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KISSINGER, HENRY A. 1/2

SERVICE ECONOMIQUE

Paris, September 8th 1972

Dear Mr. Kissinger,

I should be very happy to see you again during my next visit to Washington where I shall attend for Le Monde the IMF Meeting from September 23rd until 29th.

I hope very much that you will not be out of town at that moment and I should be very thankful to you if you might receive me.

As you perhaps know, I have been mainly writing for years about monetary affairs and that is the subject that I would like very much to discuss with you, not only from an economical but also political point of view. My conviction is that the United-States could and should re-establish a sound dollar and set into equilibrium its balance of payments in a short while. Monetary disorder is probably one of the main threat to the Western world and nobody but the United-States are able to put an end to the mess we are living in. That would be possible at one condition : that American policy be changed (the August 15th 1971 decision being already a first step...).

I think that the interest of the United-States in its unique position of financial and monetary center of the world is to approach monetary policy from a very orthodox point of view which by no means is incompatible with economic expansion. After all, the American restored monetary and economic order in this world after the war according to such principles : the Bretton-Woods agreements were mostly inspired by American policy. I do not think it is sound to argue that present circumstances are such that the United-States cannot any longer afford such a position.

.../...

9/21/72 - HAK says "No"

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
EAST ASIAN RESEARCH CENTER
ARCHIBALD CARY COOLIDGE HALL

JOHN K. FAIRBANK, Director
ALBERT M. CRAIG, Associate Director
EZRA F. VOGEL, Associate Director

ROOM 301
1737 CAMBRIDGE STREET
CAMBRIDGE,
MASSACHUSETTS 02138

March 6, 1972

Dr. Henry Kissinger
The White House
Washington, D.C.

Dear Henry:

While you have been making History, I have studiously refrained from writing, phoning, or calling upon you -- which I felt was the best way I could contribute.

Our non-collaboration in this way has been so stupendously successful, I see little reason to alter it.

However, Chou En-lai has now invited me twice publicly, and I have received oral invitations from Ch'iao Kuan-hua and Kuo Mo-jo. I plainly must make a trip, probably in late May.

It so happens that the last Cultural Attaché of the American Embassy in China is alive and well and living in Cambridge, Massachusetts as my wife.

We can hardly reappear in Peking to resume some cultural relations after a 25 year lapse without your blessing as the architect of the new age.

Wilma and I will be in Washington, Friday-Saturday-Sunday, March 24, 25, and 26. (I am speaking to the C.I.A. Senior Seminar on Friday at 1:30.) We hope you may be there and briefly visible.

In any case, I congratulate you on the principal achievement in U.S. China policy since that non-event, the Open Door. We should like to help on the long haul ahead.

JKF:cd

JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

KISSINGER, HENRY A./F.

July 18, 1972

Dr. Henry Kissinger
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Henry:

Are you back in Washington yet? When you call, please call me at the Watergate Hotel 965-2300, room 419, or at the theater, 254-3614, and try to come to the play. Let me know if and when it would be possible so that I may arrange tickets for you as my guest. I hope to see you.

Believe me as ever to be

DF:sh

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MEMORANDUM

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ACTION

October 7, 1971

MEMORANDUM FOR MR. KISSINGER

FROM: Helmut Sonnenfeldt
SUBJECT: Letter from Douglas Fairbanks

He wrote you a letter forwarding some of his views on the German problem, written for President Kennedy, and an unfinished article (Tab B). He remarks on seeing you again the other evening and looks forward to accepting your invitation for lunch.

The substance of his views is simply too badly outdated to be of much use.

A reply for your signature is at Tab A.

RECOMMENDATION

That you sign the letter to Douglas Fairbanks at Tab A.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 1971

DR. HENRY KISSINGER
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D. C.

DEAR DR. KISSINGER: (OR DID WE MUTUALLY DECIDE ON SOMETHING LESS FORMAL THE OTHER NIGHT)

WELCOME BACK FROM ANCHORAGE. THE CEREMONIES LOOKED MOST
MOVING AND IMPRESSIVE ON TELEVISION. I FELT VERY PROUD OF
THE EXCELLENT EXECUTION OF THE WELCOME AND FASCINATED BY
THE HINT OF "ORIENTALISM" IN THE TRUMETER'S FANFARE.

