FOREIGN ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL POLICY              809

  Your memorandum and that of the Alternate Chairman of the
Interdepartmental Committee on Trade Agreements which you en-
close have been carefully studied, and all of the aspects of the situation
have been further reviewed. I have concluded that the offers to
Australia and New Zealand should be based upon the original recom-
mendation of the Committee on Trade Agreements as approved by
the President on November 14, and recommend that you so advise the
Delegation at Torquay.'
                                                JoHN R. STEELMAN

  '-In a covering "Cabinet Note" the Secretary of State explained:
"Prior to
the beginning of the Cabinet meeting Mr. Steelman handed me the attached
memorandum. He told me that he had explained the decision of the President
contained in this memorandum to the Secretary of Agriculture." (Lot
53D244,
Box 417, "Secretary's Memos, August-September")