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LE PRÉSIDENT

SEP 27 1989

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger Associates
350 Park Avenue
26th Floor
New York, NY 10022
U.S.A.

ZURICH,
HITZIGWEG 11

September 7, 1989

JH/uw

Dear Henry:

I received the 1994 World Cup brochure recently prepared by the World Cup 1994 Organizing Committee. I was very pleased to see the recognition of your efforts it made and the reference to our friendship.

FIFA would very much like to see you take an official role with the Organizing Committee in 1994. We are convinced that your vast experience and love for our sport will be of immense value to the success of the tournament. If there is anything I can do to assist you in this regard, I hope you would call me.

I do look forward to seeing you in Italy next year. Until then I remain with kindest personal regards.

Please only deal with one subject per letter

Prière ne traiter qu'un objet par lettre

Se ruega tratar solamente un asunto en cada carta

HENRY A. KISSINGER

November 13, 1989

Dear João:

Thank you for your very thoughtful offer of hospitality for the 1990 World Cup matches next summer. My plans are to spend some time in Italy to see as many of the matches as possible, and I am looking forward to our getting together. When I have a better idea of my schedule I will most certainly be in touch with you.

Warm regards,

Dr. João Havelange
President
Federation Internationale de
Football Association
P.O. Box 85
CH-8030 Zurich
Switzerland

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Book Review

# ECHOES FROM GERMANY'S PAST

BY William Hayes
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR

From time to time, even the most determined reviewer of business books is compelled to take time out. This is not a comment on the quality of these books. Indeed the hardest task is to pick the best for my *Market Chronicle* column.

This very moment, a stack of recent books sits on my desk. They wait perusal and possible review. Thus it was with a feeling of guilt that I picked up a non-business book, Felix Gilbert's memoirs. I answered my book reviewer guilt attack with the thought that these memoirs offer some perspective on part of today's events.

Felix Gilbert is a professional historian of note, a refuge from Nazi Germany. His book is not a historical review of this period. It is an expression of how this period impacted him at the time. The impact was profound..."When I am in Berlin, I am haunted by the impression that the ground on which I stand is not firm."

*A European Past* takes us through the author's youth. This was a world of conservative wealth and cosmopolitan culture. The background was one of well established bankers, civil servants, and professional men. One ancestor founded AGFA, the German chemical and photography company.

The author was born into the Europe before passports. As a very young boy on vacation, Felix Gilbert once presented flowers to the Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph.

Into this well ordered existence came the German defeat in World War I, and the civil strife that followed. Felix Gilbert remembers the Spartarist revolution, when a red flag hung from the former headquarters of the Navy in Berlin.

Then came the famous inflation. An uncle gave young Felix $50 (American). This was slowly converted into pots of jam, which held their value as paper money lost its value.

With the fifty American dollars, Felix Gilbert supported himself for a semester at university, spent a summer in vacation, and had $10 left over. His mother was well advised by a banker relative not to sell valuables and to let her debts accumulate. These stories help to explain the historic German fear of inflation and the stern attitude of its central bank.

The years of inflation and political unrest left their mark..."formed in the turbulent years of defeat, revolution, civil war and inflation, we had little belief in the duration of stability. The one certainty we had was that nothing was certain". Into this void was to step the fatal figure of Adolf Hitler.

For a long time, hardly anyone took this minor Bavarian political figure seriously. To Felix Gilbert's relations, with Van Gogh and Degas paintings on the wall, Hilter must have just appeared as a transient demagogue. In the first few months of the Hitler regime, "life went on as before". But once in office, Hitler moved swiftly toward total power.

One of the first areas affected was the universities. Under the Nuremberg laws, Felix Gilbert was officially one-quarter Jewish and thus shut out of an academic career. In 1933, he left Berlin for London.

In the London of 1933-1935, Gilbert was struck by what he calls the combination of "ignorance and arrogance" in England's attitude to Nazi Germany. Fortunately in 1935 came an invitation to teach in Southern

California..."I knew not a single person in California, and had no clear idea about the job that awaited me".

