12 BIS, RUE CHRISTOPHE COLOMB . VIIIe

Paris, 4th March 1957

Dear Mr. Kissinger,

On my return to Europe, I have started making enquiries to find the name of a suitable Pole who could be invited to attend the International Forum which you are concerned with. I hope to be in a position to submit to you shortly the name of a candidate who would meet your requirements.

I would be grateful if in the meantime you could let me know how long the Forum will last and on what date it will start. If you have any chance any written note about it, it might be helpful if you could send it to me, as it would enable me to answer any enquiries quicker.

With kind regards

Mr. Henry KISSINGER
22 West 55th Street
NEW YORK

April 3, 1957

Dear Mr. Sundaram:

Thank you for your letter of March 20. I am delighted to know
you are back in Washington.

Since you have visited our Seminar, there is really little I can
tell you about it except that we are proposing to follow the procedure
of previous years. We will take up to three participants from India
this year and we hope very much they are up to the high standards of
previous sessions.

An opportunity for Americans and Indians to change views has
never seemed more important to me. I need hardly tell you that any
candidate you suggest will receive the most serious consideration.

It would be good to see you again. Incidentally, I am spending
a great deal of my time in New York where I can be reached at Judson 2-
2300. Perhaps when you come through on one of your many trips, you
might like to give me a call. I still remember our many conversations
with great warmth.

Best regards,

Mr. M. S. Sundaram
Embassy of India
2107 Massachusetts Avenue, N. W.
Washington 6, D. C.

April 3, 1957

I have known Dr. Stephen Graubard for eight years since we were colleagues together at Harvard. During that time I have had an opportunity to observe his intellectual development which has been remarkable and constant. He is planning to do a study of the impact of World War I on European society. I have discussed it with him at great length and I think it promises to be an important -- indeed a major -- contribution to scholarship and to our thinking about history.

He has, as you know, done a great deal of preliminary work. And a number of French scholars with whom I have talked have told me how very much impressed they have been with the manner in which Dr. Graubard has approached his subject.

I hope very much that Dr. Graubard will receive the grant he has requested.

Henry A. Kissinger
Director, Special Studies Project
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc.

April 3, 1957

Dear Mr. Sundaram:

It would be good to see you again. Incidentally, I am spending
a great deal of my time in New York where I can be reached at JUdson 2-
2300. Perhaps when you come through on one of your many trips, you
might like to give me a call. I still remember our many conversations
with great warmth.

Best regards,

Mr. M. S. Sundaram
Embassy of India
2107 Massachusetts Avenue, N. W.
Washington 8, D. C.

cc:LCovette

March 20, 1957

My dear Kissinger:

I have been away from Washington for over four months visiting India, and am now back at my desk.

I should like to have some information regarding the Harvard Summer School International Seminar for the year 1957. I believe the Ministry of Education have already forwarded to you the applications of two candidates. I have met quite a number of promising candidates during my stay in India who would make a distinct contribution to the seminar.

I would in any case like to know fuller details about this year's seminar, and the number of participants you have in mind to represent India.

April 3, 1957

Dear Mr. Sundaram:

Best regards,

April 6, 1957

Dear Donald:

I am an even worst correspondent than you are but my
life is incredibly hectic.

We would be quite pleased to have some Canadians in
the Seminar but we simply do not have the funds to pay for their
coming this year. If they are willing to pay their own trans-
portation, we can afford room and board for them at Cambridge.

I am having my office send you some application blanks
and if I receive them by May 10, this will be time enough since
I assume that Canadians will not have visa difficulties.

Do call me when you come through New York.

Best regards,

Mr. Donald R. Vince
Box 6090
Montreal
Canada

cc: Miss Lyman

BOX 6090, MONTREAL
CANADA

4th March, 1957.

Dear Henry A.,

Thank you for your letter of February 14th.
I was much touched since that day is, of course,
Valentine's Day. Today is not. It is the fourth
day of March but I guess there is not much we can do
about it.

I had the opportunity on Wednesday evening
to have a quick conversation with the Hon. J.W. Pickersgill,
one of our Dominion Cabinet Ministers. He is the
gentleman who took such an interest in the Seminar last
year and arranged for the Hon. James Sinclair to go down.
He told me again how much Mr. Sinclair enjoyed himself
and said he would certainly do all he could to see that
the Cabinet were represented at this years' Seminar,
provided you wanted them there.

I am sorry that you are running into fund
raising difficulties this year. As you know we
originally thought of three Canadians going down, one
from the Universities, one from the Civil Service and
one from Industry. My feeling would be that if you
could cover the normal expenses and honorarium for the
Academic, that the others would be glad to waive it.
Don't forget that the cost of transport from Toronto
to Boston is considerably less than that from Bombay
to the banks of the Charles. However, I have great
faith in your ability to get what you want and I suspect
all will come right in the end.

As far as applications are concerned, I would
be delighted to distribute them if I had any. Unfortunately,
I have not. Perhaps, if you were to send me a dozen
sets I will distribute them to the best of my ability and
co-ordinate their return to you.

