Office of the Historian

352. Telegram From the Secretary of State to the Department of State1

Paris,October 24, 1955—noon.

Dulte 4. Eyes only Hoover. Please suggest following to Denver.2 Macmillan has seen and approved.

“Dear Mister Chairman:

I received on October 22 your message regarding the sale of arms to Egypt.3 I note that you feel that there are no grounds whatever for concern. However, on the basis of all my information, this large transaction has created a greatly increased danger of a major outbreak of violence in the area.

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I am asking Mister Dulles to discuss this situation further with Mister Molotov at Geneva.”4

Dulles
  1. Source: Department of State, Central Files, 774.56/10–2455I Secret; Priority. Received at 6:52 a.m.↩
  2. A note attached to the source text from Barnes to Hoover indicated that the draft reply from Eisenhower to Bulganin contained in Dulte 4 had been repeated to Sherman Adams in Denver at Hoover’s request with a note indicating Hoover’s desire to discuss the draft message over the telephone with Adams.Barnes’ note also indicated that George Allen had seen the draft message and “thought it looked satisfactory.”

    The text of the telegram which the Department transmitted to Governor Adams on October 24 isibid.

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  3. Document 349.↩
  4. The Department transmitted the text of this message on October 25 to the Embassy in Moscow, priority and eyes only for ChargéWalmsley, in telegram 507, and repeated it priority to the Embassy in Paris. Accompanying the message were instructions for Walmsley to observe “utmost secrecy . . . regarding message” and to deliver it “personally immediately on receipt telegram.” (Department of State, Central Files, 774.561/10–2555)↩