SIR CHRISTOPHER SOAMES
VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE COMMISSION
OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

RUE DE LA LOI. 200
1049 BRUSSELS - TEL. 735 80 40

30 March, 1976

Dear Henry,

I was sorry to miss the chance of seeing you when you were last in Brussels, but it was nice at least to hear your voice on the telephone. I wonder whether the next few weeks might provide an opportunity to take up your idea that we should have a relaxed talk over a weekend.

There are quite a lot of things which I should like to talk over with you, both bilateral US/EEC questions and also wider issues, and I would much rather do this quietly over a weekend than in the usual rush of an official visit to Washington.

I had a word about this with Hel Sonnenfeldt, who rang me when he was passing through Brussels this week. I wonder if your people could let me know what your possibilities are over the next couple of months, and then we could try to work something out. Two of my children are at present working in New York, so it would suit me very well if we could meet up there if that were convenient to you.

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger

EMBASSY OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Islamabad, Pakistan

November 21, 1973

UNCLASSIFIED
OFFICIAL-INFORMAL

The Honorable
Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Secretary:

I enclose a photograph taken during your meeting here November 9, which Prime Minister Bhutto was good enough to inscribe for you during my farewell call on him today. The Prime Minister asked me how you had enjoyed your visit here. I said you had sent me a message to the effect that your visit had been both profitable and pleasant. The Prime Minister said he was sorry you did not have more time here but he was very glad that you had found it possible to put Pakistan on your itinerary. As for himself, he had thoroughly enjoyed the talks with you.

As for the Embassy, it was great to have you with us.

Warm regards.

Enclosure:

Photograph taken in Rawalpindi
on November 9, 1973.

JULIAN M. SOBIN

Senior Vice President

President, Sobin Chemicals, Inc.

INTERNATIONAL MINERALS & CHEMICAL CORPORATION

February 6, 1976

The Honorable Henry J. Kissinger
Secretary of State
2201 C Street Northwest
Washington, D. C. 20520

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

The enclosed book, "Hunger Can't Wait" by Joseph Sander, traces ten years of effort on the part of IMC to serve as a catalyst in seeking new approaches to the problem of world hunger. The book makes interesting reading, as it seeks the motivation for one company's response to a worldwide dilemma.

We at International Minerals & Chemical Corporation have always felt that the most effective answer to hunger and malnutrition was the increased utilization of chemical fertilizers -- and, thus, the increased production of food. To promote this concept, and to mobilize the vast resources of the world's fertilizer industries, IMC developed a program of World Food Production Conferences which were initiated in 1965.

Over the past eleven years twenty-four conferences have been held under our sponsorship in twenty different nations around the world -- eleven in Latin America, eleven in the Asia/Pacific region, one in Europe, and one in the United States. To these conferences have come not only the leaders of the world's agro-industrial sector, but scientists, development specialists, financiers, educators, and government leaders as well. Their acknowledged success is best demonstrated by their continuation -- and the fact that they continue to attract the same top-level participation.

I hope you will find time to read and enjoy this book. We are proud of our support and involvement in this ongoing program and the small successes it has enjoyed. To those of you who have taken part in these conferences and contributed toward their success, we extend a heartfelt thanks. To those of you who will be learning of this program for the first time, we extend an invitation to join us in our efforts toward a solution for world hunger.

Sobin Park, Boston, Massachusetts 02210 • (617) 268-5100

STEPHEN J. SOLARZ
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June 16, 1976

The Honorable Henry Kissinger
Secretary of State
Department of State
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Secretary:

Thanks for your very kind comments concerning
my statement on the situation in Southern Europe.

I fear, as Lincoln once said in another
connection, that "the world will little note nor
long remember" anything I said on that occasion.
But it was nice to know there was at least someone
in a position of prominence who actually took note
of what I had to say.

Did you ever get the postcard I sent you
from Athen?

