<--PREV Doc #1862  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1864 Document #1863; May 2, 1956 To Robert Anthony Eden Series: EM, AWF, Dulles-Herter Series ; Category: Telegram. Secret The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XVII - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part X: Cracks in the Alliance; May 1956 to September 1956 Chapter 20: Confronting "great risks"   Dear Anthony: I regret that the copper wire items offers for you such a problem. There is no question in our minds that this is the most important thing that the Bears and their Associates now get from us.1 As to the rest of your telegram, I think that Foster will be able to propose something that will ease the situation for you. I do hope that he and Selwyn Lloyd can work out something that will be satisfactory.2 As ever 1 For background see no. 1854. In an undated letter that Eisenhower received on this day, Eden had told the President that adding copper wire to the list of items embargoed from Russia and its Communist allies would present "serious difficulties" for Great Britain. "I do not see how we could agree to this now," he wrote (State, Foreign Relations, 1955-1957, vol. X, Foreign Aid and Economic Defense Policy, p. 359). 2 Eden had asked for "appreciable relaxation" of the embargo list, "particularly because of progress toward self-government in our colonial territories. A country like Malaya simply does not understand why it has to accept restrictions which are not in operation in, for example, Ceylon." Dulles would arrive in Paris on May 2 for a North Atlantic Council meeting, which British Foreign Secretary Lloyd also attended. After Dulles realized that the British would not accept restrictions on the sale of copper, he wrote the President that there was "room for an honest difference of opinion as to the strategic importance of the copper wire." Lloyd would eventually inform Dulles that the British intended to expand exports to the East unilaterally (Foreign Relations, 1955-1957, vol. X, Foreign Aid and Economic Defense Policy, pp. 360-66). For developments see no. 1868. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Telegram. Secret To Robert Anthony Eden, 2 May 1956. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1863. 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/1863.cfm <--PREV Doc #1862  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1864

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