Agency: FBI
Originator: CIT
From: LAWSON, JOHN HOWARD
To: SCHLICHTING, A. C.
Document date: 04/22/1965
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JOHN HOWARD LAWSON

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JOHN HOWARD LAWSON

DAS ELYRIA DRIVE

LOS ANGELES. CALIF, 00065

Apr1l 22,

1965

TO:

Anna Seghers and Arnold Zwels,

Initiating Committee,

International Meeting of Hriters

Dear Friends:

I am deeply honored by the

invitation to participate in the meeting of

writers which will be held in Berlin and Heimar

in May.

I am unable to attend: I have a

schedule of work, including lectures and classes

as well as writing, which is not possible to

, change.

I enclose a message to the gathering.

With it go by heart-felt greetings to you and to

all the people associated with you in planning this

splendid event.

Sincerely,

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JOHN HOWARD LAWSON

1Ae CLINA UNITE

LOS ANGELES, CALIP. 00065

A MESSAGE OF GREETING

TO THE INTERNATIONAL METING OF WRITERS

BERLIN AND WEIMAR,

1965

It seems to me that your gathering,

and Heimar is an occasion of major historical importance.

You commemorate the past, the defeat of Nazi tyranny. But

you speak for the present and for the future, for the

continuity and immediacy of the struggle for peace and

freedom. Writers of the world have a unique responsibility--

to their consciences, to their people, and to all peoples.

The creative conscience cannot rest or retreat. There are

today writers and artists who hold that culture is subjec-

tive and related only to the inner life of the mind of

spirit!

But there is no hiding place in the soul; the man

or wonan "who tries: to hide from the world makes the heart

a prison.

May this meeting affirm the deathless spirit,

the creative spirit that honors life and unites the writer

with all humanity in creating a world of peace and plenty

and brotherhood.

bradlert

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Dear

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after a

somwhat

I am most han the o

interval-- which is no

my fault for not writing.

I am aware of the tremendous

importance of the proposed gathering

of writers,

and I'am most regretful that I cannot attend.

There are many.

reasons, but the most urgent

relate to commitments which I cannot dismiss

(writing, lecturing and teaching).

I am writing by this mail to

the Initiating Committee, expressing my regrets,

and

enclosing a brief message of greeting to the

assembly.

Cordially,

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