Editorial Note
On November 5 in telegram 394 to Ankara, repeated to Spofford in London, Acting Secretary Webb reported that the Standing Group of the Military Committee of the North Atlantic Council had, on November 33, issued invitations to the Turkish and Greek Governments through their military attaches in Washington asking each government to designate a planning officer for staff conversations with the Standing Group in Washington. The conversations would be on the planning level and would be an extension of the military conversations which had taken place in October in both Athens and Ankara between Generals Bradley, Slim, and Lecheres and military officials of the Greek and Turkish Governments. In telegram 428 of November 7 from Ankara, Ambassador Wadsworth stated that the “Turks definitely intend send mil rep Wash in accordance understanding reached during Bradley visit …” (740.5/11-551 and 740.5/11–751)