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Document
#1938; August 6, 1956
To Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bulganin
Series:
EM, AWF, International Series: Bulganin
; Category:
Personal and confidential
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
21: "Grave difficulties in the Suez crisis"
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Dear Mr. Chairman: I understand that Ambassador Bohlen may be seeing you within the next few hours to deliver my reply to your letter of June sixth on disarmament.1 I have asked Ambassador Bohlen in this connection to let you know personally how seriously I regard the situation precipitated by the Egyptian Government's effort to seize the operations of the Suez Canal.2 The United States is strongly exerting itself in favor of a solution by the peaceful conference method, as has been proposed, and I hope that you will do the same.3 I also greatly hope that the Egyptian Government will not reject this approach.
The prospect of any good progress in the field of disarmament would indeed be dimmed unless those primarily concerned with the Suez international waterways can meet, as proposed, to seek peacefully an acceptable solution.
With assurance of my best wishes,4 Sincerely
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal and confidential To Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bulganin,
6 August 1956.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1938.
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/1938.cfm
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