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Volume #13 - 49.
CHAPTER II EUROPEAN PEACE SETTLEMENT
PART 1 TREATIES RESULTING FROM PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE
SECTION A GENERAL
49.	DEA/4697-G-40
Memorandum from Head, First Political Division to Economic Division¹
SECRET	Ottawa, January 17, 1947

I attach, for your information, copy of telegram No. WA-156 of January 16th,† from the Canadian Ambassador to the United States, and of telegram No. 73 of January 15th† from the High Commissioner in London. You will see from these telegrams that the final texts of the treaties with Italy, Roumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Finland are likely to be received within the next few days, and that signature of the treaties is scheduled to take place in Paris on February 10th. It is, I think, essential that before these treaties are signed on Canadian behalf, they should be thoroughly examined by the various interested departments and agencies of the Canadian Government. With this in mind I hope to pass copies of the treaties to you in the very near future, and I would be grateful if you would have them examined in your Division, and let me have any comments you may wish to make. It should, of course, be borne in mind that the treaties are not at this stage subject to alteration, and it would therefore seem that any objections which may be raised to the texts of the treaties would have to be of a relatively serious nature before any Canadian refusal to sign could be considered. R.G. RIDDELL ¹L'annotation suivante a été dactylographiée sur notre copie du document: The following was typed on this copy of the document: Similar letters have been sent to: Deputy Ministers, Departments of Trade & Commerce, Finance, Justice, National Defence (Army), (Navy), (Air), Deputy Custodian, Commissioner of Patents, and Legal and Pol. II Divisions.
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