840.70/9–2744: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 27—3:58 p.m.]
8053. ReDepts 7613, September 18, midnight; Embassy’s 7815, September 20, 11 p.m.28 Soviet delegation to EITO Conference leaving Moscow on September 28. It consists of six members and interpreter and contains two Major Generals, one of them as head of delegation.
British delegation is not yet definite but will probably be headed by Lord Leathers.29 It may contain two or three Ministers as delegates and a number of experts, perhaps seven. The Foreign Office explains that in fact the delegation will not be as large as this in practice for a number of the persons named to it will be unable to attend much of the time. Unlike the foreign delegations which come from abroad to devote full time to the Conference most of the members of the British delegation will be Ministers or civil servants devoting only part time to it.