CDIW00034. 18 November 1955. Copy of US State Department “Aide-Memoire”

This document contains a draft letter to Norman Robertson which updated him on the question of alerts procedures. It also includes the Canadian comments on the American aide-memoire attached below. In the aide-memoire, the Americans formally responded to the overtures made by the British and Canadian ambassadors regarding tripartite alerts procedures. The Americans made a series of general comments and suggestions on the British proposals before concluding that “the interested United States agencies are agreeable in principle to the general procedures suggested in the British paper, subject to the foregoing comments.” They said discussions could now move forward on a tripartite basis.