<--PREV Doc #116  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #118 Document #117; March 31, 1953 To John Foster Dulles Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series, Clark Corr. The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XIV - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part I: Charting a New Course; January 1953 to April 1953 Chapter 2: "A number of misunderstandings": Party and International Struggles   Memorandum for the Secretary of State: I did not see the final dispatch sent to Clark on Sunday evening. However, I assume that it contained the statement that the entire process of exchanging sick and wounded was to be a completed fact before broader negotiations could be undertaken.1 I think it important, also, that every responsible official in the Administration who may be called upon to speak a public word on this subject understand this particular point thoroughly. 1 In the evening of March 29 the Joint Chiefs of Staff had sent General Mark Clark a message revising his draft response to a North Korean prisoner-exchange proposal. The cable concluded by concurring with Clark "that prior resumption of armistice negotiations as a condition for exchange of sick and wounded is unacceptable" (State, Foreign Relations, 1952-1954, vol. XV, Korea, 2 pts. [1984], pt. 1, p. 823; see also Dulles to Eisenhower, Apr. 1, 1953, ibid., p. 833). For Dulles's reply to this memorandum and further discussion of the prisoner-exchange issue see no. 125. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To John Foster Dulles, 31 March 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 117. 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/117.cfm <--PREV Doc #116  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #118

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