Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, Western European Security, Volume V, Part 1

Editorial Note

During the course of its Eleventh Session at Paris, April 23–26, 1953, the North Atlantic Council adopted a resolution stressing the “paramount importance” which the Atlantic Community continued to attach to the rapid establishment of a European Defense Community. The text of this resolution is printed in the Department of State Bulletin, May 11, 1953, pages 674–675. For documentation on the Eleventh Session of the North Atlantic Council, see pages 368 ff.