THIS STATIONERY PRINTED ON PAPER MADE WITH RECYCLED FIBERS

Washington, D. C.
The Smithsonian Institution,
Director, Resident Associate Program,
Ma. Janet W. Solinger,

Personal Assistant
Suzanne S. McFarlane

Sincerely,

copy, which will join his collection of classics.
You and Henry Brandon for seeing that he received a
all of his fensles in his office!). He asked me to thank
"Yes But Can He Type?" boater (as did I might add,
Secretary Klaasinger got a great kick out of the

Dear Ma. Solinger:

January 5, 1977

THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20560

381-5157

THE SMITHSONIAN ASSOCIATES
RESIDENT PROGRAM

December 16, 1976

The Honorable
Henry Alfred Kissinger
The Secretary of State
The Department of State
2201 C Street
Washington, DC 20520

Dear Mr. Secretary:

At the White House Press party last night, I was telling Henry Brandon about the enclosed poster which was displayed at the "Hats Off To Bella" luncheon last week. We captured the original poster for the Smithsonian Political History Archives, but I made several copies and Henry said he thought you would enjoy having one.

I am therefore enclosing a copy herewith, and hope you enjoy it. Best wishes for the holiday season and the coming years.

Enclosure

7613503

THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON

COPIES TO:
S/P
RF:WEB

O/FABRIC DRY
FILES
Attention,
Keep this study together.

PERSONAL

July 3, 1976

Dear Dick:

Thank you for your note informing me
of your decision to resign from the NSC
staff and for your kind personal remarks.
After an extended period of dedicated and
productive work in Government, I can well
understand your desire to recharge your
batteries. I trust you will look upon your
new duties at RAND not only as an opportu-
nity to increase the relevance of RAND's
work to the contemporary challenges of our
foreign policy but as an opportunity to
prepare yourself for the larger foreign
policy responsibilities which will be yours
in the future.

We have established a basis for a more
constructive relationship with China. Your
contributions to that historic endeavor have
been fundamental. During several critical
years you have consistently provided per-
ceptive insights on the often murky Chinese
scene and professional briefing materials
for our many high-level encounters with the
Chinese leadership. I have greatly apprec-
iated, and benefitted from, your analytic
skill, your drafting ability, and your un-
flagging dedication.

You have my best wishes in your new
responsibilities and my hope that we will
keep in touch.

Mr. Richard H. Solomon,
Senior Staff Member,
National Security Council,
Washington, D.C.

S/P:WLord

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7609733

NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20506

PERSONAL

May 11, 1976

Dear Mr. Secretary:

I did want to inform you personally of my decision to resign from the NSC staff as of the end of June. After five years of intense involvement with the China issue, I have come to feel the need to recharge my intellectual batteries, gain broadened professional experience in a different range of domestic and foreign policy issues, and devote more time to my family. The opportunity to head Rand's Social Science Division seems to offer the possibility of just such a change.

I am particularly indebted to you for the opportunity to have been of public service in what I believe is a uniquely creative period in the conduct of American foreign policy. I can only hope that all the effort which you and Presidents Nixon and Ford devoted to the China issue will not be dissipated as Peking's succession crisis plays itself out.

I have no doubt that history will treat the broad and unique range of your contributions to our foreign policy more kindly than the short-lived carping of political and media critics. It has been a privilege to be associated with you and your staff.

The Honorable
Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
The Department of State
Washington, D.C. 20520

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

ACTION MEMORANDUM

7613503

S/S

June 30, 1976

## UNCLASSIFIED

TO : The Secretary

FROM: S/P - Winston Lord

## Dick Solomon's Departure

At Tab B is a personal note to you from Dick Solomon informing you of his decision to leave the government to join RAND, and asking for an autographed photograph of you. At Tab A is a suggested response for your signature.

## Recommendation:

That you sign the letter at Tab A, enclosing a photograph autographed as follows:

"Dick-

With deep appreciation for your unfailing energy, dedication and professional contributions."

## Attachments:

Tab A - Suggested response.

Tab B - Personal note from Dick Solomon.

UNCLASSIFIED

Rand
SANTA MONICA, CA. 90406

9 August 1976

PERSONAL

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
Washington, D.C. 20520

Dear Mr. Secretary:

I have just returned from a brief vacation to my new desk at Rand to find
your thoughtful letter of July 3 and the attached photograph. I appreciate
very much the encouraging sentiments you expressed in the letter and on the
photograph. As I indicated in our discussion of late June, I am keenly
aware of my debt to you for the opportunity to have been of service in a
policy development of historic magnitude. As for the future, I have no
idea what professional opportunities may come my way. I hope, however,
that my new responsibilities here at Rand will provide a basis for continu-
ing to make some contribution in the area of public policy-oriented research
and policy formulation.

As for the China issue, I must say I am increasingly concerned about the
manner in which current press articles on such questions as the future of
Taiwan and our foreign military sales programs are likely to increasingly
polarize our domestic political debate and force the leadership in Peking
into rigid positions. Unfortunately, I suspect that the visible airing of
such sensitive aspects of our China policy will only increase in the months
ahead, given the campaign.

I am taking the liberty of enclosing a copy of a new book of mine, which
will be published later this month. You may recall from an exchange of
memos in early 1975 that I completed the study in 1972 on the basis of
academic research I carried out before coming into the Government, and that
at your suggestion the publication date was delayed until after President
Ford's China trip. I enclose the volume as an expression of my personal
appreciation for your support, if not for any interest it might hold on the
China issue (and I know this is a subject on which you are well aware of my
thinking).

RHS:my
Enclosure: A Revolution is Not a Dinner Party: A Feast of Images of the
Maoist Transformation of China

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To Mr. Kissinger's Secretary

and in case it is still
Miss Matthews -

Hail to you, Miss Matthews!

I do hope that you'll be able
to work out an opportunity for
me some time soon. Just to
complicate matters I feel con-
strained to tell you entre nous,
however, that my wife is
scheduled to have a baby around
February 11th, give or take a week
or so. I have promised her to
be present at the delivery and
hope very much that Henry's
heavy schedule won't throw me
into a conflict of loyalties.
I trust that your ingenuity
will overcome any potential
problem - thanks an awful lot!

I hope to see you soon. Until
then I am

HOGAN & HARTSON

FRANK J. HOGAN (1877-1944)
NELSON T. HARTSON (RETIRED)

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September 9, 1975

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
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Dear Mr. Secretary:

I am writing you in behalf of my nephew, Bobby
Silver, of Phoenix, Arizona. Bobby is 13 years old and
will be visiting Washington with his father, Warren Silver,
on September 23rd.

Bobby has expressed to me his great interest in
your work in behalf of bringing peace to the Middle East.
Last year a library was dedicated in memory of his grand-
father, Harry Goldenberg, in Israel.

The purpose of my writing is to inquire as to
whether you could provide Bobby with an autographed picture
in commemoration of his visit here.

Hoping your staff will be able to help me make
Bobby's visit a memorable one.

Best regards.

JNS/sm

After five seasons' absence, Mozart's comedy returns to the Metropolitan Opera in a new production. It has held a special place there since 1939, after a Mozart revival at the Glyndebourne Festival in England had seeded interest overseas. Many of today's audience remember such peerless exponents of LE NOZZE DI FIGARO as Ezio Pinza, Bidù Sayão, Elisabeth Rethberg, John Brownlee and Jarmila Novotna in the famous Met revival of the 1940's under Ettore Panizza's baton.

Of all Mozart's operas, LE NOZZE DI FIGARO and DON GIOVANNI are the most familiar. Nominally cast in the form of an Italian opera buffa of the eighteenth century, with its keyboard-accompanied recitative, spirited arias and pell-mell ensembles, FIGARO is something broader and deeper than what it appears, for Mozart could not leave the human heart out of anything he wrote. Alongside the buffoonery of the conventional disguises, mistaken identity and outwitted schemes we find touching portraits of the characters, their dilemmas taking on a third dimension that is uncommon in operatic farce.

