Presidential Papers, Doc#286 To Allen Welsh Dulles, 13 August 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
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Document #286; August 13, 1957
To Allen Welsh Dulles
Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XVIII - The Presidency: Keeping the Peace
Part II: Civil Rights; June 1957 to September 1957
Chapter 4: "Logic and reason must operate gradually"

 

Dear Allen: In a recent communication to me, a student of the oil industry referred to the Sumatra fields as a "vast lode." Do you believe this to be correct?1

With warm regard, As ever

1 Eisenhower's correspondent may have been Sid Williams Richardson, who often wrote the President regarding affairs in the oil industry (see no. 302">).

).

Foreign Relations, 1955 - 1957, vol. XXII, Southeast Asia [1989], pp. 178 - 79). On September 23 Allen Dulles would tell the National Security Council that three major oil companies--two American and one British--were operating in Sumatra. The assessment of oil resources had been increased recently, he stated: "A 20-billion barrel reserve is estimated, and this is only the beginning" (NSC meeting minutes, Sept. 24, 1957, AWF/NSC). On the Sumatran revolt in 1958 see no. 662.

Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Allen Welsh Dulles, 13 August 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 286. 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/second-term/documents/286.cfm

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