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Document
#1343; March 12, 1955
To Charles Erwin Wilson
Series:
EM, AWF, Administration Series
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"
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Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense: This morning I had a farewell call from Dr. Mansour Fathi El-Kekhia, the retiring Minister of Libya. While here he made a verbal request upon me as to the possibility of sending a group of young Libyans to West Point. I suspected that such was impossible and so I offered no slight encouragement--naturally, however, I promised to have the matter looked up and studied sympathetically.
Would you please give to the Secretary of State a conclusion as to this suggestion, based, of course, upon existing law, regulations and desirability. Incidentally, I think that the Minister was thinking in total numbers of something like ten or twenty students, which would be something on the order of two to five per class.1
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Charles Erwin Wilson,
12 March 1955.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1343.
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/1343.cfm
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