Paris Peace Treaties, 1947

Paris Peace Treaties, 1947

The Paris Peace Conference (July 29 to October 15, 1946) resulted in the Paris Peace Treaties signed on February 10, 1947. The victorious wartime Allied powers (principally the United States, United Kingdom, France and the Soviet Union) negotiated the details of treaties of Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Finland. "(See the List of countries involved in World War II.)"

The treaties allowed Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Finland to reassume their responsibilities as sovereign states in international affairs and to qualify for membership in the United Nations.

The settlement elaborated in the peace treaties included payment of war reparations, commitment to minority rights and territorial adjustments including the end of the Italian Colonial Empire in Africa and changes to the Italian-Yugoslav, Hungarian-Slovak, Romanian-Hungarian, Soviet-Romanian, Bulgarian-Romanian, French-Italian and Soviet-Finnish frontiers.

The political clauses stipulated that the signatory should "take all measures necessary to secure to all persons under (its) jurisdiction, without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion, the enjoyment of human rights and of the fundamental freedoms, including freedom of expression, of press and publication, of religious worship, of political opinion and of public meeting"."

No penalties were to be visited on nationals because of wartime partisanship for the Allies. Each government undertook to prevent the resurgence of fascist organizations or any others, "whether political, military or semi-military, whose purpose it is to deprive the people of their democratic rights."

Particularly in Finland, the reparations and the dictated border adjustment were perceived as a major injustice and a betrayal by the Western Powers, after the sympathy Finland had received from the West during the Soviet-initiated Winter War of 1939 - 1940. However, this sympathy had been eroded by Finland's concessions to Nazi Germany and Finland's aggressive response to Soviet air bombings of 18 Finnish cities on June 25, 1941, starting the Continuation War, during which Finland held a broad strip of Soviet territory occupied 1941-44. The Soviet Union's accessions of territory were based on the Moscow Armistice signed in Moscow on September 19, 1944 and resulted in an extension of the accessions in the Moscow Peace Treaty (1940) that ended the Winter War.

War reparations

The war reparation problem proved to be one of the most difficult arising from post-war conditions. The Soviet Union, the country most heavily ravaged by the war, felt entitled to the maximum amounts possible, with the exception of Bulgaria, which was perceived as being the most sympathetic of the former enemy states. In the cases of Romania and Hungary, the reparation terms as set forth in their armistices were relatively high and were not revised.

Finland is the only country listed which has fully paid war reparations.

War reparations at 1938 prices:
*$360,000,000 from Italy
**$125,000,000 to Yugoslavia
**$105,000,000 to Greece
**$100,000,000 to the Soviet Union,
**$25,000,000 to Ethiopia,
**$5,000,000 to Albania.
*$300,000,000 from Finland to the Soviet Union
*$300,000,000 from Hungary
**$200,000,000 to the Soviet Union
**$100,000,000 to Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia
*$300,000,000 from Romania to the Soviet Union
*$70,000,000 from Bulgaria
**$45,000,000 to Greece
**$25,000,000 to Yugoslavia

The collapse of the Soviet Union has not led to any formal revision of the Paris Peace Treaties, although the wars of the former Yugoslavia have caused fundamental territorial change in the Balkans.

ee also

*Allied Control Commissions
*Potsdam Agreement (1945)
*Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers (1945)
*Treaty of peace with Italy (1947)
*Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany
*War reparations
*Soviet occupation of Romania
*World War II reparations towards Yugoslavia

External links

* [http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/FRUS.FRUS1946v03 United States Department of State Foreign relations of the United States, 1946. Paris Peace Conference] Proceedings
* [http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/FRUS.FRUS1946v04 United States Department of State Foreign relations of the United States, 1946. Paris Peace Conference] Documents
* [http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/dfat/treaties/1948/2.html "Australian treaty series 1948"] (full text of the treaties).
* [http://www.roconsulboston.com/Pages/InfoPages/Commentary/ParisPeaceCnf.html "Paris-WWII Peace Conference-1946: Settling Romania's Western Frontiers"] , at the Honorary Consulate of Romania in Boston, has pictures of the Romanian delegation


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