Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, The Near and Middle East, Volume IX, Part 1

884A.86/4–1254: Telegram

No. 792
The Secretary of State to the Department of State¹

secret
priority

London, April 12, 1954—10 a.m.

4489. I mentioned to Eden last evening Churchill’s message to Sharett (Deptel 5344 to London)² and discussed possibility of my sending similar message. Eden unaware UK Embassy instructed to tell us about Churchill’s message. He said that since Churchill considered pro-Zionist a message from him had seemed desirable but doubted desirability of supporting message from US.

In view of above and fact that further message from me might be construed as resulting from my visit London rather than from our own initiative do not believe we should send any message at this time.

[Dulles]

1. Repeated to Tel Aviv and Paris.
2. Document 789.