155. Memorandum of a Conversation Between the Secretary of State and the President, Washington, August 30, 1956, 4:30 p.m.1
[Here follows discussion of developments regarding the Suez crisis, including a brief discussion of Secretary Dulles’ briefing of the Latin American Ambassadors earlier that day about Suez.]
The President also spoke about the Nicaraguan canal and said that if occasion arose he might mention at his press conference that he had for a long time been in favor of that. There was need of more facilities and instead of putting, in effect, a second canal alongside the Panama Canal, it would be better to have the second canal further apart so that they would not be subject to the same risk either of natural or man-made destruction.
[Here follows discussion of matters unrelated to Panama.]
- Source: Eisenhower Library, Dulles Papers, Meetings with the President. Secret. Extract.↩