110. Editorial Note

On October 7, Don Paarlberg, Special Assistant to President Eisenhower, gave an address in Washington on “food for peace.” For text of his statement, see Department of State Bulletin, November 9, 1959, pages 672–678.

Two days later, Mexican President López Mateos arrived in Washington as part of a State visit to the United States and Canada. On October 10, he met with President Eisenhower at Camp David, Maryland. Part of their conversation focused on cotton, lead, zinc, and coffee. For John S.D. Eisenhower’s memorandum of this conversation, see volume V, pages 885–889. Melville Osborne, Officer in Charge of Mexican Affairs in the Office of Caribbean and Mexican Affairs, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State, prepared a second memorandum on the discussion of commodity problems. (Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries)