September 9, 1974

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
Washington, D.C. 20520

Dear Mr. Secretary:

Although I have never had the pleasure of meeting you personally, I have been asked by the family of Ambassador Rodger Davies to convey to you a personal message of deep appreciation and gratitude on their behalf.

My husband, Mr. Daniel Mudrinich, is a State Department officer who is stationed in Nicosia and who remains there with a selected number of other U.S. officials. I took care of John and Dana Davies in Beirut after we were evacuated from Nicosia on July 22. I and two of my daughters also accompanied John and Dana on the special flight which brought Ambassador Davies' remains back to Washington for the very moving ceremony there, and then on to California for the funeral. The two children are now in the custody of their maternal grandmother Mrs. C. R. Burgess, in Berkeley.

Before I left California, Mrs. Burgess and the two children asked me to convey to you personally their deepest appreciation for all that you and the Department did for them during those tragic days in August. This includes the many thoughtful efforts made by Ambassador Godley and his staff in Beirut. The family feels that they are unable to express their feelings properly to you by means of a letter alone. I understand, however, the heavy demands of your schedule and so I am trying to express their gratitude in my own way, by these few words.

I am temporarily staying in McLean, Virginia with friends until Friday of this week, when I will leave for Florida to visit my parents and then travel to Athens for continued safehaven. Should you have a free moment during the next day or two I would be most happy and appreciative for the opportunity to speak to you on the telephone. I can be reached at 356-5397. Once again let me tell you how much your concern and assistance meant to John and Dana and to all of us who knew Ambassador Davies. I have attached to my letter a copy of a letter written to me by Ambassador Godley concerning one of the last messages written by Ambassador Davies.

EMBASSY OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Beirut, Lebanon

August 19, 1974

Mrs. Daniel Mudrinich
Holiday Inn
Beirut

Dear Mrs. Mudrinich:

I was so overtaken by the tragic news of Ambassador Davies' death that I did not mention to you this afternoon that I received from Ambassador Davies this morning a personal message asking that I pass on to the evacuees from Cyprus the following message from him:

"We in Nicosia are safe and well, and aside from missing you all, our morale is high.

"Fighting has moved away from Nicosia today and we have no reason to expect resumption.

"Concern at possible renewed fighting such as broke out Wednesday has been reason I have not been able to answer your questions as to when you could return to Nicosia.

"Tragic as resort to force has been, it hopefully will quickly end in a ceasefire and negotiations in the context of which I would find it easier to make recommendations to the Department as to your return here or movement to alternate safe havens where school and other problems may more easily be sorted out.

"I will keep Ambassador Godley informed as our assessment of the situation on the island evolves. Be patient, enjoy Lebanon, and know that we expect you back sooner rather than later.

"We are temporarily back in the communal mess with Andreas plus Marine volunteer assistance overfeeding

BOYCE K. MUIR

613 Lakeside Drive, S.E.
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49506

June 7, 1976

Dr. Henry Kissinger
Secretary of State
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Secretary:

Your bullying attack on Rhodesia is much at
variance with your softness in dealing with
Russia.

Why pick on Rhodesia? What difference in politics
or in business is there merely caused by a person's
color of skin.

There are many examples in the U.S.A. today of the
black skin man performing if he has the ability.
This is seen in baseball, football, on the stage,
and elsewhere.

The black man did not develop the natural resources
of Africa, but not because of his color. In time,
the black man will probably demonstrate his ability
to govern, but not because of his color, nor in
spite of his color.

As in the practice of medicine and other professions,
it will probably be done. But if you have the in-
terest of the U.S.A. at heart, you will refrain from
establishing political and business affairs on the
basis of skin color.

BKM/cdb

THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON

June 18, 1976

Dear Mr. Muir:

I appreciate having your thoughtful letter of June 7, commenting on my recent statements about American policy toward Rhodesia and Southern Africa generally.

Let me reassure you that our policy has nothing to do with race. Nor does it -- nor can it -- involve a value judgment as to the "ability to govern" of one or another group in a foreign country. We would be taking the same line on the pressing problems of Southern Africa if there were three to four million whites in Rhodesia being ruled by 270,000 blacks or, for that matter, if there were three to four million whites being systematically and totally excluded from participation in a government run by 270,000 other whites.

