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My dear Mr. Kissinger:

You must understand that for most of us this has been an
intellectual breathinghole to health and growth for which it is
nearly ridiculous to say just thank you. But I hope you feel that
we mean it rather profoundly. I know that at least in the humanity
group the Seminar has created echoes and radars which might give
small results for the future in the direction the Seminar wants
to encourage. Personally, I feel it more sad than I want to show
to leave this place.

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

It will be beside the point to analyse what I learned
during the Seminar; this seems also to be rather difficult to
summarize. Not having now the time for introspection (which is
an unpleasant occupation at the best of time), I cannot probe into
the sediments accumulated during the six memorable weeks. Still
I feel I should say something about it.

I shall have to make a confession. Despite reading USA
papers, meeting Americans in Europe, meeting everyday of the week
Americans (Jews and Non-Jews) in Jerusalem--the reality I saw and
experienced seems to be so different from the mental picture I had
of the USA as to allow me a genuine anger at the USA magazines and
information centers (abroad). I thought to be fairly well informed.
Well, nothing of this kind. It is not only that institutions (in
the larger sense) and establishments are different, but the people
I met are different and the general atmosphere, social and mental,
is far away from my conceived and accumulated ideas.

These few lines which I announced so bravely in the begin-
ning will soon become a thesis for "Litterae humaniores" if I do
not stop the flow of ink (reflecting the flow of thoughts). So I
shall better stop here, squeeze your hand and say: thanks.

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Dear Mr. Kissinger:

The Harvard International Seminar is an occasion whose
importance according to me is very great and far-reaching. It is
not and cannot ever be an end in itself. It is rather the begin-
ning of a great end as it will surely contribute to the international
understanding through the different peoples of the world and it would
clear the path to one world which is the pious hope of the present
generation. I am really very happy to see and observe this encour-
aging enterprise undertaken by the management of the Seminar. It
is really a very far-sighted and well organized program. And I very
sincerely congratulate the enterprisers together with the organisors
and further, I look and wish its grand success.

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

In my view, the Seminar has been highly positive and did
not deceive my expectation for broadening my ideas about international
problems, making me acquainted with American life, and putting me
in touch with the Eastern and African mentality, culture and problems
of today.

What I most appreciated and did not expect were the deep human
contacts, the exchange of views in an atmosphere of friendship that
cannot but lead to a better understanding, the Americans' breadth.
of ideas which allows the members of the Seminar to speak frankly
even when discussing the United States.

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Dear Mr. Kissinger:

Being now for two weeks again at home and having returned
to my task at the "Consul d'Etat," I am remembering the wonderful
time I had at the International Seminar.

As it seems to me, the informal way you adopted to make
us acquainted with the various and often contradictory aspects of
the American way of life, was most successful. I am especially
grateful to you for the opportunity you gave us to know many
American families and I am sure the contacts with them will remain
and be strengthened in the future.

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

It is not so easy to get used again to my old, orphaned
desk and only the need to reply to a veritable mountain of mail
eases my task somewhat. But it also makes it more difficult for
it only increases my "nervous" impatience finally to get down to
essentials and to "make" something of my American experiences.
Everything depends then on collecting oneself again, to return to
fundamentals and to leave hang in the trees of Harvard Yard that
part of us which is still there. There is something like a home-
sickness involved--the Yard appears in the melancholy light of a
late afternoon, a fortunate illusion that has already disappeared
again. To travel is to experience something of the secret of Eros;
every journey makes us lose a part of our innocence, one consumes
enormously much "world" without ever paying for it. But when we
return we see the other side of the coin--the happiness and the
innocence lie behind us in a past forever lost....

Were you to ask me about the sense and value of the Seminar,
I should reply: community, yes, and encounter and discussion,
mutual discovery, best when it was most private....but what is the
need of my saying it, you know it better than I. That was pre-
cisely the warning, the sovereign part of your organization that
you expected nothing direct, that you attempted to create something
invisible from a wide perspective, just as a wise businessman who

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understands that confidence is the strongest capital. This is of
course the only meaningful creativity because if you want serious
and permanent results -- and of course you do -- then they can
occur only silently and unnoticed, in the very core, the very depth
of our being. For that which occurs on the surface on the plane
of loudspeakers, bureaucrats, and ideologies outdates itself in
four weeks.

My dear Kissinger:

I hope to be a more frequent writer in the new year, and
please believe me that I was often thinking of you, the Harvard
Seminar, thankful to you, the institution as such and to your
nation. Still today I have to work on the impressions, the Seminar
provided in summer 1953 and the events I follow with interest in
your country and in connection with world and Asian affairs are to
be understood much better as I got such a good background at Harvard.

