AUG 3 1954

"Aclands"
Ganges
Salt Spring Island, B.C.
Canada.

July 28, 1954.

Dear Anne and Henry:

I had intended to telephone you before I left
Cambridge, but of course, what with one thing and another,
I didn't get around to it; the last days are always so
busy. And so I thought I would write you a note to ask
how you are and to express the hope that the Seminar is
going well.

About the only regret I have ever have about
being absent from Cambridge in the summer is that I have
not had no chance to work with you on that interesting
project, but one can't have everything, and in the overall
picture I am just as happy that I find myself settled out
here for the summer. For me at anyrate, the appreciation
of Harvard can be maintained best by an annual and rather
lengthy absence from it, preferably at some place which
offers a strong contrast to Cambridge life. This quiet
island in the Gulf of Georgia qualifies admirably for that
function. I am out of touch with everybody, even my
family, and spend long days reading and rambling around
the island. Harvard gradually is seen in a more sensible
perspective when you get to a place like this, and it is
a good place to sum up the dubious accomplishments of the
past year and try to estimate their value -- a difficult
and probably in the last analysis almost impossible task.
The failures stand out much more clearly.

I hope you are enjoying the summer and are making
provisions for a holiday. Salt Spring Island would be
quite perfect if you and Klaus and Elizabeth could drop in
for a few days.

With best wishes,

Dr. Henry Kissinger
International Seminar
Weld Hall
Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.

HAK:epd

Henry V. Klaasinger

Sincerely yours,

My best wishes.

of you next year than I did last.

I look forward very much to your return. I hope to see much more

back of the Seminar may be the more lasting.

Their attitude is less exuberant, but the im-
group we have had. I think it is perhaps the most mature
Seminar has gone very well. I want to be a part of that.

new perspective.

Seminar is aziknafit it not a physical vacation and gives one a
abide of it rather than because of it. Even running the international
aspect of Harvard that almost all of one's achievements occur in
necessary it is to recharge one's battery. It is an interesting
It was good to hear from you and I can well understand how

Dear John:

CANADA
Sault Spring Island, B. C.
"Islands"
Mr. John Conway

August 18, 1954

J. W. DAFOE FOUNDATION

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA

MR. VICTOR SIFTON
CHAIRMAN

HON. T. A. CRERAR

MR. JUSTICE P. G. DUVAL

MR. JUSTICE S. FREEDMAN

MR. D. G. MCKENZIE

DR. SIDNEY E. SMITH

DR. H. H. SAUNDERSON

MR. W. L. MORTON
HONORARY SECRETARY

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WINNIPEG, MANITOBA

February 6, 1956.

Dr. Henry Kissinger,
International Seminar,
Weld Hall,
Cambridge 38, Mass.

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

Mr. John Conway has given your name as a
reference in making application for a Dafoe Foundation
Fellowship, 1956.

The Committee of the Foundation would be grateful for your opinion of Mr. Conway, his personality and capacity, and especially his ability to carry out his undertaking he proposes, a study of The Theory of Democracy in the British Commonwealth.

The Foundation is particularly anxious to assist
candidates who show promise of becoming competent authors
or journalists.

Your opinion of Mr. Conway will, of course, be
communicated only to members of the Foundation Committee.

WLM/N

February 15, 1956

Mr. W. L. Morton
Honorary Secretary
J. W. Dafoe Foundation
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Dear Mr. Morton:

I am writing you this letter in response to yours
of February 6, from the Council on Foreign Relations where
I am spending several months on leave from Harvard.

It is a particular pleasure to be able to recommend
John Conway for a fellowship with your Foundation. I know
of no one at Harvard whom I would recommend more strongly.
Harvard is not an easy place for a person from abroad to
leave a mark on. Mr. Conway, however, through his tact, abi-
lity and personality has made one of the major contributions
of any of the people with whom I am familiar. His personality
is all the more impressive for the fact that he never pushes
himself and he is all the more persuasive because he never
stoops to dialectical tricks.

I know that a study by him of The Theory of Democracy
in the British Commonwealth would be an important work. I
would support his application most strongly.

