Editorial Note

The documents that follow are illustrative briefly of certain other questions of an organizational and administrative character, in which the United States took an active interest.

Regarding the membership question, useful documentation is located in the subject files of the Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Lot 59 D 237, Boxes 7209–7211. Certain documentation on the membership question as it related to the formulation of the United States position at the May 1950 Foreign Ministers Meeting at London is in CFM Files, Lot M–88, Box 2203. Documentation on the London Conference is scheduled for publication in volume iii.