Eisenhower Library, Eisenhower papers, Whitman file
Prime Minister Churchill to President Eisenhower
My Dear Ike: I think it is a very fine speech1 and tackles the terrible problems which confront us with your usual courage and candour. I think it will help towards the “easement” of which I have sometimes spoken and it may well be that the contacts which may develop will be useful. It is a great pronouncement and will resound through the anxious and bewildered world.
Naturally I do not like what appears on page 11.2 History will, I am sure, make a different appraisement.
About page 7.2 I hope we may have some further talk, for I know you understand the reservations I have to make in the light of our exposed position. Circumstances, proportion and the fate of friends and allies would never, I am sure, be absent from your mind.
I am sending you privately a short note about the proposed international Atomic Energy Administration which Cherwell prepared for my eye.3
Yours sincerely,
P.S. (longhand) It is nice to see you and talk freely, amid all our terrible problems.4
- See the editorial note, supra.↩
- Reference is presumably to pagination in an unidentified draft.↩
- Reference is presumably to pagination in an unidentified draft.↩
- The attached memorandum by Cherwell, dated Dec. 6, commenting on the President’s proposal, is not printed.↩
- The source text is a copy on which this postscript was typed.↩