Our policy toward Rhodesia and Southern Africa is based on what we believe to be a realistic analysis of the factors at work in that part of the world, and of the long-term political and economic interests of the United States. The plain fact is that there is going to be change in Rhodesia. The only question is whether it will be brought about by violent means -- that is, via a widening of the guerilla war already underway in Rhodesia -- or through a peaceful evolution which will meet the aspirations of the bulk of the population for participation in their own government, protect our interests, and also protect the interest of the white minority.

Mr. Boyce K. Muir,
613 Lakeside Drive,
Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Our aims in Africa, briefly, are:

-- to avoid a race war which would have inevitably
tragic consequences for all concerned;

-- to do all we can to prevent foreign intervention
in what must remain an African problem;

-- to promote peaceful cooperation among the com-
munities in Southern Africa;

-- and to prevent the radicalization of Africa.

I described the circumstances we face in Africa, and set forth in some detail an explanation of why we have decided to proceed as we have there, in a statement I gave before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee shortly after I returned from Africa. I am enclosing that statement, along with the copy of a statement also given before the Senate, in January, giving further detail on the Angolan situation -- which is so closely related to the present problems in Southern Africa.

I would be grateful for any comments you may have after
you have read these statements and can promise that your
comments will be given serious consideration here.

Best regards,

Henry A. Kissinger

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
SECOND CIRCUIT

NEW YORK, N. Y. 10007

CHAMBERS OF
WILLIAM HUGHES MULLIGAN
CIRCUIT JUDGE
1 FEDERAL PLAZA
Unofficial

October 17, 1974

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
United States Department of State
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Secretary:

I write to congratulate you on your
excellent address of last evening at the Alfred
E. Smith Annual Dinner. I applaud the theme
and enjoyed the humor.

I was most flattered that you requested
a copy of my St. Patrick's Day speech and I enclose
also a copy of the talk I gave last year at the
Alfred Smith dinner. In the first I proved, to my
own satisfaction at least, that Columbus was Irish,
and in the second in a mood of detente I established
that Al Smith was at least partially Italian. At
this point I have alienated most of the minority
groups in town.

With all best wishes.

Enc.

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Cantina d' Italia

1214A 18th Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20036

August 22, 1976

Mr. James Bellows
Editor
The Washington Star
225 Virginia Avenue, S. E.
Washington, D. C. 20061

Dear Mr. Bellows:

A few weeks past, an item appeared in your "Ear" column that I feel should be brought to your attention, in order to rectify a gross misrepresentation in regard to our Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger.

First, I would like to state how very much I, and all your readers, find this feature column extremely interesting and a highlight of the day. I would also like to state that I do not personally wish to in any way, shape or form, castigate the writers of this column, whom I personally like very much. However, the source of their information in regard to the gratuity habits of Dr. Kissinger and Mr. Frank Sinatra was erroneous.

Mr. Sinatra has not been in the Cantina in over five years, whereas Dr. Kissinger, along with members of his family, have dined at the Cantina on numerous occasions. We have records in our office which show that he is an excellent tipper. A gentleman to serve, his family and he, despite the pressures of their public life, have always treated those who served them with extreme courtesy. They have never left the Cantina without personally thanking all who served them, waiters and busboys, and saying their farewells in person to me.

I had originally planned to write you regarding this matter when I discussed it with Mr. Nelson, but not wishing to cause anyone any problems, decided to let the matter rest. However, recent queries from the London *Daily Mail* and other European press associations and correspondents make it imperative that the record be set straight in this matter before the erroneous fact of the respective gentlemen's tipping habits gain currency and be exaggerated beyond the actual truth.

New York

January 28, 1976

Mr. Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State
State Department
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

This book, "Aurora Borealis", I've "published" for a narrow circle of my friends. I hope you'll read it during one of your peace-making trips around the planet. The book is the second part of a trilogy (to be published later) and it tells the life-story of a Russian merchant marine captain on the background of events, described, partially and with too much bias, by Mr. Solzhenitsyn.

I also enclose copy of my open letter to Mr. Arthur Sulzberger, Publisher of New York Times, since he may not even read it. The letter deals with problems you face every day.

I wish you luck in your effort to keep Detente with Russia and, at the same time, keep your rear strong. I understand it and approve such a course for America and the West, whose choice of "courses" is diminishing with the rise of Soviet power and its "choice". They do their policy according to Russian proverb: He is not right who is right, but he is right who has more rights.

