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SPRINGER FOREIGN NEWS SERVICE

Dr.Henry A.Kissinger,
6 Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge 38, Mass.

Dear Dr. Kissinger;

I have the honor to submit to you here enclosed a list
of questions on behalf of Mr. Ernst Cramer, Assistant Managing
Editor of the Hamburg daily newspaper "Die Welt" who asks you
to be good enough to provide him and his readers and the German
public in general with your ideas and answers to these issues.

Our office - the New York office of Springer Foreign News
Service, which served all newspapers of the Springer chain in
Hamburg and Berlin - will gladly transmit your answers to Mr.
Cramer as soon as received.

I had contacted your secretary in Cambridge over the phone
during your absence. She had advised me to simply send in our
questionaire in writing, around or shortly before September 18.
I am following herewith her advice.

I do not have to stress the significance of the issues and
the importance of the questions for the readers of "Die Welt",
nor do I have to point out how grateful we all would be to
have your comments. I am of course at your disposal in case
you wish to contact me by telephone or otherwise.

Looking forward to hear from you soon, I am sincerely

yours:

Hans Steinitz,
correspondent, Springer
Foreign News Service

Enc.

MAR 18 1966

KURT T. LEISSLER
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
SPRINGER FOREIGN NEWS SERVICE

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March 16, 1966

Dear Professor Kissinger --

enclosed are the questions I discussed with you over
the telephone today.

I hope they will reach you in time. I wish you would,
as you said, answer them. They need responsible answers,
and they are hard to get by in this town right now.

If you wish to make any additions of your own, or
drop part of the questions, I will, of course, co-
operate. But I've tried to make the whole thing as
relevant as I could.

Dr. Kraemer tells me you'll be coming here some time
in the middle of the month. If at all possible, and
compatible with your schedule, I would like to meet
you. The last time I saw you was in Bonn, I believe
in the early sixties, when you held a press conference.
At the time I was number two man in the Baltimore
Sun office there.

As agreed, I'll call you on Saturday, about elev en a.m.
at the Boston number you gave me.

## Interview Questions

For Springer papers of Hamburg, West Germany

1. In 1962, the US suddenly shifted to a strategy of "flexible response". This caused doubt and confusion in Europe. Do you think this may be one of the roots of today's "De Gaulle Crisis" in NATO?

2. Do you think if there still was the strategy of "absolute deterrence" that de Gaulle would not have taken the course which led to this crisis?

3. One factor which contributed to European anxiety about American "reliability" was US enthusiasm for a rapprochement with the Soviet Union. This has raised the specter of a Soviet-American deal at the expense of the Europeans. Do you think that is why de Gaulle made "his own way to Moscow" now, or do you think this argument was just an excuse?

4. Would you say that a NATO without France is better than no NATO at all — or would you prefer "appeasement" toward de Gaulle to keep the alliance, though not the integrated organisation, going, with French participation?

5. French sources have hinted to Bonn that de Gaulle will bring up the reunification problem when he goes to Moscow in June. Do you think this will influence the Germans in his favour — and do you think that the Western powers have done too little to make the Russians talk about de Gaulle?

too little to make the Russians talk about reunification.
6.) The nuclear sharing issue has been divisive in NATO, differing opinions about a nonproliferation treaty with Moscow have added to the strains. Bonn is displaying mixed feelings — to say the least — about the nonproliferation prospect. Some German politicians say that the USA and Great Britain are giving Moscow a voice in NATO. What is your view on this?

7.) If France does retract from cooperation in NATO — do you think West Germany should be given more weight and influence (there has been talk about US intentions to form an "innercore" of what remains of NATO, made up of the US, Great Britain and West Germany) ?

8.) Do you see a possibility to carry out a threat voiced by US sources that if France gets out of the NATO organisation she will be deprived of the protection, too? This seems geographically impossible...

9.) Do you see a way to keep forward strategy in Germany as part of the flexible strategy dogma without France as hinterland — reliable hinterland open all the time — or could this be the beginning of a reversal to absolute deterrence again ?

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