President Eisenhower with the backing of John Foster Dulles gave priority to Euratom over any other schemes for uniting Europe. When in October 1956 an inter-Governmental conference of the Common Market and Euratom estabished a Committee of three "Wise Men" to define the broad technical basis of Euratom and to examine how it could best develop a nuclear energy programme and to stimulate further political interest in it, these experts, Etzel, Armand and Giordani's visit to the US advanced significantly the case for Euratom. The agreement between Eurtaom and US on a joint nuclear power programme was negotiated by Max Kohnstamm.

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