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ference and that he proposed at
least two of the specific agreements
covered in yesterdays commune
que summing up accomplishments
Those agreements are:
|. The declaration on liberated
areas by which the United States
agreed to serve on commissions
which may be necessary in one
or more countries to restore order
and assure the people of eventual
choice of their own governments.
2. The formula for settling the
Dumbarnton Oaks controversy over
whether a great power should vote
on a charge of aggression against
itself. Byrnes did not say what
this formula is nor how it recon
Giles the previously opposing posi-
tons taken by the United States and
Russia.
Immediately after his news cor
ference at the White House broke
up, President Roosevelt through his
press office announced the names
of nine persons invited to be dele
gates to the San Francisco confer
ence.
Secretary of State Stettinius will
head the delegation. Other mem
bers chosen are former Secretary
of State Cordell Hull, who also
will serve as senior advisor Chair
man Connally D.-Tex.) of the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee, Senator Vandenberg (R. Mich
member Of the committee, Chair
man Bloom D.-N.Y.) of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee, Repre-
sentative Eaton (R.-N.J.D, Com.
mander Harold Stassen, former
Republican governor of Minnesota,
and Dean Virginia Gildersleeve OF
Barnard College.
Byrnes dealt with many aspects
of the Crimean agreements and
said that more than once President
Roosevelt by using tact and good
humor, brought about decisions of
the Big Three. And we did have
decisions" he emphasized. The
conclusions of military questions,
Byrnes reported, promise greater
cooperation than has ever before
existed" among the Allies and they
mean that IF Hitler had relied for
success upon a division among the
powers he is doomed as never be-
FORE
He said that the settlement pro-
vided for the horsepower dispute
over Poland was specific apph-
cation of the general system agreed
upon for big power handling OF
problems which may arise from
now on in the liberated countries
of Europe. In these countries, 1t
was stated, the war has left chaos
and disorder which, without such
an agreement, would lead to fac
tional bids for support OF either
Russia or Britain.
Byrnes said the Polish case
represents a compromise but that
whenever you have three powers
in a situation like this there must
be a reconciliation. He laid great
stress on the creation of com
mission consisting of Foreign Com
missar Molotov of Russia, U. S.
Ambassador Hartman and British
Ambassador Clark Kerr at Mos.
COW to consult members of The
various political groups in Poland
and try to convert the present War.
saw government into government
of national unity to administer the
country until free elections can be
held.
Asked whether this means that
the present provisional regime at
Warsaw is to be considered gov.
eminent by the United States
Byrnes replied, without going into
the technicalities of recognition,
that "of course it's a government.
We may be opposed to it but it S
there.
He was told that the Polish exile
government at London had said To-
day that it could not accept the
Big Three formula. How many OF
them are there?" he replied.
Asked whether the Baltic states
were discussed, Byrnes said that
all sorts of questions were taken up
but that those specific states were
not talked about in any meeting at
which he was present. The United
States has not recognized Russia S
absorption of Lithuania, Estonia
and Latvia.
On the Curzon Line settlement
of Poland's eastern boundary, by
which Poland loses a little more
than one third of her pre-war ter
ritory, he said that the Russians
made a strong case for acquiring