78. Editorial Note

On January 12, Prime Minister Churchill transmitted to President Eisenhower a four-page secret letter in which he wrote, inter alia:

Anthony [Eden] and I are in full agreement with you that there can be no Four Power Conference of any kind until ratification [of the Paris Agreements] is complete, and we feel of course that everything reasonable in our power should be done to press for a definite decision. I suppose they could, if they chose, spread the whole process out for four or five months.” (Eisenhower Library, Eisenhower Papers, Whitman File)