AS I PROMISED YOU -- OR SHOULD I SAY "THREATENED"? --
HERE ARE SOME THOUGHTS ON THE GERMAN QUESTION WHICH I PRE-
PARED FOR PRESIDENT KENNEDY SOME YEARS AGO. THE SECOND
PAPER IS A DRAFT OF AN UNFINISHED ARTICLE WHICH MIGHT HAVE
SOME POINTS OF INTEREST FOR YOU.

I RECALL AT THE TIME DISCUSSING THE IDEA OF A "GERMAN
COMMONWEALTH" WITH WILLI BRANDT, AND WITH DEAN ACHESON AND
DAVID BRUCE (BOTH OLD FRIENDS). THE IDEA WAS THEN A BIT
TOO "FAR OUT" TO BE PRACTICAL, BUT NOWADAYS THE CHANGED
SITUATION MAKES IT APPEAR LESS SO.

INCIDENTALLY, SOME DAY, IF I CAN LOCATE THEM, YOU MAY BE
AMUSED, AS SORT OF DIPLOMATIC "MUSEUM PIECES", BY MY REPORTS
ON MY "CONFIDENTIAL WEEK-ENDS" WITH MALIK SEVERAL YEARS AGO
WHEN HE WAS SOVIET AMBASSADOR IN LONDON.

I ENJOYED SO MUCH SEEING YOU AGAIN THE OTHER EVENING. I
LOOK FORWARD TO OUR NEXT MEETING AND TO ACCEPTING YOUR
INVITATION TO LUNCH SOME TIME IN WASHINGTON. IF I FAIL TO
GET DOWN THERE IN THE NEAR FUTURE, PERHAPS THERE WILL BE
ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY UP HERE. I HOPE SO. LET ME KNOW.

WITH HIGHEST PERSONAL REGARDS, BELIEVE ME TO BE,

P. S. I'VE WRITTEN MY OWN NOTE TO THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN
RELATIONS ALONG THE LINES WE TOUCHED ON. NO ONE WILL
PAY THE SLIGHTEST ATTENTION TO IT, BUT I GOT IT OFF
MY CHEST ANYWAY!

who can vouch for the "Johnny-cone-lately's?"

While the temporarily great Thermo-nuclear Powers busy themselves acceptable modus vivendi for themselves, it is just conceivable that universal controls and inspection can, for the "near future" Great Power implemented through some commonly agreed international vehicle. The example.

The most intractable and least co-operative in this effort would appear to be Red China. Obsessed with the inevitability of conflict her superior capacity to suffer loss, she seems fanatically convinced has given her the green light. It would be an ironic twist if we were to call on her sponsor, Russia, to intercede, on behalf of the rest of the world, stand by for her good behaviour.

Someone - I think it was Friedrich Naumannberger - in the 19th Century "I don't know if it will be better after it is different, but I do hope he different before it is better." The world, our world, is different, making more so. It is never static. In many stameful respects we are than ever before. In many other ways, we are wiser, better and happier before.

There is said to be merit in behaving with a certain dignity even of disaster, because, one may recover from it. We can therefore agree on certain "vital interests and deep commitments" require quite literally and uninhibited defence, both sides must beware of losing irrecoverable about, of mutually restricting manoeuvre or of expecting unconditional Then, while adhering to those rights and principles as we see them, working for such positions as will better secure our welfare, we must set common efforts to imposing the most stringent arms controls on the rest. The nation's administration of civil law does not eliminate crime, but to minimize it. Truly international law, commonly subscribed to for the good, must try to do at least as much. The alternative is a world with restricted, less controlled means of "categorical destruction," than it is a world, in short, where internationally uninhibited anarchy writes its epitaph.

The Berlin crisis, with all its reminiscent implications, would be grim enough in pre-nuclear times. Now the shadow of "the Bomb" is so dark and horrible, the awful strength of the principals is so equal - that our vision is apt to be inhibited and our manoeuvrability petrified. Yet the alternative to agreement suggests the possible use of such excessive, such devastating force as to be out of all proportion to the issues involved.

On the other hand, the prevailing atmosphere does provide us with some small grain of consolation in that the present nuclear Powers are not shown to be either fanatic or irresponsible. Cautions belligerence is facing cautious resistance. It is heard that future crises may not have the same reasons for being so cautious.

