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135. Memorandum of Conference With President Eisenhower

uest, we should try to get Hammarskjold to say that no troops other than those requested by the United Nations will be allowed to come in. Mr. Herter commented that one measure of control that is being sought by the UN is to set up a staging area in Nigeria through which all incoming forces would have to pass. The President said he was concerned that the UN was getting into something that it could not bring to a conclusion, and asked where this operation would end in terms of the running of the country. Mr. Herter said that the UN is sending in technicians and administrative people to move int…