393. Editorial Note
On November 9, Acting Secretary of State Hoover met with President Eisenhower in Denver at 12:10 p.m. During the course of their conversation, which lasted approximately 20 minutes, the President and the Acting Secretary reviewed the current situation in Geneva at the meeting of Foreign Ministers and then discussed the status of Alpha. According to the memorandum of conversation:
“Mr.Hoover told the President of the hope of the State Department to send Bob Anderson to that spot, first going to London to get lines squared off with the British, then going to Egypt and then to Israel. There are two objectives: (1) to try to get Colonel Nasser back on the track; second, to try to bring peace to the area and revive the Alpha project of the Secretary of State.
“The President’s only comment to Bob Anderson’s selection was: you certainly have picked a good one.
“The Acting Secretary told the President that the State Department did not think Israel and Egypt would move within the near future.”
After informing President Eisenhower about the Soviets’ explosion of another atomic bomb and describing his conversation with the President of Guatemala, Acting Secretary Hoover and “The President went over draft of statement to be issued on Mid East, in connection with Sharrett’s visit to this country. Statement is to be issued, saying it has the Secretary’s concurrence.” (Eisenhower Library, Whitman File,Dulles-Herter Series) For text of President Eisenhower’s statement of November 9, see Department of StateBulletin, November 21, 1955, page 845.