243. Editorial Note
On January 31, 1957, the Council on Foreign Economic Policy deferred consideration of a proposal made by the Department of the Interior to amend the Council’s February 14, 1956, decision to limit supplemental stockpile acquisitions. Consideration of this proposal, which would have permitted the barter of agricultural surpluses for [Page 656] tungsten, was delayed until after the Department of the Interior had completed a study of the desirability of continuing the Council’s limitation on all items in the supplemental stockpile. The Council’s records indicate that no decision on Interior’s proposal was made in 1957. Documentation on this subject is in Eisenhower Library, CFEP Records, both in the Status Reports on CFEP 544 for 1957 and in the CFEP 544 Agenda Subject File, and Department of State, E–CFEP Files: Lot 61 D 282A, Supplemental Stockpile Objectives for Tungsten—CFEP 544.