HARVARD UNIVERSITY

LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR

17 SUMNER ROAD
CAMBRIDGE 38
MASSACHUSETTS

May, 24, 1962

Mrs. Henry Sage
c/o TUDOR
Caixa Postal 6188
Sao Paulo, Brasil

Dear Mrs. Sage:

Today I received a telegram from Lincoln Gordon confirming his enthusiastic support of the summer visit. We cannot make any definite plans until we know the names of and background material on those students who are coming. Even if there are only 25 or 30 chosen thus far, please send us the information about them immediately.

I have just received your letter of May 10, as well as the one dated May 4. You seem to have answered all the general questions raised in my letter of May 1. However, in my letter of May 8, I ask for specific information which you should be in a position to give for Sao Paulo and Rio this week and for Bahia and Recife next week.

Dick and Daisy Aldrich have gotten 40 families in New Bedford, but nothing has been done in Gloucester. The Pan American Society of New England is not prepared to take responsibility for coordinating this activity because they are closed in the summer. However, Mrs. Shattuck and Mrs. Hall are most cooperative, and we plan to work out the home hospitality with Monseigneur DeMoura and your good sister, Audrey Hale, before the Society closes for the summer. There will be a coordinator here in Boston who will be responsible for allocating the students to the particular homes which have been lined up by Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Aldrich. She will have to know the interests, background, and personality of each of the students in order to assign them to the right family: for example, if a student comes from a lawyer or doctor background, of some wealth, and is interested in skin diving and French literature, he should not go into a family which never goes to the shore, has never been through college, and knows no French. This work is the key to the success of the program, since the week in the homes may well be the most significant innovation which the Sage program introduces.

At our meeting yesterday, we decided that it would be a mistake to offer any money to the families. It would also be disastrous if the per diem were distributed to the individual students. I do not know what Mrs. Washburn is planning on this point or, for that matter, on any other point, but I assume that our responsibility for the New England operation does not begin until July 11. We will have a detailed budget of all costs

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by the time you arrive in New York.

I have had to go ahead and make commitments for the Harvard program, and I have been assured by the State Department that at least $10,000 will be available. As I indicated earlier, the total expense will be close to $15,000 if we are to do a proper job of providing materials.

I shall be out of the country and completely unavailable from 5 pm on June 17 to 9 am on July 18. During that time, my assistant, Joseph Tulehin, will be in charge of all administrative details under the general supervision of the Director of the Summer School, Thomas Crooks, and the Chairman of the Committee on Latin American Studies, Ernest May.

As you will see from the enclosed program, the first week will be relatively light. The more intensive activities will be concentrated in the second week.

With best regards,

Encl.

UNIVERSIDADE DE BRASÍLIA
BRASÍLIA, D. F.

C. FUB nº 210 /62

Brasília, 21st. June 1962

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Centre for International Affairs
Harvard University
6, Divinity Avenue
Cambridge 38, Massachussets,
U.S.A.
(Estados Unidos da América)

Dear Professor Kissinger,

I am writing to you in order to let you know how much I enjoyed your visit to Brasília, as an official guest of our Government, and how pleased I was to be able to render you assistance while you stayed in Brazil's new Capital city. I very much regret, though, that an extremely virulent spell of flue prevented me from accompanying you during the remainder of your stay.

I send you enclosed herewith literature concerning the University of Brasília as well as an annotated list of persons you met while in Brasília. You will note that a balance was achieved between representatives of the leftist and rightist political trends in the country, and I hope that you will have gleamed enough knowledge, of an eclectic nature, to enable you to report accurately on Brazil's present situation.

You will also find enclosed biographical summaries regarding the Brazilian Senators you talked to, taken from the Senate's archives, as well as a copy of an extremely interesting interview, published in the "Jornal do Brasil" of May 6th., with Professor Alceu de Amoroso Lima, one of the country's foremost Catholic leaders, who is being thought of as Foreign Minister in the forthcoming Cabinet now being shaped under the leadership of San Tiago Dantas.

UNIVERSIDADE DE BRASÍLIA

BRASÍLIA, D. F.