901 Walton Ave, I-B, Bronx, N.Y. 10452
home 212-992-3094
office 212-944-5400 (ext. 396)

Mr. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Publisher
New York Times

New York

January 28, 1976

Dear Sir:

For 30 years of my "life" (I was a builder of Communism) I lived under Pravda's
motto, "Proletarians of All Lands, Unite!". And it works. They do unite and keep
gaining ground from under your feet the world over.

Now I regularly read New York Times, not to see what people write, (I knew it when
still in Russia). I read your paper in the hope that some day I'll find a reflection
of a change, in people's minds and in their politics, from the suicidal course the
West took after the birth of Communism in Russia, in 1917.

Your motto says, "All the News That's Fit to Print". But who decides "what's fit
to print"? You and your colleagues? Are you sure you are competent enough to be sure
of your choice of "the news"? And what you find "not fit" is not the news?

Pravda does not repeat your paper's motto, but it does precisely that: its editors decide what's the news for the nation and what is not. They know better. And the result of their decision-making is evident: for 50 years they have been keeping their own nation on its knees and the whole world by its throat. And if the events continue at their present pace and in the same direction within a generation Pravda's editors will be running this paper, not you. And then, at last, this motto will become real and true.

Last year N.Y.Times published my "story" "The Underground Tale of Two Cities",
about the subways, here and in Moscow. I sent you more serious articles, which proved
to be "not the news".

Why I waste your time with this story? Yours is the world's leading and most in-
fluential paper, because it is read by a large number of people the world over (I read
it in Moscow, through "unofficial channels"). Whether you want or not, your paper
and its owners and publishers are largely responsible for shaping the world public
opinion on the most crucial problems of the day. And you have failed in your duty.
You try to be "photographers" of reality, reflecting the opinions of all sides in
the world-wide scuffle. And it's a grave mistake that for many decades you have
not taken any definite stand in politics, which should be the stand of upholding
the moral, psychological, ideological integrity of your social system.

Your pages feature material on all possible sides of life, here and in the communist
world. But no or little attention has been given to the basic problem of our world:
the value and validity of the social systems, centered in Moscow and Washington. The
ignorance of the average European or American on Russia, its essence, its plans, pos-
sibilities and its influence is appalling.

Marxism, which your ancestors in Europe produced and sent to Russia for experimen-
tation, produced in Russia such devastation, moral, material and physical, that a
hundred of Mr. Solzhenitsyns would not be enough to describe it. It survived and
grew up in Russia, on torrents of blood and suffering, and now it is ready and moving
back, to the West. It has taken China, Eastern Europe, it has its centers nearly in
every country of the world, which will be used to organize and effect the ousting from
power of people like you, liberals and free-minded but "not fit" to stay at the
head of human society at the end of the 20th century.

The men in the Kremlin are all good people, especially when they sleep, but when
they wake up, they resume on their course of taking the world from the imbecile Western
Democracies, economic giants and "political pygmies", as they call themselves. The 50
years since the practical birth of Communism, in 1917, have seen the slow but steady
advance of Communism at the expense of Democracy.

One should not be the publisher of New York Times or professor of political science.
One should be able to write and read to be able to see that the modern world, with
all its seeming complexity, is simple enough. It has an unseen but very real line,

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running through the world, between the two basic poles of attraction, between Moscow and Washington. Everything else is in-between, shifting, waiting to decide which side to join. This decision depends on which side proves the stronger. Do you think that the West proves stronger than the East? I don't.

History has placed this country at the head of the Western world. You are, Mr. Sulzberger, the leading nation of the West in its competition with the East. You may not like it, you may not understand it, you may be unwilling to admit it, you may refuse this role and proclaim another "Monroe" Doctrine of isolationism. But that doctrine worked a hundred years ago. It will not work now.

The line between Moscow and Washington has been slowly moving westward. And the farther it is from Moscow, the closer it is to Washington. And you cannot claim the Communists too much- they take from you as much as you allow them to. They'll never fight a big war against you to possess the world. They'll move along the two, verified and convenient, directions: taking your part of the world peacemeal, through "national" elements and destroying the West's psychological and, hence, political stability from inside.

Do you think yours and other newspapers of the West, as the sources of shaping political stability, have so far resisted the Communist drive or will be able to do it in future? You are hundreds of times stronger than Communists, economically and militarily, but you are weak morally, politically, organizationally. If you think you represent Democracy, then it is doomed - you'll lose it to the stronger side.

