Editor’s Note
—No official minutes of the discussions in the Communiqué Subcommittee have been found. Brown’s diary entry for July 31, however, contains the following reference to this meeting: “… Communiqué Committee met after Big Three meeting. We were well up with our work. …” Brown’s report of August 1 to Byrnes indicates that agreement was reached in the Subcommittee on July 31 on the inclusion in the Communiqué of “a single sentence stating Chiefs of Staffs of the three Governments conferred’ on military matters of common interest.’ “See document No. 1380, post Cf. the following passage in Brown’s diary entry for August 1: “In first draft, I had confined military talks to affairs in Europe. Golunski wanted limitation stricken to appear military talks included Japanese war.” Cf. post, page 585.