Office of the Historian

110.11 DU/9–1554

The Secretary of State to Prime Minister Mendès-France 1

Washington, September 15, 1954.

My Dear Mr. President: This is just a brief note to let you know that I plan to make a quick visit to London and Bonn Thursday and [Page 1196] Friday. I regret that time is so short because it will not permit me to stop over in Paris to talk with you much as I would like to do so. However I hope that we will have this opportunity very shortly when we meet either in London or in New York at the UN.

Until then, with best wishes,2

Sincerely yours,

Foster Dulles
  1. The source text, drafted by Merchant, was transmitted to the Embassy in Paris in niact telegram 954 of Sept. 15 with instructions that it be delivered to Mendès-France as a personal message.↩
  2. In telegram 1098 from Paris, Sept. 15, Ambassador Dillon informed the Department of State that the message was delivered and that the effect of omitting Paris from the Secretary’s itinerary “will be salutatory” (110.11 DU/9–1554).↩