No. 614
Editorial Note
The Combined Working Group for a United States-USSR Lend-Lease Settlement held the first of a resumed series of meetings in Washington on the afternoon of December 28. During the remainder of 1953 and during January through March 1954, 28 more meetings of the Working Group were held. All meetings were held in the Department of State. Principal participants on the United States side were: Walter J. Stoessel, George E. Truesdell, Francis T. Murphy, Captain A.C. Veasey, and Commander R.A. Markham, both of the United States Navy. Principal participants on the Soviet side were Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin and Engineer Commodore Peter A. Favorov, naval expert. On March 26, 1954, the two sides reached agreement on the arrangements for the delivery of 38 naval craft to the United States; see Document 618. The United States side maintained transcripts of the proceedings of the Working Group meetings. These transcripts and other documentation relating to the negotiations are in file 761.56.