120. Editorial Note
French President Charles De Gaulle met with German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer at Rambouillet, France, July 20–30, for discussions on the future of the European Community. At this meeting and in subsequent discussions with the Foreign Ministers and Prime Ministers of the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Italy, De Gaulle offered a plan for the creation of a Council of the six heads of the EEC states supported by a permanent secretariat in Paris, four special standing committees to coordinate the political, economic, cultural, and defense policies of the EEC members, and an Assembly made up of deputies from the parliaments of the six nations. Documentation relating to the De Gaulle proposal and subsequent European reaction is in Department of State, Central File 375.800.