<--PREV Doc #64  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #66 Document #65; March 11, 1957 To John Foster Dulles Series: EM, AWF, Dulles-Herter Series The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XVIII - The Presidency: Keeping the Peace Part I: A New Beginning, Old Problems; January 1957 to May 1957 Chapter 1: The Mideast and the Eisenhower Doctrine   Dear Foster: I am delighted that things are going well with you and do hope that you feel repaid for the long trip you have made to attend the meeting.1 You are, of course, correct in giving our friends reassurance that under existing circumstances we shall not vary our policy toward Communist China.2 I think that my difficulty is gradually disappearing, but I am still anxious for a few days of sun.3 I am considering the possibility of taking a cruise to Bermuda during which trip I could make a swing to the southward. If I do so, I shall leave the Columbine here to pick up you and the necessary staffs to come on directly to Bermuda where I will meet you.4 If I follow this plan, I think I would leave Norfolk about the evening of the fourteenth. Please give my warm regard to any of my old friends at the Conference and of course all the best to yourself.5 1 Secretary Dulles was in Canberra, Australia, to attend the council meeting of the South East Asia Treaty Organization. 2 Dulles had told Eisenhower that friendly Asian countries were exhibiting "considerable concern" regarding the repeated stories of a forthcoming change in the U.S. policy of nonrecognition of Communist China. He was planning to make a statement reaffirming U.S. policy of support for the Nationalist Chinese Republic, nonrecognition of Communist China, and continued opposition to seating the Communist regime in the United Nations. "I hope," he said, "this will allay the present nervousness" (Dulles to Eisenhower, DULTE 4, Mar. 11, 1957, AWF/D-H). 3 Eisenhower had been suffering from a persistent case of bronchitis. 4 On Eisenhower's plans for a cruise see the following document. The Bermuda Conference between Eisenhower and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan would begin on March 21 (see no. 78). 5 Dulles would tell the President that he had restated the American position and had received "highly favorable reactions from the Philippines and Vietnam where there had developed serious concern as to our policy" (Dulles to Eisenhower, DULTE 6, Mar. 12, 1957, AWF/D-H). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To John Foster Dulles, 11 March 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 65. 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/65.cfm <--PREV Doc #64  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #66

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