File market secret, for the eventual use of the European Commission, includes handwritten notes and memos, correspondence regarding the Saar negotiations etc. on the lead-up to the agreement signed between France and Germany, includes: memo concerning historical, legal and human rights sections of the Saar report.
Report on discussion of the Saar in the constitutional Committee concerning institutions.
Correspondence marked personal or confidential mainly between Salter (Secrétaire de la Commission des Affaires Générales, Conseil de l’Europe and M van der Goes van Naters (Rapporteur) who worked on the WEU.
Report: "Future Position of the Saar presented on behalf of the Committee on General Affairs concerning various aspects of statute and the drafting of the report, with suggestions, amendments and modifications etc in order to achieve a just solution and decision of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to suggest to Georges Bidault (French Minister for Foreign Affairs) that the bilateral negotiations be conducted on the basis of the proposals adopted by the Committee on General Affairs on 6 feb 1954 (defining the European Statute for the Saar).
Preface by the rapporteur.
Note for the rapporteur summarizing the arguments which led the Committee on general affairs after careful consideration to reject some of the proposals made in the French protocol of 8 March 1954.
Confidential note of the deadlock in Franco-German negotiations on the Saar on permanence (guarantees) and the economic problem and letters from Salter to various diplomats in effort to resolve situation, includes letter to Emile Noël, Constitutional Commission of the Ad Hoc Assembley on the economic issue, position of Saarlanders, Anglo-American support for the French position, the magnitude of the German sacrifice.
Personal memo drawn up by Salter on the present situation with regard to the Saar 7 Oct 1954 and positions of directly interested parties.
Salter’s reply to van Naterials giving his personal views on the memo concerning the possibility of settling the Saar problem.
Report on early account of trends of thought in the Saar following the conclusion of the Franco-German agreement signed in Paris on 23 Oct 1954.
Confidential memo on the Saar question after the Baden-Baden discussions following conclusion of agreement on 23 Oct 1954.
Provisional draft concerning the office of the European Commissioner – statutory and other authority, functional criteria, relationship with France and Germany and structure of the office.

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