Potsdam parties issue 7,000-word report
LISBON (Domei, Aug. 2) – A 7,000-word report was issued by the conferees on the conclusion of the Potsdam Conference which came to a formal end at half an hour past midnight last night after a session lasting a fortnight, according to a Berlin dispatch.
A communique, which was simultaneously released in London, Washington, Moscow and Berlin, announced agreed plans for the complete and final destruction of the Nazi creed, the German general staff and the entire range of Germany’s war-manufacturing potential.
It also announced the formation of a Council of Foreign Ministers of Britain, Russia, Chungking, France and the United States, with a permanent secretariat in London, to prepare peace treaties with Italy and other former Axis countries, and plan further settlement with Germany.
The communique disclosed that Poland’s future frontiers will await peace settlement and in the meantime Poland will administer territory east of the river Oder and Nisse.
The report offers membership of the United Nations to qualified neutral countries with the sole specific exception of the Spanish government, which it says lacks the necessary qualification owing to its previous association with Germany.
No mention of the Far East was made in the communique.