Memo to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles from President Dwight D. Eisenhower Regarding Ceasefire during Suez Crisis
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OCR Page 1 of 3whole of two continents on their side; unless a good many
of the United Nations nations are already committed to
something more moderate that we might immediately
formulate. We should act speedily so as to have our forces
in good order by 5:00 p.m. today.
(c)
We provide the West's only hope that some vestige of real
political and economic union can be preserved with the
Moslem world, indeed, possibly also with India.
3.
Unilateral actions now taken by the United States must not single out
and condemn any one nation -- but should serve to emphasize to the
world our hope for a quick cease-fire to be followed by sane and
deliberate action on the part of the United Nations, resulting,
hopefully, in a solution to which all parties would adhere by each
conceding something.
4.
We should be expected, I think, to suspend governmental shipments, now,
to countries in battle areas and be prepared to agree, in concert with
others, to later additional action.
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