DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION 8111 Released January 1967 HISTORICAL OFFICE BUREAU OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS For sale by the Washington, D.C. 20402 PREFACE American Foreign Policy: Current Documents is an annual, onevolume collection of official papers which indicate the scope, goals, and implementation of the foreign policy of the United States. It also includes some documents, on matters of major concern to this country, which were issued by other governments or by regional international organizations of which the United States is not a member. The present volume continues the series which began with two earlier publications-A Decade of American Foreign Policy: Basic Documents, 1941-1949 (Senate Document 123, 81st Congress, 1st Session) and American Foreign Policy, 1950-1955: Basic Documents (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 succeeding volumes were issued as publications 7101 (for the year 1957), 7322 (for 1958), 7492 (for 1959), 7624 (for 1960), 7808 (for 1961), and 8007 (for 1962). The volume for 1963 was prepared under the general supervision of E. Taylor Parks, Chief, Research Guidance and Review Division, and Peter V. Curl, Chief, Área Studies Branch, Historical Studies Division. It was compiled by John P. Glennon, directing the project, and by Evans Gerakas, Mary P. Chapman, Helene L. DeLong, and Cora H. Feld. Emita L. Nelson provided research assistance. 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 Bertha J. Hartman, Pauline L. Light, Anne K. Pond, and other members of the staff. (III) WILLIAM M. FRANKLIN Director, Historical Office Bureau of Public Affairs |