Editorial Note
In conformity with the pledge given by Secretary Dulles to Prime Minister Laniel during the course of their talks at Paris on April 14 to “make public our declaration about 36 hours after the date of the [EDC] debate was fixed” (memorandum of conversation, April 14, page 936), and as a result of the decision by the French Cabinet to ask the National Assembly on May 18 to “take all action necessary so that the debate will take place immediately thereafter” on all aspects of the EDC question (telegram 3900, supra), the United States Government on April 16 released the text of its “Assurances Concerning EDC” which President Eisenhower had sent on April 15 to the Prime Ministers of the six nations signatory to the European Defense Community Treaty. For the text of the assurances, see Department of State Bulletin, April 26, 1954, pages 619–620.