No. 151
Editorial Note
On January 30, Secretary of State Dulles and Mutual Security Agency Director Stassen left Washington for a visit to Western Europe in order to hold meetings with leading government officials in Rome, Paris, London, Bonn, The Hague, Brussels, and Luxembourg. During their stay in Paris, Dulles and Stassen met with a delegation from the Organization for European Economic Cooperation on February 3 and preliminary arrangements were made for a visit to Washington by representatives of that group sometime in March or April. A summary of this meeting was transmitted to the Department of State in telegram Repto 2395 from Paris, February 4; for text, see volume V, Part 2, page 1562. The OEEC delegation reported to the Council that same day concerning their conversation with Dulles and Stassen; the minutes of this 203d meeting of the OEEC Council, which summarized the report by Sir Hugh Ellis-Rees, is in OEEC files, lot 56 D 217, “C/M(53)1 through 10”.