318. Editorial Note
At the Department of State–Joint Chiefs of Staff meeting on November 1, Murphy informed the Joint Chiefs that the Department of State had at first decided to terminate aid to Yugoslavia, but that the President and Secretary Dulles had instead decided against any precipitous action. The United States had informed the Yugoslav Government that negotiations for Public Law 480 agreements and for development loans would be delayed. The suspension of jet aircraft deliveries, however, was being deferred. (Memorandum on the substance of discussions at State–JCS meeting, November 1; Department of State, State–JCS Meetings: Lot 66 D 70)
On November 13, the OCB transmitted to the NSC a Progress Report on NSC 5601 (Document 270). The Progress Report covered the period April 24 through November 13 and recommended that, in view of developments during that period, the NSC should undertake a review of NSC 5601, a review which, it was noted, had already been scheduled by the NSC Planning Board in accordance with paragraph 24 of NSC 5612/2 (volume XXV, pages 463–469). A copy of the November 13 Progress Report, to which was appended a Financial Annex and a “Pipeline Analysis” of the Mutual Security Program, is in Department of State, OCB Files: Lot 62 D 430, Yugoslavia 1956–1957.
The NSC noted the Progress Report, apparently without discussion, at its meeting on December 24. (Memorandum of discussion by Gleason; Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records) The review of NSC 5601 led to the preparation of a new report on Yugoslavia, NSC 5805, “U.S. Policy Toward Yugoslavia,” which was adopted by the NSC on February 28, 1958. NSC 5805 is scheduled for publication in Foreign Relations, 1958–1960, volume X.