J. W. DAFOE FOUNDATION

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA

MR. VICTOR SIFTON
CHAIRMAN

HON. T. A. CRERAR

MR. JUSTICE P. G. DUVAL

MR. JUSTICE S. FREEDMAN

MR. D. G. MCKENZIE

DR. SIDNEY E. SMITH

DR. H. H. SAUNDERSON

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA

February 21, 1956.

Professor Henry A. Kiesinger,
Council on Foreign Relations, Inc.,
The Harold Pratt House,
58 East 68th Street,
New York 21, N.Y.

Dear Professor Kiesinger:

I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of
February 15th in support of the application of Mr. John
Conway for the Dafoe Foundation Fellowship.

Please accept the thanks of the Committee of the
Foundation for your letter, which will be of great help
to the Committee.

WLM/N

July 9, 1957

Mr. John Conway
c/o George Kelly
Le Haut Mas
Beauvallon
Varenne, France

Dear John:

I cannot tell you how badly I feel for never having replied to any of your letters and notes. It is not lack of friendship but simply that I do not like to write banal letters to people close to me and I never seem to have time for anything but banal letters.

Steve must have told you about my activities during the last year. I ran a project for the Rockefellers which was a little mad in conception but amazingly has turned out extremely well, proving that a degree of innocence is necessary in order to achieve great things. I have been greatly impressed by the Rockefellers. Not so much by their intelligence, perhaps, or even by their subtlety, but by their dedication and inward generosity. (Qualities I find sadly lacking in this place which purports to set standards.) Steve will also have told you about my return to Harvard. It was a rather weird circumstance - having people who last year urged me to leave urging me to return and assuring me that of course things would be different now. I feel about this somewhat like an opium addict who, having broken the habit, is told that taken in small doses, morphine is really not so bad. It is good to know, however, that I will be close to my friends.

Do let me hear from you as soon as you come back. I will be either in Cambridge or in New York, where I can be reached either at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (JUdson 2-2300) or at home (Templeton 1-0302).

My book has been out for two weeks, and has had some fairly good reviews. I am keeping your copy here.

Warm regards.

LEVERETT HOUSE
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

January 13, 1959

Dear Henry:

I hope that while I write this letter you are having a good time in Germany. And I must congratulate you on the well-merited distinction which the Associated Junior Chambers of Commerce have given you.

Things are quiet here now as the intimidated student body prepares for its examinations. This state of affairs has given me a chance to make plans for the spring term, and high upon my list of priorities are our departmental dinners. You will remember that last year we decided to devote our Ford Grant monies to having a series of dinners where the students could wine and dine in as much state as possible with the members of their department. So I am writing to ask you a favor. Would you agree to speak at the Government Concentration Dinner? The students would really appreciate it and I know from 10 happy years experience that it is always an education and a pleasure to hear you.

If you are preapred to do it, we can discuss dates and I can
arrange almost any date that is convenient for you.

Mr. Henry A. Kissinger
104 Fletcher Road
Belmont, Massachusetts

LEVERETT HOUSE
CAMBRIDGE 38, MASSACHUSETTS

April 29th,
1963.

Dear Henry,

Many thanks for sending me a copy of
your _Reporter_ article which I have read
with the greatest interest. I have not
read anywhere the basic dilemma of American
foreign and defense policy set forth
so brilliantly and with such profound
understanding. What does Washington do
now that its original policy of re-
construction has been carried through
to a successful conclusion? Is it possible
for an American to conceive imaginatively
of Europe as other than decadent and wrong—
as Theodore White made so clear a week or
so ago here? I don't know. I grope. And
believe that in some sense, in _some_ sense
mind you, not at all entirely, the American
Revolution was being undone or thought through
again. Too much purely American experience
influences American policy although its
makers are unconscious of this. The
Founding Fathers, Mark Twain, Emerson
and so on are not adequate for a situation
they couldn't have conceived of. And so.
And so. We shall see. But I believe that
there are parallels between revolutions
within a culture and adolescent revolts
within a family. Maturity reconciles. But
when and where do we get the maturity?

