Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, Western Europe and Canada, Volume VI, Part 1

740.00/4–2654: Telegram

No. 213
The Ambassador in France (Dillon) to the Department of State¹

secret

Paris, April 26, 1954—noon.

4065. The Secretary requested that following be added to report of his meeting with Spaak² reported in Secto 11.³ During general conversation between Spaak and Secretary regarding delays in bringing about unification of Europe, Spaak said that over-generous policy by the US in the past must take a substantial part of the blame for the lack of progress towards the unification of Europe. Spaak said the US missed a golden opportunity when at the outset of the Marshall Plan they did not make all Marshall aid contingent upon the creation of a unified political community in Europe.

Dillon

1. Repeated to Brussels and Geneva.
2. Secretary Dulles was in Paris to attend the North Atlantic Council meetings, Apr. 23.
3. Telegram Secto 11 from Paris, Apr. 24, reported on Dulles’ conversation with Spaak concerning matters relating to the European Defense Community; for the text, see vol. v, Part 1, p. 949.