In the conduct of current negotiations designed to reduce the causes and effects of tension, it appears equally vital, equally imperative, to so enlarge the terms of reference as to include provisions for the control of those currently "bomb-less" powers who will, within the next few years, most probably be qualified for the Nuclear Club. It is the nearly uncontrollable potential of the smaller powers which is, after a moment's reflection, every bit as frightening and dangerous as any Initiated potential of the currently muscle-bound Great Powers.

Quite recently, President Kennedy urged (perhaps "re-urged" is a better word) a fresh approach to disarmament. Notable among his suggestions was a prohibition against the transfer of nuclear weapons to nations that do not have them. It is not too much to hope that this proposal, at least, will strike a more responsive chord in the Soviets than our proposals for mutual arms control in the past.

In the development of nuclear weapons, it is assumed that, in the near future of coming events, such countries as, say, Israel, Switzerland, Sweden, Argentina, Italy and Red China, among others, will develop their own. Should even a restricted covert traffic in nuclear arms develop between ambitious nations of lesser responsibility, the resulting temptations would not be unlike those offered to the highwaymen of old, who had much to gain and relatively little to lose. What steps, for instance, could be taken at this moment if one of the more Afro-Asian states, with, say, one even inferior bomb, were to hold up the world to reason?

This possibility makes it increasingly apparent that any meaningful discussion over Berlin and East Germany must also take into account all the future X-dimensions of thermonuclear disarmament and control on a world scale. The great Powers may actually recognize these areas where their own interests remain in dispute and set them mutually aside. They can then, while there is time, exercise the still-in functioning wit of Man to extricate at least one foot from one end of troubles.

The essence of the Soviet intentions toward a peace treaty with East Germany is the indirect challenge to Western rights, commitments and security. The

twilight zone between intolerable provocation, which would lead to war, and harrassment that we did not be worth war." How deep or wide that zone may be is now the world's nightmare.

In the last resort, the decision to resort to force is not one for an aggressor to make. War, so Clauzowitz indicated, is always at the defender's convenience. It is the defender who finally determines the value of what is challenged and weighed against his ability to resist the aggressor. But if provoked beyond the limits of safety, most nations — not yet atrophied or indifferent to decay — would seemor risk sudden death by the sword than by a slow death by poison, and if convinced that their survival is at stake, they will employ their ultimate weapons. That this may be a ludicrous synchronism does not lessen its probability.

The "ban the Bomb" demonstrators imply that they alone, as opposed to the Great Power leaders, want "the Bomb" banned. They are prepared, if necessary, to have their own country ban it unilaterally, both as an example to others and as a signal of self-exclusion should others indulge in an ergy or destruction. We can sympathize with the emotion even if we question its practical application. That the instinct for survival takes precedence over the moral issues these groups proclaim is suggested by the advice Lord Russell gave his followers in 1948 when he said that either "we must have a war against Russia before she has the atom, and win it, or lie down and say 'Come and govern us.'"

Unfortunately, history has often proven that neither declared neutrality nor self-imposed weakness provide guarantees of immunity from war. The only serpents respected by contending nations in a war of survival are those believed to benefit their respective causes. We must remind ourselves that should an acceptable Berlin settlement be arrived at, it will be due less to moral considerations than to a reassessment of what are "vital interests." It is worth noting in this context that Soviet appreciation of their own vulnerability roughly coincided with their introduction of the "Co-axialence" policy. Now, at this time, the mere possession of "the Bomb" and the "If-you-use-it, I-will-too" pledges of both sides, imposes for the moment a near shock-rate to plans for mutual annihilation, a restraint upon a suicide pact.

In the midst of our conflicting and evolving tensions, of which Berlin is only the latest and most serious, there are, as yet, no signs of surrender from either side. There are, however, signs of concessions — concessions which, before the nuclear age, would not, under the circumstances, have even been considered. Despite the impediments which the unquestioned authority of our parliamentary institutions, together with their by-products of freedom, place on our negotiating agility and which obliges us to keep our cards face up on the table most of the time, it is reasonable that reason, that verifiable Western goddess, has survived so well to lo.

Our frightful and wondrous age is not, thank heaven, yet self-operating. Russia being so still required to mean the buttons and turn the switches; and in

1.

A. STATISTICAL DATA

**BORN** New York City, N.Y., on December 9, 1909.

**PARENTS** The late Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. (Producer-Actor) of Denver, Colorado (1883-1939), and the late Anna Beth (Sully) Fairbanks, elder daughter of the late Daniel J. Sully, cotton financier, of New York City and Providence, Rhode Island. (Later, Mrs. Jack Whiting, of New York City). (1886-1967).

