Editorial Note

Immediately after the first meeting of the Four-Power Conference, Dulles and Eden held an informal meeting during which they discussed [Page 1410] the redeployment in Austria of British troops presently stationed in Trieste and the problem of the Chinese offshore islands. Summaries of the discussion of these two topics were transmitted to the Department of State in telegrams Dulte 3 and 6 from Paris, October 21; telegram Dulte 3 is not printed (110.11 DU/10–2154); telegram Dulte 6 is printed in the compilation on China in volume XIV.