No. 165
Editorial Note
As a result of arrangements initiated in meetings between Dulles, Stassen, and representatives of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation held in Paris on February 3 (see Document 151), a delegation from the OEEC visited Washington for a series of meetings with representatives from the Departments of State, Treasury, and Commerce, the Mutual Security Agency, and the Federal Reserve on April 10 and April 13 through 16. The OEEC delegation, led by Sir Hugh Ellis-Rees, Chairman of the Council of the OEEC, Attilio Cattani, Chairman of the Executive Committee, and Robert Marjolin, Secretary-General, came to Washington for the purpose of presenting to the new administration their view of European and United States economic policies and becoming better informed concerning the economic outlook in the United States. The voluminous records of the nine scheduled meetings with the OEEC delegation are not printed; the minutes of these meetings, as well as documentation concerning the preparations for this visit, are in RA files, lot 58 D 374, “OEEC Conference—April 1953”. For a brief summary of these meetings and the text of the joint communiqué issued at their conclusion, see Department of State Bulletin, May 18, 1953, pages 719–720.