No. 291
Editorial Note

On October 7 Prime Minister Churchill wrote to President Eisenhower asking if they could meet at the Azores between October 15 and 18 to discuss matters of mutual concern. The President replied the same day stating that his schedule was filled, but that Secretary Dulles could be available in Washington for a meeting with the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary Eden. Copies of these letters are in the Eisenhower Library, Eisenhower papers, Whitman file. Three days later Churchill wrote further saying that he was sorry that they could not meet, but saying that Eden had suggested that Dulles and Bidault come to London for tripartite talks. Eden himself had made this proposal to Dulles in a letter dated October 9. Copies of these two letters are in the Eisenhower Library, Eisenhower papers, Whitman file, and in 396.1/10–953. Another part of the background to the invitation for a Foreign Ministers meeting in London is presented in telegram 1376, infra.