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54 Meeting of the Commission for Preparation of Peace Agreements and Postwar Settlement

MINUTES:AVP RF, F.173, OP.3,D.5, L.7

[Moscow] 15 November 1945

Top Secret

Present:Comrades Litvinov, Lozovskii, Surits, Shtein (members of the commission); Comrade Iudin (secretary of the commission).

                     AGENDA

Chairman's report on the activities of the commission.

Comrade Litvinov gave the following report:

[...]

XXVIII. The Jewish Question: The late Epshtein1 was commissioned to report on this matter, but unfortunately he died before he could do so. It is not yet an international issue, apart from the Palestine question, on which a memorandum has been sent2.

   The chairman of the commission M.M.Litvinov, concluded his report by saying that 'the commission has nothing more to do, and this seems to be a wholly appropriate moment to propose to the government that it be disbanded, since it has carried out the tasks which it was given to perform, within the limits imposed upon it.'

Note: The minutes were sent to V.M.Molotov.

注释

1.Shakhno Epshtein, See Doc.52, n.10.

2.Reference is apparently to Doc.51.