Editorial Note

Assistant Secretary of State George C. McGhee toured the Near Eastern and South Asian regions during February and March 1951. He first attended the Conference of Middle East Chiefs of Mission at Istanbul, February 14–21, then proceeded to Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon, via Cairo and Bombay for the South Asian Regional Conference of United States Diplomatic and Consular Officers, February 26–March 2. For the report of the Istanbul meeting, see Agreed Conclusions and Recommendations of the Conference of Middle Eastern Chiefs of Mission, infra. For information on McGhee’s brief stop-over in Cairo, see editorial note, page 347. For information on the South Asian Regional Conference, see volume VI, part 2, page 1664.

Thereafter, McGhee was scheduled to arrive in Baghdad on March 20. He entered Israel from Jordan on March 27, and returned to Jordan from Israel on March 28. He arrived in Cairo on March 29, and in London on March 31. He returned to Washington on April 3. Information on his itinerary may be found in file 780.00, especially in telegram 412 to Baghdad, March 20; telegram 594 from Tel Aviv, March 29; telegram 933 to Cairo, March 29; and telegram 4456 to London, March 31. For information on McGhee’s talks with Egyptian officials at Cairo at the end of March, see telegram 1001, priority, from Cairo, April 1, page 352. For information on McGhee’s talks at London with British officials regarding Near Eastern matters on April 2–3, see page 356.