EDUCATION

U.S.A.: Bovée School, Collegiate School, and (as cadet) Knickerbocker Greys, New York City, and at Pasadena Polytechnic School and Harvard Military Academy, Los Angeles, California.

Europe: Privately tutored in London and Paris.

**MARRIED** Mary Lee Epling, younger daughter of the late Dr. G.T. Epling and the late Nancy (White) Epling, of Bluefield, West Virginia, on April 22, 1939, in West Los Angeles, California.

CHILDREN

Daphne (born 1940; now Mrs. David Weston, of Stansted, Essex, England).

Victoria (born 1942; now Mrs. Barend Van Gerbig, of Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.).

Melissa (born 1947; now Mrs. Richard Morant, of London, England).

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PROFESSIONAL CAREER (continued)

(b) Theater

First appeared on stage in Los Angeles, California, in 1926. Appeared intermittently thereafter over the next ten years, both in the United States and in England.

Best-known plays include

Young Woodley
The Jest
Saturday's Children
Romeo and Juliet

The Man in Possession
The Youngest
Moonlight is Silver

Returned to the stage in 1968 as Professor Higgins in *My Fair Lady*, for limited engagements in the cities of St. Louis, Dallas and Atlanta, repeating this role in a special new production of the play in Los Angeles and San Francisco the following year.

In October, 1970, opened at the Drury Lane Theater, Chicago, as Pogo Poole in *The Pleasure of His Company*, for a five-month engagement, and toured with the same play during the summer of 1971, and again in 1972. -- opening shortly after New Year's Day in Palm Beach, Florida, in Tullahoma, N. J.

and in summer of 1972, in Washington, D.C., in Los Angeles, Cal.

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(c) Radio and Television

Made first radio broadcast in 1950 and since then performed in radio plays and has been heard in special programs and in public appeals, etc. in the United States and in Europe.

Best-known radio plays include

Three Musketeers
L'Aiglon
If I Were King

Camille
Tale of Two Cities
Everyman (for Max Reinhardt)

and excerpts from Shakespeare, Shelley, Byron, Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

D. PUBLIC SERVICE

a) First official and semi-official governmental duties assigned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull, in 1937-1938, following earlier activities in various public affairs, philanthropic and educational organizations, etc.

b) Helped organize, and then became National Vice-President of, The Wm. Allen White Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies (1939-1941).

c) Helped organize Franco-British War Relief, Inc. (later British War Relief) (1939-1941).

d) Committee member of The Fight for Freedom Committee (1940-1942).

e) Headed, and was responsible for, Douglas Voluntary Hospitals, operating in the U.K. (1939-1944).

f) Appointed by President Roosevelt as Presidential Envoy for Special Mission to Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Peru and Panama (1940-1941).

g) From 1946 on, assigned various temporary diplomatic and/or military duties in Europe, Asia and North Africa for (a) U.S. Navy, (b) State Department, (c) E.C.A., etc.

h) Served as part-time Consultant to Presidential Advisor, Office of the Presidency (Truman Administration, 1946-1950).

i) Actively identified with the following post-war public affairs, educational, cultural and philanthropic organizations:

United States of America

i) CARE Committee and the Share-Through-CARE Committee (National Chairman 1946-1950) (New York City)

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D. PUBLIC SERVICE (continued)

ii) **American Relief for Korea**
(National Chairman, 1951-1955: Appointed by the State Department) (Washington, D.C.).

iii) **American Association for the United Nations**
(National Vice President, 1948-1963) (New York City).

iv) **English Speaking Union of the United States**
(Governor, National Board, 1950-1963) (New York City).

v) **Cordell Hull Foundation**
(Trustee, 1950-1967) (Memphis, Tennessee).

vi) **Council on Foreign Relations, Inc.**
(Member, 1959- ) (New York City).

vii) **Foreign Policy Association**
(Member, 1947- ) (New York City).

viii) **Pacific War Memorial**
(Trustee, 1947- ) (Washington D.C.).

ix) **American Academy of Political and Social Sciences**
(Member, 1947- ) (New York City).

x) **Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences**
(Member, 1935-1964) (Los Angeles).

xi) **Music Theater of Lincoln Center**
(Director, 1964- ) (New York City).

