Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, Western European Security, Volume V, Part 2

Editorial Note

Secretary Acheson traveled to Bonn and Paris May 23–28, 1952 to participate in bilateral, tripartite, and quadripartite negotiations with the Foreign Ministers of the United Kingdom, France, and the Federal Republic of Germany which led 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.

Regarding the Secretary’s trip to Bonn and Paris in May 1952, see pages 675–688 and volume VII.