With reference to our conversation of a few days ago concerning the possibility of establishing ties of co-operation between Harvard University and our infant University of Brasília, I do hope that upon your return to Cambridge you will have the occasion to examine the subject with the pertinent University authorities, particularly Assistant Dean William S. Barnes of the Law School, now heading the Latin American Studies Programme, and the Centre for International Affairs. I think it would be particularly timely for us to undertake a joint research project focussing on the relationship between political and economic development in Brazil. Perhaps you will find material of some informative value in the Memoranda I prepared for you while at Harvard in 1958, in connection with a Research Programme on Latin American and specifically Brazilian Affairs.

In addition to any such studies I think it would be fruitful indeed if the aid of Harvard University could be enlisted for the balanced growth of the University of Brasília. I refer to the International Programme in Taxation, the International Studies Programme of the Law School, and, of course, the regular activities of the Centre for International Affairs. Furthermore, I believe that you might interest the Department of English at Harvard in an association with our University in connection with the operation of the Centre for North American Culture the establishment of which was recently requested to the U. S. Government through Ambassador Lincoln Gordon.

Besides the above, you could be of great help to us who are planning the establishment of the University of Brasília as a pilot-project for the reform of higher education and research in this country and even throughout Latin America, by having the several responsible persons at Harvard send us the following material, as available:

1. a complete set of catalogues of the many Schools, Faculties and Colleges of Harvard

UNIVERSIDADE DE BRASÍLIA

BRASÍLIA, D. F.

University.

✓2. bibliographies regarding courses in the Departments of Government and of Economics at the Littaner School.

3. advanced notice of visits to Brazil by Harvard Faculty members who might be interested in visiting Brasília and perhaps of giving a talk under the University's sponsorship.

We would also very much appreciate a book exchange between the libraries of Harvard and of this University; for instance, duplicate copies of relevant and recent books from Widener and other libraries at Harvard could perhaps be sent to us in exchange for our own editions, which will soon be published. You will also find enclosed herewith a copy of the request sent by the Rector of our University to Ambassador Gordon concerning a soft-loan, in the amount of 14 billion cruzeiros, to be made available to this University under the "Alliance for Progress" for assisting in the task of physical construction of our campus. Whatever you could do in Washington in order to assist in the favourable consideration of this project would be of invaluable help to us, and, I dare say, would probably help the cause of the "Alliance" more than anything else yet undertaken in this country since the programme was launched by President Kennedy.

I do hope that you will have enjoyed your visit to Brazil and that it will be only the first of a series:

Kindly convey my regards and best wishes to John Plank, Stanley Hoffmann and the rest of the Faculty of Harvard.

I remain, dear Professor Kissinger,

Assistant to the Rector for International Affairs

GDL/og

ASSOCIAÇÃO UNIVERSITÁRIA INTERAMERICANA

C. P. 6188

SÃO PAULO - BRASIL

August 13, 1962

Dear Dr. Kissinger;

A long heartfelt letter of thanks had to wait until the pressure of the most urgent business was relieved. This has now been accomplished with the exception of some minor thank you notes and I can sit down and express my gratitude to you. As you know I mean it sincerely when I say you and Dean Crooks saved the program. According to their evaluations the students feel that you were the highest (and almost the only) point in the Harvard lecture series. I do hope your able and expert advice will be available next year and it seems from the reactions of everyone connected with the program elsewhere that there should be one. Still on the subject of next year may we use your name as advisor? The working board will probably consist of Mr. Bunker as honorary chairman with Margaret Price, Elizabeth Washburne, Richard Aldrich and myself as working members.

A propos of the seminar in the future I have done a bit of minor meddling which I hope won't annoy you. In the first place I spent an evening with Frank Keppel in the course of which I expressed my horror that you were having financial difficulties for the seminar. He shared my feelings and said that since he was "getting to be an old pro at the money raising game," he would call you and offer to help. If he hasn't done so you might find it convenient to jog his memory.

The other may be less immediately fruitful, but I spent the day with the Gilpatricks last week while Madelin christened a Polaris, after which I had a long talk with Ros during and after dinner. As you probably know he is as ardent an admirer of yours as I, and again I made my plea for the seminar. He incidentally knew very little about Brazil and with the aid of another dinner guest we managed to disturb him thoroughly.

Actually the Pentagon deserved a shaking up as although I did not tell Ros who or how, they were responsible for the "brouhaha" when one of the students asked the President about the reasons for the US display of military force. This incident actually turned out well as it crystalized the opinions of the uncommitted members of the group and even our few unregenerates were horrified at the lack of courtesy and thought of repudiating it. In the end, on receiving a note from the President the boy apologised and said that it was only because of his newly acquired "love for America and Americans" that he had wanted to clear up any misunderstanding!

