329. Editorial Note
Before traveling to New York on October 5 as head of the Austrian Delegation to the United Nations, Foreign Minister Kreisky met with Under Secretary Dillon on October 4. Briefing memoranda for the meeting are in Department of State, Austria Desk Files: Lot 68 D 123. Memoranda of conversation are ibid., Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 64 D 199. The conversations covered the following topics: the South Tyrol problem, relations between the EEC and EFTA, joint Austrian-Yugoslav aid programs, Jewish claims under Article 26 of the Austrian State Treaty, Khrushchev’s conduct at the United Nations, and the progress of the Austrian Assets Treaty in the U.S. Congress.
Prior to the meeting with Dillon, Kreisky met with Livingston Merchant, with whom he discussed the South Tyrol problem. After meeting with Dillon, Kreisky and the rest of the Austrian Delegation met at a roundtable discussion with a U.S. Delegation led by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Ivan White. No memorandum of the conversation with Merchant has been found. A memorandum of the roundtable meeting, at which Article 26 claims, the Austrian Assets Treaty, dollar bonds, and the South Tyrol were discussed, is ibid., Austria Desk Files: Lot 68 D 123.