In designing the new Met production, Robert O'Hearn has opted for a straightforward approach, appropriate to the period that history calls the Enlightenment. There is a lot of actual construction in the sets, which are fitted into a reduced stage opening (forty-two feet across) for greater intimacy but which nevertheless have room to show the neighboring areas, such as the back stairs in Act I. These stairs make it clear we are in the servants' quarters and also provide a functional connection to the rest of the Almaviva household. O'Hearn and the stage director, Günther Rennert, have chosen to move the action toward the end of the eighteenth century—to the 1790's, actually a decade after the opera was written. This enables them to view the action in a Goya-like manner, taking a hard, realistic look at the human situations rather than a fanciful or stylized one. To strengthen this objective, rather literal approach, O'Hearn's costumes have considerable Spanish flavor, more than the sets. This puts emphasis where Mozart himself put it—on the characters, each unique in his quirks and aspirations.

John W. Freeman
Reprinted from the
1975-76 Metropolitan Opera
Souvenir Book

Thursday, November 20, 1975 at 8 p.m.

The Metropolitan Opera Guild presents a benefit for the Metropolitan Opera production funds

New Production

*Le Nozze di Figaro*

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Conductor: Steuart Bedford

Director: Günther Rennert

Sets and Costumes by Robert O'Hearn

Cast

Countess Evelyn Lear
Susanna Judith Blegen
Cherubino Frederica von Stade
Figaro Justino Diaz
Count Wolfgang Brendel (debut)
Dr. Bartolo Andrew Foldi

Barbarina Betsy Norden
Marcellina Jean Kraft
Don Basilio Andrea Velis
Don Curzio Robert Schmorr
Antonio Richard Best

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March 15, 1976

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
U. S. Department of State
Washington, D. C. 20520

Dear Mr. Secretary:

We were delighted to have you with us in Boston last
week to receive the Christian A. Herter Memorial Award.
I thought the entire program went exceptionally well and
everyone I have talked with seems to concur in that opinion.

Your speech was excellent, one of the finest foreign
policy addresses I have heard in many years. I am pleased
to note that much of the editorial opinion I have seen, in-
cluding the Boston Globe, apparently agrees with that assess-
ment of the overall speech, though perhaps disagreeing on some
specifics.

Your leadership briefing was extremely well received.
Those attending were very impressed with the thoroughness,
candor and clarity of your presentation. I think you may
regard it as an immensely successful session, at least from
the standpoint of audience reaction.

We hope you found your visit as pleasant and productive
as we at the World Affairs Council did. Again, let me say
how pleased we were to have you with us.

SES:rs

cc:

Ambassador John Reinhardt
Mr. Ludlow Flower III

December 10, 1976

Dear Senator Sparkman:

In the absence of Secretary Kissinger, who is
at the NATO meetings, I would like to let you know that the
two volumes of hearings before the Committee on
Foreign Relations have been received and are in the
Secretary's office for his return.

Thank you, on the Secretary's behalf, for your
kindness in sending them to him.

The Honorable
John Sparkman,
United States Senate.

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D-7401

OTTO SPEAR, ENTRINGEN

Original Title:
Vernunftigkeit
und
Menschlichkeit (Written in 1972)

Rationality and Humanity - A Need of the Hour

An active concern with peace for the whole of mankind was the most significant feature of the work of both Albert Schweitzer and Martin Buber in the last twelve years or so of their lives. (Almost of the same age, they both died in the same year. They had long been conscious of a mental affinity in a good many spheres of their thought and activity.)¹

Schweitzer was very well aware of the fact that the concern for universal peace had acquired a terrible urgency as a result of the unprecedented situation of mankind. His warning against making war and preparing for war, particularly in the Oslo radio appeal in 1958, "Peace or Atomic War", was as objectively argued and as lucid as any that was addressed to the world at large; and he appeared in a good many warning appeals together with Bertrand Russell, Linus Pauling and others. (Some of them are to be found in the documentation "It is a Matter of Life and Death! The Campaign against the Bomb 1945-1965", edited by G. Heipp.)

Schweitzer made the dual significance of the extreme situation of these last decades emphatically clear: it makes people acutely aware of the danger and precisely because of that it can on the other hand inspire trust and courage, with the result that there will be a turning towards what is good. Some of the words in which Schweitzer made this clear may be recalled here.

¹ The second and third volumes of a three-volume edition of Martin Buber's correspondence (Verlag Lambert Schneider, Heidelberg) contain an exchange of letters with Schweitzer.

