<--PREV Doc #2068  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #2070 Document #2069; November 5, 1956 To Eli Ginzberg Series: EM, AWF, Name Series ; Category: Personal The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XVII - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part XI: The free world's "sad mess"; October 1956 to January 1957 Chapter 22: On Suez "we do not see eye to eye"   Dear Eli: I cannot tell you how deeply I appreciate your note of the second.1 The times are indeed difficult--and I am quite certain that justice will not return to the Mid East until all of us show more patience, more understanding and somewhat more wisdom than has yet been brought to bear in that troubled area. You might be interested in a telegram I got from a man who signs himself "Bibo," who stated that he was leading a part of the Hungarian revolt.2 He thought that they were winning and that the future was bright with promise until the Mid East flared up. This he thought encouraged the Russians to come in and batter down the insurgents. I quote this only to show that the influence of none of these violent incidents is ever confined to the exact area in which it physically is located. It is apparent that, rightly or wrongly, certain of the Hungarians will always feel that the Mid East venture denied to them, the Hungarians, their freedom.3 With personal regard, Sincerely 1 Ginzberg, a professor at Columbia University and a governor of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (see Galambos, Columbia University, no. 155), had written Eisenhower praising his policy in the Middle East as "evidence of very great leadership" (AWF/N). 2 We were unable to find this telegram in AWF. 3 Ginzberg would later send Eisenhower reports on various bits of information he had picked up regarding the relation between Soviet actions in Hungary and in the Middle East. He would advise Eisenhower that "In Formosa you were able to set a geographic line; in the Middle East it will probably be necessary to broaden and specify the kinds of actions by the Russians that the U.S. will not tolerate" (Ginzberg to Eisenhower, Nov. 15, 1956; and other correspondence in AWF/N). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal To Eli Ginzberg, 5 November 1956. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 2069. 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/2069.cfm <--PREV Doc #2068  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #2070

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