CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON

1530 P STREET, NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON 5, D. C.

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

April 19, 1965

Dear Henry,

Thank you so much for your welcome note which I have just
found waiting on return from an Easter in the West Indies, and
particularly for the copy of the book, with its inscription, which
becomes a permanent treasure for my library. It is a fine contri-
bution indeed, and I thought its physical appearance also remark-
ably good.

We must keep in touch about our mutually impossible
schedules, and try to make a luncheon or dinner somewhere and
at some time a tangible possibility.

With every best wish,

Professor Henry A. Kissinger,
The Harvard Center for International Affairs,
6 Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.

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JOHN W. GARDNER
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April 22, 1965

Mr. Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
Harvard University
Six Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Dear Henry:

I was delighted to receive a copy
of your new book with the kind inscrip-
tion, and I shall read it promptly.

I enjoyed our luncheon session.

JWG:rr

April 26, 1965

Mr. Hamilton Fish Armstrong
**Foreign Affairs**
58 East 68th Street
New York 21, New York

Dear Ham:

I am enclosing an inscribed copy
of my book with appreciation for your
support throughout the years.

With kind regards.

COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, INC.

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NEW YORK, N. Y. 10021

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April 29, 1965

Dear Henry:

Both Helena and I do very much appreciate your sending us a copy of "The Troubled Partnership" and especially, of course, the warm inscription you put in it. It means a lot to us, and perhaps even more than usual as a result of this winter.

We do hope we'll have a real chance to see you again before too long.

In the meanwhile, with warmest wishes,

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
Harvard University
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts

CORNELL UNIVERSITY
ITHACA, NEW YORK

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

April 29, 1965

Dear Henry:

Were't you thoughtful to send me an inscribed copy of your
book. It is only because I have been somewhat up to my ears in
Cornell affairs this first two years that I have missed the CFR
affairs where you have been performing so brilliantly. I look
forward to reading your book, as indeed I read everything you
write.

Many thanks and hope to see you soon again.

Mr. Henry A. Kissinger
Harvard University
Center for International Affairs
6 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge, Mass. 02138

Henry V. Klaasinger

Sincerely yours,

With kind regards.

you would never read it.

send you an inscribed copy of my book
I thought that if I didn't

Dear Oscar:

New York, New York
320 Park Avenue
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Mr. Oscar Kuepkeuken

April 26, 1962

WILLIAM A. M. BURDEN

630 FIFTH AVENUE
NEW YORK, N. Y. 10020

April 30, 1965

Dear Henry:

Many thanks for sending me your excellent
article, which I read with great interest.

Also let me congratulate you on your book
<u>The Troubled Partnership</u> which I thought first-rate.

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Harvard University
Center for International Affairs
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

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ON BEHALF OF MCGRAW-HILL I WOULD LIKE TO OFFER CONGRATULATIONS

ON PUBLICATION OF THE TROUBLED PARTNERSHIP: A RE-APPRAISAL OF
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OFFER OUR THANKS FOR A MOST MAGNIFICENT EFFORT

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May 24, 1965

General Andre Beaufre
Institut Francais d'Etudes Strategiques
54 Rue de Varenne
Paris VII, France

My dear General Beaufre:

Under separate cover I am sending
you an inscribed copy of my book.

With warm regards.

June 2, 1965

Mr. Dean Acheson
Covington & Burling
701 Union Trust Building
Washington 5, D. C.

Dear Dean:

I am taking the liberty of enclosing
an inscribed copy of my book. I hope it will
not pain you too much. There is a difference
of assessment about the permanent stability
of various European countries but three is
no lack of admiration for your thought.

A former research assistant of mine,
Pamela Hill, who is now working for NBC
has asked me to intercede with you about
a television program she is organizing for
the fall. She would like you to make some
comment on the history of NATO. No doubt
she will get in touch with you directly.
I simply wanted to say that she is a serious
person who will do a responsible job.

With every good wish and kind regards.

Henry V. Klausinger

Sincerely yours,

With warm regards.

Kindness.

Look is likely to take advantage of any
I must warn you that anyone with Tretonomic
Do let us stay in touch--although

case.

impression, but it seems to be the
I should make such a forbidding
a mild man I can never understand why
somebody who thinks of himself as
desire to me to get to know you. For
It really has meant a great

picture.

for sending me the reviews and the
You are a darling! Thank you

Dear Grace:

New York, New York
28 East 68th Street
The Council on Foreign Relations
Miss Grace Darling

June 8, 1962

OCT 13 1965

THE ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTE

NEW YORK 21, NEW YORK

October 12, 1965

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Studies
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dear Professor Kissinger:

Re: The Troubled Partnership

The only time that we have met is in the lobby of the Hotel Savoy in London while you were waiting for Paul Doty to finish his breakfast. We were on our ways back to the U.S.A. from Berlin. But I feel that I have had a somewhat longer conversation with you from the pages of your most recent volume.