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"In the history of mankind today what matters is whether the spirit of humanity or that of inhumanity prevails. If it is that of inhumanity, which will not refrain in certain circumstances from making use of the ghastly atomic weapons that are available today, then mankind is lost. Only if the spirit of humanity, for which such weapons are out of the question, supplants the spirit of inhumanity can we look to the future with hope. The spirit of humanity is of historical importance for the world today." (Concluding words of the manuscript "Humanity", 1961, published in 1966 by H. W. Bähr in the volume: Albert Schweitzer, The Doctrine of Reverence for Life, Verlag C. H. Beck, Munich.)

If this text had been written a few years later then it would probably have contained in addition a few words about some other "ghastly" weapons besides the atomic ones, to compel the non-employment of which a spark of humanity must likewise have sufficed; humanity, that is to say, understood precisely in the sense that we want to live together as human beings; at the very least without "Kristallnächte" and Vietnamese incendiary actions and camps for the extermination of millions and atomic bomb conflagrations, and terrorists bombs.

"The consciousness that we are all human beings together is what we have lost in wars and politics... What is now required is to rediscover that we are all human beings together." What must happen is that we "will begin to be able to trust one another again" and "that we summon up the courage to hope that the spirit of rationality and of humanity in human beings and nations will be able to supplant that of irrationality and inhumanity." (Peace or Atomic War, Munich 1958, p. 44 and 45.)

It depends on the will not to use the weapons – at any rate any kind of "gruesome" weapon; it depends on that more decisively than on anything else. This will exists in a reliable manner only when it is based on the consciousness of a common human existence and on the spirit of common humanity. Warnings that this is what matters were issued by Martin Buber in the same years and with the same degree of intensiveness as those of Albert Schweitzer.

With a vision which the experience of 1933–45 had sharpened long ago and which decades of concern for peace in the Near East had continually sharpened (in a different way, Buber saw that the ultimate reason for concern for the whole of mankind

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now lay in the "inner poisoning": the tendency to seclude one-
self from others because of mistrustfulness or dislike of strang-
ers; where, in fact, such poisoning is present in nations as ideolo-
gy and as nationalistic hybris; and where, as we saw, teachers
of law appear who define "the concept of what is political"
in such a way "that here everything is regulated according to
the criterion 'friend – enemy', in which connection the concept
of the enemy includes 'the possibility of physical annihilation'
...Many a state has decreed the division of mankind into friends
worthy of living and enemies deserving to die, and the poli-
tical principle ensures that what has been decreed penetrates
into the heart and loins of a human being." We have witnessed
that people who were upright in their private domain learnt to
"lie, malign, deceive, rob, torment, torture and murder" –
"with an indubitably clear conscience", when they did so against
the decreed "enemy"².

If whoever plans for mankind with clear deliberation and a
sense of responsibility, instead of being bound to fanatical
ideology or to particular interests, is unable to prevail; if the
statesmen, guided by the "political principle" and by an almost
irresistible thirst for power, continue to be unable to find suffi-
cient contact with one another in open, trustful conversation;
if the devilry of the mistrust which makes every genuine dia-
logue between the Power blocs impossible is not overcome; if
the friend-enemy division of mankind becomes still further
consolidated; then the world-wide clash of the blocs, which
could result in annihilation, will become an ever greater threat;
and this danger seems to have drawn so acutely near that one
must ask oneself: Will one still be able to prevent the pantech-
nical war which could perhaps spread throughout the world?

Buber's concern and hope are directed towards the revival
of a genuine, uninhibited dialogue; at first between individuals,
then between peoples and states and finally between the groups
of states. If that happens then a planetary communality of
thought can come about; a communality of concern that every

² Quotations from the speech on the "Validity and Limit of the Political Principle" delivered in Germany in 1953. The precise references to this and to other speeches and writings of Buber, of which mention has again been made here, will be found in my essay "Martin Bubers Sorge um den Frieden" in the German edition of "Universitas", 1970, and in the English edition under the title "Martin Buber on Nations and World Peace", 1971.

