Editorial Note
On June 18, 1952 the Department of State Working Group on Colonial Problems was established. Membership included representatives of the Bureau of United Nations Affairs, the four geographic bureaus, the Ambassador at Large, the Policy Planning Staff, the Counselor of the Department, and the Assistant Legal Adviser for United Nations Affairs. Although the membership of the Working Group was virtually identical with that of the longstanding Committee on Problems of Dependent Areas (CDA), the Group did not function as a subcommittee of that committee but independently. The Working Group on Colonial Problems held its first meeting on June 20, 1952, the minutes of which are printed infra. Minutes and documents of the Working Group are in lot 54 D 5, which contains also records of the colonial policy committees described in footnote 1, page 1077.