Editor’s Note
—No official minutes of the discussions in the Communiqué Subcommittee have been found. Brown’s diary entry for August 1 contains the following information on Subcommittee discussions on that date:
“The Foreign Ministers met at 11:00 and sat almost continuously until the Big Three meeting at 3:00 p.m. The Big Three met and a number of points were agreed on.
“I was busy working on communiqué. We had an agreement except on introduction, Tangier, Rumanian oil equipment removal and military talks. Discussion on this latter item interesting. In first draft, I had confined military talks to affairs in Europe. Golunski wanted limitation stricken to appear military talks included Japanese war. Today he wanted to go back to original draft, eliminating [reinstating?] limitations. We decided to pass to Big Three.”4