<--PREV Doc #1340  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1342 Document #1341; March 11, 1955 To Gabriel Hauge Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series ; Category: Memorandum The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XVI - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part VII: "Nothing could be worse than global war"; January 1955 to May 1955 Chapter 15: Searching "for an honorable peace"   I understand that next week Prince Bernhard is having a meeting at Barbizon, continuing his exploration looking toward improving European and American relations.1 If personally you can fit such a trip into your schedule, I suggest you find the money (govt) and go to France.2 1 For background on the interest of Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands in this issue see no. 1169. Eisenhower had learned of the meeting (to be held on March 18-20) from former Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith, who was co-chairman of the U.S. delegation (Smith to Eisenhower, Mar. 11, 1955, AWF/A; see also Telephone conversation, Eisenhower and Bernhard, Feb. 16, 1955, AWF/D; and Memorandum of Conversation, Eisenhower and Zellerbach, Mar. 15, 1955, AWF/AWD). 2 Since the European group would include "a number of really outstanding statesmen," Smith had told Eisenhower, his colleagues were "extremely anxious to have Gabe Hauge on the United States team . . ." (ibid.). Hauge would attend the conference. His report to Eisenhower described it as dealing with the "competitive coexistence between Communism and the Free World as it relates to the uncommitted people." Hauge also gave Eisenhower an assessment of Communist strength in the countries represented and recommendations involving sports and cultural exchanges, economic assistance to Far Eastern countries, and a cultural conference between representatives of the East and West (Hauge, Memorandum for the President, Mar. 28, 1955, AWF/A; see also Slater to Adams, Mar. 11, 1955, AWF/A: Hauge Corr.). In thanking Hauge for his report, Eisenhower would write, "I hope you won't mind if I both plagiarize and quote you" (Eisenhower to Hauge, Mar. 30, 1955, AWF/A). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Memorandum To Gabriel Hauge, 11 March 1955. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1341. 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/1341.cfm <--PREV Doc #1340  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1342

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