LETTER TO HONORABLE CHESTER BOWLES FROM ALLEN W. DULLES.

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 9, 2003
• Sequence Number: 81
• Publication Date: October 25, 1959
• Content Type: LETTER

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The Honorable Chester Bowles `
Hayden's Point
Essex, Connecticut
Dear Chester.
Many thanks for your letter of October 1
forthcoxnin trip.
October 25. 1959
I share the general apprehension expressed in the third
paragraph of your letter, and I believe this is also shared by others
here in important positions in the Executive Branch. Certainly there
is no reason to relax as we have no reason to conclude that the funda-
mentals of the situation have been altered. We still stand by the
principle that we are waiting for deeds and not for words.
I shall look forward to seeing you when you get back from
your trip.
Faithfully yours,
AWD:at
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October 13, 1959
Dear Allen:
COMMITTEE ON
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
I am leaving on an abbreviated trip to Europe on the
28th of October. It will consist of a series of two or
three day stands in Rome, Tunisia, Greece, Turkey, Yugo-
slavia, Bonn and London. If there is anything I can do to
be helpful in the course of these brief visits, let me
know.
I wish I could come to Washington to talk with some of
your people before I go but I am afraid in view of all
the other commitments I. have made for October, this will
not be possible.
I would particularly like to have had your views in
retrospect of the Khrushchev visit. It seems to me that
for better or for worse we are moving from one historic
period to another and that we are ill prepared for it.
There is grave danger that: the public may interpret the
change which may be taking place, not as a fundamental
challenge in the economic, social and political fields,
but as an assurance that everything is right with the world
and that now we can relax.
Unless we can somehow break free from this mood, the Soviet
Union may find that in a relaxed atmosphere it can make more
progress than in the previous period of tension.
With my warmest regards.
Sincerely,
Mr. Allen Dulles
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C.
P.S. I thought that
handled.
Chester Bowles
the Khrushd-ev visit was extremely well
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October Z6, 1959
I dispatched the original of the attached
on Sunday.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Dulles
A copy of the attached has been sent to
Tracy Barnes
You wanted to make the reply yourself
in view of paragraph 3.
Ji$E
21 October 59
(DATE)
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