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Council of Foreign Ministers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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The three foreign ministers of France, the United Kingdom and United States met in Washington from September 10 to 14, 1951. The agenda of the conference included items on: 1) the general situation and measures to contain communist expansion; 2) the Atlantic command and the United Kingdom suggestion for a middle east command; 3) inclusion of Greece and Turkey in the Atlantic Pact;1 4) the French plan for a European army with German units; 5) change in the three governments’ relations with Germany; 6) revision of the Italian peace treaty; 7) French and United Kingdom objections to United States activities in regard to Spain; 8) the Korean war and the consequences of the Japanese treaty on the situation in the far east; 9) war in Indo-China and the French request foreconomic and military aid; 10) question of the Austrian treaty; 11) attitude to be adopted towards communist China; 12) Iranian oil situation and the situation in the middle east; 13) economic and political measures to protect the interests of the western nations behind the “iron curtain”. This item had been suggested by the United States as a result of the Oatis case.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: IV. War and Transitional Agencies
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1951

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1 For details of the decision to include Greece and Turkey in the Atlantic pact, see this issue, p. 813.

2 For summary of the German situation, see this issue, p. 825.

3 For summary of United States activities in regard to Spain, see this issue, p. 813.

4 Le Figaro, Paris, 09 89, 1951Google Scholar.

5 Department of State, Bulletin, XXV, p. 485Google Scholar.

6 Ibid., p. 486.

7 New York Times, September 27, 1951.

8 Ibid., September 27, 1951.