November 2, 1954

The Chinese Consul General
1250 Sixth Avenue
New York, N. Y.

Dear Sir:

This letter is to certify that our New York Representative, Mr. Lyman Hoover, has been instructed to attend the conference of The Asia Foundation Field Representatives (formerly the Committee for Free Asia, Inc.) which is to be held in Hong Kong November 15-17, 1954. He will travel to Hong Kong by way of Manila, and will proceed from Hong Kong to Tokyo by way of Taipei. He plans to make a brief stop in Taipei to visit our office there and confer with our Representative, Dr. David N. Rowe, whose address is 139-A Yen P'ing Man Lu, Taipei.

Mr. Hoover is due to arrive in Taipei by Northwest Airlines Flight #860, on Sunday, November 21, 1954, and will depart for Tokyo by Northwest Airlines Flight # 862 on Wednesday, November 24, 1954.

We shall greatly appreciate your kind cooperation in providing him with the necessary visa for this brief transit visit.

December 1, 1954

The Haley Corporation
11 East 44th Street
New York 17, New York

Attention: Miss Eileen Boyd, Accounting Department

Gentlemen:

In accordance with a conversation with Mr. Lynch today, I am attaching a Pan American World Airways System surcharge ticket (number A79066) covering the unused Seattle-New York portion of my berth ticket for the Tokyo-New York passage by Northwest Airlines flight # 10 for November 26, 1954. This flight was delayed in departure from Tokyo and did not make connections with the continuation flight from Seattle so it was necessary to transfer to a daytime flight # 2 the following morning and the berth was not used. I would like to secure credit for this unused portion of my ticket.

As Mr. Donohue can inform you in detail, all my transportation charges on the recent trip were billed against my Air Travel Card, which bearing the following numbers: U Q15712 W 40366.

The adjustments referred to in your November 18th letter should also be applied to the same account. I am, therefore, returning the bill which you sent under date of November 15th.

LH/aw

December 1, 1954

Mr. Robert B. McBride, Jr.
The Asia Foundation
105 Market Street
San Francisco 5, Calif.

Dear Bob:

It is good to be back on the job and I want to express
again my great appreciation for the opportunity to make the re-
cent trip. I found the staff conference very valuable in pro-
viding insight into the field work and personal acquaintances
with all of our Field Representatives. I also greatly enjoyed
the chance to meet some of the people with whom we are working
in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan.

Since I did not take much baggage of my own, the extra
briefcase which you gave me still did not exceed my weight limit
so it was not necessary to use the attached extra baggage allow-
ance which you arranged for me. I am returning this so that the
proper credit can be obtained.

Kindest personal regards to you and Mrs. McBride.

LH/aw

C O P Y

DEC 9 1954

December 8, 1954

The Asia Foundation
105 Market Street
San Francisco, California

Gentlemen

On December 3 we sent you a letter setting forth changes
in the quarterly insurance payment for Mr. Lyman Hoover.

As you may have noted by this time, an error was made in
showing the additional amount due for the month of December,
due to the increase in Group Insurance as of December 1st.
This figure should be $4.92, the difference between $18.67
the old amount, and $23.59 the new amount.

Using the amount of $4.92 in the adjustments, this is deducted
from the credit of $5.80 on Employed Officers Alliance, leaving
a credit amount of 88¢ to be deducted from the next quarterly
bill. The amount to be paid will be $369.29.

I am sorry that this error was made and hope that your records
have not been confused.

NOV 21 1955

November 18, 1955

Gentlemen:

We hand you herewith check of the Association for $21.64 covering
credit due the Foundation in connection with its payments on behalf
of Mr. Lyman Hoover.

There were no Employed Officers Alliance assessments in the months
of May, August, October and December 1955. You have paid $5.80 per
month for these months - hence there is a credit in your favor of
$23.20.

Group Insurance was increased as of October 1st by 52¢ per month -
therefore an additional amount of $1.56 is due from the Foundation.
Deducting this from the $23.20 credit leaves the sum of $21.64 to
your credit.

As of January 1st, 1956 Mr. Hoover's Group Insurance will increase
by 52¢ per month. This increases the quarterly payment by $1.56,
making it $371.73 instead of $370.17.

Will you please adjust your records accordingly.

Sincerely yours

Assistant Treasurer

Attachment, Letter Hoover/Stewart, 6/10/56

Ralph Dungan - former Vice-President, NSA, 1947-48, when Bob Smith was the other v-p. He is now with the Bureau of the Budget, Washington, D.C.

William S. Ellis - formerly connected with NSA, WUS and other student organizations. He is now a lawyer in the office of the U.S. District Attorney, Southern District, New York City; home address: 309 West 100th St, NYC.

James T. Harris, Jr. - former President, NSA, 1948-49. He was also with WUS in Geneva when Bob Smith was there. He is now Director of the NSA Foreign Student Leadership Program, 142 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, Mass.

Mrs. Jane W. Jacqz or Wilmer Kitchen - both with WUS; Mr. Kitchen has been Executive Secretary for some time; Mrs. Jacqz was active in NSA, then with WUS in Geneva when Bob Smith was there, and subsequently she came to American WUS, 20 West 40th St., NYC.

Walter Kotschnig - Director, Office of Economic and Social Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State. He has known Bob Smith since 1952 and worked closely with him on UNESCO conference delegations in 1952 and 1953.

Miss Carol Laise - Office of International Administration, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State. She has known Bob Smith since 1950 and worked closely with him on UNESCO conference delegations in 1951, 1952 and 1953.

Max McCullough - Executive Secretary, UNESCO Relations Staff, Department of State. He has known and worked with Bob Smith since 1947.

Miss Alison Raymond - Executive Secretary, Committee of Correspondence, 345 East 46th St, NYC. She and Bob Smith worked together on matters related to the Committee's Workshop for Asian Women.

