Eisenhower Library, Eisenhower papers, Whitman file
Prime Minister Churchill to President Eisenhower
We agreed, did we not, that Admiral Strauss and Lord Cherwell should compile a White Paper of the documents, and their linking together, which constitute the story of Anglo-American relations about the Atomic Bomb. You and I will then consider and discuss whether it will be helpful or not to publish. Personally I think it will be. We both desire a fuller interchange of intelligence1 and the fact that secrecy is evaporating through growth of knowledge between us, and alas between both of us and Soviet Russia, makes it desirable that we two should make the best joint progress we can. Your speech will, I think, encourage the new atmosphere. Cherwell and Strauss, I understand, take it that they should prepare the White Paper.
- On the morning of Dec. 7, Churchill had handed to Eisenhower a memorandum by Lord Cherwell expressing the British desire to extend the interchange of intelligence regarding Soviet nuclear tests. The memorandum, which is attached to the source text, is not printed.↩