53. Editorial Note
Secretary Dulles informed Anderson on January 30 that “Recent developments have given greatest urgency to maintaining unbroken momentum in your discussions. We must, I believe, make all out effort to obtain largest measure of agreement at this time in specific and concrete terms on eight or ten principal issues with understanding, of course, that agreement would be kept secret as long as necessary to enable Nasser develop favorable Arab opinion.”
To make certain that Anderson had access to the most recent thinking in Washington, Dulles told him he was sending Russell to Athens for consultation. Russell would arrive at 8 p.m., January 31. (Department of State, NEA Files: Lot 59 D 518, Alpha—Anderson Talks w/BG & Nasser. Outgoing Telegrams—Jan.–March 1956)