Problems: Polish-Soviet Frontier . . . May 19, 1943. 19 [Illustrative Map Showing Hypothetical Lines for Purposes of Study by the Subcommittee on Territorial Prob- 20 [Letter From Chairman of Subcommittee on Territorial Problems (Bowman) to Executive Director of the Advisory Committee on Post-War Foreign Policy Draft of United Nations Agreement on Relief [as Developed and Approved by 545 553 554 558 38 [United States] Tentative Proposals for a General International Organization. July 18, 1944. 44 Statement of the Problem and Summary of the Issues and Recommendations on International Commodity Policy. . . April 4, 1944. 45 Summary of the Interim Report of the Special Committee on Relaxation of lishment of an Emergency High Com- 52 Memorandum for the President: Voting Procedure in the Security Council 53 Principal Substantive Decisions on Which the Security Council Would Have to 54 [Letter, Secretary of State (Stettinius) to Secretary of the Navy (Forrestal)]. . 55 Memorandum for the Secretary . 56 [United States Draft] Declaration on Liberated Europe [as Submitted at Sixth Formal Meeting of the Crimea 57 [Statement of the American Position on Voting in the Security Council of the United Nations as Read by Secretary of State Stettinius at Third Formal Meet- ing of the Crimea Conference]. . . . 58 [United States Draft] Statute of the Per- manent Court of International Justice T Introduction HE PRESENT volume originated in the desire expressed on April 19, 1946, by President Harry S. Truman that a record be written of the structure and conduct of the extraordinary preparation of our postwar foreign policy as made in the Department of State during World War II. At the direction of Acting Secretary Dean Acheson, now Secretary of State, this request was carried out as rapidly as circumstances permitted. With the President's consent and approval, this record is now published for the information of the American public. The preparation spanned the years from the beginning of the second World War in 1939 until the United Nations Conference on International Organization had convened at San Francisco in 1945. Its broad objective was to enable the United States to participate effectively in the solution of the vast and complicated problems of international relations that would confront the world after the defeat of the enemy. It was an effort, first, to determine, during the emergency of war, sound bases for future United States foreign policy designed to safeguard and advance our vital national interests as a great power. This determination involved searching analysis of our interests in regard to every aspect of international relations, in all areas of the world, under the circumstances probable or possible at the end of the war. It was an effort, second, to develop on these bases, and after thorough examination of the nature of relations among nations and the forces at work within and between them, the most desirable policies to adopt toward all the foreseeable problems on which the United States might or would have to take a position. This work as a whole required consideration of the political, territorial, military, economic, and social conditions essential to enduring peace and to human progress in an era when the philosophies and desires of peoples, the relationships and power positions of states, and the scope of United States concern in international cooperation had all become subject to profound change. The process of preparation on a problem passed through a series of stages before final decisions were made. Although some variation occurred in the different fields, there were in general four stages and in a number of important instances, five. The first was determination and analytical examination of the problems engaging United States interests so far as these could be anticipated. The second was con |