Anglo-American

xiii) **The Pilgrim's Society**
(Member, 1951- ) (New York City and London).

xiv) **Ends of the Earth Society**
(Member, 1950- ) (New York City and London).

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D. PUBLIC SERVICE (continued)

xv) **American Museum in Britain**
(Governor, 1965- ) (New York City, and
Bath, Somerset, England).

United Kingdom

xvi) **Royal Shakespeare Theatre**
(Governor, 1952- ) (Stratford-on-Avon,
Warwickshire).

xvii) **Shakespeare Theatre Trust**
(Trustee, 1968- ) (London).

xviii) **Edwina Mountbatten Trust**
(Trustee, 1960- ) (London).

xix) **British-American Associates**
(Vice-President, 1957- ) (London).

xx) **British-American Alumni Association**
(President, 1950- ) (London).

xxi) **European-Atlantic Group**
(Vice-President, 1955- ) (London).

xxii) **St. John's Ambulance Brigade, Manchester and Salford Branch**
(President, 1958- ) (Manchester).

xxiii) **Special Hospital Committee for the Order of St. John of Jerusalem**
(Member, 1955-1961) (London).

xxiv) **St. Bride's Church in the City of London**
(Member of the Guild, 1958- ) (London).

xxv) **Clubland Youth Club**
(Governor, 1956- ) (Bermondsey, London).

xxvi) **Covent Garden Development Corporation**
(Member of the General Council, 1960- ) (London).

xxvii) **The Ditchley Foundations**
(Governor, 1970- ) (Enstone, Oxfordshire)

xxviii) **Literary Trust of Great Britain**
(Trustee, 1971- ) (London)

E. MILITARY SERVICE

a) Commissioned Lieutenant (junior grade), United States Naval Reserve, in April, 1941.

b) Proceeded through ranks to full Commander and released to Inactive Duty in February, 1946. Promoted to Captain, U.S.N.R., 1952. Placed on Retired Reserve List, 1954, but subsequently reassigned to the Ready Reserve (U.S.N.R. - R.). Recent tours of Temporary Active Duty with U.S. 6th Fleet, as Special Advisor to Cmdr. U.S. Naval Forces, Europe, and on staff C.in C., U.S. Naval Forces, NATO.

c) First active sea duty was in summer of 1941 (preceding the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 8, and of official American entry into World War II), aboard Destroyer as part of Convoy Escort in North Atlantic.

d) Later, in 1941-42, served i) briefly with Minesweeper Patrol, U.S. East Coast; ii) aboard (Battleship)Flagship of Task Force 99, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (attached to British Home Fleet), based on Iceland and Scapa Flow, Scotland; iii) then, in mid-1942, assigned to further convoy operations (aboard Aircraft Carrier)to Malta and (Light Cruiser)to Murmansk, USSR: iv) assigned to Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten's Combined Operations ("Commandos") Headquarters, first in Planning, then Special Weapons Sections, later as Commander of Flotilla of Amphibious Raiding Craft (only U.S. officer so assigned).

e) i) From late 1942 to 1944, on Planning Staff of Commander, Amphibious Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, and of Commander, U.S. Naval Forces, Northwest African Waters; ii) periodically detached from

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E. MILITARY SERVICE (continued)

Staff for planning of specific operations and assignment as Chief Staff Officer for Special Operations Task Group (Mediterranean), under same Fleet Command (aboard Destroyers, P.T.'s, M.L.'s and other special amphibious and raiding craft).

f) After invasion of France (1944), was transferred from combat areas and sea duty back to Strategic Plans Division (and later to Post-War Plans Division) of the Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Fleet, as liaison between Chiefs of Staff and Department of State, (Washington, D.C.), until February, 1946 (see b) above).

g) From 1941 to 1946, served in following theaters of war, combat areas, campaigns, landings and battles: U.S. Coastal Waters, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, Newfoundland, Norwegian and North Russian Coasts, Mediterranean, Adriatic and Aegean Seas, English Channel, North Africa, (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt), Malta, Italy (Sicily, Sardinia, Salerno, Naples, Elba, Anzio, Ischia, Capri, Pontine and off-shore islands), Dalmatian Coast (Yugoslavia), Corsica, Gibraltar, Greece, France, Great Britain.

h) Sea duty included service aboard Destroyers, Cruiser, Aircraft Carrier, Battleships, Amphibious Craft, Patrol-Torpedo Boats (PT's and MTB's), Minesweeper, Headquarters Ship, Supply Ship, Rubber Boats etc.

i) Duties assigned as Line Officer at sea included:
1) Assistant Gunnery Officer, 11) Executive and Watch Officer, 111) Assistant Communications Officer, iv) Flag Lieutenant and Aide, v) Chief Staff and Operations Officer, vi) Commander, Special Operations Task Unit, vii) Commander, Combined Operations Amphibious Raiding Flotilla, etc.

