16. Message From the Secretary of State to the President1
Dear Mr. President: We have just concluded the two-day NATO Conference. It has, on the whole, been a good Conference with a spirit much strengthened by the multiplying evidence that the aggressiveness of the Soviet bloc is by no means ended. We are issuing a communiqué which has much more punch than is usual and is more than a mere narrative of what happened at the Meeting. It takes a strong affirmative line.
I have had good meetings on the side with Macmillan and Pinay, and expect tomorrow (Saturday) to have meetings with Monnet, [Page 50] Spaak, von Brentano and Pinay before getting away Saturday evening.2
Faithfully yours,
- Source: Department of State, Central Files, 740.5/12–1655. Secret; Niact. Transmitted to Washington in Dulte 4, December 16, at 10 p.m. A copy was sent to the White House on December 17 where it was retransmitted to the President at Gettysburg that day as CAP REF NBR 535. This document, which bears Eisenhower’s initials, is in the Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Dulles–Herter Series.↩
- See Document 10.↩