EISENHOWER GOES TO BED WITH CHILL

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28445, 27 November 1957, Page 15

EISENHOWER GOES TO BED WITH CHILL

I (Rec. 10 p.m.) WASHINGTON. Nov. 26. The White House doctors were to issue a statement at 8 a.m. today on the condition of President Eisenhower. who was ordered to bed yesterday suffering from a chill. The President has cancelled a speech which he was to make in Cleveland. Ohio, tonight. Late last night. Mrs Anne Wheaton. the assistant Presidential press secretary, said that the President had no temperature, that his pulse and respiration were normal. and that he was resting quietlv and comfortably. The'President first felt the chilli while sitting in his office yesterday afternoon after having driven] a few hours earlier to the National! airport on a chill autumn day to. welcome King Mohammed V of] Morocco on a State visit. His doctors, Major-General Howard Synder and Colonel Walter T. Kach. advised him to go to bed. It was decided that the President would not attend the official State banquet at the White House last night in honour of the King. Mrs Eisenhower attended, and was escorted by the VicePresident, Mr Richard Nixon. There was some speculation as to whether the chill might affect the President’s plans to fly 1o Paris on December 14 to attend the summit meeting of the Atlantic Pact nations, which will open there on December 16. The announcement from the J White House, which was made [soon after 6 p.m., caused some public concern in view of the President’s medical history. But there was a noticeable absence of the somewhat frantic reaction which accompanied the President’s last indisposition a stomach upset several months ago. caused, it was believed, by eating blueberry pie. Then stock market prices fell, and there were expressions of fear. The New York Stock Exchange was closed for the day when last night’s announcement came. A fortnight ago last week-end. the President had a thorough check-up. The doctors then found his general physical condition ”o be “excellent.” Since then he has had a few days’ golfing at ! the National Golf Club at Augusta. ■ Georgia, and returned from there ; last week looking tanned and fit. A few weeks ago the President was inoculated against Asian 1 influenza. The rumour spread last night—without any official back- ! ing—that he still might have > caught the disease. The temperature was in the ; 40 s. with the sun out fleetingly 1 when the President drove to the airport to meet King Mohammed.

He wore an overcoat and a hat. but stood bareheaded as the two National Anthems were played. The speech which was due to be made in Cleveland was the third in a series of “chins up” addresses to the American people since the launching of the Soviet sputniks. It was to be called “The value of international co- i operation in the nation's security.”