Editor’s Note

—No official record of the substance of the conversation at this meeting has been found. Byrnes makes the following reference to the meeting in Speaking Frankly, page 84: “As soon as Mr. Attlee and Mr. Bevin returned I visited them and, after several hours discussion, obtained their agreement in principle to our proposal [on reparations from Germany].” It seems probable from the minutes of the Byrnes-Molotov meeting and the Tenth Meeting of the Foreign Ministers on July 30 (ante, pages 481, 484487) that Byrnes’ discussions with the British representatives took place at some time following adjournment of the latter meeting, although the chronology of events described in Speaking Frankly, page 84, would indicate that the ByrnesAttlee meeting took place on July 28.