Office of the Historian

845C.191 BU/7–853: Telegram

President Eisenhower to the Governor of Southern Rhodesia (Kennedy)1

Washington, July 10, 1953—11:07 a.m.

I wish to acknowledge the receipt of your very gracious message stating that you and your Ministers would welcome a visit by a representative of the United States Government to the Rhodes Centenary Exhibition at Bulawayo.

It gives me great pleasure to accept, on behalf of this Government, your kind invitation and to inform you that I have designated Mr. William H. Ball of Muncie, Indiana, to attend the Exhibition as my Special Representative, with the personal rank of Minister.

I shall convey to Mr. Ball the generous invitation that he stay with you and Lady Kennedy at Government House in Bulawayo from August 5 to 8 and of your willingness to arrange a tour of Southern Rhodesia for him.

Please accept my sincere thanks for your personal message of greetings and good wishes which I most heartily reciprocate.

Dwight P. Eisenhower
  1. This telegram was drafted by Durnan of AF and Muir of S/S–PR and cleared by the White House.↩