I enjoyed your article in *Foreign Affairs* very much. I only hope somebody well connected with NATO reads it. At any rate please let me know how things are going and remember if you come back to Brazil you always have a place in São Paulo.

It is also possible that when the administrative clouds lift from the Harvard scene I may be back in Boston around Christmas to set up next year's effort. In the meantime I shall be in New York until the 25th at the address on the envelope should you have any questions or comments.

UNIVERSIDADE DE BRASÍLIA

BRASÍLIA, D. F.

C. FUB Nº 342/62

Brasília, 11th September 1962

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Centre for International Affairs
Harvard University
6, Divinity Avenue
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts,
U.S.A.
(Estados Unidos da América)

Dear Professor Kissinger,

Thank you so much for your kind letter of August 2nd, whereby you were good enough to send me a set of bibliographies used for the Spring term at Harvard University in the Departments of Government and of Economics.

I assure you that these reading lists will be extremely helpful, and already look forward to receiving another set for the Fall term, which you kindly volunteered to send me, as well as catalogues of the various Schools of the University. I also expect to receive a letter from Mr. Mac Nuff, of the College Library, with regard to an exchange of books between the libraries of Harvard and Brasília.

Moreover, I should like to acknowledge receipt of and thank you for your letter of July 30th. Perhaps you will already have had an occasion to consult with Mr. Barnes concerning possibilities of future co-operation between our two Universities, as outlined in my letter of June 21st. It was a pity that, owing to difficulties in airline connections, it was impossible for us to welcome in Brasília Professor Milton Katz, who attended the Conference on World Tensions in Bahia. Our University was represented there by former Ambassador Oswaldo Trigueiro, (whom you had met here), who specifically invited Professor Katz to come to Brasília; perhaps you will have had an opportunity to discuss also with him a programme for closer and mutually rewarding collaboration between Harvard University, going strong since 1636, and the University of Brasília, created in 1961; there is, one might say, a certain attraction by contrast.

With renewed thanks for you helpful co-operation,
I remain, with kind regards.

mm.

October 3, 1962

Mr. William Barnes
17 Summer Road
Harvard University

Dear Bill:

When I was in Brazil late last spring, I spoke with
the Rector and his assistant at the University of Brasilia about the
possibility of establishing some ties between Harvard and their
university. Since then, I have received a letter from the assistant,
Georg D. Landau in which he says the following:

"With reference to our conversation concerning the
possibility of establishing ties of cooperation between Harvard
University and our infant University of Brasilia, I do hope that
upon your return to Cambridge you will have the occasion to examine
the subject with the pertinent University authorities, parti cularly
Assistant Dean William S. Barnes of the Law School, now heading the
Latin American Studies Programme, and the Centre for International
Affairs. I think it would be particularly timely for us to undertake
a joint research project focussing on the relationship between
political and economic development in Brazil.

"In addition to any such studies I think it would be
fruitful indeed if the aid of Harvard University could be enlisted
for the balanced growth of the University of Brasilia. I refer to
the International Programme in Taxation, the International Studies
Programme of the Law School, and of course, the regular activities
of the Centre for International Affairs. Furthermore, I believe
you might interest the Department of English at Harvard in an
association with our University in connection with the operation of
the Centre for North American Culture, the establishment of which
was recently requested to the U.S. Government through Ambassador
Lincoln Gordon.

"Besides the above, you could be of great help to
us who are planning the establishment of the University of Brasilia
as a pilot project for the reform of higher education and research
in this country and even throughout Latin America by having the
several responsible persons at Harvard send us a complete set of
all catalogues of all schools at Harvard, bibliographies of courses,
and advance notice of visits of Harvard faculty members to Brazil."

October 18, 1962

Mr. Georges D. Landau
Assistant to the Rector for
International Affairs
Universidade de Brasilia
Brasilia, Brazil

Dear Mr. Landau:

Thank you for your letter of September
11th. I am glad some of the material sent to you
is proving helpful.

I have been pursuing the question of
ties between Harvard and your university, and
will be in touch with you if I have anything to
report.

With kind regards.

ASSOCIAÇÃO UNIVERSITARIA INTERAMERICANA

C. P. 6188 - SÃO PAULO - BRASIL

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São Paulo, March 22nd., 1963

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge., Mass.

