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139. Message From the Secretary of State to the President1

Paris, December 17, 1955.

Dear Mr. President: My talks here Saturday with von Brentano, Spaak and Monnet2 all show that the British are working hard to block the development of the European idea in terms of atomic energy and a common market. This is somewhat in the same pattern as their early opposition to EDC. I feel that this is a matter which we will have to discuss seriously with Eden and Macmillan when they come to Washington.

Faithfully yours,

Foster
  1. Source: Department of State, Central Files, 110.11–DU/12–1755. Secret. Transmitted in Dulte 5 from Paris, 5 p.m., and marked “eyes only Acting Secretary for President from Secretary.”↩
  2. The conversations with von Brentano and Spaak are summarized in Secto 19, infra, and Secto 22, Document 141; a memorandum of the conversation with Monnet is printed supra.↩