GT–46. Letter from President Eisenhower to President Ydígoras1
I should like to thank you for your very kind message of November nineteenth.2 The steps taken by the United States Government have enabled us to be in a position to respond to the request received from Your Excellency’s Government on November sixteenth for assistance in preventing Communist-directed efforts to intervene in the internal affairs of your country through the landing of armed forces or supplies from abroad.3 I am gratified to learn that constitutional order is being maintained in Guatemala.
The American people join me in expressing warm good wishes to the Guatemalan people and to Your Excellency personally.
Sincerely,
- Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, International File. The referenced letter was transmitted by telegram 374 to Guatemala, November 30, with a request for Ydígoras’ agreement to release. (714.5411/11–3060). On December 1, Muccio delivered it to Ydígoras who agreed to release, and it was issued the following day as a White House press release. The press release is printed in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960–61 (Washington, 1961), p. 871.↩
- For text, see ibid., p. 872n.↩
- For quotation of Alejos’ note to Herter, November 15, see footnote 3 to the memorandum from Herter to Eisenhower, November 16, Document GT–42.↩