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human being shall get "what he needs in order to live as a human being".

"The nations must enter into conversation in the person of their humane citizens", in a "great cross-front (Querfront) of mankind" which extends "right across all fronts of the present time, the outward and the inner ones. There the ~~objective~~ open-minded members of all groups, all parties and all nations stand linked together, ~~but~~ from group to group, from party to party, from nation to nation they know little or nothing about one another, and, however different the aims may be here or there, it is nevertheless one front."

And perhaps "in the hour when the catastrophe signals its final threat those standing at the cross-front will be forced to step into the breach" - those human beings who are striving (as Schweitzer says) to make us all worthy of ~~one another's trust~~ again; prompted by the spirit of rationality and of humanity.

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January 26, 1976

The Honorable Henry Kissinger
Secretary of State
Washington, D. C. 20520

Dear Mr. Secretary:

My breakfast group is marking its 10th anniversary
next month, and, as a part of this little celebration,
we would very much like to have you as our guest.

The President is joining us for a morning get-together
in February. So is the Vice President. But my colleagues
and I feel that the moment won't be complete without
Henry Kissinger on our agenda.

In looking over our long list of breakfasts past,
I find that your meetings with us were once fairly fre-
quent. Also, as you can see from the inclosed, I count
those Kissinger visits among the most memorable we have
had.

Last summer, at the Rockefeller party, you indicated
that you had not been receiving my invitations as in years
past. I told you I had given up after repeated efforts
to get your ear. You then agreed to a breakfast and told
me to deal directly with Gerry Bremer. And Mr. Bremer
worked out the details quite quickly. Thus, once more,
I am going directly to Paul Barbian who has replaced
Mr. Bremer, knowing that this is the way to get results.

Please do come. It will make our celebration complete.

Sincerely,

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CC: Mr. Paul Barbian
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TRANSLATOR'S SUMMARY OF COMMUNICATION

Language: German
Date of Communication: January 1, 1974
Addressed to: The Secretary of State
Name and address of writer: (Mr.) Hermann Spitzl
Chief Forester
Krankenhausweg 19
8563 Schnaittach
Germany
Substance of writer's statement:

The writer thanks the Secretary for his phone call which he, at first, thought was from an American officer who wanted to go hunting with him. Some time later he realized that the call had been from his long-time friend who used to run up the steps of the Forchheimer home at 18 Kesslerstrasse. The writer remembers encouraging his friend and telling him to become Secretary of State in his new homeland 36 years ago.

The writer wishes the Secretary to know that he is always welcome in his and his mother's home and he expresses the hope to be able to take the Secretary on a hunting trip, a round of drinks with friends or perhaps to the Kesslerstrasse in Bamberg some time. He gives his mother's address as: Trimbergstr. 17, Bamberg.
Telephone: 0951/26135.

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Hermann Spitzl
Oberforstmeister

Schnaittach, 1.1.1974

JAN 16 1974

Anläßlich Deines letzten Telefongespräches, für das ich mich herzlich bedanke, habe ich eine unglaubliche Begriffsstutzigkeit entwickelt. Ich möchte mich deshalb in aller Form entschuldigen.

Ich war der Meinung, daß es sich bei dem Anrufer um einen amerik. Offizier handelte, der wegen einer Jagdeinladung mit mir ins Gespräch kommen wollte. Es hat Tage und Wochen gedauert, bis mir deutlich klar wurde, wer wirklich angerufen hat.

Es war mein Freund und Kamerad, der in jungen Jahren mit großen Schritten die breite Treppe im Hause Forchheimer -Keßlerstraße 18-hinaufstürmte, dem ich gute Ratschläge und Ansporn gegeben habe und dem ich letzten Endes einmal zurief, er solle in seiner neuen Heimat Außenminister werden. Diese "Berufsberatung" die ich vor über 36 Jahren erteilt habe, hast Du in die Tat ümgesetzt, alle Achtung. Aber ich muß Dir jetzt erst recht die Daumen halten, denn es gehört mehr Glück dazu Außenminister zu bleiben, als es zu werden.

