740.5/11–2851: Telegram

The United States Delegation at the Eighth Session of the North Atlantic Council to the Acting Secretary of State 1
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Secto 96. Sixth and final mtg eighth session NAC this afternoon2 agreed convene ninth council session Lisbon, Feb 2, 1952. Approved statement on Po Valley flood relief expressing distress at disaster and note emergency help given by NATO members. Statement asks permanent Rome missions of NATO members keep in touch changing needs for relief and reconstruction in area.3

Approved final communiqué as revised (see Secto 954).

General Baelereuin quitted MC chair to Lt. Gen Foulkes, Canada.

Session adjourned 4:25 p. m.

Acheson
  1. Repeated to London, Paris, Brussels, The Hague, Copenhagen, Oslo, Reykjavik, Lisbon, Ottawa, Athens, and Luxembourg.
  2. The sixth meeting, held on Wednesday, November 28, began at 3:30 p. m.
  3. The proposed Council statement was circulated as Council Document C8–D/16.
  4. Not printed, but the text of the communiqué is infra.