Editorial Note
Printed in this section are documents which deal with physical and personnel arrangements for the First Quebec Conference and documents relating to the agenda for the Conference. Papers which deal substantively with questions to be discussed are printed post, under the heading “Substantive Preparatory Papers”, even though they may contain suggestions that the subjects under discussion be placed on the agenda, See particularly the Roosevelt–Churchill preconference correspondence on Italian problems, post, pp. 516 ff., and on recognition of the French Committee of National Liberation, post, pp. 661 ff. For pre-Quebec correspondence relating to a possible tripartite meeting with the Soviet Union, see Foreign Relations, The Conferences at Cairo and Tehran, 1943, pp. 8–20.