<--PREV Doc #156  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #158 Document #157; April 24, 1953 To Robert Alphonso Taft Series: EM, AWF, Name Series 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   Dear Senator Taft: I thought you might be interested in a message I received this morning from the Secretary of State.1 As given below, it is slightly paraphrased merely because it was sent in code. "At the opening of the NATO Council meeting I read your message.2 It was well received.3 "The announcement that you have requested Congress to consider legislation for the admission of 120 thousand immigrants was published here this morning and has had a very fine effect. The timing was excellent and a number of the delegations made statements applauding your action. De Gasperi said to me that it is particularly helpful with respect to the problem of their elections on June 7.4 /s/ DULLES." Sincerely 1 The eleventh session of the North Atlantic Council had convened in Paris on April 23 with Secretary of State Dulles, Defense Secretary Wilson, Treasury Secretary Humphrey, Mutual Security Agency Director Stassen, and JCS Chairman Bradley leading the U.S. delegation. For a summary of Dulles's opening remarks see State, Foreign Relations, 1952-1954, vol. V, Western European Security, pt. 1, pp. 373-75. 2 For Eisenhower's greeting to the NATO ministers see U.S. Department of State Bulletin 28 (1953), 673. 3 For background see no. 101. 4 In the June 7-8 Italian elections Foreign Minister Alcide De Gasperi's centrist coalition won a slim majority in the Chamber of Deputies; in late July, after struggling to form a politically acceptable cabinet, the premier suffered a vote of no confidence and resigned (New York Times, June 9, July 29, 1953). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Robert Alphonso Taft, 24 April 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 157. 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/157.cfm <--PREV Doc #156  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #158

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