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

850.33/8–652: Telegram

No. 80
The Chargé in France (Achilles) to the Department of State

secret
priority

Paris, August 6, 1952—8 p.m.

823. ReDeptel 567¹ and Torep 569.² In agreement with Draper, am sending Tomlinson and Stanley Cleveland to Luxembourg temporarily to cover Schuman Plan developments beginning August 10. They may be accompanied by one or more members of SRE staff. Believe this arrangement will serve temporarily to keep all interested US agencies adequately informed and provide channel for US contact with high authority.

Merchant and Tomlinson, who is flying Washington tonight, fully familiar with situation. In conversation with Monnet yesterday (which Draper reporting) was struck by Monnet’s calm and pragmatic approach to development of high authority, which he plans to keep small and develop only as its functional needs become clear in practice. Believe we would be well advised to follow same course; i.e., to follow development of high authority closely, but defer setting up special mission, particularly large or high level one, until concrete needs of US representation become more clear.

Achilles

1. Document 76.
2. Document 77.