<--PREV Doc #458  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #460 Document #459; October 8, 1953 To Milton Stover Eisenhower Series: EM, AWF, Name Series The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XIV - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part III: The Space Age Begins; October 1957 to January 1958 Chapter 6: Building strength when there is "no perfect answer"   Dear Milton: I am sending you a bit of reading--it is entirely possible that it is nothing but light reading. However, on the chance that there may be some real bits of wisdom buried in this manuscript, I am turning it over to you, with your sharpened awareness of Brazil and the South American section, in the hope that I may have your comments on it.1 Please do not prepare any lengthy memorandum on the paper; half a dozen sentences will be sufficient.2 As quickly as you can send it back, I am going to have it read by Foster Dulles and Harold Stassen--perhaps one or two others.3 Ed tells me that he phoned you yesterday morning and found that you were not coming down during this coming weekend. I shall have Al Gruenther here for a day or two, and I believe that Ed is leaving this evening.4 Give my love to Helen and the family. As ever 1 Eisenhower had enclosed a confidential memorandum from Fleur Cowles, New York advertising executive and associate editor of Look magazine, regarding her August visit to Brazil (see no. 56). She had written that other countries were "wooing" Brazil because of the abundance of manpower and raw materials in that country; she had also suggested that the United States should give Brazil "more open attention and regularly develop a shrewdly intelligent long-range plan of permanent courtship and companionship" (AWF/N: Milton Eisenhower Corr.). For Milton Eisenhower's fact-finding mission to South America see no. 259; for his impressions of top Brazilian government officials see State, Foreign Relations, 1952-1954, vol. IV, The American Republics, pp. 626-27. 2 Milton would respond on October 9 supporting Mrs. Cowles's evaluation, "so far as it goes" (AWF/D-H). Brazil, he said, had been "making mutually helpful economic cooperation mighty difficult" by enacting nationalistic laws that discouraged private investment from foreign countries. He continued, however, that "Brazil can be and some day will be one of the powerful nations of the world" and should be connected to the United States "in firm economic, cultural, political, and military cooperation." 3 Eisenhower would enclose Mrs. Cowles's report and his brother's response in an undated memorandum to Secretary Dulles (ibid.). The President would ask the Secretary to "take care of it" if he concluded that the report should be circulated to others. In his response (Oct. 23, ibid.), Secretary Dulles would agree with Milton's assessment of the Cowles memorandum: "I believe that our notice of Brazil can be effected best within our present program of increased attention to all the countries of this area." Dulles would suggest a response to Mrs. Cowles, but Eisenhower would decide that no further answer was needed. 4 On Edgar Eisenhower's visit see no. 400; on Gruenther see no. 419. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Milton Stover Eisenhower, 8 October 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 459. 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/459.cfm <--PREV Doc #458  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #460

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