840.00/1–1352
No. 145
The Director of the Office of European
Regional Affairs (Moore) to the Deputy United States Representative to
the European Coal and Steel Community (Tomlinson)
confidential
Dear Tommy: As we said in our cable,1 we do appreciate greatly the full reporting you have been giving us on CSC–EDC–EPC problems and developments. I know that this must require a great deal of hard work on the part of you and your staff. However, as you can imagine, there is a great deal of interest in six-country developments all over town at the moment and it is helpful for us to be able to point to the thorough reporting job which you are doing. In particular, the flow of memoranda of conversations and other informal bits of paper helps to give us more background in interpreting the cables. Be sure and flag us if you see any problems in general distribution of these documents.
I hope that by now Bob Minor and Bob Eisenberg are on the job. Our thought was that Minor could help with EDC and that you might want to place Eisenberg in Luxembourg to follow CSC matters. It would be helpful to know your views on the forecast for staff requirements. We are assuming that if the Treaty is ratified, more people will be needed fairly quickly. I think it is essential that we do this without increasing the total number of people working on six-country problems, including those in the Embassies.
There are no developments yet on this end with respect to organization and my guess would be that it may be some time before any basic decisions are taken. I am sure you are aware that all of us on the working level are clear that if the Treaty is ratified we should move in the direction of a separate mission to the six-country institutions. In this connection, it would be helpful if you could give us your views on where these institutions are likely to locate. It looks as though we might continue to have at least a three-ring circus for some time.
We too were somewhat surprised at the strength of the Secretary’s feeling that he was uninformed on these problems. Miriam has been keeping Mr. Bruce fully informed on all developments [Page 260] and he has shown great interest in this field. No doubt we will have a different set of problems from now on.
If you could send me a personal appraisal of the developments at Strasbourg, I would appreciate it greatly.
Sincerely yours,
- This is a reference to telegram 55 to Strasbourg, Jan. 7, in which the Department of State noted its appreciation of the reporting on EPC developments and indicated its general agreement with the U.S. Delegation’s comments. (740.00/1–253)↩