Sentence after sentence in your book strikes a responsive chord in this non-professional observer of the European scene. You describe with great clarity the fundamental frustrations of attempts to elicit constructive answers from Soviet leaders. You express the practical importance of placing the onus clearly on the Soviets for blocking progress toward unification in Germany. You stress the inherent NATO emphasis on the status quo which tends to inhibit the solution of some problems that merit changes in the Atlantic Alliance. You are courageously critical of American hints that maybe the East German regime should be accepted as a fait accompli. And you sum up by stating the practical fact that even if we are optimistic, it actually remains improbable that any negotiating formula is likely to advance German unity in the near future.

The whole picture has rarely been placed in sounder perspective. You then build a proposal on the politically strong concept that self-determination for East Germany could command wide consensus in Western Europe. So I hesitate to express one reservation. But the military side of your proposal encounters an argument that I find very strong in the minds of experienced Europeans. They interpret the current position in Washington, as evidenced for example by the written record of the Kennedy-Adenauer communique of November 22, 1961, as favoring self-determination for East Germany and the incorporation of a reunified and militarized Germany into NATO. Your proposal is that East Germany hold fair elections and be demilitarized, while West Germany remains a base for NATO. So far as I can ascertain, no observer of the European scene believes that the Soviets would give a moment's consideration to either of these proposals; the West would not consider such a proposal if the situation were reversed. The U.S.A. seems to be in the position of advocating a policy that makes sense to no one. And that discourages many who look to America for leadership and hope.

If we are going to have a policy, it might as well be one that has democratic guts and is militarily not out of the question. The whole course of history in our generation may have generated an atmosphere that could lead to a major break-through toward reason in

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Europe. Mr. Kai-Uwe von Hassel, in a recent realistic appraisal of Soviet intransigence, emphasizes that reunification coupled with arms limitation involving both East and West Germany would be the most fundamental move toward a more secure Europe (quotation enclosed). Many of us believe that we should be championing this principle with every facet of political and diplomatic power at our command. In trying to think this subject through a year ago (notes enclosed), I talked with several men at the Pentagon without becoming convinced that such an approach is out of the question. Your proposal of a period of self-determination for East Germany prior to reunification would add practicality to such a policy.

Kai-Uwe von Hassel, Minister of Defense, German Federal Rep.

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that the Kremlin has already given up its objectives simply because it, too, does not desire world war, and because the danger of a universal conflagration is dwindling. Correct though this reasoning may be, it would be wrong to draw the conclusion that the Kremlin had given up its objective of world domination. Events such as the Cuban crisis and the developments on Cyprus, in the Congo and elsewhere have shown how rapidly politics can move to the brink of war; but apart from that, no one can refute the fact that it is solely the defense efforts of the West that bar the way of brute force in the furtherance of a militant ideology. The real nature of the so-called Soviet peace strategy is shown by the fact that the Russians continue, as in the past, to try to weaken the internal coherence of the alliance, to paralyze its defensive military power and to neutralize its capacity for deterrence. Effort at neutralization through the Rapacki and other plans—all in the name of easing tensions—is only another phase in Moscow's policy of sapping the Western defense system in Europe. An important aspect of these efforts is the Communist calumny against the Federal Republic on the score that it is *revanchist*—an absurd accusation considering the fact that our military forces are integrated in NATO. But by this means they hope to manœuvre Germany out of the Atlantic Alliance.

To my mind, the only convincing proof of a change in Soviet objectives vis-à-vis Europe would be for the U.S.S.R. finally to recognize in fact the right of self-determination, which it verbally supports, and to agree to let the German people be reunited in freedom. Only then would any meaningful arms limitation in Europe appear to be feasible; for only then would it afford objective and subjective security to all the nations concerned, the Soviet Union included.