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F. HONORS AND AWARDS

a) Orders and Decorations

i) * Silver Star (USA)

ii) * Legion of Merit, with Bronze "V" (for valor)
Clasp (USA)

iii) *(2) 'Letters of Commendation' (Chief of Naval Operations)
(Secretary of the Navy) (USA)

iv) * Distinguished Service Cross (UK)

v) * Chevalier of The National Order of the Legion d'Honneur
(France) (Military Division)

vi) * Croix de Guerre, with Palm (France)

vii) * War Cross for Military Valor (Italy)

viii) ** Knight Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (UK)

ix) ** Knight of Justice of The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (UK)

x) ** Officer of The National Order of the Legion d'Honneur
(France) (Civilian Division)

xi) ** Knight Grand Officer of The Order of King George I (Greece)

xii) ** Commander of The Royal Order of Orange-Nassau (Netherlands)

xiii) ** Officer of The Order of the Crown (Belgium)

xiv) ** Officer of The Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity
(Italy)

xv) ** Grand Officer of The Order of Merit (Chile)

xvi) ** Officer of The Order of the Southern Cross of Brazil
(Brazil)

xvii) ** National Medal of Korea (Korea)

xviii) ** Presidential Award of Honorary Citizenship of the Republic of Korea (Korea)

Legend: * For specific Combat Military Action only.

** For Diplomatic, Public or Philanthropic services.

From: Douglas Fairbanks Jr, KBE, DSC.,

28, THE BOLTONS,
LONDON S.W.10.

01-373 6333

PERSONAL

Dr. Henry Kissinger,
c/o The White House,
Washington DC,
U.S.A.

3 November 1972.

My dear Henry,

You are not expected to acknowledge this note and indeed I'd be very much surprised if you have the time to so much as read it. Nevertheless, I have - presumably like millions of others - been devouring daily all the news which you are doing so much to make.

You are enough of an historian, and experienced enough in the affairs of State, to make a reasonably objective assessment of your own continuing contribution to our times. You will therefore appreciate how rare it is for anyone to be in such a sensitive, difficult and controversial job as yours and to earn the almost universal admiration and respect of one's contemporaries. To spare your hand from any self-deprecatory and modest wave, I am bound to say, on your behalf, it's all pretty Goddam wonderful! Your presentation of the situation, as televised last week, was masterful and it is only surpassed by the Herculean work you actually performed before it.

I always experience a hard-to-explain sensation when a personal friend achieves something of considerable importance. I find it hard to equate the known, human individual with the near-legendary dimensions of his accomplishments. In a quite different area, my reaction to all you have done and are doing is not unlike what I felt when I saw my friend Laurence Olivier in, for instance, Hamlet. I couldn't believe it was him.

I couldn't hope to compete with the far more articulate pundits in phrasing my admiration and wonder at all you've done, but I am compelled to record, simply and with great sincerity, my most profound congratulations - and, of course, my warmest personal and best wishes for your health and welfare.

Hoping we meet again soon. As ever,

28. THE BOLTONS,
LONDON S.W.10.

01-373 6333

28th November, 1972.

PERSONAL

Dr. Henry Kissinger,
The White House,
Washington, D.C.
U.S.A.

Dear Henry,

After such an arduous trip (all your trips are arduous I suppose) as you had just made, and with so many things to cope with on your arrival, I was particularly appreciative of your taking the time and trouble to 'phone me in New York.

It was no effort for me to understand that you would have little or no time to 'unwind' in my company - however briefly - but I took the wild chance of hoping you might. Curiously, I was still in London when you arrived in Paris, and I almost flew over to Paris myself on some private business and wondered, if I had, whether you would have ever had a spare moment there. I assumed you wouldn't. As I didn't go, the idea was in any case academic.

