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POLITICAL AND TERRITORIAL COMMISSION FOR . ROUMANIA Officers Chairman Mr D. Manuilsky (later Mr Baranovsky) {Ukraine) Vice-Chair man Sir N. J. Wadia (India) Rapporteur Mr K. Lisicky (Czechoslovakia) New Zealand Representatives Rt Hon. W. J. Jordan Mr D. P. Costello 1. FACTUAL OUTLINE The Roumanian Political and Territorial Commission dealt with the following sections of the draft treat}' with Roumania : Preamble. Articles 1-10 inclusive : Frontiers of Hungary and political clauses. Article 21 : Withdrawal of Allied troops. Articles 35-38 inclusive : Final clauses. Annex 1 : Map of Roumanian frontiers. Of all these, only Article 36 was not an agreed clause. The Commission met eleven times. It set up no Sub-Commission. The Roumanian delegation forwarded to the Commission, in written form, its views of the treaty and amendments, and Roumanian representatives on two occasions addressed the Commission orally. 2. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS The matters dealt with in the Roumanian Commission were, mutatis mutandis, the same as those treated by the Political and Territorial Commission for Hungary, with the exception that here there was no equivalent to the Czechoslovak amendments. The same Australian amendments were put forward, and, with the exception of a slight alteration to the Preamble, identical to that adopted in the Hungarian treaty, later withdrawn. As in the Hungarian Commission, the United Kingdom proposed an amendment to Article 3, providing for protection for the Jews in Eastern Europe, which was passed by 7 votes to 5. The United Kingdom-U.S.A. draft of Article 36 (settlement of disputes) was approved, and the U.S.S.R. text rejected by 8 votes to 4.