AO PAL? PRE-PRESS CONFERENCE NOTES, October 1, 1958 Seawolf -- atomic submarine has been submerged for 54 days, previous record was 31 days 5-1/2 hours. President will announce. The President was in a jocular mood and said that would be all right with him -- if he had some good bridge playing companions.| INTERNATIONAL Quemoy - Matsu. Reference to Dulles Press Conference of yesterday. Statement out of China saying Chiang said in effect he could not agree with US position. In the first place Chiang does not believe he could get a cease-fire; second place, his government should not reduce troops on Quemoy. The President said in a lot of details -- some important details -we had not always agreed with our friends, including Chiang, Hagerty said that the press people would try to develop a difference of opinion between the President and Dulles, and the President will call to their attention Mr. Dulles' statements of yesterday, Some of the leading Democrats, Adlai Stevenson, Mrs. Roosevelt, etc., have been saying this was a Chinese Civil War. Harry Truman, on the other hand, sees it for the Communist-inspired struggle that itis. The President was told that U. 5. News and World Report says there is Communist activities in 72 countries of the world. The President will refer to the Secretary's statement and added that he would say that he agreed with the Secretary -- if any additional questions, he would refer them to the Secretary. He also said he wanted to commend the speech by Paul Henri Spaak in the UN, REPRODUCED AT THE DWIGHTD. EISENHOWER LIBRARY In talking about our stand against appeasement, the President said ''who knows if Britain and France had forced Hitler to retreat in 1936"? Of course we have differences with our allies, butwe are members of the free world and we intend to remain free, COLLECTION BOXNo, 7 FOLDER LetaseCrnfersrece J o/sVor