98. Editorial Note
Between March 6 and 15, a Four-Power Working Group, composed of representatives of the Governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and the Federal Republic of Germany, met in Washington to discuss the problems of German reunification in relation to European security. The group, formed early in 1957, considered these matters in relation to proposals made at the Geneva Foreign Ministers meeting of 1955, completed its work on March 15. The report which reviewed developments since the Geneva Conference of October 1955, proposals on European security presented since the Geneva Conferences, and Western proposals made at Geneva. A copy of the final report, including seven annexes, dated March 15, is attached to a memorandum of March 16 from Beam to Murphy. (Department of State, Central Files, 762.00/3–1657) Additional meetings of the Working Group were held in Bonn, May 13–18, and in Paris, June 18–22, in order to discuss consolidating the Western position on German reunification. Documentation on the meetings and on the reunification issue is ibid., 762.00.