Four Power Naval Commission

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The Four Power Naval Commission was created after World War II by the United States, France, Great Britain and the Soviet Union to dispose of elements of the Italian Fleet, and to provide for the return of warships the US and UK had loaned to the Soviet Union during the war. It was established by a Protocol{{cite web | url=https://www.loc.gov/law/help/us-treaties/bevans/m-ust000004-0306.pdf | title=Disposal of Excess Units of Italian Fleet and Return by Soviet Union of Warships on Loan | website=Library of Congress | accessdate=17 February 2016}} signed at Paris on February 10, 1947, at the same time as the Treaty of Peace with Italy, whose Article 57 provided a mandate for the Commission. The Commission was constituted and began work on February 11.{{Cite web|title = Document 609 - Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948. Western Europe: Volume III - Historical Documents - Office of the Historian|url = https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1948v03/d609|website = history.state.gov|access-date = 2016-02-17}} Among the issues it dealt with was Soviet reluctance to return warships to United States and the UK before it received "full clarity" regarding Italian warships it expected to receive.{{Cite web|title = Document 613 - Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948. Western Europe: Volume III - Historical Documents - Office of the Historian|url = https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1948v03/d613|website = history.state.gov|access-date = 2016-02-17}} By Spring of 1949, a number of issues had been resolved and Captain R.F. Pryce, the U.S. representative, proposed that the Commission disband in early May, it appearing that remaining issues could be resolved through diplomatic channels.{{Cite web|title = Document 626 - Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948. Western Europe: Volume III - Historical Documents - Office of the Historian|url = https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1948v03/d626|website = history.state.gov|access-date = 2016-02-17}}