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105. Editorial Note

Secretary of State Dulles left Washington on Friday, May 6, for meetings with the Foreign Ministers of France and the United Kingdom and for the North Atlantic Council meetings beginning May 9. The documentation that follows deals only with his discussions of the London Working Group report (see Document 102) and other issues arising from the exchange of letters between President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Eden on May 6 (Document 103 and supra).

Following the conclusion of the North Atlantic Council meetings on May 11, Dulles remained in Paris 2 more days for further discussions with his British and French counterparts before flying to Vienna for the signing of the Austrian State Treaty on May 15. For documentation on his conversations in Vienna, see Documents 72 ff.