TEXTS OF PEACE TREATIES

Chronicle (Levin), 31 July 1946, Page 5

TEXTS OF PEACE TREATIES

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1TAIXS BIC REPARA'nONS PAYMENT TO RUSSIA

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. ^ Received Wednesday, Noon. V: London, July 30. The texts have been released of the drafts which the Big Four have agreed to of the tive peace treaties between the Allied Nations and Italy, Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Finland. The bulk of the clauses are common to all, with other clauses in each treaty opposite to the country with which it is made. The treaty for Finland will be signed by Britain, Russia, Australia, South Africa and Byelorussa, and those with Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria additionally by the United States, New Zealand, India, Czechoslovakia, Greece, the Ukraine and Yugoslavia. France joins all these nations in the treaty with Italy. The treaty for Italy, firstly, provides that Italy pay Russia 100,000,000 United States dollars m reparations over seven years with deliveries from current industrial production postponed for two years, the quantities and types of goods to be delivered being the subject of Russian-Italian agreement, and to be selected in such a way as to avoid interference with Italy's economic reconstruction and the imposition of additional liabilities for the Allied powers. _ Russia is to fufnish Ttaly, 011 commercial terms, with materials which are normally imported into Italy, and which are needed for the manufacture of the reparations goods. Other reparations are to come from a share in Italian factory and tool equipment designed for the manufacture of implements of war, and which are not readily susceptible to conversion to civilian purposes, and from Italian assets in Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary.