Tour of Middle East countries by US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles accompanied by Mutual Security Agency Director Harold Stassen and officials; comments on Dulles' speech on his return and on US policy generally in the Middle East. Code E file 1034

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Extract from the State Department Bulletin on 10 March of a statement made by J F Dulles in New York about his trip to the Middle East and South Asia (1)
• Proposed visit of Dr Garland E Hopkins, Vice President of the American Friends of the Middle East (AFME) to Afghanistan and the Middle and Far East (2)
• Arab hopes becoming fixed on the chances that the new US Administration will make some dramatic policy change away from the support of Israel and in favour of the Arab cause (3)
• Details of the preliminary itinerary of Dulles's visit to the Middle East and South Asia (4)
• Confirmation that Dr Garland Hopkins of AFME made a tour of the frontier villages in the Nablus district of Jordan on 23 March, and held a press conference in Jerusalem the next day (5)
• Itinerary of Dulles proposed tour of the Middle East and South Asia in May (6)
• Amendment to the itinerary of the visit of Dulles and Harold Stassen (7)
• Dulles's visit to the Middle East with regards to US press reporting of UK policies; details of Dulles's party and his itinerary (8-10)
• Report on the visit of Dr Garland Hopkins, Vice President of AFME, to the Middle East and Afghanistan (11)
• Reports of the peaceful demonstration on the occasion of the visit of Dulles to Beirut (12-13)
• Reports on the visit to Israel of Dulles and Stassen (14)
• Statements made by Dulles whilst in Saudi Arabia. It includes a newspaper cutting from the New York Herald Tribune dated 20 May 1953 (15)
• Reports on Dulles's visit to Jordan and Syria (16-17)
• Statement that the American journalist following the Dulles party were found to hold objective and realistic views on the Middle East (18)
• Article in the Time and Tide, dated 23 May 1953, by John Connell, titled 'The United States and the Middle East' (19)
• Discussion on the US attitude to Middle Eastern problems (20)
• US relations with the Middle Eastern countries, and the ramifications of the Prime Minister's conversation with Mr Aldrich on 22 May (21)
• Comments on Dulles's broadcast speech about his recent visit to the Middle East. It includes newspaper cuttings from The Economist and various newspapers (22-23)
• Reports on Dulles's visit to Baghdad on 17 and 18 May, Riyadh on 18 May, and Lebanon on 16 and 17 May; a conversation between Dulles and representatives of Bahrain Petroleum Company and ARAMCO (24-27)
• Report that the US Ambassador in Tehran Mr Henderson went to Karachi to meet Dulles, but Dulles was too preoccupied with the Pakistanis to talk with him (28)
• Copy of the Foreign Press Review from the Literary Gazette (29)