Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Foreign Economic Policy, Volume IV
GENERAL U.S. FOREIGN ECONOMIC POLICY: Document List
Document 1: Minutes of the Cabinet Meeting
January 10, 1958, 9:05 a.m.
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Cabinet Series. No classification marking. Drafted by Assistant Staff Secretary L. Arthur Minnich, Jr.
Document 2: Memorandum From Secretary of State Dulles to Vice President Nixon
January 10, 1958.
Source: Eisenhower Library, Dulles Papers. Confidential; Personal and Private. Enclosed with a brief covering note of the same date from Dulles to Nixon. The source text is not signed, but in a telephone conversation that day between Dulles and Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs C. Douglas Dillon, the latter referred to the memorandum as the Secretary’s memorandum. (Memorandum of telephone conversation by Dulles’ personal assistant Phyllis D. Bernau; ibid.)
Document 3: Editorial Note
Document 4: Letter From the Director of the International Cooperation Administration (Smith) to the Chairman of the Council on Foreign Economic Policy (Randall)
February 7, 1958.
Source: Department of State, E–CFEP Files: Lot 61 D 282A, Soviet Economic Expansion-CFEP 560. Secret. Filed with a covering memorandum of February 20 to the Council from Lieutenant Colonel Paul H. Cullen, the CFEP Secretary.
Document 5: Memorandum of Conversation Between Secretary of State Dulles and Vice President Nixon
February 8, 1958.The conversation took place at the Secretary’s residence.
Source: Eisenhower Library, Dulles Papers, Vice President Nixon. Secret. Drafted by Dulles.
Document 6: Report to the Council on Foreign Economic Policy
March 6, 1958.
Source: Department of State, E–CFEP Files: Lot 61 D 282A, Soviet Economic Expansion-CFEP 560. Secret. Prepared jointly by the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of State. Filed with a covering memorandum of March 6 from Cullen to the Council. This report was the third in a series of quarterly reports on this subject.
Document 7: Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Cutler) to the Chairman of the Council on Foreign Economic Policy (Randall)
March 17, 1958.
Source: Eisenhower Library, CFEP Records, Policy Papers, CFEP 560. Secret.
Document 8: Memorandum of Conversation
March 26, 1958.
Source: Department of State, Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 64 D 199. Secret. Drafted by Dillon.
Document 9: Editorial Note
Document 10: Memorandum Prepared by the Policy Planning Staff
May 5, 1958.
Source: Department of State, S/P Files: Lot 67 D 548, USSR 1958. Confidential. Filed with a covering memorandum of May 9 from Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning Gerard C. Smith to Dillon; a copy of CA–10407 of May 28, which transmitted it to all diplomatic missions and a number of consular missions; and a summary dated June 4. Another copy of the paper indicates that Henry Owen of the Policy Planning Staff was the drafter. (Ibid., S/P Papers, May 1958) Copies of the paper and the summary were sent to the White House with a covering letter of June 9 from Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs W.T.M. Beale to Special Assistant to the President Karl G. Harr, Jr. (Eisenhower Library, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Records, Communist Economic Penetration)
Document 11: Memorandum for the Record by the President’s Special Assistant (Harr)
May 19, 1958.
Source: Eisenhower Library, White House Office Files, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Records, Communist Economic Penetration. Confidential.
Document 12: Memorandum of Conversation
June 10, 1958, 3 p.m.
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, International Series. Secret. Drafted by Dillon’s Special Assistant John M. Leddy and cleared with Dillon and Reinhardt.
Document 13: Minutes of the Cabinet Meeting
July 25, 1958, 9 a.m.
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Cabinet Series. Confidential. Drafted by Minnich. For another portion of this meeting, see Document 222.
Document 14: National Intelligence Estimate
August 5, 1958.
Document 15: Memorandum of Conversation Between President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles
November 4, 1958, 8:15 a.m.
Source: Eisenhower Library, Dulles Papers, White House Memoranda. Secret; Personal and Private. Drafted by Dulles.
Document 16: Memorandum of Conversation Between President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles
Augusta, Georgia, November 30, 1958, 11:30 a.m.
Source: Eisenhower Library, Dulles Papers, White House Memoranda. Secret; Personal and Private. Drafted by Dulles’ Special Assistant Joseph N. Greene, Jr.
Document 17: Editorial Note
Document 18: Memorandum of Conversation
February 6, 1959.
Source: Department of State, Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 64 D 199. Confidential. Drafted by John P. Walsh of the Office of Western European Affairs.
Document 19: Memorandum of Conversation
Camp David, Maryland, March 22, 1959, 9:30 a.m.
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, International Series. Secret; Limit Distribution. Drafted by Ambassador to the United Kingdom John Hay Whitney.
Document 20: Editorial Note
Document 21: Memorandum of Conversation
June 4, 1959.
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 033.62A11/6–459. Confidential. Drafted by John E. Devine of the Office of German Affairs and approved by Murphy.
Document 22: Minutes of the Cabinet Meeting
August 7, 1959, 9–11:15 a.m.
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Cabinet Series. Confidential. Drafted by Minnich.
Document 23: Record of Action on Items Presented at the Cabinet Meeting
August 19, 1959.
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Cabinet Series. Confidential; Cabinet Paper-Privileged. The drafter is not indicated. Approved by the President on August 19.
Document 24: Memorandum of Conversation Between Secretary of State Herter and Secretary of the Treasury Anderson
October 22, 1959, 10:30 a.m.
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 811.10/10–2259. Secret. Drafted by Herter.
Document 25: Minutes of the 95th Meeting of the Council on Foreign Economic Policy
November 19, 1959.The meeting took place in the Executive Office Building.
Source: Eisenhower Library, CFEP Chairman Records, Papers Series, CFEP Minutes 1959. Confidential.
Document 26: Memorandum From Secretary of State Herter to President Eisenhower
November 24, 1959.
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Dulles–Herter Series. Secret. No drafter is indicated on the source text. A note in Goodpaster’s handwriting on the memorandum states that the President had seen it and that Administrative Assistant to the President Malcolm C. Moos had the substance of his comments for Dillon’s office.
Document 27: Editorial Note
Document 28: Memorandum From Karl Brandt of the Council of Economic Advisers to the President’s Special Assistant (Randall)
September 21, 1960.
Source: Eisenhower Library, CFEP Chairman Records. No classification marking. Randall circulated a copy of this letter to the Council with a covering memorandum of October 12 that noted that when he and Brandt had recently exchanged views, he had been so impressed by what Brandt said that he asked him to put it in a letter, which he was circulating because of the interest expressed by those with whom he had discussed it. (Department of State, E–CFEP Files: Lot 61 D 282A, Memoranda)
Document 29: Editorial Note
Document 30: Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning (Smith) to the Under Secretary of State (Dillon)
December 6, 1960.
Source: Department of State, S/P Files: Lot 67 D 548, Economic Policy, 1957–1960. Secret. Drafted by Henry Brodie of the Policy Planning Staff. Filed as an attachment to a December 16 memorandum from Dillon’s Special Assistant James C. Haahr to Assistant Secretary Martin stating that Dillon wanted him to take action on it; Haahr added that Dillon thought it was important and wanted to keep it within the Department for the time being.
Document 31: Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs (Kohler) to Secretary of State Herter
December 7, 1960.
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 374.800/12–760. Official Use Only. Filed as an attachment to a memorandum of the same date from Secretary Herter to the President which transmitted a document for his signature authorizing Dillon to sign the convention and protocols establishing the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.