The President's News Conference
11/09/1954
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I have no reason to believe that it would now be easy to achieve a treaty.
I should like to have stayed here as many days as I have hours.
I deem it imperative, therefore, that this restrictive ceiling be removed.
I am quite sure that the traditional ties of friendship and the active cooperation ... will be stronger because of this ...