Henry V. Krasner

Sincerely yours,

With kind regards.

to see.

article which I thought you might like
Enclosed is a reprint of a recent

Dear Senator Fulbright:

Washington, D.C.
United States Senate
The Honorsple J.W. Fulbright

Henry V. Kieinger

Sincerely yours,

wishes.

With kind regards and all good

an assessment of Soviet trends.
clarity of our programs and not primarily on
or not we negotiate should depend on the
accepted. Rather it seems to me that whether
had a magic formula which no one as yet had
I was not trying to say that I

arms control and European policy.
which gives my views in some areas, specifically
out with a book on the tenth of this month
consider a "just" settlement. I am coming
3rd. We to your question about what I would
I appreciate your letter of the

Dear Senator:

Washington, D. C.
United States Senate
Honorable J. W. Fulbright

January 11, 1961

J. W. FULBRIGHT, ARK., CHAIRMAN

JOHN SPARKMAN, ALA.
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, MINN.
MIKE MANSFIELD, MONT.
WAYNE MORSE, OREG.
RUSSELL B. LONG, LA.
ALBERT GORE, TENN.
FRANK J. LAUSCHE, OHIO
FRANK CHURCH, IDAHO
STUART SYMINGTON, MO.
THOMAS J. DODD, CONN.

ALEXANDER WILEY, WIS.
BOURKE B. HICKENLOOPER, IOWA
GEORGE D. AIKEN, VT.
HOMER E. CAPEHART, IND.
FRANK CARLSON, KANS.
JOHN J. WILLIAMS, DEL.

CARL MARCY, CHIEF OF STAFF
DARRELL ST. CLAIRE, CLERK

United States Senate

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

March 10, 1961

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

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

Thank you for sending me your Reporter article proposing an Atlantic Confederacy. I agree that the urgency of your idea and similar proposals is called to our attention for many reasons. May I have 25 copies of your article in case I should decide to send them to members of the Committee on Foreign Relations?

Your argument is put in purely military terms. You say that because many of our NATO allies do not trust us to use United States retaliatory forces in their interest some have tried to produce nuclear retaliatory forces of their own and some have tended to disarm unilaterally. Each of these reactions has its own set of dangers which you outline persuasively. You argue that we should solve this problem by sharing control over a NATO retaliatory force through some new political mechanism.

Assuming that your premises are correct, will the American people be reconciled to such a loss of sovereignty by such reasoning? I have serious doubts about it because I think the usual reaction will be: "Not trust us? Why shouldn't they; is our interest not the same as theirs?"

Leaving that line of speculation aside, I turn to the reasons of trade, foreign aid and economic development of all NATO countries which also may be said to lead in the direction of political confederation for some purposes. You mention these but do not develop them in your article.

April 17, 1961

Honorable J. W. Fulbright
Chairman, Foreign Relations Committee
United States Senate
Washington, D.C.

Dear Senator:

I have given some thought to your letter
of the 30th. All of the people I can suggest
have been engaged in various governmental activi-
ties, and may suffer from the same inhibitions
I do. One person who comes to mind is Robert
Bowie--the only difficulty is that he is the
author of the Bowie Report and may feel precluded
from testifying.

I am sorry I cannot be more helpful.

All good wishes.