Editorial Note
On the morning of June 30, 1954, the President’s Press Secretary, James C. Hagerty, had a telephone conversation with Secretary Dulles concerning the status of several foreign policy issues in preparation for the President’s press conference at 10:30 a.m. Hagerty recorded the conversations with respect to Guatemala as follows:
“Dulles said that the President could take great satisfaction from the trend of events in Guatemala where Red agents and fellow travellers were fleeing the country. He suggested that the President say that the Guatemalans were resuming to take charge of their own affairs, that the United States welcomed this and that the Secretary of State was going to make a more complete statement on this subject on nationwide radio that night.” (Eisenhower Library, Hagerty papers, Diary Series)
The record of the President’s press conference is printed in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954, pages 602–614.
The text of Secretary Dulles’ address to the Nation over radio and television concerning Communism in Guatemala is printed in the Department of State Bulletin, July 12, 1954, pages 43–45.