Editorial Note
Between October 16 and November 7, 1947, American and British officials held conversations in Washington, referred to as the “Pentagon Talks of 1947”, on a variety of political, military, and economic subjects concerning the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean. For documentation on these conversations, see volume V, pages 485 ff.; see in particular the undated paper prepared by the Department of State entitled “Disposition of the Italian Colonies”, paragraph m, page 543, the undated joint statement of the U.S.-U.K. groups entitled “Assurance of British Strategic Facilities in Cyrenaica”, page 586, and the undated joint statement of the U.S.-U.K. groups entitled “Disposition of Former Italian Colonies Other Than Cyrenaica”, page 588.