On 30 April 1952, the Luxembourg legation to the Conference on the Organisation of a European Defence Community drafts a note on the particular situation of Luxembourg with regard to the provision of its military forces within the EDC.

On 2 September 1954, Robert Als, Luxembourg Ambassador to Paris, sends a letter to Luxembourg Prime Minister Joseph Bech in which he reports on discussions with François Seydoux, Director of the French Foreign Ministry’s European Department, and Alexandre Parodi, General Secretary of the French Foreign Ministry, on the result of the French vote on the EDC.

On 28 August 1954, the debate on the European Defence Community (EDC) began in the French National Assembly. A preliminary motion to adjourn was proposed by those in favour of the the EDC. Its opponents countered this with a preliminary issue allowing rejection of the Treaty without any debate. Although Pierre Mendès France managed to get them to withdraw it, the next day a supporter of the EDC succeeded in presenting the preliminary issue once again.This provided for the intervention of two people representing the respective interests. The spokesman for the opponents was the ex-president of the Assembly, the radical Edouard Herriot. His contribution was the death warrant for the EDC.

On 15 February 1951, at the opening session of the negotiations on the organisation of the European army in Paris, Robert Schuman, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, gives a speech on the challenges of a common European defence.

On 15 February 1951, on the occasion of the opening of the conference for the organisation of a European army in Paris, Joseph Bech, Luxembourg's Minister of Foreign Affairs, pays tribute to the new French initiative for the establishment of a common European defence.

On 3 March 1954, as debates on the European Defence Community (EDC) are held in the Belgian Senate, Fernand Dehousse, a Belgian socialist senator and pro-European activist, describes the advantages of the Treaty establishing the EDC.

On 2 March 1954, as debates begin in the Belgian Senate on the bill to approve the Treaty establishing the European Defence Community (EDC), Belgian Foreign Minister Paul van Zeeland emphasises how important it is to establish the EDC.

‘Get this idea well and truly into your head!’ This cartoon depicts the threat that would hang over France if it were to ratify the Treaty establishing the European Defence Community (EDC).

On 30 August 1954, Robert Als, Luxembourg Ambassador to Paris, sends a letter to Luxembourg Prime Minister Joseph Bech in which he analyses the attitude of Pierre Mendès-France during the debates on the European Defence Community.