Irving Salomon - Chairman of the Board, Royal Metal Manufacturing Co., member of the Board of Directors of AAUN, IIE, and several other organizations. He was Chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the UNESCO conference in 1953. He has known Bob Smith since 1951, and was Bob's employer on his last job as Co-Editor of UN Business Factsheet. His home is Rancho Lilac, Escondido, Calif.

Howland Sargeant - former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs. He has known Bob Smith since 1947, and worked with him on UNESCO conference delegations in 1951 and 1952. He is now President of the American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism, 6 East 45th St., NYC.

Attachment - page 2

Miss Mabel Shannon - International Exchange Project Secretary, NSWA, 345 East 46th St., NYC. Bob Smith has worked with her on a number of matters of mutual concern to NSWA and the Foundation, including meetings of the Advisory Committee to the Project and program planning for several of our grantees.

Donald F. Sullivan - former representative of Young Adult Council, NSWA to U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, 1947-49. He was a co-author with Bob Smith of Youth and UNESCO, a study pamphlet prepared on a grant from the Carnegie Endowment in 1949-50. He is now with the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and his address is: 5915 Cates Ave., St. Louis, Mo.

William Welch - former President of NSA, 1947-48, when Bob Smith was one of the vice-presidents. He is now on Senator Herbert Lehman's staff, Washington, D.C.

For the Record

AUG 23 1956

Discussion with Prof. K.C. Ho in re: Dr. Hu Po-Yuen with TDS - June 15, 1956

Dr. Hu is friend that Lyman Hoover asked us to trace. He came here originally with Dr. Lin Yu-tang to head the Science faculty at Nan Yang University, he left when Lin did taking the three years terminal pay given. Su and others had reported good things of Hu, and apparently he had given up a good post to come here to Nan Yang.

His position at present is tenuous since his family is in the mainland and his son seemingly has gone back to jail for a re-brainwashing. As he has no present employment he is open to pressure from China to return. He cannot go to the U.S. (though he has papers) or back to Taiwan for this reason; he wishes to get adequate job here to cover him in meantime.

It has already been agreed that the U. of M. would like to make use of him in their Science Dept. He has been offered the job officially. However, there is only allowance for one professor under present table of org. so he would only be given rank of lecturer. For a man of his status this would not be sufficient and would not satisfy mainland pressures for his return.

He could take the rank of professor, but receive only the pay of lecturer. There would be objection to this, since it would create a precedent - many lecturers would be glad to have rank without the money.

He could come to the University as a "visiting professor", salary paid by an outside source (there is presently a prof. -parisitology-under such status paid by China Institute, N.Y.: An old Rockefeller man from China).

K.C. is to try out the first idea on Sir Sidney. But he does not have strong hopes for its success. If it doesn't work he would like to call on Asia Foundation to support visiting prof. idea.

Professors Salary is M2,000/m.o. and top lecturer is $1,500. Hu is not short of funds and would accept salary of lecturer from outside as token to support the professorship. As he is 60 years old the appointment could not be for more than one year.

Value in aiding the project concerns Nan Yang Univ. The rumours are increasing about the maladministration by Dean Chang who has never run a school before, and Pang the Sec.-Gen. who has never been anything but a private secretary. Feelers have apparently been put out by Lee Kong Chien to Hu and the thought is that he may be invited to return to take Chancellorship. According to K.C., Hu has sent out through same devious Chinese channels his "terms" sine qua non for taking over: independent control of the U., authority of Chancellor and right of re-org., etc. K.C. feels that because of this potential every effort should be made to see that Hu can remain here.

In view of existence of current pressures I do not see Hu as saving the day for the free world at NYU. However, his status and experience would make him better than present regime, and might have good effect through publicity given, possible clearer relations for univ. admin., possible better staff recruitment, and greater leeway for teaching staff action.

Mrs. Ryan

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July 4, 1957

recommend her for the deserved increase in salary for which she will
be eligible in August.

Meanwhile, we are making use from time to time of young women
from the Temporary Employees Agency. Some of these prove quite helpful,
others less so. Sometimes we are promised help, but they do not succeed
in finding anyone. (I am enclosing a N. Y. Times article which you may
have seen on the shortage of clerical help.) Such help one or two days
a week at least gives our regular staff a chance to get at the accumula-
ted filing, which otherwise is very hard to keep up. The casual labor
item in our budget request did not foresee this, I am sorry to say, so
it will need to be increased. Mr. Blum agreed to this expedient when we
discussed the problem this past Spring. This is not a permanent solu-
tion, but we shall try to make it work as best we can.

Thank you again for your interest and help on all of these
aspects of our work here. We hope you will have a good summer. This is
the season when we are grateful indeed for having an office which has
a reasonable measure of air-conditioning! We shall be quite interested
to learn more in due course regarding the new location to which we
understand you will be moving at the end of the summer.

cc: Mr. Blum
Mr. Routh

THE ASIA FOUNDATION

105 Market Street, San Francisco 5, California • YUkon 2-4640

CONFIDENTIAL

March 22, 1957

Mr. Lyman Hoover
Representative
New York

Dear Lyman:

In replying to your note about Carnegie En-
dowment inquiry concerning our salary and benefits revi-
sion, no final decisions have yet been made. If Mr. Routh
feels equal to official business during his present con-
valescence, he may take some action upon return to the
office and I am sure you will be informed, possibly through
an Administrative Memorandum announcing the decision of
staff members.

We did study and consider the information which
you have obtained and made some comparisons in which you
might be interested. This is confidential and has no stand-
ing of any kind other than it was developed for Mr. Routh's
information. In view of your work on the subject, I thought
you might be interested in it.

With best wishes.

Attachment