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

In our hurried conversation before I left I forgot to ask you the time limit in finding a candidate for the International Seminar. I started looking around as soon as I got back and dug up Sr. Cândido who has already been approached by Harvard and offered three months at the Center and I gather he is well under way. He, however, recommended someone else very highly and I suggested that this man (whose name I heard only over the long distance phone and therefore will not hazard even an approximation) write you directly. If you are interested in him we can talk to him and find out more for you. There is another possibility here in São Paulo and I am waiting to have him call me and will check his credentials as soon as he does so send them on to you.

There were two or three other excellent candidates but in each case there was some insurmountable obstacle, in two instances insufficient English, which is why I have had to abandon that as a pre-requisite for our program. The best ones here just do not learn it.

The next question is whether you want me to continue the search - in which case I will need to know the absolute deadline. I am going off on interviewing tours in the Northeast from April 18th to 27th visiting, Recife, Bahia and Fortaleza. I could probably pick up somebody for you from Recife but of course his academic qualifications will be even lower. If you are considering just achievement there might be possibilities. I hear that the vice-mayor I suggested to you speaks little English, although, I will check it during the trip.

There seem to be over two tons of letters piled up in the post office while they look for contraband and my husband is now receiving the letters I wrote him over a month ago. In other words if you have anything urgent to say - please cable. It also might be a good idea to advise Mr. Brown of this fact so he will not lose all faith if he is awaiting a reply to inquiries.

Ambassador Gordon is due back this week and I pray he makes it. They almost managed to get rid of him and I am still not too sure they have not. What a way to get a certificate of effectiveness!

Hope we can work something out for you, although it is a small return for your unfailing kindness.

MS/MN

April 5, 1963

Mrs. Mildred D. Sage
Associacao Universitaria Interamericana
C.P. 6188
Sao Paulo, Brasil

Dear Mrs. Sage:

Thank you for your nice letter of
March 22nd. Linc Gordon has found a
Brazilian for me, so that there is no
need to continue your search. At any
rate, since you are going to bring your
group to Harvard, it is going to be less
urgent to have a large Brazilian con-
tingent for the International Seminar.

I am delighted that things have been
worked out at Harvard and I look forward
to seeing you during the summer.

Kind regards.

AUI

INTERAMERICAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

IN BRAZIL: Associação Universitária Interamericana

July 24, 1963

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts

Dear Professor Kissinger:

Mr. Brown will be writing you the official letter
of thanks and appreciation for your having given two seminar
sessions to our 72 visiting students from Brazil. We would
like to add a few words on behalf of the Associacao
Universitaria Interamericana and all of us who are closely
connected with running the program.

We believe the study-tour project is of real importance. I'd like you to know that your willingness to take time and care to speak with the students pleases us because it confirms our sense of the program's value--while at the same time making a direct contribution to it.

Thank you, very much, for the excellent lectures you have already delivered. We are looking forward to hearing you again on Friday. I hope that you did and will enjoy the encounter, with the variety of questions, as much as they did.

If you are in Cambridge on Friday night, won't you
drop in on our Carnaval Party, in the Lower Common Room,
Harvard Union, from 8:00 to midnight. It will not be scholarly,
but you might find it educational?

Twice as many thanks for you! As usual —

AUI

October 3, 1963

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

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

It gives me pleasure to invite you, in the name of all the present Trustees, to become a Trustee of Interamerican University Foundation, the U.S.A. counterpart of Associacao Universitaria Americana which sponsors the "Brazilian Student Project." You were nominated at our most recent meeting, and we very much hope that you will want to accept.

The duties will not be onerous! You will remember that last year you were willing to be listed as an "Advisor" to our program; as Trustee, we would hope for your advice and counsel, of course, and for your continued support of the program as a useful one. We will certainly not be having many meetings. For the most part, Trustees will be kept in touch with plans by written reports or letters. Mrs. Sage and I will continue to take the major responsibility for projects. Trustees have full powers to raise and dispense funds for the purpose of exchanging university students between Brazil and the U.S.A. We will, of course, be raising money, but we recognize that you have a primary obligation to the International Seminar, and we won't call on you for help in this direction unless you wish to give it. Naturally, all suggestions will be gratefully received!