Really I make practical use of the exercised international
cooperation and understanding in my daily work: having worked in
Paris and London 1954 for EDC and NATO -- arrangements later, I
found it helpful to be trained a little bit in getting in touch with
other nation's representatives and to argue about national interests
and to compromise.

The proportions between my own country - Europe - America -
Asia - world and their interests are put in a better relation --
it makes me happy to work for my country in regard of others. So
I'm thankful and I hope to give my small contribution to society
and humanity. Please take my friendship for the new year too and
count on me whenever you will.

The old year passed quietly: I was after more than one
year's absence back in my own apartment again -- please find the new
address -- my mother came from Berlin to have Christmas and some
time with me. Thoughts went back and forward. The - even poor -
'yes' of the French Assembly was welcomed and we hope to continue
more steadily and happily 1955 than before. But step by step --

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and I'm sure that by working together confidence will grow better
than asked as a prior aim before working together.

With all best wishes.

My dear Mr. Kissinger:

Time certainly flies, for it has now been over a week since
I left the Harvard Yard and the unforgettable memory of those joy-
ful days I had the pleasure of spending with you and the other
members of the Seminar, associated with the picturesque vision of
green ivy scrolling over those historic, old buildings, is still
warm in my heart.

I sincerely wish to express my heartfelt gratitude to all
those to whom I owe so much for those many happy days I spent in
the Yard, and I am sure that the other Japanese participants join
me in expressing these sentiments. Before our common tie of humanity,
differences in manners and customs among races mean next to nothing.
It is our utmost pride that we have felt the great tradition of
Harvard and that we have learned the noble spirit which should
prevail in the future by our friendship with all the nationalities
of the world. We are very happy in that we have learned so much
from you and the others although we regret having brought so little
to you.

My activity here has been directed toward the promotion of
strong, frank and friendly relations between the United States
and Japan.

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Dear Mr. Kissinger:

At this precise moment, I receive a letter from Alain
Clement (a French participant and correspondent for the neutralist
influential *Le Monde*). I never saw a reasonable young Frenchman
so enthusiastic about anything. The United States is wonderful,
Harvard is wonderful, the Summer School Director is wonderful, and
so on and so forth. It certainly was a hit, and that fact gives
me great pleasure: he tells me he is to write on his American
experiences in *Le Monde*, and I only hope he won't lose his job for
being sold out to the Yankees. Seriously, I am convinced that
this kind of thing is just what the United States ought to go for.
Unfortunately, they are not always convinced of that -- and they
do not always find the human material they would need on this side
for a good job.

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

It is with much pleasure that I send you a copy of our
magazine containing an article on "The Harvard International
Seminar, 1953" contributed by me. The magazine is a monthly and
its circulation is 30,000 copies. It will be distributed to all
the schools and libraries both in the urban and rural areas of the
country. In fact, it will reach every nook and corner of the country
and I hope the account on the Seminar will be of some interest to
the reading public of the magazine.

I am sorry that the article is written in Burmese. But it
will serve its purpose well, since the dissemination of any news in
Burmese is more effective in this country. The contents of the
article are: How I got selected as a participant in the Seminar;
purpose of the Seminar; journey to the Seminar; friends from all
over the world; the Seminar itself; how I enjoyed the Seminar;
Executive Director's remarkable talk at the beginning and end of
the Seminar; back to home.

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[N]

Once again I thank you very much for your kindness and deep concern shown towards me during the last Harvard International Seminar. I hope I will see you in Burma one day.

Yours sincerely,

Tin Aung
Editor
Burma Translation Society
Author: "Science and the Greeks," "From Alchemy to Chemistry," and "World's Great Scientists."

Dear Sir:

It is my great pleasure to send in writing to you my deep gratitude for your kind considerations extended to me during my stay at your famed University attending the International Seminar. I am very sorry of not writing to you for so long a time because of the unfavorable physical condition which I had to suffer since my return to Japan....

More than two months have elapsed since I took leave of you and your institute at the Harvard, but the pleasant memory of the fine days I could enjoy in the Seminar is getting dearer and stronger to me. The programs of the Seminar were so planned out as to provide us with the best opportunity to learn the essential aspects of your country. For the first time I could see to my real understanding that the present prestige and prosperity of the United States is the outcome of the superb human relationship based on the well established cultural foundation. I must confide of my envious feeling to those young people who can study at such a fine university as the Harvard with firm conviction in the long run victory of humanity.