April 8, 1957

My dear Juergen:

I was distressed to hear about your illness and hope you
feel better very soon.

It would be too bad if I had to miss a conference for
Seminar participants. All things considered, September would
be by far the best month for me. Naturally, it might make my
own situation more simpler if I were in Germany anyway. At any
rate it is good to know that we will definitely meet this year
either here in the United States, or in Germany, or in both places.

I may have told you in a recent letter that I made the
acquaintance of Mr. Kiesinger and that I thought very well of him.

Warm regards,

Mr. Juergen C. Weichert
Germanenstrasse 60
Bad Godesberg, Germany

cc: Miss Lyman

P.S. Thank you for helping Davis with the interviewing.

Dear Henry:

Since several days I have to take to my bed (suffering
from a hepatic disease) and therefore, too, I have to ask you
not to mind, if I can write only some lines answering to your
nice letter of March 7th.

I am very glad about the news concerning the 2 000 Dollar
for travel expenses in connection with the planned Berlin meeting.
I had to cancel all my appointments during the last weeks,
including, unfortunately, my visit to Berlin and the intended
meeting with the competent officer of the Berlin senat. With
the next opportunity I will try to get some definitive arrange-
ments. Naturally I do not want to have there any conferences without
you and I will do my best a) to change the schedule to September
b) to get you over here by this time.

Finally some words about my candidates for this years
seminar: I wrote you before, that it has been very difficult
to find someone really interesting, who could afford to go to
Harvard during election times over here. Unfortunately two
of my best proposals (1 Law-professor- er schrieb kürzlich ein
vielbeachtetes und sehr kritisches Buch über Carl Schmitt - and
1 editor - I.C.B. Mohr Verlag) let me down.

The both remaining applicants - Dr. Weck and Mr. Blischke
seem to be quite experienced in German politics; both they seem
to speak an adequate English. I am sure you would find them
absolutely to be of some value for the seminar.

I have to beg you pardon for this rather boresome letter.

Dear Henry,

I have to start for a trip to Strasbourg (Member - Parliament) and so I
am in an awful hurry.

Many thanks for your letter of January 31. In the meantime certainly you
got my note concerning the intentions to renew the invitation of the Foreign
office for a period during June/July. If that does not suit you I would
recommend to you to ask in your answer to the official invitation, which
you will get undoubtedly in the case, that your visit will be postponed
til August/September. I did not think it possible for you to leave
Cambridge immediately after the Seminar and, thus, unfortunately told the
people at the Foreign office, that you would prefer to be participated in
this June/July program, by far. If I did catch it right, there is planned
an other exchange-program, especially for political-science lecturers,
during fall. But, please, do not mention this fact in your answer.

Personally I would be very sorry if you could not come during the summer month, because my visit to the States shall take place, probably, during August/September, too.

Enclosed you will find some rough calculations concerning the travel
expenditure, which I would like to be granted by Harvard in the case of
a Berlin meeting.

It would be kind, if you could give a first opinion til March 1st, because
the definitive planning should be discussed with the Berlin Senet at
March 6 or 7.

That's all for today

April 8, 1957

Dear Joe:

I thought you might be interested to see what academic freedom looks like in Belgium. The following is an extract from a letter I received from Van Bilsen:

"Two weeks ago, the Board of Trustees of my College finished examining my case. The Board does not explicitly suggest that the Minister impose sanctions on and judges me in the following terms:

'The Board of Trustees regrets and considers it inopportune that a professor of the Institute Universitaire des Territoires d'Outre Mer give the impression of defending anti-colonialist theses and positions;

'The College being a State institution for the training of colonial civil service personnel, the Board of Trustees considers that anti-colonialism is incompatible with the doctrine taught at the Institute;

'A professor of the College who makes use of his personal liberty of expression in matters of colonial policy, cannot in this case, use his academic title of Professor at the Institute.'

"After this, it is up to the Minister of Colonies to make a decision."

This may be as good a time as any to invite you to visit the Seminar next summer for as long as you can.

Looking forward to lunch.

Mr. Joseph E. Johnson
President
Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace
New York, New York

April 15, 1957

Dear Randy:

It is awfully nice of you to take up the problem of
Confluence and the Seminar with your trustees. A renewal
of our grant on the order of thirty-five thousand dollars
($35,000) would give us a chance to raise additional sums
from other sources. It would also enable us to hold some of
the meetings of our alumni in Berlin and Japan. As you know,
local committees have already raised funds for expenses in
those countries. In Germany, for example, the Senate for the
city of Berlin is willing to be our host.

I greatly appreciate your understanding.

Best regards,

Mr. Randolph Richardson
The Richardson Foundation, Inc.
122 East 42nd Street
New York 17, New York

April 15, 1957

Dear Allen:

Just a note to tell you how delighted I am that you
will be with us again this summer. The collection of
characters that we will have for you cannot be any more
weird than the ones we had last year.

I shall write you again in a week or so. In the
meantime, could you think of a reading list and topics
that you would like to discuss.

