Letter from Sir Arthur Michael Palliser to Lord Bridges on the future of WEU (Paris, 10 September 1971)

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On 10 September 1971, Sir Arthur Michael Palliser, Minister at the British Embassy in Paris, sends a letter to Lord Thomas Bridges, head of the Western Organisations Department in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in which he speculates on the future of Western European Union (WEU) once the United Kingdom joins the European Economic Community (EEC). He suggests that any examination of a new European defence organisation should include WEU as one of the alternatives.

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Source: The National Archives of the UK (TNA). Foreign Office, Western Organisations and Co-ordination Department and Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Western Organisations Department: Registered Files (W and WD Series). WESTERN EUROPEAN UNION (WEU). The future of WEU: Western Organisations Department memorandum. 01/01/1971-31/12/1971, FCO 41/880 (Former Reference Dep: WDU 11/13 PART A).

Copyright: (c) The National Archives of the United Kingdom

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