We still can continue, however, to search for possible arrangements to reduce the danger of war. Because of its political and geographical situation, my country is perhaps more interested in this than any other. Negotiations with the Communist nations, in particular in Geneva, should be continued patiently and with determination, for which purpose I suggest that timely and detailed consultation among the Western allies is necessary. But let me repeat that efforts to arrive at a political détente are meaningful and offer prospects of success only if the causes of tensions have been eliminated beforehand. A simple reduction in armaments in itself cannot eliminate these tensions.

and West Germany would not seriously alter that balance of power;
rather than creating a vacuum, it would introduce a center of
strength and confidence into a new Europe. Progress depends
upon finding pathways that offer a feasible basis for arbitration.
There is such a basis in Germany. And it should be kept in
mind that NATO, only fifteen years old, is a means to an end,
not an end in itself. If we can utilize the present strength of
NATO to negotiate a successful settlement in Germany, the German
military contribution to NATO will have served its purpose.
European nations are taking a dim view of requests to increase
military contributions to NATO. America, in its NATO policy,
may be in a sense trying to sell an out-dated product on a
changing political market. If that is the only answer to the
defense of Europe, we should continue to try to sell the plan.
But if there is an equally sound plan better suited to the coming
needs of Europe, the U.S.A. should take the initiative.

September 20, 1964

Stanford Moore

Historical Branch, OSECY, SHAPE
APO New York, N.Y., 09055

29 November 1965

Dear Professor Kissinger,

I have just received my copy of your book, The Troubled Partnership. Even before receiving it, however, I had read a friend's copy.

May I tell you how impressive a work it is, and ask if you would be so kind as to autograph my copy?

I am enclosing the appropriate air-mail postage and wrapping for your convenience, and do sincerely trust my request will cause you no difficulty.

Thank you for your consideration.

Henry V. Kissinger

Sincerely yours,

With every good wish.

Coby as you requested.

I am returning a signed

comment about my book.

Thank you for your friendly

Dear Mr. Honick:

AFO New York, New York, 09022
Historical Branch, OSEK, SHAVE
Assistant Historian
Mr. Morris Honick

January 13, 1966

University of Georgia
Mell Hall, Box 10
Athens, Georgia
30601

November 23, 1966

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Harvard University
Center for International Affairs
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
02138

WOV 28 1966

Dear Professor Kissinger:

I have just returned home for the holidays; your volume came
a few days ago.

I wish to express my appreciation for your kindness; I have
begun my reading; but, as I am studying in depth what you write, it will be--
with my regular reading and work--January or them abouts before I am able to
complete it.

You might be interested to know that I am taking my course
of international relations under a graduate of Harvard; I have come to a
conclusion that one must study long and hard the field of international affairs
in order to obtain a richer understanding.

It is always good to receive the kindness of a scholar at
Harvard--and I have come to know a number. Humorously, I might say that with
the political picture (abstraction) as it is in Georgia and has been for the
past few months I could understand if someone refuse a Georgian friendship;
seriously, however, I wish to express my appreciation and to ask you to think
of me as a student whom you have assisted along the path.

Thanking you very much, I remain

Wolfram von Raven
5201 Hoholz, Post Gielgen
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Tel.: Siegburg 1 44 22

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JAN 20 1967

Sehr verehrter Herr Professor !

Haben Sie herzlichen Dank für Ihre liebenswürdigen Wünsche zu den Festtagen, die ich - wenn auch verspätet - erwidere.

Dabei fällt mir ein, daß ich Ihnen immer noch nicht ein Exemplar meiner Besprechung Ihres Buches im Westdeutschen Rundfunk übersandt habe, wie ich es Ihnen bei unserer letzten Begegnung in Wetzlar zugesagt hatte. Bitte entschuldigen Sie dieses Versäumnis. Anbei das gewünschte Exemplar.

Wann sind Sie wieder in Deutschland ? Ich würde mich freuen, Sie zu sehen.

Mit verbindlichen Grüßen

Henry V. Kraeger

Sincerely yours,

With kind regards.

Troubled Partnership, available.

are no more copies of my book, The

I am sorry to tell you that there

Thank you for your holiday greeting.

Dear Mr. Freud:

Vienna I., Austria
Pozant Knererstrasse
Mr. Arthur Freund

January 18, 1967

Dear Herr Professor,

Thank you so much for your kind wishes for the holidays,
to which - even if belatedly - I am replying.

Besides, it occurred to me, that I still have not sent
over a copy of my discussion of your book, ■ broadcasted on
the West German Radio, as I had promised you at our last meeting
in Wetzlar. Please excuse this neglect. Enclosed is the
requested copy.

When are you coming to Germany again? I would be happy
to see you.

With obliging greetings

Sincerely yours