840.70/10–1444: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 14—6:40 p.m.]
8759. Following is the complete text of press release regarding EITO Conference.53
“A Conference is taking place in London, on the invitation of the United Kingdom and United States Governments, to discuss arrangements regarding inland transport in Continental Europe after the liberation of territories of the United Nations in Europe and the occupation of any enemy territories, with a view to insuring rapid movement of supplies both for military forces and the civil population and to provide for the transport of displaced persons and also with a view to creating conditions in which the normal movement of traffic can be more rapidly resumed.
“The countries participating in the Conference [are] Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, Luxemburg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, the United Kingdom, the United States, the USSR and Yugoslavia. The Danish Minister in London has been invited to send an observer.
“The first meeting of the Conference took place at Lancaster House, St. James, yesterday, under the chairmanship of Mr. P. J. Noel-Baker, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of War Transport.”
- Similar press release issued by the Department of State, October 17; see Department of State Bulletin, October 22, 1944, p. 480.↩