Editorial Note
The Austrian Deputies of the Council of Foreign Ministers met forty-seven times (meetings 64–111) at Lancaster House, London, from February 20 to May 6, 1948. The meetings began at 10:30 A. M. and their Chairmanship rotated among the four Deputies starting with the U.S. Deputy, Samuel Reber. The British delegation was led by James A. M. Marjoribanks, Assistant Head of the German Political Department of the Foreign Office, and included M. F. Cullis, Austrian Expert in the German Political Department, and A. W. Southam, Director of the Economic Group of the British Element of the Allied Commission for Austria. The French delegation was led by General Paul Cherrière, French Deputy High Commissioner for Austria, and included Robert Luc, First Secretary of the French Embassy in the United Kingdom. Pierre de Leusse replaced Cherrière as French Deputy for meetings 88–100 and he was in turn replaced by Marcel Berthelot for the last eight meetings of the Deputies. The Soviet delegation was led by Nikolai Petrovich Koktomov, Counselor of the Soviet Embassy in the United Kingdom, and included E. D. Kiselev, Political Adviser to the Soviet High Commissioner in Austria, and G. A. Kulagin, Chief of the Economic Division of the Soviet Element in Austria. The U.S. delegation was led by Samuel Reber, Deputy Director of the Office of European Affairs, and included Lieutenant General Geoffrey Keyes, U.S. High Commissioner in Austria, and John G. Erhardt, U.S. Minister in Austria.
Documentation on the meetings of the Deputies, including the minutes of the meetings, records of decisions, telegraphic accounts of the meetings from Reber, and documents sent to the Deputies by the Austrian and Yugoslav Governments, are in Department of State Lot M–88, Box 113. Copies of the telegraphic accounts of the meetings are in file 740.00119 Council.