MEMORANDUM OF TELEPHONE CONVERSATION BETWEEN JOHN FOSTER DULLES AND ALLEN W. DULLES
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In a telephone conversation, the Dulles brothers discuss their opposing views in regards to the future direction of Soviet policy following the uprising."Memorandum of Telephone Conversation between John Foster Dulles and Allen W. Dulles," July 10, 1953, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, John Foster Dulles Files, Telephone Calls Series, Box 1; U.S. Department of State, ed. Foreign Relations of the United States, Vol. VIII (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1988) pp. 1208-09. https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/111333 - Share
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Friday, July 10, 1953
12:40 p.m.
Telephone Conversation with Allen W. Dulles
The Secretary said that on the Russian thing his views, and those of the Department[,] were at variance with those expressed at Cabinet by Allen and C.D. Jackson. We think it presages a tougher policy and return to Stalinism. The Secretary said he had gone back to his bible (Problems of Leninism) and quoted extensively from it to prove his point. Allen did not think that there [were] comparable men to replace those executed in these days, and felt that the army must have been with Malenkov. Also he thought, based on the theater party, that this had been decided about 10 days ago and there were new evidences of softness since then, the reforms in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, which sort of upset State's theory.
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