Editorial Note
According to a tentative schedule in the records of the United States Delegation the final session of the North Atlantic Council meeting was to be held at 3:30 p.m. on December 16. Apparently this meeting was largely, if not exclusively, devoted to the final communiqué for the Council meeting, but no record of it has been found in the Department of State files. A copy of the tentative schedule is in the CFM files, lot M 88, box 166, “NATO Ministerial Meeting, Paris December 1953”. For the text of the final communiqué of the meeting, see Department of State Bulletin, January 4, 1953, pages 8–9 or AFP , volume I, pages 1633–1636.