Man sieht in letzter Zeit in Bild und Fernsehen Dein enttäuschtes Gesicht, wenn es um die Haltung der europäischen Staaten geht. Ich hoffe, das ist mehr eine Angelegenheit der Regie und weiter nichts Ernstliches.

Wer sind denn wir ohne Amerika! Was wäre, wenn der Außenminister der U.S.A. nicht Frieden stiften, sondern überall in der Welt Krisen und Kriege provozieren würde! Alle Industrienationen wären gezwungen Rohstoffe zu horten. Wir in Europa könnten in Bälde nur noch mit dem Fahrrad fahren und müßten nahezu barfuß laufen.

Ich bitte jedoch, uns in der Bundesrepublik nicht zu Entscheidungen zu zwingen, bei denen wir überfordert sind, genausowenig wie Kinder gezwungen werden sollten, sich für einen Elternteil zu entscheiden. Ich wünsche, daß wir uns bald einmal treffen und

MEET THE PRESS

*America's Press Conference of the Air*

2660 Woodley Road, NW, Washington, D.C. 20008

October 7, 1975

Dear Henry:

Bob McCloskey has just called me, and we have proceeded with arrangements to videotape our interview with you on Saturday, October 11.

We will need you at NBC, 4001 Nebraska Avenue, N.W., Studio A, at 10:30 AM. We will do the program from 11:00-11:30 AM. It will be presented on Sunday, October 12, in our regular 12 Noon time period on the NBC Television Network.

I am looking forward to seeing you and to the interview.

The Honorable
Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
Department of State
Washington, D.C. 20520

cc: Amb. McCloskey
Amb. Anderson

MEET THE PRESS

October 13, 1975

The Honorable
Henry A. Kissinger
The Secretary of State
Department of State
Washington, D.C. 20520

Dear Henry:

I'm sure you know how much I appreciate your taking time from your busy schedule to do a MEET THE PRESS interview. I'm pleased, but not surprised, that it came off so well. I really don't know anybody who does a better job than you in question and answer sessions. You know exactly what you want to say in answer to a question, and you say it with precision. I wish we had another half hour - and I'm sure our audience did too.

It was a pleasure to see you again.

With warm regards,

LES:hhf

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MEET THE PRESS

October 15, 1975

Dear Henry:

I would like very much to have a signed
photograph of you, and I hope you won't mind
inscribing the enclosed and returning it to me.
For your convenience, I am including a stamped,
self-addressed, envelope.

We have arranged to give all MEET THE PRESS
photographs, transcripts and records to the
archives of the Library of Congress for future
historians.

LES:hhf

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In the space of a few days much has happened which comes under one great head: To be or no longer to be for the free world.

In America the President threw away the bait in the Soviets' imperialist trap: the term "détente", and proclaimed anew in its stead a policy of "peace through strength".

In London Alexander Solshenitsyn said: "The West stands on the brink of collapse, which it has created with its own hands. The Soviets need wage no nuclear war to conquer the West - they can take it over as it is."

In the Soviet-occupied part of Berlin the East German Communist "National People's Army" celebrated its 20th year of militaristic existence with pomp, parades and rattling of weapons.

In Bonn and the free part of Berlin brows were furrowed in debate about whether the Council of Elders of the German parliament was allowed, or should dare, to hold a meeting in West Berlin.

While in Bonn the Government spokesman admitted that West and East had never agreed what the "equivocal term détente" means, a young German sprang from the territory, where Soviet bayonets bristle, on to a moving freight train and escaped luckily to freedom.

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At the same time, at the Soviet Party Congress in Moscow, the man after whom the "Brezhnev Doctrine" is named, had his delegates jubilating over the invasion of Angola by his Cuban mercenaries bearing Soviet arms, while in Mozambique the aides of his empire were arming to conquer Rhodesia and bring all southern Africa under the stigma of the Soviet star. But West Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt sees no breach of the policy of détente in the Communist invasion of Angola.

To be or not to be: Over south-east Asia fly the red flags of the communist conquerors.

West-German parliamentarians, intellectuals and journalists quarrel as to whether Communists should be allowed to be teachers, judges, civil servants and university rectors.

