Editorial Note
The Deputies for Austria of the Council of Foreign Ministers met fifty-three times (meetings 111–163) from February 9 to May 10, 1949 before temporarily suspending their discussions for the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers in Paris, May 23 to June 20. The Deputies’ sessions were held at Lancaster House in London at 10:30 a. m. and were chaired by the heads of the four delegations in rotation starting with the United States representative. The French Deputy was Marcel Berthelot, who had represented France at the last eight meetings of the Deputies in 1948. The United Kingdom, United States, and Soviet Union were represented by James A. M. Marjoribanks, Samuel Reber, and Georgii Nikolayevich Zarubin respectively, all of whom had been Deputies for Austria during 1948.
The Records of Decisions, Minutes of the Deputies’ Meetings, and Documents presented at the meetings of the Deputies are in CFM: Lot M–88: Boxes 114 and 115. A complete log of the telegraphic exchanges between Washington and the United States delegation in London is also in CFM: Lot M–88: Box 148. Documentation relating to the meetings of the Deputies is in Department of State file 740.00119 Council.