Talks of the United States and the United Kingdom on closer association: The work of Subcommittee P

Editorial Note

During the afternoon of May 3 Jessup was received by King George VI at Buckingham Palace. In the course of their interview Jessup reviewed the diplomacy of the Berlin blockade, his trip to the Far East, and the course of the discussions in London up to that point. Later that afternoon Jessup called at No. 10 Downing Street and discussed with Prime Minister Attlee the British Parliamentary situation, Indian-Pakistani relations, the situation in China, and the attacks that were being made on Secretary Acheson in the United States. Memoranda of these conversations, neither printed, are in file 396.1 LO/5–350.