COMMITTEE FOR A FREE ASIA, INC.

July 5, 1951

National Association of Foreign Student Advisers
2 West 45th Street
New York 19, N. Y.

Gentlemen:

We have been informed by Mr. Donald B. Cook, Chief, Youth Activities Branch, Division of Exchange of Persons, Department of State, that you may be able to assist us.

So that you may be informed as to the character and scope
of this Committee, a copy of our Prospectus is sent to you herewith.

One of our divisions is Student Relations, both in this
Country and in Asia and, in order to expedite our plans, we
should like to have whatever pertinent information you may be
kind enough to furnish, and specifically the following:

1. We have listings of Chinese students in the United States prepared by China Institute in America, and should like to have similar data on students from the Philippines, Japan, Korea, Indochina, Thailand, Burma, Indonesia, India, Pakistan and Ceylon.

2. We should like to have listings of national, regional, or foreign student organizations in this country and in Asia, with addresses and officers, and statements of purposes and activities.

3. Listings of foreign student advisers in colleges and universities where enrollment of Asian students is relatively large.

4. We are desirious of obtaining information on Asian student programs in this country as well as abroad.

The above and any other information that you may be willing
and able to furnish will, please be assured, deeply appreciated.

cc-Mr. Washburn

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FOREIGN STUDENTS ADVISERS

2 West 45th Street, New York 19, N. Y.

Murray Hill 7-0630

President: Paul M. Chalmers

Secretary: J. Benjamin Schmoker

July 10, 1951

Mr. James T. Ivy
Committee For a Free Asia, Inc.
245 California Street
San Francisco, California

Dear Mr. Ivy:

This is in reply to your letter of July 5, addressed to the National Association of Foreign Student Advisers. I serve as Executive Secretary to the National Association, and am also, the General Secretary for the Committee on Friendly Relations Among Foreign Students, a national private agency with offices at 291 Broadway, New York 7, New York.

The National Association of Foreign Student Advisers can be of assistance to you in supplying a listing of Foreign Student Advisers. The listing is a complete one, and it is not possible, at this time to indicate those colleges and universities where the enrollment of students from Asia is relatively large. I am mailing you the listing of Foreign Student Advisers under separate cover. The listing is for the past academic year. We are now undertaking the revision of the list, and the corrected copy will be available in early fall.

Your request for listing of students is much more difficult. The National Association cannot help you at this point, but information that the Committee on Friendly Relations has in its files, may be of value to you.

In our office, we do have data on all overseas students, who are enrolled in accredited colleges and universities in the United States. This information comes to us from the colleges and universities on special forms, and gives the following information: 1) name of student, 2) address of student in the United States, 3) address of student in his home country, 4) age, 5) course of study, 6) academic year, 7) type of visa, 8) financial aid, and 9) in some instances, religious preference. From these lists, we have in our office, a card index of all students from Japan, India, Pakistan, and Ceylon. For the other countries it would be necessary to go through, and returns from some 1400 colleges and universities, and

5 Bronson Avenue
Scarsdale, N. Y.

July 21, 1951

Mr. George H. Greene, Jr.
Committee for a Free Asia, Inc.
245 California Street
San Francisco 11, Calif.

Dear George:

I appreciated your two letters of July 9th. The duties and arrangements specified are quite satisfactory to me. I have been working with L. K. along the lines indicated during the past two weeks.

L. K. suggested that I write to ask you whether you already have some one in mind to take up the work among Oriental students and professors on a full time basis here in the East or whether you would like to have us line up a possible candidate or candidates, preferably some one who had had previous experience in this field in China and probably a former teacher or missionary with language qualifications, etc.

You also spoke of sending us copies of the plans which were being evolved for such work there on the Pacific coast.

Last week I had opportunity for an interview with a well-qualified woman now on the staff of the Institute of International Education who might be interested in work with our Committee, preferably in the West or Central area. I am enclosing a sheet giving details regarding her. I believe she would be capable of operating a regional office for us or you may desire some one like this at your headquarters. I am not sure that she would accept but she is definitely interested and has impressed me quite favorably in work in which we have been cooperating in the Foreign Policy Association here. I gave her a copy of the Prospectus and told her about your leadership in this so you can feel free to approach her directly, if you wish, or we can do so in your behalf if you so instruct us.

I also had an interview this week with a friend in the Voice of America. While we will not work in the same way, much can be learned from them and I imagine that you already have given consideration to implementing this.

Yesterday noon L. K., Jim and I had a good interview with Vice Constant regarding the plans of the China Institute for its survey and placement work among Chinese students and professional personnel, which should make possible mutually valuable cooperation.

Best wishes for all of your work there.

Copy: L. K. Little

MEMORANDUM

DATE August 9, 1951

TO Mr. George H. Greene, Jr., President

FROM L. K. Little

SUBJECT DR. WILSON M. HUME

Dr. Hume's name was mentioned to me a few days ago as a possible
candidate for our India or Pakistan desk, and I asked Mr. Lyman Hoover
to get some information about him.

Mr. Hoover handed me the enclosed sketch of Dr. Hume, and told me that
he had spoken to him by telephone and discovered that Dr. Hume had already
been in touch with you in San Francisco.