Present Trustees are: Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, Mrs. Sage, Richard S. Aldrich, William Myrick and myself. Five other nominations were made at our last meeting. Our aim is to keep the number of Trustees on the low side.

I hope we'll be hearing from you soon, and favorably.

October 17, 1963

Mrs. George Washburne
Interamerican University Foundation
17 East 48th Street
New York, New York

Dear Mrs. Washburne:

Thank you for your letter of
October 3rd.

I accept with great enthusiasm
your invitation to become a Trustee of
Interamerican University Foundation.

Kind regards.

AUI

MEMO TO: U. S. Trustees

FROM: Elizabeth W. Washburne

## Budget

Our budget for 1964 is confidential. AID, the major contributor to U. S. program, has requested anonymity. AID feels that if students learned how much the U.S. government is contributing through CU and AID, they would be disturbed. Pointed out to them that we have made no secrecy of our request for AID funds, and that we have never discussed amounts with students (though we have been frank about our government support), we nevertheless agreed that no more would be said. You are therefore requested to keep the budget private and not to disclose to anyone that AID is among our contributors.

Note that totals of each numbered item are shown opposite the title of that item rather than as a sum at the bottom. This applies also to sub-divided figures on individual items. Totals for each page and the grand total are in the conventional place.

## U. S. contributions

As the budget shows, we need a minimum of about $8,000 in general contributions to cover U.S. costs not allocated from government funds. We should also plan to raise another $10,000 to carry preparatory administrative and program costs for 1965.

In the past, our general funds have come from Brazil. This year, with the more than doubled cost of the plane and increased overhead there (see Budget page 3), we cannot expect to do so. This is the more true given the bad business year of 1963 and the only recent shift in the local climate for U. S. enterprise.

Our hope is to interest American businesses, with connections in Brazil, in establishing an annual amount of support for IUF here. We are applying for tax exempt status which we expect to achieve without difficulty.

## International Flight

Because no more piston planes are available to us for charter flight from Brazil to the U.S., the group will come by jet this year. It will start at Porto Alegre, picking up groups in Rio and Recife. This plan will be a great improvement over meeting in Belem, and of course the flight will be much shorter and less tiring.

Capacity of the plane will be 150, with some 30 places available to be sold in Brazil.

MEMO - 2

## Program

First stop on the schedule this year will be with American families in Massachusetts rather than in New York. New York's distractions, resulting fatigue and the opportunity for the students to form into cliques before the intensive program begins were among reasons leading to the change. This year families will be encouraged to plan independently for their student guests, with less emphasis on group activities, except for field trips and two or three planned social events.

Following Harvard, the group will go to Washington, as in other years. The final few days will be spent in New York. A visit to the United Nations will be the only required event here. Otherwise they will be escorted as they wish to the World's Fair, to shop and to pursue cultural activities.

Joseph E. Leininger, Secretary of International Legal Studies at the Law School is Harvard program director for 1964. The second week of this program will be devoted to an intensive study of economic development. To focus the week's work as "case" applicable to Brazil will be the subject of study, discussion and preparation of position papers by the students. Five teams of discussion leaders, one Brazilian and one bi-lingual American professor in each, will lead daily discussions and supervise preparations. Utilities may be the subject of the case. Experts both here and in Brazil will help put it together.

## U.S. Students

Both we and our former students have felt the lack of ready contact with their American counterparts while they are in the United States. The Brazilians' sketchy English, special conditions on campus during summer school and the absence of students during the home visits due to summer studies and summer jobs have made difficulties.

To fill this lack, and to add a new element to the Harvard seminar, we are inviting American graduate students who speak Portuguese to join the group for the two weeks at Harvard. We are offering to pay their travel expenses to and from Cambridge. They will live with the Brazilian students and receive the same modest allowance of expense money. They will attend lectures and discussions and otherwise be subject to the same rules as the Brazilians.

So far we have applications from five students, with another half dozen to be expected soon. We have room for no more than a dozen. Those who have applied look like a varied and worthy group.

## Staff

The staff from Brazil this year will include five professors, an academic director (Cezar Elias who has accompanied the group before), a secretary and three former students who will be assistants.

In other years we have learned that we needed more staff, both to improve the quality of the academic program and to assist us in making fuller contact with the students during the trip. Specifically, the Brazilian professors will have as their responsibility the leading of daily discussions as well as taking their turns at general chaperonage and group management. Ex-students will assist with several routine administrative tasks.