It was entirely a new and revealing experience to me to get in touch with the participants representing various countries of the free world. Through the association with them I could get the otherwise unfeasible information about the actual conditions of our friendly countries. Moreover, I could be convinced of the will for co-existence inherent in human nature which should defy the narrow concept nationalism if properly supplied with the better chance for mutual understanding. Activities of this kind will surely pave the way to the peaceful world despite of the wide gradations in the condition of living which are yet to be levelled

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out by the international cooperation.

Sincerely yours,

Ryuzo Ueda
Foreign Department
The Sanwa Bank, Ltd.

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

Now that I am "back in harness" and that I have settled
down again to my usual life and work, I wish to thank you once
more for the wonderful opportunity you gave me by asking me to
join the Seminar. It has been a unique experience, one sees that
more and more when looking at it in perspective. I feel that I
learned so much during those two months.

With best wishes.

Yours sincerely,

Giorgio Borsa
Head of the Eastern Asia Department
Instituto Studi Politica
Internazionale
Correspondent for the London
*Times*

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

I do not want to leave America before expressing my heart-
felt gratitude at your hospitality and kindness. I am very proud
to have known you and I shall follow with great interest the
further rise of your career.

The courses at Harvard University have greatly enriched my
knowledge about America, and as a newspaperman, I shall forever
endeavor to work toward still closer understanding between your
country and mine. One point which America, and Indonesia have in
common is the democracy -- which guarantees the civil liberties
of men.

As always,

Harris Stiompoel
Editor
*Merdeka*

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Dear Henry:

Next week, I'll go to a Pan-European Congress to Paris and meet Francois and Paul Salleron, maybe they are concentrating some more HISA people. With about half of my seminar colleagues I am still in contact, I just got a letter of Price Mejia from the Philippines, dreaming of our Bombay meeting. I am still much in favor of this project. We know so little about Asia than I had before. As often as I change letters with my colleagues and as ever I meet one of them like Nossent or Inken, we are grateful to you and we are sure, that the weeks in Cambridge were among the best we spent in our life. If you don't manage the Asian Congress, try to concentrate the best of the HISA people f.e. every ten years for two weeks. That should be possible, if we help you in fund raising.

It is impossible to repay the hundreds of courtesies we received during our stay from your countrymen. In my own small way I have contacted the local United States Information Services and the local American consulate general telling them that I would be happy to receive at my home Americans who may be visiting India and may like the taste of a typical Indian home.

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

You must have received many letters of appreciation in regard to the Seminar from the participants and I also should have written to you many weeks earlier. Yet at this delayed hour may I join others in saying how much the Harvard International Seminar has meant to me as to others. I have been tremendously interested in American and the Seminar gave me the opportunity to come here and to profit from the enriching experience which the Seminar offered and to know and learn about your great country. And I wish to thank you most sincerely for giving me the opportunity to come to America.

With kind regards.

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Dear Dr. Kissinger:

The Seminar has been a fine experience for me in that
it helped me to meet people of three continents: Asia, America
and Europe, and live together. The Seminar is an experiment in
international living.

The discussion in the Economics group and the talks by the
guest speakers have enabled me to grasp the problems of human
society in a more global way than what was possible with my own
specialization in the fields of Psychology and Education. Here the
Seminar has served my need to develop a more integrated outlook.

I have found that all the three parts of the Seminar--group
discussions, guest speakers and excursions--have been very valuable.
I admire the way in which by the latter two means a very good in-
sight to the American way of life is induced.

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

I feel that I have been able to get into good personal
relations with people of many other nations and I have I am sure
made friendships which will last for many years...I have listened,
studied and observed with assiduity and I feel that I have ex-
tracted very much good material for myself. For this and for
seven weeks in New England, and for the courtesy and help of all
members of the Seminar staff from top to bottom, I am extremely
grateful.

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Dear Mr. Kissinger:

I avail myself of this opportunity to express my deep thanks to you for making it possible for me to participate in the 1956 session of the International Seminar. I must say that the Seminar has done me good, and that I understand the American point of view on the issues that divide our two countries better than I did before. The value of the Seminar from the point of view of my own interests, expectations and needs lies in getting an opportunity to have a heart-to-heart talk with the people of different nationalities, with a view to stressing the fact that we are more alike than different and that it is in our interest to explore more and more the areas of our agreement than to exaggerate our difficulties.