Dr. Hume has had a very distinguished Y.M.C.A. career, mostly in what is
now Pakistan but also, since 1945, in all parts of India.

Dr. Hume is now living at Apt. 4, 87 Sharman Street, Hartford 5, Conn.
Telephone: Hartford 32-9654. He is leaving for California about
September fifth, and will be at the Home of Rest, 170 South Marengo
Ave., Pasadena 5. From September until December, he will be speaking
for the International Committee of the W. M. C. A. on the Pacific coast,
but Mr. Hoover understands that he has no fixed plans beyond December.

If you want any further information about Dr. Hume, if you wish me to
see him, please let me know at once, because he will be away from Hartford
between the 15th and 23rd of August.

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August 4, 1951

Mr. L. K. Little
Committee for a Free Asia, Inc.
270 Park Avenue
New York, N.Y.

Dear L. K. :

In accordance with George's letter of July 9 and
our personal conference of July 27, I am enclosing an informal
statement of my work record and expenses for July 9-31. I hope
you will be able to send me a check/covering these.

I can confirm if you ever met Jim Endicott, a former
Canadian missionary in West China. He was once very close
to the Chiang and the New Life Movement, then jumped all
the way to the other camp. During the past four years he has
been issuing the enclosed "Canadian Far Eastern Newsletter".
After skimming this please pass it on to George. This issue
is mild compared to some that he and his wife put out. I have
never subscribed but he keeps on sending it to me anyway.

This has made me think again about the importance of
having similar Committee's to ours in other countries like
Canada and it is clear that the members of such a committee
should be selected with great care.

COMMITTEE FOR A FREE ASIA, Inc.

270 PARK AVENUE Suite 5B

NEW YORK 17, N. Y.

COPY TO MR. HOOVER

August 17,

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L. K. Little

THAILAND CONTACTS

Through our Consultant, Mr. Lyman Hoover (who, as you have undoubtedly observed, has a probably unsurpassed range of acquaintance among Asians and Americans with Asian interests) I met Mr. Walter A. Zimmerman, who has lived since 1930 in Thailand, where he has been in charge of W.M.C.A. work.

Mr. Zimmerman very kindly furnished me with the enclosed list of Thais and Americans on whom our Committee can call for advice and assistance. (I am enclosing the original of Mr. Zimmerman's letter to me of August 15. As my secretary is more than fully occupied, I shall be glad if you will kindly have this letter copied and returned for my reference)

Mr. Zimmerman told me that he was sure that it would be very easy to form a Thailand National Committee for a Free Asia composed of the highest type of influential private citizens.

He thinks that Thailand, which has had no "colonial" history, may prove to be one of the very best eastern countries for the program of the C. F. A., and assist materially in spreading the program in neighboring countries.

Mr. Zimmerman is leaving here for Thailand about September 15, and I hope you will be able to see him in San Francisco. I shall keep you informed of his itinerary.

Incidentally, Mr. Zimmerman said that the best time to visit Thailand is between November and March, not only because of the good weather but because during those months there is maximum business and social activity.

P. S. I also enclose a memorandum on "The Y.M.C.A. in Thailand (Siam)"

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To Mr. Greene
From Mr. Little

MEMORANDUM
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September 4, 1951

Overseas Contacts Branch should also take charge of the Asian Residents Contacts Branch

8. Two other Branches may have to have special representatives in New York, - the Public Relations and Lecture Branches.

9. I don't know enough about the Public Relations Branch to give an opinion, and it is quite possible that its work can be carried out entirely from San Francisco.

10. If it is intended to cover this part of the country with lecturers, I suggest that a full-time Lecture Bureau representative should be stationed here. We shall probably have many requests for speakers, and it will be a big job to secure speakers, supply materials for speeches and arrange for appearances.

11. Please read the foregoing comments rather as preliminary observations rather than as definite recommendations; and as an effort to help your own planning and estimate of staff requirements.

P. S. In these comments I have not mentioned Mr. Lyman Hoover, Consultant, New York Office. Mr. Hoover has been of great assistance to me, - especially because of his very wide acquaintance among Asians and Americans connected with Asia, I wish we could have his full-time services. It was intended that Mr. Hoover should work specially - if not exclusively - in the Students Relations Branch, but up to now he has not been able to devote much time to this work.

COPY TO MR. HOOVER

MEMORANDUM

DATE September 7, 1951

FROM L. K. Little

SUBJECT MR. Robert Hochhauser

Mr. Hochhauser, whose personal information form is enclosed, was sent to me by Mr. Lyman Hoover, with strongest recommendations as to his intelligence, integrity and earnestness of purpose. Mr. Hochhauser makes a favorable personal appearance.

Mr. Hochhauser spent about 3 years in China as Field Welfare Officer in UNRRA, and became intensely interested in that country.

Since his return to America in 1948, he has worked with Chinese students on a voluntary basis, and it is possible that he might be used in our Student Relations Branch. He is available at any time.