25 Wellington Square,
Oxford,

December 12, 1963.

Dear Henry,

A brief note to send you the season's greetings. Jill and I
hope that everything goes well with you. We will be leaving
for Rome early in the New Year to stay for some months. We
lose our NEW YEAR'S nice flat when the Seznecs return from Cal-
ifornia in mid-January. Rents in London are prohibitive. And
the English winter is depressing. We will be sorry and not
sorry to leave---sorry because we have close friends in Eng-
land and have enjoyed being with them---not sorry because
the English picture generally is less than exhilarating. The
Conservatives give an impression of fatigue or silliness---
MacMillan or Quintin Hogg; and Labour still to a large degree
is fighting outdated, class-ridden, old cloth cap battles.
For so many of them social justice is to be achieved by de-
pressing everybody to the same lower-class level. For a North
American social justice means trying to make everybody a mill-
ionaire---not the greatest ambition conceivable I admit but
adventurous, high-spirited and somehow enobling. And I find
I have nothing in common with young English academics, left wing
or right wing. They view America on the whole with a combination
of envy and patronizing that I find peculiarly exasperating and
know next to nothing about it. As you will remember there is
no more ardent critic of our many faults than I. But I like
criticism to be based on fact.

Still I musn't give you the wrong impression. One's friends
are wonderful. The countryside during the late summer and
autumn as beautiful as ever. The old college buildings lovely.
The state dinners superb if a little sad because they reflect
past glory rather than present achievement. One musn't criticize
England too much. Would we have done any better had we had the
same experiences? Yet there is the nagging conviction that
the continental Europeans did in fact do much better after
the war with even less to begin with. No one would deny that
the old aristocratic idea is out of date. But is the old
Labour party an idea of the same historical vintage any better?
As long as English intellectuals think that the problem is
privilege vs non-privilege so long will they be unable to take

a real leap into the future. In Barbard Ward's memorable phrase
"The angry young men satirizing an Establishment they would rather
belong to than destroy." That is what is so irritating about
intellectual criticism here.

As you may have heard from Stephen we arex going to the new
university in Toronto next year. It is called York. I will
be master of one of the colleges and professor of humanities.
It is exactly what I wanted, the location, the post, every-
thing about it. Stephen will have our Rome address should you
be coming over before I have had a chance to write you again.

Jill joins me in sending our most affectionate
good wishes.

As ever,

YORK
UNIVERSITY

2275 BAYVIEW AVENUE, TORONTO 12, ONTARIO

May 6th, 1965.

Professor Henry A. Kissinger,
Harvard University Centre for International Affairs,
6 Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge 38, Ontario.

Dear Henry:

Thanks ever so much for the copy of your article in Harper's. It is immensely perceptive and unique of its kind. The great problem as we have so often agreed in conversation is to get Americans to realize the reality and uniqueness of the European idea. It doesn't matter so much then what the President and McGeorge decide to do about it as long as they will accept its reality and integrity. I used to say at Harvard, to no applause whatsoever, that the American Revolution must, in some respects, be undone. I still believe this.

We had a marvellous visit from Steve a month or so ago and I hope to lure you up next fall or winter when the new college is opened. We are coming to Boston around the 9th of June for about a week. I will call you as soon as we get there.

40 Glen Road, Apt. 301,
Toronto 5, Ontario,
May 25, 1965.

Professor Henry A. Kissinger,
Harvard University Centre for
International Affairs,
6 Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge 38, Mass.

Dear Henry:

Thank you very much for the article on Germany, which I
found most interesting.

What do you make of the Royal visit? Although I am a
great admirer of de Gaulle, I think he has gone too far.
It was imaginative and daring of Harold Wilson to attempt
to reverse the plans by means of a Royal visit.

It would be ironic if de Gaulle, for all his good intentions,
succeeded in establishing that Anglo-German entente against
which his predecessors have worked since the Congress
Vienna.

How strange to read of the Queen visiting with that derelict
German nobility.

Jill and I will be in Cambridge between June 9 and June 16.
We must have lunch or dinner together.