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Conference files, lot 60 D 627, CF 375

Foreign Secretary Eden to the Secretary of State 1

[Paris, September 15, 1954.]

[Dear Foster:] I received your message2 just as I was on the point of leaving Rome. I shall be glad to see you in London on whatever day would suit you. The dates September 27 and 28 which you suggest for the preliminary nine power conference should, I think, prove possible. We too had hoped that the E.D.C. would be passed. But every country now agrees that as things are there is no present possibility of reviving the supranational idea. We must encourage other forms of European unity.

[Kindest regards,

Anthony ]
  1. The source text was given to Dulles by British Ambassador Makins during a meeting at noon on Sept. 15. A memorandum of this conversation, prepared by Merchant, is in Department of State file 740.5/9–1554.↩
  2. This is a reference to Dulles’ letter of Sept. 14, p. 1192.↩