A copy of Mr. Hochhauser's letter to me of September 5, 1951, is enclosed. Will you please let me know promptly what reply I am to make to the enquiry contained in his second paragraph?

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COPY TO MR. HOOVER

September 11, 1951 1

Mrs. Autumn M. Ryan
L. K. Little

MRS. EMILY CASE KEEFFE

Ref.: My memo of August 15 and your memo of Sept., 11, 1951

1. In view of the fact that Mr. Keller is not in immediate need of additional help in the Lecture Bureau, I shall inform Mrs. Keefe that we cannot use her.

2. I enclose, for possible further reference, a duplicate of the statement concerning Mrs. Keefe's career.

3. I note your statement that "we do not have an approved and established position budget against which employment in the various branches takes place" and that "it is not possible therefore to talk in terms of 'vacancies'."

If this is correct, what is the meaning of the table in our August "Progress Report" showing the number of positions authorized and the number filled?

I ask this question because I have kept this table in the back of my mind when interviewing applicants, and uncovering promising recruits.

September 15, 1951

Lyman Hoover

Mr. Paul B. Young
144-44 41st Avenue
Flushing, L. I., New York, N.Y.

(Reference: L.K.L.'s memo of Sept. 10 and enclosed letter, etc.)

In a personal conversation this past week with Mr. Young I told him how glad I was to see his letter to Mr. Little (under date of September 5, copy attached to Mr. Little's memo above, together with personal information form) expressing his willingness to serve with CFA. I regard Mr. Young as a man of the highest caliber for our work, and believe that the personal experiences and convictions he can express regarding Communism in Asia deserve wide hearing not only in America but in Asian countries also.

Mr. Young believes - and my personal acquaintance with some of the company executives tends to confirm - that the Mackay Radio & Telegraph Company, Inc., might be willing to contribute his services to CFA for one or two years if a suitable approach is made to them. I believe he could make most valuable suggestions as to how this might be done, if you desire such suggestions.

Copy: Mr. L.K. Little

September 15, 1951

Lyman Hoover

In a personal conversation this past week with Mr. Young I told him how glad I was to see his letter to Mr. Little (under date of September 5, copy attached to Mr. Little's memo above, together with personal information form) expressing his willingness to serve with CFA. I regard Mr. Young as a man of the highest caliber for our work, and, believe that the personal experiences and convictions he can express regarding Communism in Asia deserve wide hearing not only in America but in Asian countries also.

Copy: M. Little

COPY TO MR. HOOVER

MEMORANDUM

FROM L. K. Little

SUBJECT THAILAND CONTACTS

DATE September 16, 1951

Ref.: My memo of August 17, 1951

Mr. Zimmerman's departure has been postponed, and he will leave here about October 1. He will not via San Francisco but via Los Angeles.

I shall let you know his itinerary when it is finally fixed.

If we have a "Thailand" man in the head office, I suggest that he go to L. A. to see Mr. Zimmerman. If we do not have such a man, I think it would pay to have one of our executive staff make the contact.

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MEMORANDUM

DATE September 21, 1951

TO L. K. Little

FROM Autumn M. Ryan

SUBJECT MRS. EMILY CASE KEEFFE

Thank you for your assistance in the case of Mrs. Keeffe. We are asking
Mr. Keller to review her file and to express an opinion concerning her
usefulness to him.

The table contained in our August Progress Report states authorized posi-
tions which apparently represents a tentative maximum, and is not spelled
out in the establishment of specific positions. For example, the Lecture
Branch now has four people on duty. If more become necessary it is ex-
pected that they will be employed. It has been proposed that our budget-
ing for personnel services be on an overall basis and that we have freedom
within a total ceiling to shift from one branch to another. This proposal
has been approved I believe. As of September 15th 68 people are on duty.
As need arises or a specially qualified individual becomes available, the
individual position is established. Defined vacancies general exist in
minor clerical positions and in the senior positions of Chiefs of the
various areas to be setup in the Editorial Branch.

We are interested in people with outstanding or highly specialized quali-
fications regardless of "vacancies". It will be appreciated if you will help
us, as you have in the past, in accepting applications, interviewing and evaluating
for us.

I have today informed Mr. Greene that Robert Hochhauser is okay for employment
and attached is our letter to him which is self-explanatory. I expect to
telephone Bert Fraleigh sometime today.

AMR:FRH

COPY TO MR. HOOVER

MEMORANDUM

DATE September 25, 1951

TO
FROM
SUBJECT

Mr. George H. Greene, Jr., President
L. K. Little
MR. SAMUEL J. MILLS

Mr. Mills would like to join the C. F. A. in the Asian
Contacts Branch or the Lecture Bureau. Copy of his letter of
Sept. 23 enclosed.

Mr. Mills appeared to me to be at least in his middle
60's, and did not strike me as having a particularly engaging
personality.

Mr. Mills has a long educational-missionary experience
in China; and a mutual friend informs me that, while he was
very well liked in the field, he was not outstanding in any
way.

I doubt whether Mr. Mills would be able to fill any
post requiring energy and initiative; but, if our student
program develops, he might prove a good man to send to various
campuses to speak to Asian students.

What is the answer to his query concerning Social Security?