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The French Government proposes: 1. The Creation of a European Army, linked to political institutions of a unified Europe. The institutions are: 2. A Minister of Defense, named by the participating governments and responsible to his nominators and to a European Assembly, which could either be the Strasbourg assembly, an emanation from it, or an assembly formed of specially elected delegates. 3. The Council of Ministers of the participating countries. This council would give directives to the Defense Minister. 4. Powers of the Defense Minister. (a) In general the powers of the Defense Minister over the European Army would be the same as the powers of a national defense minister over national forces. (b) He would be responsible for implementation of the general directives of the Council of Ministers. (c) He would be the normal link between the European Community and third party countries and international organizations for everything concerning the fulfilment of his duties. TRUMAN (d) He would be responsible for the fulfilment of new 5. ARCHIVES "NATIONAL RECORDS AMD international commitments according to directives E SERVICE" received from the Council of Ministers. (e) The European armament and equipment program would be determined and implemented under his authority. (f) He would be responsible for the delivery by the countries, that are members of the European community, of the contingents equipment, materiels and supplies owed by each country to the common army.