Editorial Note
Secretary Acheson traveled to Bonn and Paris, May 23 to 29, 1952 to participate in bilateral, tripartite, and quadripartite negotiations with the Foreign Ministers of the United Kingdom, France, and the Federal Republic of Germany, incident to the signing at Bonn on May 26 of the Convention on General Relations between the Federal Republic and France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and related conventions, and to the signing at Paris on May 27 of the treaty establishing a European Defense Community and related conventions, protocols, and declarations.
For documentation on the Secretary’s trip to Bonn for the signing of the various agreements concerning contractual relations, see volume VII; for documentation on his trip to Paris for the signing of the European Defense Community Treaty, see pages 571 ff. Also see pages 675–688 herein.