Office of the Historian

116. Letter From Prime Minister Eden to President Eisenhower1

London, undated.

Dear Friend: Thank you for your letter of April 27 about trade controls. I must frankly tell you that your suggestion of adding to the embargoed list presents most serious difficulties for us. I do not see how we could agree to this now.

As to the Chincom list, we greatly need appreciable relaxation, particularly because of progress toward self-government in our colonial territories. A country like Malaya simply does not understand why it has to accept restrictions which are not in operation in, for example, Ceylon.

But Selwyn will talk all this over with Foster in Paris in the next few days.

Kindest regards,

Yours ever,

ANTHONY2
  1. Source: Department of State, Presidential Correspondence: Lot 66 D 204, Eden to Eisenhower Corres. Secret. The source text is not dated; it was received on May 2.↩
  2. Printed from a copy that bears this typed signature.↩