AMERICAN POSITION ON ALLIED CONTROL
COMMISSIONS IN RUMANIA, BULGARIA AND HUNGARY
 
 
     The United States is represented on the Allied 
Control Commissions established to control the execu-
tion of the armistice agreements with Rumania and Bul-
garia. The Commissions are organized on the same general 
pattern as the Allied Commission Italy with Russia 
playing the leading role which Great Britain and the 
United States have in Italy. The Commission for Rumania 
operates under statutes drawn up by the Soviet Governments. 
So far as the Department is aware, no similar statutes 
govern the operations of the Commission for Bulgaria. The
organization of the Commission for Hungary is now under 
discussion at Moscow.
 
       The United States Government has not taken excep-
tion to the Soviet view that the actual operation of the 
Commissions should be in the hands of the Soviet military 
authorities, at least in the period before the surrender 
of Germany. The Department believes strongly, however, 
that policy directives should not be issued to the local 
Governments by the Soviet authorities in the name of the 
Commissions without prior consultation with the American 
and British representatives. Otherwise the United States 
is in the public mind associated with actions of which
it has no official knowledge.
 
       Following Germany's surrender the United States would 
like to see the Control Commissions become genuinely tri-
parite in character, with all three Allied Governments 
having equal participation.
 
       In Rumania, the Soviet Chairman of the Commission has 
accepted the principle of prior consultation with the Ameri-
can delegation before the issuance of directives. Notwith-
standing this apparent improvement there is now before us a 
new example of the Soviet unilateral method; namely, the 
orders issued to the Rumanian Government to prepare lists 
of racial Germans in Rumania for deportation to Soviet Rus-
sia for labor service. This matter is now being taken up in
Bucharest, and representative one will also be made in Mos-
cow, both as to the substance of the order, and as to the 
unilateral procedure adopted.
 
       In the case of Bulgaria the Department has been in-
formed that prior consultation does not take place. In the 
case of Hungary we have proposed a protocol to the armistice 
clearly defining the rights of our representatives.