Felix Gilbert moved on to the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton. During World War II, he joined the Office of Strategic Studies (OSS). At the end of the war, he was back in Germany with the occupying forces.

Back in Berlin, Felix Gilbert went looking for the former residence of his grandmother. A scene of desolation spread out before him..."When my jeep approached the area that as a boy I had known so well, I found it unrecognizable. I did not even know where I was".

All that remained of his grandmother's residence was a cluster of blue and white cobblestones. This poignant story goes a long way to explain the current German fear over the potential for nuclear missile war on their soil.

Germany is now once again in the news with the conflict over arms reduction. A recent German visitor told me of the "Gorby Mania", the mass admiration of Gorbachev, sweeping the country. Some experts fear that Germany will swing out of the Western alliance to persue re-unification and control over Central Europe. There is some thought that Gorbachev is using this desire to eliminate the American presence in Europe. A long dormant pot is starting to boil once again.

Just after finishing *A European Past*, I watched a TV interview of former Secretary of State Kissinger. Kissinger worked hard to be on the Bush team in its proclamation of victory in the conventional arms reduction proposal. He looked uneasy in responding to the media euphoria over Bush's victory in the public relations contest with Mikhail Gorbachev. Recently the American media has been far more adulatory toward Gorbachev than Pravda has been.

As I watched Secretary Kissinger on TV, I sensed an unease. I wondered what echoes he was hearing out of his past. Felix Gilbert's memoirs will help explain some of these echoes from the German past that his fellow historian Felix Stern has called "Dreams and Delusions".

THOMAS B. HAYWARD

Admiral, U. S. Navy (Retired)

March 17, 1989

MAR 2 1 1989

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
350 Park Avenue, 26th Floor
New York, NY 10022

Dear Henry:

E.C. Grayson has been thoughtful enough to share with me a copy of your very supportive letter to Eric Pedley regarding my desire to become a non-resident member at the Bohemian Club.

I am not unaware as to how difficult it is to be one of the very few selected annually for preferential non-resident. But if I ever had a chance, it will be this year with the strong support of good friends like yourself. Thanks enormously.

Henry, as you probably know, we at the Pacific Forum are actively discussing the final details of a merger with CSIS. We certainly hope that we are successful in concluding this affiliation as there are tremendous synergism to be exploited -- not the least of which is having Henry Kissinger a more frequent visitor to Hawaii.

Hope to see you in the Grove this coming July.

AMBASSADOR OF THE HUNGARIAN
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC

AUG 15 1989

August 8, 1989

Dear Secretary of State:

Time flies, so the saying goes. Looking back on the six
years I have spent in the USA as Ambassador of Hungary, those
years seem to have flown by like minutes. Yet I find great
consolation in the certainty that they have been extremely
fruitful and have produced outstanding achievements in
Hungarian-US relations. Having been able to contribute to these,
albeit only modestly, is a source of tremendous pride for me.
These years witnessed a bilateral summit meeting in Washington
and one in Budapest, a multifold increase in trade and tourism
between our two countries as well as broadening political,
cultural, educational and scientific contacts and cooperation.
The unfolding of the Hungarian reform process has attracted
and channeled growing interest towards my country in the USA
in general and among American citizens of Hungarian origin
in particular.

In the course of my work here I have always been able to
rely on the willingness to cooperate of the US Administration
and the representatives of the legislature, as well as the
support of my friends and acquaintances. That is why I would
like to take this opportunity to express gratitude both on
my wife, Judit's and my own behalf.

My mission drawing to its end, Judit and I will be returning
to Budapest in mid-August, both of us richer in experience
and full of fine memories. We hope to meet you again in the
future too, whether it be in Budapest or here in the USA should
our future travels bring us this way again.

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
350 Park Avenue, 26th Floor
New York, N.Y. 10017