Editorial Note
On September 22, 1952, representatives of the United States and the Dominican Republic initiated negotiations at Ciudad Trujillo for a bilateral military assistance agreement. Documents pertaining to the negotiations are in Department of State file 739.5 MSP for 1952 and 1953. For text of the Military Assistance Agreement, signed at Washington, by Generalissimo Trujillo for the Dominican Republic and Secretary Dulles for the United States, March 6, 1953, and entered into [Page 938] force, June 10, 1953, see Department of State Treaties and Other International Acts Series (TIAS) No. 2777, or United States Treaties and Other International Agreements (UST), volume 4, page 184.
Concurrent with the negotiations for the Military Assistance Agreement, representatives of the United States and the Dominican Republic conducted negotiations for a related bilateral military plan. The “Plan of the Governments of the United States and the Dominican Republic for Their Common Defense,” signed at the Pentagon in Washington, March 6, 1953, was transmitted to the Department of State under cover of a memorandum to Mr. Spencer, by Lieutenant Colonel James M. Hall, Secretary to the United States Delegation to the Inter-American Defense Board, dated March 23, 1953, not printed (739.5 MSP/3–2353).