I was so surprised to hear you on the 'phone, and so anxious not to ask some foolish 'small talk' question (which under the circumstances of your activities would be very easy to do without meaning to), that it reminded me of a woman journalist I once knew, years ago, in California who was sent by the Hearst Press to San Quentin Prison to interview the famous "Kid" McCoy, a former world-champion fighter serving a 20 year sentence for manslaughter. My friend, anxious about saying the "right thing" - or not saying the "wrong thing" - came trembling up to the screen behind which the prisoners were allowed to talk. Finally, she blurted out, "Well, Mr. McCoy, where've you been keeping yourself?" Fortunately, I avoided dropping a similar brick.

over......

GENERAL

FG 6-11-1 / KISSINGER, HENRY A.
KISSINGER, HENRY F. / F. J.

Dear Doug:

Thank you for your letter of April 30. I must say you do have a way with words, and I appreciate every one of them.

I would like nothing better than to get together with you for a good chat. Let me hear from you after you have returned from London, and we shall see what can be arranged.

Again, many thanks for your kind words and I shall look forward to seeing you.

Mr. Douglas Fairbanks
50 E. 58th Street
New York, N. Y.

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KISSINGER, HENRY A.

50 East 58th Street
New York, N. Y.

PERSONAL

Mr. Henry Kissinger
c/o The White House
Washington, D. C.

Dear Henry:

I am just dashing through New York after completing a summer
tour of the play "The Secretary Bird" (which my creditors and
accountants were delighted to note was a spectacular success!). I had
held out rather vain hopes that I would clap an eye on you sometime
during this summer, but I am off tomorrow to rejoin Mary Lee in
London and then take off two days after that for a fortnight's holiday
with some friends on a barge starting out in the Dutch canals and
meandering our way slowly (is there any other way on a barge?) through
The Netherlands, into Belgium, along the Rhine and into France.

I have no doubt but what these are difficult and worrying days for
you and although I am human enough to wish for the chance of a cosy and
private chat, you may rest assured that, even if it were possible, I would
restrain myself from discussing anything but generalities - the weather,
and submitting one or two possibly new jokes. Even though it is said
that "There are no indiscreet questions--only indiscreet answers," I
wouldn't test that maxim.

I don't know yet when I will be back because so much depends on
the demands of my various public and private interests on both sides of
the Atlantic, but I expect that I will, as usual, be back and forth from
time to time.

Don't bother to reply to this as I am sure you already have quite
enough to cope with and this is only sent to you to say I am sorry we
didn't meet this summer and that, as usual, you have my best thoughts
and wishes.

DF/bw

RECEIVED
SEP 5 1973
CENTRAL FILES

from: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Schedule of Douglas Fairbanks' tour, summer 1973,
in William Douglas Home's THE SECRETARY BIRD

July 16-July 21 (Mon. thru Sat.)

Seaport Playhouse
Top O' Fort Hill. 203-536-2647
Groton Long Point Road
P.O. Box 930
Mystic-Groton, Conn. 06340

July 23-July 28 (Mon. thru Sat.)

Famous Artist Playhouse 315-479-5515
500 Robinson Street
Syracuse, New York 13206

July 30-August 4 (Mon. thru Sat.)

Westchester County Playhouse 914-423-6235 or 37
183 Palmer Road
Yonkers, New York 10701

August 6-August 18 (Mon. 6th thru Sat. 18th)

Elitch Gardens Theatre 303-455-4771
4620 West 38th Avenue
Denver, Colorado 80212

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
CENTER OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
CORWIN HALL
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY 08540

April 15, 1971

Mr. Henry Kissinger
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Executive Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20008

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

The Civil War Panel of the American Society of International
Law has decided to sponsor a third volume in its series
*The Vietnam War and International Law*, which will be published
by the Princeton University Press.

In my capacity as editor of the volume I am writing to
request permission to reprint the article named on the attached
page.

The Society has no money to pay for permissions and as
with previous volumes we are asking publishers and authors to
support this scholarly enterprise by granting permission free
of charge. We have been gratified by the cooperation we have
received with the first two volumes and hope that it will be
continued. We continue to believe that the presentation of
the legal controversy surrounding various aspects of America's
involvement in the Vietnam War is a valuable public service.

We will, of course, acknowledge your article in whatever
form you direct. Could you please sign and return in the
enclosed envelope a copy of the release.

Thanks for your help.