In Rome and Paris the Communist parties hide behind a masquerade of independence and arm to seize power through popular fronts with the Socialists or through the "historic compromise" with the Christian Democrats.

But in Siberia prisoners still march from their barracks to perform slave labor in the biting frost. And in the jails of unliberated East Germany the prisoners wait behind locked and barred doors, who sought to flee from the Communist yoke.

In Czechoslovakia the invasion troops of 1968 have been stationed now for eight years, and at the grave of young Jan Palach, who sacrificed himself in fire lit by his own hand for the distress of his compatriots, all is silence. In

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the Soviet Union tanks roll off the assembly line, nuclear U-boats leave the slipways, the arsenals fill with nuclear weapons, rocket-launching ramps and their missiles multiply.

And still American grain ships sail to the Soviet Union to feed the most imperialist country on earth, where ten Kolchose workers, after over a half-century of Communist rule, still produce less than a single American farmer.

The Bonn Government extends the Ostpolitik ideology to the Third World and makes ready to bring development aid also to Communist countries. And West Germany will also pay for repair to the autobahn to Berlin, and will still have to go on paying several hundred million marks in toll fees from the West German Treasury as well.

Hastily and obsequiously diplomats from western Europe, in their van the French, make the pilgrimage to Luanda, the capital of Angola, to recognize and pay homage to Moscow's new satellite. The circle closes.

This is the scene in which President Gerald Ford took leave of the détente cult, because he saw that his people can no longer be called upon to support continued abetting of the East Bloc by the West. When the citizens vote, the modish designers of the world-wide bankrupt policy of the "peace move" and "bridge-building" will be counted-out.

The free world is beginning to think afresh. Late, shortly before the point of no return,

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The weakness of the free world was above all
also a weakness of its memory: forgotten the
invasion of South Korea 26 years ago; forgotten
the popular rising in East Germany in 1953; for-
gotten the bloody destruction of Hungary's will
for freedom in 1956; forgotten the gagging of
Czechoslovakia in 1968; forgotten the Polish
workers' demonstration in 1970, quelled by militia
gunfire. Forgotten also the Soviets' part in the
aggressive war against Israel in 1973. There has
been no lack of lessons; it is readiness to learn
that has failed.

"Your partners", Solzhenitsyn cried out to the
West in London, "hold in their hands such a heavy
stone that they can kill you with a single blow."
The new American Secretary of Defense, Donald
Rumsfeld, had warned that the East was in a posi-
tion at any time to make a blitz attack on the
West.

For years all who would not be deceived were ex-
posed to the scorn of the fellow-travellers,
their voices almost stifled under the cushion of
détente policy. Now the message of strength which
alone can secure peace is again heard from the
White House. But it will go unheard if the people
of the West are not prepared to follow Solzhenitsyn's
advice: to make sacrifices for freedom.

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after wandering far into the defenseless re-
alms of destroyed power of judgement, of paral-
yzed will to assert themselves.

Those who were not deafened by the triumphant
howl of Communist certainty of victory, not
blind to the spread of injustice and the de-
cline of will power in the West, had waited
for a statesman of the free world to give the
alarm, to stop the train of capitulation, to
change the points before it was too late

President Ford's scrapping of the term "détente"
can be such a signal. His appeal to look reality
in the face once again, can be the "stop" signal
for the train on its downward track. His call
for "peace through strength" at all events cor-
rects the direction of the track.

That men like the trade union leader George
Meany, the former Defense Secretary James Schle-
singer, the presidential candidates Senator Henry
Jackson and Governor Ronald Reagan, that the
awakening citizens of his country have brought
him to it, is probable. The important thing is
that the President is beginning to understand
where the wind is blowing. And that his words
become deeds will be decisive.

Peace was to be "made safer", it was said, when
the arrogant outriders and heralds of the desas-
trous policy of détente tried to discredit the
warners as "cold-warmongers". But peace did not
become safer, it suffered grave harm. The flames
rose in many parts of the world and the Soviet
Power planted its victory banner in the fields
where the West had sown but the East had reaped
the harvest.

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