From this point of view, the Seminar has been an unique opportunity in my life. And I am sure that out of such Seminars will evolve better understanding and closer ties of friendship.

...I must conclude by saying that though my stay here has been short, my memories of it will be long. I carry with me a fund of goodwill towards America and her people.

Thanking you,

N. D. Rajadhyaksha
Lecturer in Logic and Philosophy
Jai Hind College, Bombay
Also closely associated with
adult education work

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

Back home I am availing the first opportunity to convey my sense of deep gratitude to you personally and the Harvard University International Seminar for my trip to U.S.A. and the eight weeks long participation in the Seminar.

You will be astonished, if I tell you, that I felt more than one time homesick for Harvard and when I told a few days ago to a group of young students about my stay there, I was moved to tears and don't feel ashamed about that--besides, this happens rather selmon with me, you know I am more or less--or pretend to be--a cynic fellow.

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Forgive my many mistakes, please. I can't use my English.

Best regards.

Sincerely yours,

Wilfried Gredler
Member of the Austrian Parliament

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

The Seminar came up to my expectations. This is largely
due to the vividness and sometimes penetrating character of the
debate and discussions.

It certainly fills the needs we generally feel to understand
each other, for only by grouping many kinds of ideology, individual
viewpoints and discussion, we may understand each other, even if
we do not share each other's viewpoint.

Seen from my individual interests (politics as well as
culture), I must say that this Seminar has given me much to think
about, on political as well as humanitarian field, as regards the
United States as well as the other countries, where the participants
come from.

Yours truly,

Hazil
Executive Assistant to the
President of Pembangunan Ltd.,
Publishers and Booksellers,
Indonesia

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

When I was seven years old, my father sent me to a
Montessori school: there it was possible to profit variously from
the opportunities offered by the school...The experience of the
Montessori school made me anti-fascist forever.

When I was thirty-seven years old, my wife let me go to the
International Seminar at Harvard University in the far America.

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The experience of the Harvard University clarified for me that
it is possible to be a Friend of Americans forever.

Umberto Serafini
Executive Secretary,
Communita Movement
Executive Director, Council
of European Municipalities

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

Finally I think I should say, that I had much benefit by
the Seminar. It was for me an unique opportunity to be together
with people from so many other countries, to learn about their way
of life, their problems and their opinions. Most of peoples con-
sider their own problems as the most important ones. This Seminar
showed, that other peoples have problems too, being partly the same
than in other countries, partly different, but not less important.
Furthermore, it was a wonderful opportunity to see and to learn
something about the United States. I have enjoyed the time at
Harvard from the first to the last day.

Sincerely yours,

Gerhard Weck
Economic Correspondent of the
*Dusseldorfer Nachrichten* and the
*Frankfurter Neue Presse*

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

Through this Seminar I realized that the world peace and
understanding would prosper as people talk to people; motivated by
this Seminar we would be able to contribute something to our
mutual understanding in the future. In this point of view the
Seminar offered us many tasks to be further executed.

Sincerely yours,

Daiwon Lee
Korean Artist

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Dear Mr. Kissinger:

You will not be surprised if I confess that I am not "at home" yet. Of course there is plenty of work occupying me nearly completely. But I myself am no more the same who started some weeks ago for Cambridge. What happened in Cambridge was not only a matter of expanding my horizon but nearly a changing in the way to look at things. I have the feeling to have made a great jump. Forward, of course. The distance made it possible to get greater conceptions, no more so much bound to the everyday problems. Certainly there have been the fundamentals before, but now I guess I have the problems of Europe and especially Germany under better control. There is a conception which could lead us out of our present deadlock. I only hope that the next year gives me a chance for some scientific work.

With many regards.

Dear Henry:

I'm very glad now that I didn't write an evaluation report before I left the States as I find that, not only does distance lend some enchantment, but that certain comments which I should have made before I left are no longer valid in view of what I find now I'm home. In an odd way I was able to do a re-evaluation of Britain and found that certain touchstones--as it were--which I had carried across the Atlantic with me, and which I used to evaluate certain experiences in the States were, in fact, not valid any longer even here at home.

For myself--professionally, it was neither here nor there--as a person, it was a most stimulating and enjoyable time and I shall always be grateful to you and the International Seminar for the opportunity to experience it. The subtle attitude of "no pro-American propaganda" results in my case, at least, of a definite pro-American awareness! And joking apart, a sense of being able to appreciate and recognize manifestations of American thinking and doing. This, plus the experience of living along with and working with the other members of the Seminar, has given me a range of thought and self-questioning which could not have happened otherwise.