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Show Highlights of Big Three At Potsdam, Germany ,Vlinston, D. C.-HthK8hU tie Big Three communique ?' potsdam, Germany, released rTrhy night, was reported to-Vv to-Vv the Associated Press as cay u- 'Tno mention was made of the P,r'ific war, nor f Russia's conation con-ation with it. But the communi- f said perhaps significantly Z chiefs of start of the United Mf! Britain and Russia held incetiiiss on "military matters of common interest." 2 Asreement was reached on reo'aratfons from Germany. Each f the three nations will fill its wn claims largely by taking goods and equipment from its own occupation zone. In addition, RUS sia will get 10 per cent of re movable industrial capital equip ment from the western zones aj a flat payment, and an additional addition-al 15 per cent for which she will pay in goods. Western allies ie tain sole claim to captured gold The United States and Britain also renounce claims in respect of German reparations to German foreign assets in Bulgaria, Finland, Fin-land, Hungary, Romania and Austria. 3. The Spanish government of Francisco Franco will be denied membership to the united nations because of "'its support of the axis powers." 4. Agreement was reached on a detailed program for control of Germany. It will strip the reich of wark-making capacity, smash huge cartels such as the I.G. Far-hen Far-hen industries, drive out nazism and "convince the German people that they have suffered a total "military defeat." In effect it will reduce Germany to a nation of farms and small peace industries. 5. A council of foreign ministers min-isters of the big five, including France and China, will be estab. lished soon to prepare peace treaties. 6. Russia will get Koensburg, seat of Prussian militarism, and adjacent territory in East Prussia. Prus-sia. Poland will get a slice of north and west Germany, including includ-ing the rest of East Prussia. Poland Po-land also gets the former Free City of Danzig. Final boundaries will be determined in the peace settlement. 7. War criminal trials will begin soon. The first list of defendants will be published before September Septem-ber 1. 8. The council of foreign ministers min-isters will be assigned the task of concluding peace treaties with Italy, Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary and Romania. Italy will be given first consideration. The bag three then will be able to support applications ap-plications from all five of those nations for united nations mem- 9. Germans in Poland, Czechoslovakia Czecho-slovakia and Hungary shall be transferred to Germany "in an orderly or-derly and humane manner." 10. The big three have no doubt that representatives of the allied press will enjoy "full freedom" to report to the world upon developments develop-ments in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary Hun-gary and Finland. Yugoslavia was not mentioned. The allied press has complained vigorously about being banned form these areas. - 11. A Russian proposal to extend ex-tend authority of the Austrian provisional government to all of Austria will be examined after British and U. S. forces enter Vi- enna. 12. Steps will be taken to assure allied control of German-owned assets in other countries.' 13. Under disarmament, all Ger-i Ger-i man land, naval and air forces, i and all nazi and militaristic organizations or-ganizations will be "completely and finally abolished." All arms, ammunition and implements of war shall be disposed of by the allies or destroyed. Maintenance and production of all aircraft and other implements of war shall be prevented. |