Bruce Mission files, lot 57 M 38, “Briefing Documents”
No. 112
Memorandum by the Acting United States
Representative to the Coal and Steel Community (Tomlinson) to
the United States Special Representative in Europe (Draper)1
secret
[Paris,] September 20, 1952.
Subject:
- Eden Plan and Council of Europe
- 1.
- Eden’s speech to the
Council of Europe2 has been favorably
received in Paris, Strasbourg and Luxembourg as a major turning
point in British policy in favor of continental union within a
strengthened Atlantic Community.
- A.
- Eden accepted existence of “two main trends toward European unity—the supranational and the intergovernmental.”
- B.
- Eden made clear that “Eden proposals” are not intended to prejudice sovereignty and independence of CSC, EDC, and EPC; no reference to their being “within framework of” or subordinate to Council of Europe.
- C.
- Eden emphasized need to link supranational and intergovernmental trends as “a very important part of the complex of relations within the Atlantic Community. Freedom in the West rests on the conjunction in harmony and strength of the British Commonwealth, Europe and the United States.”
- 2.
- Eden’s speech suggests that British will now support strongly more effective roles for both Council of Europe and NATO. The stronger the six-nation grouping becomes the more active the British will be in making influence and presence felt both in direction association and through links in inter-governmental organizations.
- A copy was also sent to Achilles.↩
- See Document 110.↩