<--PREV Doc #1145  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1147 Document #1146; November 5, 1954 To John Foster Dulles Series: EM, AWF, Dulles-Herter Series ; Category: Confidential The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XV - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part VI: Crises Abroad, Party Problems at Home; September 1954 to December 1954 Chapter 13: "A new phase of political experience"   Memorandum for the Secretary of State: A memorandum from the Secretary of Commerce indicates that the United States air route extending from the Azores to South Africa is maintained largely because of recommendations by the State Department.1 The net subsidy cost of this particular route is estimated at two million dollars annually. Could you give me a digest of the main reasons for the State Department's recommendation?2 1 The air route had been established for a seven-year period in August 1946. According to Secretary Sinclair Weeks, the State Department had urged renewal of the service because of the importance attached to maintaining close relations with the countries involved--"removal of U.S. flag service would be regarded as evidence of declining United States interest and could have adverse consequences" (Weeks to Eisenhower, Nov. 4, 1954, AWF/D-H). 2 "Operation of this route over the past years," Dulles answered, "has materially enhanced United States prestige and influence in Africa and has demonstrated tangible evidence of the growing importance the United States attaches to the area." He denied that suspension of the route would save two million dollars and said that later resumption of the service with the same operating rights was "highly problematical" (Dulles to Eisnhower, Nov. 22, 1954, ibid.). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Confidential To John Foster Dulles, 5 November 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1146. World Wide Web facsimile by The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission of the print edition; Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/presidential-papers/first-term/documents/1146.cfm <--PREV Doc #1145  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1147

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