Editorial Note
The Fifteenth Meeting of the Working Group Participating in the Washington Exploratory Talks on Security, September 9, 1948
The group discussed the wording of the latest draft on “Territorial Scope of a North Atlantic Security Arrangement and its Relationship to the Security of Other Nations.” (See final version, page 240.) Particular attention was paid to sections concerning treaty membership, Communist penetration of the governments of treaty members, possible conflict in participation of treaty members in other international agencies responsible for military decisions, and inclusion of Western Germany, Austria and Trieste as countries considered to be OEEC members in the paper’s reference to that organization. The memorandum of this meeting is not printed (840.20/9–948).