Office of the Historian

Conference files, lot 60 D 627, CF 212

No. 402
The President to the Secretary of State1

routine
Washington, February 1, 1954.

Many thanks for your informative reports. I find them valuable and extremely interesting and hope you will continue to keep me up to date. I know that your mission is a fatiguing one, but I know also that you are equal to every requirement of your exacting task.

With warm regard,

Dwight D. Eisenhower

  1. Transmitted to Berlin in Tedul 14, Feb. 1. On Feb. 2 Secretary Dulles replied as follows:

    “Many thanks your message which gives us encouragement. It is work running late into every night. But we feel some real gains are being made and whole delegation cooperating in fine spirit.” (Dulte 29 from Berlin, Feb. 2, Conference files, lot 60 D 627, CF 212)

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