Presidential Papers, Doc#831 To John Foster Dulles, 14 April 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
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Document #831; April 14, 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 V: Maintaining "a united defense"; April 1954 to August 1954
Chapter 10: Losing the war "they could not win"

 

Dear Foster: Thank you very much for your cable. I agree that the Daily Worker has succeeded in giving you one of the finest compliments of the year.1 If you should feel a real desire to come down here on Monday and chat with me during lunch, I will be glad to send my plane to Washington to pick you up and return you. The trip is on the order of a little over two hours each way. Alternatively, of course, we can have a telephonic conversation.2 With warm regard

1 Dulles had cabled the President from London where he had been involved in consultations prior to the Geneva Conference (Apr. 13, 1954, AWF/D-H. See also no. 816 and State, Foreign Relations, 1952-1954, vol. VI, Western Europe and Canada, pt. 2, pp. 1022-28). The press, Dulles said, had been "generally friendly," with one exception: "Daily Worker [a Communist party newspaper] pays compliment of saying am most unwelcome guest since 1066."

2 Eisenhower had left for a nine-day vacation in Augusta the preceding day. Dulles would join the President for lunch on April 19 (see Dulles to Eisenhower, Apr. 15, 1954, AWF/D-H). Among the items discussed were Dulles's meetings with the British and French, the forthcoming Geneva Conference, a moratorium on hydrogen bomb testing, Arab-Israeli tensions, and aid to Iraq (Memorandum of conference, Apr. 19, 1954, Dulles Papers, White House Memoranda Series; New York Times, Apr. 20, 1954).

Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To John Foster Dulles, 14 April 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 831. 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/831.cfm

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