JX 1417 A43 1961 DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION 7808 HISTORICAL OFFICE BUREAU OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS For sale by the Washington, D.C., 20402 DEPOSITED BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PREFACE American Foreign Policy: Current Documents is an annual, onevolume collection of the principal messages, addresses, statements, reports, and of certain of the diplomatic notes exchanged and treaties made in a given calendar year which indicate the scope, goals, and implementation of the foreign policy of the United States. It continues the series which began with two earlier publications-A Decade of American Foreign Policy: Basic Documents, 1941-1949 (prepared in the Division of Historical Policy Research of the Department of State and by the staff of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, issued in 1950 as Senate Document 123, 81st Congress, 1st Session) and American Foreign Policy, 1950–1955: Basic Documents (prepared in the Historical Division and issued in two volumes in 1957 as Department of State publication 6446). The first of the annual volumes, American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1956, was issued as Department of State publication 6811, the volume for 1957 as publication 7101, for 1958 as publication 7322, for 1959 as publication 7492, and for 1960 as publication 7624. As was true with respect to the earlier volumes in the series, the 1961 compilation includes some documents issued by other governments and by regional international organizations of which the United States is not a member where the pronouncements or settlements revealed in them were of major concern to the United States in the formulation of its own policies. In most instances the documents are arranged chronologically under topical headings within each of the 14 parts. The mechanical devices used to facilitate quick reference include a table of contents and list of documents; source, cross-reference, and (wherever possible) informational footnotes; and an index. The 1961 volume continues the innovation introduced in the 1960 volume in that, in a number of instances, the title only of a document is provided, together with information as to where its official_text may readily be found. These titles are included in the list of documents, and their substance is carried in the index. The volume was prepared in the Historical Office, Bureau of Public Affairs, under the general supervision of William M. Franklin, Director, and E. Taylor Parks, Chief, Research Guidance and Review Division. It was compiled by Peter V. Curl and Evans Gerakas. Editing was done in the Publishing and Reproduction Services Division under the immediate direction of Dorothy M. Hine, Chief of the Legal Editing Section, with the assistance of Ruth L. McKinnon, Bertha J. Hartman, Anne K. Pond, and other members of the staff. (III) CONTENTS A. United States Participation in the United Nations. B. Review and Improvement of the United Nations Machinery C. The United Nations Budget and the Problem of Financing Pages (V) A. The Atlantic Community-Efforts To Achieve an Equitable Sharing of the Burden of Common Defense (NATO) and of the Resources of Economic Development (OECD) B. European Regional Organizations-Attempts To Reconcile the Trading Policies of the European Economic Community A. Efforts To Improve Soviet-United States Understanding— C. The Aftermath of the Kennedy-Khrushchev Meeting at |