125. Letter From President Eisenhower to Chancellor Adenauer1
My Dear Chancellor: I much appreciate your thoughtful message of May 30.2 It gave me great personal pleasure to have you here.
I think it was a particularly useful time for our discussions. I fully share your conviction that our work together has served to emphasize again the closeness of our aims and to advance our common purpose of establishing peace and freedom in the world.
Permit me to take this opportunity of repeating my assurance given to you in Washington that it is our purpose not to make to other countries governmental proposals involving Germany on which we have not first consulted your government. We shall seek better assurances of coordination, which will avoid the risk of unintentional lapses.
Sincerely,
- Source: Department of State, Central Files, 611.62A/6–757. Confidential. Transmitted to Bonn in telegram 3470, June 7, which is the source text.↩
- This message expressed the Chancellor’s gratitude for his reception in Washington. (Ibid., Presidential Correspondence: Lot 66 D 204, Adenauer to Eisenhower)↩
- Telegram 3470 bears this typed signature.↩