All your disasters against Communists stemmed from your political and organizational weaknesses. Whenever Moscow and its Supreme Soviet (Parliament) finds money to support some newly-born totalitarian regime, in any part of the world, your Congress and Senate cannot find money to support the people in that country who want to protect Democracy. Congress and Senate do not find the money because they do represent the people of this country. And the people do not care about America's position the world over. They live once, they live today, they want to live better; they want more money, as much as possible, much more than they actually need. Your Administration, facing the Communist world, feels the danger and wants to support its allies the world over, because this support means support for the USA, for its survival or, at least, for delaying its inevitable surrender, in future. While your Parliament, facing the people, neglets this country's outside problems in favor of the domestic ones.

The Communist take-over of the world will take time, but why do you think only about yourselves and not about your children? If there are people in many parts of the globe who are ready to shed their blood for you, to fight and stop or hinder the approaching line between East and West, why do you refuse your support to them? What are you thinking about? What will you think about when their take-over will be completed and you'll remain the sole free country on this planet, surrounded by red flags on all sides? What will Congress decide then? Will it find the money for your own soldiers to fight or will it direct the money for your "daily needs"? You are the leading Western nation today, and when the East completes its job, you'll take the greater part of guilt and suffering. Mother-history, world politics and power struggle for the domination of one social system on the planet will not spare this country and people of the responsibility.

South Vietnam was stronger than North Vietnam, but it collapsed because you denied it your support. It was a big victory of Communism over the West. Now, when Soviet-backed faction of Angola is establishing its "people's" rule by fire and sword, you refuse your support to those Angolans who prefer your way of life, our system. But they are left without support, to be defeated by Soviet tanks with Cuban men in them. The Moscow Politburo men are sure that with the help of American people, their Congress and Senate, they will overcome the weak effort of your Administration to resist their onslaught.

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You are losing ground everywhere. This country's policy of centering on domestic problems and neglecting its international positions is suicidal, in the long run. In Russia they kept their people on bread and water (or on water alone) to be able to channel the funds for defense, space and "help" to newly-liberated nations. I am sure you'll never sit on bread and water if you support those who want support you!

The policy of isolationism stems from America's undesire to carry out her duty of the West's leading nation in the most trying period of human society. This policy has greatly weakened your positions in the world, especially in the minds of men, who are more often turning to the East in search of solutions to their problems. There is no such small dog now that would not bark at the United States, and that is because you look weak. Your best men are murdered abroad, after their names get published by some "left" revolutionaries (who wait for another Stalin to come and annihilate them to the last man, as he did in Russia), bombs go up in your cities, together with severed heads of Americans, many your citizens do not dare into the street after dark, like "free" prisoners of an unseen enemy, America's opinion is losing its value in the eyes of the nations at the U.N.

In your pages I read cries about America's internal injustice, about want of food for poor people, about this country's "economic setbacks" and about the struggle and retreat of pro-Western forces the world over.

It would be nice to read on your pages every day about: 1) the American people's blessed and happy past and present, 2) the American role and duty in modern world, 3) the necessity of sharing part of your economic and military supplies with those men in the world who prefer Democracy to Communism, 4) the necessity and inevitability of Detente with Soviet Russia (which is as vital and useful to them as it is to this country), 5) the roots, ways and plans of world Communism, 6) the real facts about Soviet advances and American defeats and their reasons, 7) the doctrines, ideas and trends which may help survive this country and the West in the face of Communist drive towards establishing one system in the world, 8) the organizational and social advantages and economic drawbacks of Communism as a social system. And about many other problems, which seem small or non-existent today, but which will determine your very life tomorrow.

Your writers' observations on Russia should not be made through the National Hotel window in Moscow. They should be contributed by men of science and experience, who know what is what, but keep teaching their University students and neglecting the press - the real source of public opinion. And you should draw more "fresh" and actual and truthful material from some Russian immigrants, some of whom do know much on these problems but keep boiling in their own water of the Russian New Word newspaper in New York, of which the English-speaking public in the West had little idea. /

Russia, her Communism, her successes, her ideology and other aspects have long since become the determining factors of life, including your life, Mr. Sulzberger. It is high time such central papers as yours begin tackling these problems seriously and on a world-wide scale, as does the communist propaganda. Take care of your free World, Mr. Sulzberger, of your stability and survival, or my Moscow friends will take care of you. Of this you may be absolutely sure.

