Presidential Papers, Doc#657 To John Foster Dulles, 12 January 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
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Document #657; January 12, 1954
To John Foster Dulles
Series: EM, AWF, Dulles-Herter Series
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XV - The Presidency: The Middle Way
Part IV: "Pushing ahead along the broad center"; December 1953 to March 1954
Chapter 8: A world "racing toward catastrophe"

 

Dear Foster: Here is a Bill that is self-explanatory. Mr. Staggers, its sponsor, considers that it would have a tremendous propaganda effect.1

In the past years I have often heard of this suggestion, but I did not know it was so seriously proposed as to take the form of a Bill submitted to the Congress.

Do you have any comments?2 As ever

1 Harley Orrin Staggers (A.B. Emory and Henry College 1931) was a Democratic representative from West Virginia. As a legislative member of the Federal Records Council, he had, on this same day, brought the President a proposed bill to create a Department of Peace.

2 Congressional hearings to create a Department of Peace had been held in 1945 and 1947. Dulles would express doubts regarding the wisdom of the bill since, he said, "it seems to imply that the rest of us are not working for peace" (Jan. 12, 1954, AWF/D-H). If such a department were created, it would become "primarily a publicity organ of the Government," the Secretary added. "To this extent it would supplant, or perhaps better put, raise to Cabinet status the U.S.I.A." There is no further correspondence in AWF concerning this matter.

Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To John Foster Dulles, 12 January 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 657. 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/657.cfm

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