Editorial Note
On August 18, 1954, the Senate confirmed Robert McClintock to be Ambassador to Cambodia and Charles W. Yost to be Minister to Laos. Henceforth, the United States Ambassador at Saigon was accredited only to the State of Vietnam. President Eisenhower had expressed the intention of the United States to appoint resident diplomatic chiefs of mission to Cambodia and Laos in his news conference statement of July 21, 1954; for text, see editorial note, page 1864.