Presidential Papers, Doc#540 Top secret To Winston Spencer Churchill, 12 November 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
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Document #540; November 12, 1953
To Winston Spencer Churchill
Series: EM, AWF, International Series: Churchill ; Category: Top secret
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 7: Beef and Budgets

 

Dear Winston: Your cable came just as I was leaving for Canada.1 By all means bring Lord Cherwell and I shall probably bring Admiral Strauss with me.2 The two of them can have a good talk and then give you and me a briefing. I rather think it might be a good idea to have Ismay come out with us for a day if that could be arranged.3 Again his presence would serve a useful purpose both for us and for the public.

Warm regard, As ever

1 For the President's two-day goodwill visit to Canada see State, Foreign Relations, 1952-1954, vol. VI, Western Europe and Canada, pt. 2, pp. 2113-16. "I am very glad it is all settled about Bermuda," Churchill had cabled this same day, "and I share your hope that we shall not spend all our time on parade" (AWF/I: Churchill; see also no. 532).

2 Frederick Alexander Lindemann Cherwell was the British Paymaster General; he advised the Prime Minister on atomic energy affairs. Bringing Cherwell, Churchill added, "might strengthen the impression to which I gathered you were favorable, that our meeting was not simply an incident in recent correspondence with the Soviets" (ibid.; see also no. 528). Later this same day Secretary Dulles would telephone Strauss that Cherwell was going to Bermuda and that Strauss "had better have his bags packed" (memorandum, Dulles Papers, Telephone Conversations).

3 For background on NATO Secretary General Ismay's invitation to attend the Bermuda meeting see no. 271. Churchill would respond two days later that Ismay would arrive on December 6 and "was much complimented that you wanted to talk to him" (Churchill to Eisenhower, Nov. 14, 1953, AWF/I: Churchill). For developments see no. 562.

Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Top secret To Winston Spencer Churchill, 12 November 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 540. 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/540.cfm

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