413. Editorial Note
On November 13, Ambassador Slim met with Under Secretary Dillon to discuss the U.S. decision not to grant Tunisia a loan for the Oued Nebana project. Dillon assured Slim the United States had not made a final decision and was reevaluating the project in light of new information. He also explained the technical and legal difficulties it presented. A memorandum of this conversation is in Department of State, Central Files, 772.5–MSP/11–1659. Its substance was sent to Tunis in telegram 633, November 16. (Ibid.)
Clarence Randall, Chairman of the Council on Foreign Economic Policy, arrived in Tunis on December 7, where he and his party were briefed on the Tunisian economic situation, December 7–8, by the Embassy staff. Reports on his trip are in Eisenhower Library, CFEP Records, Office of the Chairman, and in a Special Staff Note, January 12; ibid., Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries.