Editorial Note
For the texts of statements issued by Acting Secretary of State Lovett on September 24 and by President Truman on September 25 regarding the interest and intentions of the United States with regard to the report, see Department of State Bulletin, October 5, 1947, pages 687, 688. Letters of acknowledgment dated September 25 from Secretary of State Marshall to Ernest Bevin, Chairman of the Committee of European Economic Cooperation, and to the Committee itself, are printed ibid., page 689.