1 The Committee, which numbers eight, is composed of four representatives from the American Historical Association, and two each from the American Political Science Association and the American Society of International Law.

2 Projected against the documents contained in the volumes under review, the analysis and emphasis provided in Kolko, The Politics of War (1967), appears to justify the critical part of the review by Hans Morgenthau in the New York Review of Books (July 10, 1969) 10-17.

3 By way of example, consider the fact that the diplomatic papers covering the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968 will not be available, at the present rate of publication, until 1991. As another example, the papers on the Suez crisis of 1956 which might throw light on the current Middle Eastern situation will not be published until 1979. In fairness it should be said that the publication policy of the Department of State is much more liberal than that of other leading nations. Furthermore, policies concerning access to formerly classified records have been recently liberalized, so that access to papers for the period 1942-1945 can now be had by U. S. citizens. See Department of State Press Release No. 119 (May 15, 1969).

4 Three are listed above; the remaining six, i.e., Vols. IV and V, Europe; Vol. VI, The British Commonwealth; The Far East; Vol. VII, The Far East; China; Vol. VIII, The Near East and Africa; and Vol. IX, The American Republics, will be noted in later issues of the JOURNAL. During 1968 an additional volume was published which is noted separately below.

5 See Kennan, Memoirs 1925-1950 (1967) 164-180. Particularly illuminating in Vol. Ill are the Draft Minutes of a conference on the work of the EAC held on March 13, 1945, including in particular Annex 1 prepared by Philip Mosely, who succeeded George Kennan as Political Adviser to the U. S. Representative on the EAC (Ambassador Winant). See also, as evidence of confusion in high places, Annex 2 (pp. 438-450).