No. 180
Editorial Note

The 231st meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation took place in Paris October 29–30, at which the United States was represented by Harold E. Stassen, Director of the Foreign Operations Administration. For the text of the address which Stassen made to the Council of Ministers on October 29 concerning economic progress in Western Europe, see Department of State Bulletin, November 23, 1953, pages 718–721. The minutes of this meeting, which total 105 pages, are in OEEC files, lot 56 D 217, “C/M (53) 30”.