Editorial Note
The United States Delegation to the meetings of the American, British, and French Foreign Ministers in New York in September 1950 prepared minutes of each of the six meetings of the Foreign Ministers. The texts of these minutes are printed in the pages that follow. The Delegation also prepared a summary record of each meeting and maintained a collection of formal and draft papers prepared in connection with the meetings. Reports on the transactions of the meetings, the texts of documents considered during the meetings, and the Secretary of State’s comments on the proceedings were transmitted to the Department of State in Washington in a special telegram series designated Secto. On a few occasions matters relating to the meetings in New York were also mentioned in the special Actel telegram series used by the Secretary of State. Matters of relevance to the meetings of the Foreign Ministers in New York were reported upon by the Department of State in the special telegram series designated Tosec, and a daily top secret summary of events and messages of personal importance to the Secretary of State were transmitted to New York in the special telegram series designated Telac. A substantial portion of the telegrams exchanged between the Department of State and the Delegation in New York together with some position papers prepared for use in connection with the meetings are included in the central files of the Department of State in files 396.1 NE and 740.5. The complete collections of telegrams, position papers, Delegation minutes, summary records of meetings, and documents prepared during the meetings are included in the special file identified here as CFM Files, Lot M–88, Boxes 152 and 153.