WOODROW WILSON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

SANDY H. CHAN

of International Law

Albert C. Milpusk Professor

Richard A. Pelk

Sincerely yours,

Thanks for your help.

from your direct. Could you please sign and return in the

involvement in the Vietnam War is a simple public service.
the legal controversy surrounding articles about America's
continued. We continue to believe that the presentation of
received with the first two volumes and hope that it will be
of interest. We have been gratified by the cooperation we have
supported this award by granting permission tree
with previous volumes we are sending librarians and authors to
The Society has no money to pay for permissions and so on
bake.

request permission to reprint the article named on the attached
in my capacity as editor of the volume I am writing to
of the Princeton University Press.

The Vietnam War and International Law, which will be published
by the American Law Institute, is a third volume in the series

The American Law Institute, which will be published
law use decided to accept a third volume in the series

The Council War Panel of the American Society of International

Dear Mr. Kirtley:

Washington, D.C.

Executive Office Building

Attention: The President for National Security Affairs

Mr. Henry Kissinger

Form for Permission

I give permission to reprint

Henry Kissinger, "The Viet Nam Negotiations," 47 Foreign Affairs 211 (1969)

in volume III of The Vietnam War and International Law
to be published by the Princeton University Press for
the American Society of International Law, and to be
edited by Richard A. Falk.

The acknowledgment should appear in the following form:

Henry A. Kissinger
Signature

Date

Return to: Professor Richard A. Falk
Center of International Studies
Corwin Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey 08540

RIZZOLI

EDITORE

CORPORATION

712 FIFTH AVENUE • NEW YORK, N. Y. 10019 • PHONE 245-0400

October 21, 1972

Dr. Henry Kissinger
2527 Waterside Drive N.W.
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

Egidio Ortona, the ambassador of Italy in Washington, and Mr. Sonnenfelt, should have already introduced me to you and explained my request to see you. Just in case they couldn't do it as yet, I send you a copy of "Nothing and so be it", my last book on the Vietnam war. Though we might not agree about my approach to the problem, it will serve as an introduction of me. I mean, since I know that you had some unfortunate experiences with women journalists, and therefore you are rightly suspicious of them, it seems to me necessary to clear first of all that I am a serious writer, used to a serious work.

I belong to the "Europeo" magazine of Rizzoli Publishers in Milano and all my stories are published in a chain of sixteen important magazines or newspapers all over the world. (In the United States they are usually printed by the Washington Post or Life. Before it was Look.) Besides covering the war in Vietnam since 1967, then in the Middle East and in Pakistan, I have been interviewing the most representative people of our time as General Giap in Hanoi, General Cao Ky in Saigon, Arafat and Habbash in their secret bases, King Hussein in Amman, and recently Golda Meir in Jerusalem. My 1972 reportages also include extensive interviews with Indira Gandhi, Ali Bhutto, Ailé Selassie. In December I am going to see Brandt.

(more)

RIZZOLI **EDITORE**
CORPORATION

(page 2)

What I need is one hour of talk for a cover-story I have to do. I realize it is a tough enterprise. I realize that tons of requests of this kind lay down in your offices. Some, more important than mine maybe. I also realize that your travelling makes a possible encounter even more difficult. But, should you find that hour for me, this could take place anywhere in the planet: not necessarily in Washington. Any country, any time. And useless to add that I would never be ungrateful by asking you questions on subjects that you do not wish to discuss. Egidio Ortona, who knows me well, will give you all those guarantees.

Please do it. It would result an intelligent work, I'm sure, and you wouldn't regret it. I am going back to Israel the 11 or the 12 of November to complete my long interview with Golda Meir, and I am staying here in the States till then. Your office can contact me through the Embassy in Washington or my office in New York. (Address on this letterhead). A few hours of time and I fly where you say with all my thanks.

Official - Feb. 1, 1972 (mlh)

Farland - by 7 Feb 72

Type of Request & Date

(Last name and pending date)

EXECUTIVE

FEB 6-11-72 / KISSINGER, HENRY A.

F02/0015

Name: Ambassador Farland

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

Request: Would like an appointment to see Mr. Kissinger. Is in town and will be here until Monday or Tuesday next week.

CSH's Recommendation:

HAK's Answer: yes - 2/1

Date and Time: 12:00 2/7

Party Contacted:

Additional Information: RSVP: Ambassador Farland - at State: 632-0353; staying at Watergate Hotel: 965-2300, Rm. 311

Resolution:

RECEIVED
FEB 1 9 1972

CENTRAL FILES.