Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, East Asia and the Pacific, Volume XII, Part 1

Editorial Note

A third meeting in 1954 of the ANZUS Council Deputies was held in Washington on the afternoon of August 5. Under Secretary Smith led the United States participants; Ambassadors Spender and Munro led the Australian and New Zealand participants. Procedural questions relating to the formation of SEATO occupied most of the discussion. United States minutes of the meeting, drafted by Foster, are in Conference files, lot 60 D 627, CF 355.