<--PREV Doc #76  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #78 Document #77; March 12, 1953 To John Foster Dulles Series: EM, AWF, Dulles-Herter Series ; Category: Personal and confidential The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XIV - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part I: Charting a New Course; January 1953 to April 1953 Chapter 2: "A number of misunderstandings": Party and International Struggles   Memorandum to the Secretary of State: I have heard that our Ambassador now serving in Israel is making a good record.1 For the moment I have forgotten his name, but in any event, I just wanted to repeat my hope that for this post we get the best suited man that we can find regardless of almost any other consideration. If the present one is performing satisfactorily, I would certainly be loathe to move him. As you know, I am extremely hopeful that we can improve the political and economic position of Israel.2 We can do this only by having representatives in that region who understand the necessity of promoting friendship between Israel and the surrounding states.3 1 Monnett Bain Davis (A.B. University of Colorado 1917), a career Foreign Service officer, had been U.S. Ambassador to Israel since 1951 and by 1953 was senior member of the diplomatic corps in Tel Aviv. The day Eisenhower wrote this note Davis left Israel for a visit to the United States. For Davis's recent messages on the increasing tension between Israel and Jordan see State, Foreign Relations, 1952-1954, vol. IX, The Near and Middle East, pt. 1, pp. 1099-1151. 2 Replying to this memorandum on March 29 (AWF/D-H), Dulles reported that departmental records confirmed Eisenhower's high opinion of Davis and that he expected to recommend him for retention. On June 1 the White House would announce Davis's reappointment (ibid., June 2, 1953). 3 See Galambos, NATO and the Campaign of 1952, no. 960. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal and confidential To John Foster Dulles, 12 March 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 77. 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/77.cfm <--PREV Doc #76  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #78

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