231. Editorial Note
On March 25 in Rome, representatives of Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands signed the treaties establishing a European Economic Community (Common Market) and a European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM). The treaties, which had been drafted in final form by the Intergovernmental Committee in Brussels on March 9, would enter into force after they had been ratified by all six countries. The text of the treaties is printed in American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1957, pages 426–573.