Office of the Historian

740.5/9–254

The Secretary of State to Foreign Minister Spaak 1

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Washington, September 13, 1954.

I wish to thank you for your message to me of September 3.2 As you know, I have for the last several days been absent from Washington and I am sure you understand my pre-occupation with the problems of the Manila Conference.

I share fully your concern over the gravity of the problems we now face as the result of French rejection of the EDC. We are in process of developing urgently our thinking here on the steps which should be taken next, and receiving your views has been most helpful in this connection. I hope that we will in the very near future be in a position to discuss our views with you. We shall of course want to consult fully with you and your Government well in advance of the forthcoming meeting of the North Atlantic Council.

I am looking forward in particular to discussing this problem with you personally at the forthcoming meeting of the General Assembly in New York.

Dulles
  1. This message was transmitted to Brussels in telegram 301, Sept. 13, with instructions that it be delivered to Spaak.↩
  2. Ante, p. 1143.↩