Editorial Note
In telegram Tedul 30 to Manila, September 8, Secretary Dulles was informed of President Eisenhower’s desire that Dulles return from the Manila Conference by way of Hawaii for a short rest, arriving in Denver on Sunday, September 12, for a meeting with the President [Page 1180] followed by a session of the National Security Council. Members of the NSC were summoned to the summer White House in Denver to discuss the problem of the Chinese offshore islands and future policy in Europe following the failure of the EDC. (Conference files, lot 60 D 627, CF 350) At the 214th meeting of the National Security Council on September 12, the Council agreed that there was no objection in principle to exploring an increase in the authority of the NATO Council even though such an increase might apply to such forces as the United States might periodically place under NATO Command. This discussion, which occurred in connection with the possible admission of the Federal Republic of Germany to NATO (NSC 160/1), met with the approval of the President (NSC Action No. 1225; S/S–NSC files, lot 66 D 95, “NSC Records of Action—1954”). For the text of NSC 160/1 of August 17, 1953, entitled “U.S. Position With Respect to Germany,” see volume VII.