Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "207522375",
    "label": "Memorandum from Secretary of State Dean Acheson to President Harry S. Truman with Attachments and Related Material",
    "core": "doc",
    "dtoType": "document",
    "citationUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/207522375"
}

{
    "id": "207522375",
    "sourceUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/207522375",
    "contentType": "document",
    "title": "Memorandum from Secretary of State Dean Acheson to President Harry S. Truman with Attachments and Related Material",
    "citationUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/207522375",
    "collections": [
        "President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration)",
        "Subject Files"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/truman/hst-psf/602191/750268/750268-06-01.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/truman/hst-psf/602191/750268/750268-06-01.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/truman/hst-psf/602191/750268/750268-06-01.jpg",
    "imageCount": 8,
    "hasImages": true,
    "source": "import",
    "hasTranscription": false
}

{
    "url": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/207522375",
    "naId": 207522375,
    "levelOfDescription": "item",
    "productionDates": [
        {
            "logicalDate": "1952-01-01",
            "year": 1952
        }
    ],
    "recordType": "description",
    "ocrSource": "nara-archive"
}

{
    "seq": 8,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/truman/hst-psf/602191/750268/750268-06-08.jpg",
    "mediaId": "73da7088b64dcc2f",
    "ocrText": "SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION\n-2- - # 730, September 18, 7 p.m., from Cairo.\ntubes, small ammunition and radio sets\" on mil side. He reiter-\nated again and again Egypt had no (rpt no) intention renewal\nhostilities with Israel or Brit, and that ample guarantees wld\nbe provided re use of material. He said also Egypt wld accept\nhelp from Brit.\nI expressed appreciation group's sympathy for US and said it was\nreciprocal. Re specific program, I suggested mil give thorough\nconsideration to type of commitments they wld be prepared to un-\ndertake and concomitantly prepare tentative list exact assistance\nthey require. Meanwhile, I assured Amin I wld report approach to\nDept and wld recommend its careful and sympathetic consideration\n\"in principle.\" Amin was pleased with this response.\nSpeaking as \"one friend to another\" Amin referred to highly satis\ndaily working relations entire group now (rpt now) had with my\nEmb and asked me if in my personal opinion time had come when they\nshld establish some sort of relation with Brit, even though they\ncld admittedly never be so close. I said time had come and agreed\nto suggest to Stevenson that member of his Emb be assigned as lia-\nison with mil. This is important step forward from only two weeks\nago when mil responded to similar suggestion from US by saying\n\"Not yet.\nI once again made it clear to Amin that our ultimate objective is\nrealization of MEDO and that this cld not (rpt not ) be accomplished\nwithout Brit participation. He made noises about evacuation\"\nbuti\nin essence agreed.\nI made no (rpt no) promises about an immed reply from Dept and\nsuggest Dept may wish discuss whole matter with Stabler after his\nreturn to Wash 23. He has participated deliberations here and\nknows men involved.\nga\nCAFFERY\nRSP:RDB\nHOWE\nB\nane\na\nMO:\n130* gebceuper b***\nsu\n10: or apmpe\nMEV\nESON: cayzo\nyoo, 4:\n18'\ncouganio\nLEFEBSYW\nof 21016\nSECRET SECURITY INFORMATION"
}