349. Editorial Note
Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd arrived in Washington July 17 for 4 days of meetings with U.S. officials. At 11:30 a.m. on July 17, Lloyd and Secretary Dulles, joined by Secretary of Defense McElroy, Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Nathan F. Twining, discussed the British response to a request for troops from the Jordanian Government. The participants in this session also discussed a U.S. statement in support of the deployment of British troops to Jordan and the coordination of U.S.–U.K. military activities in the Eastern Mediterranean. Following a luncheon at the Department of State, Lloyd and Dulles met with President Eisenhower at the White House for further consideration of the situation in the Middle East; see Document 350. See also volume XI, pages 317–321.
The following day, Secretary Dulles, Lloyd, McElroy, and Allen Dulles resumed their discussion of the situation in Lebanon and Jordan; see telegram 600 to London, ibid., pages 325–326. Other topics considered at this session included Sudan and possible Turkish military intervention in Iraq. On July 19, Secretary Dulles and Lloyd met at the British Embassy for further discussion of the various developments in the Middle East, as well as a new Soviet proposal for a summit meeting contained in a July 19 message to President Eisenhower from Premier [Page 819] Khrushchev; see ibid., pages 340–343. For text of Khrushchev’s message, see Department of State Bulletin, August 11, 1958, pages 231–233.
On July 20, Vice President Nixon joined Lloyd and Dulles at the Secretary’s residence to continue consideration of the Khrushchev letter and of deliberations at the United Nations on the Middle East situation. Briefing papers and memoranda of conversation for Foreign Secretary Lloyd’s visit are in Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 63 D 123, CF 1050–1051.