Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949, Eastern Europe; The Soviet Union, Volume V

Editorial Note

At its meeting on November 17, the National Security Council adopted a report subsequently circulated as NSC 18/4, November 17, 1949, “United States Policy Toward the Conflict Between the USSR and Yugoslavia”. This paper reviewed various possible courses of action by the United States. It envisaged a policy of providing additional economic assistance to Yugoslavia if needed and of examining possible measures to strengthen Yugoslav resistance to a possible military attack. NSC/4 and related documentation for 1949 and 1950 are scheduled for publication in a subsequent volume of Foreign Relations concerned with American relations with Eastern Europe in 1950.