190. Telegram From the Embassy in France to the Embassy in Portugal0
77. Eyes Only for Merchant. Personal for the President.
“Dear Mr. President:
“I have just returned from a two-hour session with the North Atlantic Council in which Couve, Selwyn and I delivered a full report on the events of the past days.1 After our report practically every member of the Council rose to express a solidarity with us and particularly to voice in the most glowing terms their appreciation for the dignity and restraint which you showed in the face of provocation together with just the right combination of determination and conciliation. The support was unanimous and you will have seen the communiqué2 which the Council on its own initiative decided to issue confirming this.
“Faithfully yours, signed: CHRIS.”
- Source: Department of State, Central Files, 396.1–PA/5–1960. Confidential; Priority. Repeated to the Department of State as Cahto 11. The source text is the Department of State copy. Another copy of the telegram bears the notation “President saw” in Goodpas-ter’s writing. (Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Dulles–Hester Series) President Eisen-hower stopped in Lisbon following his departure from Paris at 7:45 a.m.↩
- Detailed reports on the NAC meeting which lasted from 11 a.m. to 12:35 p.m. were transmitted in Poltos 2306, 2307, and 2319 from Paris, May 20 and 23. (Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 64 D 559, CF 1666)↩
- For text of this communiqué see American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1960, p. 432.↩