Editorial Note

No record of the substance of this meeting has been found. The information given here as to the meeting and the participants is taken from the Log, ante, p. 553, which states that the discussions continued [Page 611] until 4 p. m. On August 13, 1954, Matthews wrote of this meeting as follows: “I do not recall the subject but most such meetings were to inform the President of the results of our morning Foreign Ministers meeting and to prepare him for the afternoon agenda” (640.0029/8–1354).