File containing general information on period leading up to the Messina Conference, includes, extract of text by Jacques van Helmont on need for European coalition of armies and his belief that Britain was indispensable to the unification of Europe, and the means for realising the next step in European integration. - Text by Pierre Uri, on draft declaration of the Six re. the resolution for creation of an united Europe by means of limiting trade restrictions among six and reducing trade tariffs. - Notes by Duchêne from Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs papers on conference of Messina, June 1955.

French

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The originals are held in various Archives in Europe and in the USA

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