlerite Germany, and
that in the final settlement account will inevitably
be taken of her own contribution to her liberation.