Telegram from Jean-Paul Garnier to Antoine Pinay on Johan Willem Beyen’s views on the Messina Conference (4 June 1955)
Text On 4 June 1955, the day after the Messina Conference, the French Ambassador to the Netherlands, Jean-Paul Garnier, met Dutch Prime Minister Johan Willem Beyen in The Hague. In a telegram to Antoine Pinay, French Foreign Minister and head of the French delegation in Messina, the Ambassador outlines Beyen’s views: the Dutch Prime Minister welcomed the constructive relations and discussions that he had had with his French counterpart but seemed irritated by the German attitude at the Messina Conference.
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Source: [Télégramme à l’arrivée de Jean-Paul Garnier (La Haye, 4 juin 1955)]. 2p.
Archives historiques de l'Union européenne. Ministère des Affaires étrangères français. MAEF.DECE. Division économique et financière: service de coopération économique (1945-1967). Communauté économique européenne, MAEF.DECE-5. Relance de l'idée européenne, MAEF-611.
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