Read the passage from a declaration issued following the Yalta Conference in 1945. The following declaration has been approved . . . . to form interim governmental authorities broadly representative of all democratic elements in the population and pledged to the earliest possible establishment through free elections of governments responsive to the will of the people.

Which best states the goal of this declaration?

A. Free elections should be held to set up governments that reflect the will of the people.

B. The Soviet Union should be given additional territory in Eastern Europe.

C. People should decide for themselves if they want governments chosen in free elections.

D. The United Nations should decide when elections would be held in Eastern Europe.