Sincerely yours,

Victor Muravin (former merchant seaman and University lecturer in American Studies, in Russia).

R.S.I'm also enclosing, as my present to you, 'Aurora Borealis', several copies of which I've "published" for my friends.

In this book you may find a lot of answers to some of the problems mentioned in this article (which, I am sure you'll not publish because it is "not fit").

90I Walton Ave, I-B, Bronx, N.Y.10452

Home 992-3094, Office 944-5400 (ext. 396)

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THE TENTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
ROOSEVELT CAMPOBELLO INTERNATIONAL PARK COMMISSION

March 31, 1974

TO: THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS FOR CANADA
THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission has
the honour to present its tenth annual report.

The Park was opened to visitors on May 21, 1973 and closed
on October 21, 1973. During this twenty-two week season
attendance reached a record 124,300 visitors.

During January 1973 the Park Commission received a Local
Initiative Grant from the Federal Government of Canada, in the
amount of $17,752. Funds from this Local Initiative Grant were
used to great advantage in clearing overgrown areas and opening
formerly inaccessible parts of the Park for the enjoyment of
the public.

COMMISSION MEETINGS

The first business meeting of 1973 was held on March tenth
in Washington, D. C. After reviewing and approving the Financial
Report and Annual Report for 1972, the Commission discussed
publication of books, brochures and matches to be made available
to the public at the Park Visitor Centre. The Commission
expressed concern over the possible establishment of an oil
refinery at Eastport, Maine, directly across the bay from the
Roosevelt Cottage.

A special meeting of the Commission was held at Campobello

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on May 24, 1973 at which time the business discussed was limited
to the effects an oil refinery located at Eastport, Maine would
have on the environment of the Park and the surrounding area.
It was agreed that if hearings were held on the Oil Company's
application to locate in Eastport that Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.
would make representation for the Commission in the form of
questions to be answered concerning pollution of the waters of
Passamaquoddy Bay and the atmosphere in the immediate and nearby
areas.

A third meeting of the Commission was held at Charlottetown,
Prince Edward Island on August 18th where a progress report was
given on the manuscript for a history of Campobello, being
written for the Commission by Mr. Alden Nowlan of Fredericton,
New Brunswick under a Canada Council Grant. The Commission
provided guidelines to the staff for preparing the appropriation
request for operating and capital funds for 1974, to include
funds to complete renovations of the Hubbard Cottage.

The final meeting of the Commission for 1973 was held at
Campobello on October 13th. Mrs. Brenda Norris was introduced
as an Alternate Commission Member, replacing Mrs. C. D. Howe
who had resigned the previous year. The 1974 budget was
discussed and approved. Plans for the further development of
an International Conference Centre at Campobello were discussed
as well as reorganization of the Park staff and their duties.
The staff were instructed to apply for another Local Initiative
Grant to continue work in the natural areas of the Park.

During August 1973 the Park was honoured by a seven day

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visit from the Prime Minister of Canada, the Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

Commission members were saddened to learn of the death of Senator Donald McLean, Canadian Alternate Commissioner, on November 5, 1973.

The Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission was host to a group of representatives of New Brunswick and Maine on August 30 to discuss cooperative efforts to establish a Medical Centre at Lubec, Maine which would also serve Campobello Island. Under the auspices of Harvard University a group of British and American botanists met at the Park, August 16 - 17, to investigate the status of an obscure genus of plants for which the Park offered abundant natural material.

The Canadian Post Office Department operated a sub post office at the Park Visitor Centre during the summer of 1973 as a service to the visiting public.

During 1973, 1.6 miles of new woods drives were added to the existing network of Park roads. Work progressed very well on renovation of the Hubbard Cottage, with reconstruction of chimneys, fireplaces and verandas, as well as a great deal of interior work. The Greenhouse was moved from its former site to a new location at the rear of the Shober Cottage and a new heating system was installed in preparation for additional greenhouse facilities.

The Commission is gratified by the number of visitors that continue to come from all parts of the United States and Canada and the lively interest they display in all the facets of the

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era when Franklin D. Roosevelt was a summer resident here.

In addition the visitors are able to see and appreciate the
natural beauty and serenity of the Island of Campobello which
the late President loved so well.

Respectfully submitted,

Edmund S. Muskie, Chairman
Hedard J. Robichaud, Vice Chairman

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.

David Walker

Sumner T. Pike

Robert A. Tweedie