FRANCE, MINISTERE DES AFFAIRES ETRANGERES & NARA & UK PRO & PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, TRUMAN LIBRARY, EISENHOWER LIBRARY

File concerning the upsurge of official opinion in Europe and the US for co-operation in the economic field includes, speeches by US Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles on the need for the re-integration of Germany into Western Europe in terms of economic unity. - Notes on meeting between Winston Churchill and US officials on need for Britain, France and US to co-operate in policing Europe. - Text of Churchill's speech in the New York Times advocating formation of a united Europe. - Confidential State Dept. memo on measures to be adopted to make a European Union function from an economic point of view. - Material on talks between Jean Monnet and British foreign officials on need to fill vacumn of western Europe, Monnet favoured UK and France solving their problems together as if one nation. - General account and resolutions of European Movement Conference on European economy. - French offical memo from Ministry of Foreign Affairs on means of reaching the objectives set forth in the Agreement for European Economic Co-operation. - Dept. of State memo of conversation on progress between Italian, French and Benelux governments on the steps to be taken toward possible economic union and the need to integrate West Germany and the UK to enter as full partners. - Details of Paul-Henri Spaak's comments on the need to imporve international collaboration, the central problem being the attitude of the British. Felt the channel for progress toward greater European unity would be through the Council of Europe. Memo from JF Dulles to Allen Dulles feels there would be no conflict between Atlantic Union and European Union. - Material on FINEBAL payments scheme, its composition and would US favour it and finance it. - State Dept. memo on status of European integration regarding military, political and economic fields.

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