File containing material concerning US interest and support for endeavors to promote European integration as a means of strengthening the Atlantic Community, includes: dispatches from American officials in Brussels regarding need to relaunch European integration, but difficulties because of General Charles de Gaulle with regard todetails of Benelux recommendations for development of supranational co-operation,- report on Messina Conference and discussions regarding Common Market and EURATOM,- synopsis of Guy Mollet's address, Secretary General of French Socialist Party and President of Consultative Assembly of council of Europe, at the National Press Club, speaks of hopes for success for atomic integration,- comments by Douglas Dillon, American Ambassador to France to John Foster Dulles regarding Jean Monnet's plans for the establishment of a United States of Europe
material on Common Market concept launched at Messina,- letter to Lewis Strauss, Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission from Acting Secretary of State, Herbert Hoover, regarding Dulle's hope that British if not willing to support idea of a federation of Europe, would not impede on efforts made,- comments by American Vice Consul in Strasbourg regarding speech by René Mayer concerning need for suprnational institutions as opposed to looser forms of European co-operation
details of British symapthy for European integration but not in UK's self-interest to participate, prefer the OEEC approach,- comments by Conant, US Ambassador to Germany to Dulles regarding Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's proposal calling for confederation of states,- memorandum concerning Germany's push for accelerating pace for integration as a means to achieving a united Germany

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