Editorial Note

No official NATO record of this meeting has been found in Department of State files, and no list of participants is available. Secretary of Defense Lovett presumably headed the United States Delegation at this meeting. The telegraphic report printed infra is the only record of this meeting available to the editors. The decisions and recommendations made at the meeting by the Ministers were reported upon to the North Atlantic Council in document C9–D/15, February 22, 1952, not printed. (Conference files, lot 59 D 95, CF 105)