ng troops at the request of President Chamoun. American involvement was clearly a matter for the long term, and British involvement had by now been reduced to a secondary position at best.
The Eisenhower Doctrine was promulgated as a "Message from President Eisenhower to Congress" on January 5, 1957. The message begins by reiterating the American commitment to world peace and so to peace for all nations, large and small:
There is no nation, great or small, with which we would refuse to negotiate, in mutual good faith, with patience and in the determination to secure a better understanding between us. Out of such understandings must, and eventually will, grow confidence and trust, indispensable ingredients to a program of peace and to plans for lifting from us all the burdens of expensive armaments.
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