<--PREV Doc #505  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #507 Document #506; October 31, 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 have started reading your report, and I must say I am more than delighted with it.1 I have gotten down to the middle of page 27. A question that instantly arises in my mind is how we will finally make the best use of these findings.2 Here and there are a few statements that would cause resentment, either here or in South America, if published. For example, the statement as to ultra-nationalism.3 On the whole, however, the document--so far as I have read it--ought to be studied by every man, woman, and child in all of North and South America. Sometime we will have to talk over these things. I am sorry that I didn't have a chance to chin with you while you were here. Give my love to Helen and the family. As ever 1 The President's brother had reported on his thirty-six day visit to ten South American countries. For background see no. 259. The full text of the report is in "United States-Latin American Relations," U.S. Department of State Bulletin 29, no. 752 (November 23, 1953), 695-717. For Milton's personal account see his memoir The Wine Is Bitter, pp. 189-201. 2 For developments see no. 509. 3 Milton had praised the rising tide of nationalism as a way of bettering the standard of living. Ultranationalism, however, was "being fostered by communist agitators" and, "with its blindness to true long-time interests, is a major retrogressive influence in some countries, often closing the door to the very help and cooperation which are so desperately needed" ("United States-Latin American Relations," 702). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Milton Stover Eisenhower, 31 October 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 506. 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/506.cfm <--PREV Doc #505  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #507

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