Did you know that Astrid Claes married the tall
German in the Seminar. She wrote me a really touching
letter. The difficulty with me is that if I receive a fine
letter, I never have enough time to write an equally good
one in reply and, therefore, Claes' letter has awaited an
answer since the middle of December.

We must see more of each other this summer than last.

Warm personal regards,

Dr. Allen Tate
Department of English
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota

C O P Y

Rome,
Via Aurelia 481
Domus Mariae
(till April 28)

Dear Mr. Kissinger,

I am very sorry to have misled you a little: the American
Embassy in Warsaw gave me the necessary forms to be filled and an appointment
for the 28th of March, so I cabled you this day as the date of my
application for a visa.

But after having sent the cable I got a letter from the
Embassy (probably following a request from Harvard), tocome any
day, so I postponed my trip to Warsaw (I grasped the opportunity to
do so, as I had a tremendous amount of work in Cracow those days).

I went to Warsaw the 16th of April - on the eve of my departure for Italy, to which I have been unexpectedly invited by Pax Romane. The same day I presented myself twice in the consular department of the Embassy, but I am afraid I did it at the wrong hours, as the vice-consul refused to take my papers. I was unfortunately unable to wait two or three hours (as I was recommended to do), for it was quite a job to get everything ready for Italy. And that is why I take the liberty of bothering you: the v. consul told me that I can give him those papers when back from Italy (towards May 15), but that it will take 3 months to get a visa from the USA. Which stunned me, as my Italian visa was obtained in 3 weeks, and then I am so terribly anxious to go to Harvard, that if I was impeded by the U.S. Embassy on technical grounds I would consider it simply a tragedy.

So here is the conclusion of my letter: would it be possible
for Harvard to settle the problem in such a way, that when I am back in
Warsaw it will be a simple formality to give the necessary papers (which
are ready and waiting) and get the visa in exchange? You have all my
personal data (to which I add one more - that I am married and have three
little children) and I imagine the whole thing simple enough, otherwise
I would have done the impossible to be in Warsaw on March 28 - but I
really didn't expect the trouble! (Even March 28 would be too late, if
really three months are needed, as I should leave Poland a couple of
days before the 28 of June.)

Excuse me to keep you on this long letter, but I do hope that
the whole affair won't take you much time, and I expect with great pleasure
to meet you in July!

CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE

UNITED NATIONS PLAZA AT 46TH STREET
NEW YORK 17. NEW YORK
CABLE ADDRESS INTERPAX
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

26 April 1957

Dear Henry:

I have your letter of 24 April. I only wish that it were possible for me to respond favorably, or at least tentatively so, to your very appealing request for a small grant from the Endowment for the Harvard University International Seminar. You know how well I think of the Seminar. Unfortunately, however, we are under such heavy commitments that it will be impossible for us to consider even a small grant at the present time. In preparing the budget for the forthcoming year I have had to squeeze certain aspects of our own program to the point where all those involved squealed.

I am sure you will understand how sorry I am to have to give you this reply.

May I suggest that you try the New World Foundation? That organization, although not ready to go full blast, has some funds, and one of its areas of operation is the promotion of international understanding. Its Executive Director, Vernon A. Eagle, who can be reached at 120 South LaSalle Street, Chicago 3, is the kind of person you can talk to. Whether he will be able to help you now, I do not know, but I should certainly, if I were you, try to see him when he is in New York, as he is frequently.

With best regards,

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
22 West 55th Street
New York 19, New York

April 29, 1957

Dear Mr. Elliott:

I know Alain Bosquet; he is a fairly interesting fellow
but I do not think worth bringing over. The budget for the
International Seminar this year is so tight that I really think
we should not take on any additional participants. As it is,
we will barely scrape through.

The letter from Mr. Vlerick is not about the Seminar
but about the Twin Lakes affair, which I understand is under
Arthur Smithies.

I am sending you a copy of a letter from the Assistant
Editor of Foreign Affairs which is self-explanatory. I do not
think it is worthwhile to get into a substantive argument about
it.

Looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday,

Mr. William Y. Elliott
Professor of Government
Littauer M-26
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Department of Government
PROFESSOR WILLIAM Y. ELLIOTT

LITTAUER CENTER M-26
CAMBRIDGE 38, MASSACHUSETTS

April 24, 1957

Mr. Henry A. Kissinger
Director of Special Studies
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc.
22 West 55th Street
New York 19, N. Y.

Dear Henry:

The enclosed letter, which I had sent up to Graubard's office, has been returned to me presumably with the idea of finding out whether we could do something in the way of paid lectures for Bosquet. I imagine that there would not be very much point to try to get him to lecture on American poetry, except as an incidental matter to a visit here at Cambridge, and I fear that we could not offer him much of a stipend. We could give him one of the usual $25.00 fees for a talk, but that is almost insulting and probably better not to attempt at all, unless you wish to combine it with something for the International Seminar. He sounds like an interesting fellow and perhaps he is someone whom Allen Tate would like to get in, if he does come to this country, to join in some sort of symposium on American poetry. Tate is going to be at Brandeis, lecturing there, too, I gather, and he might be able to arrange something for him at Brandeis. I enclose Bosquet's letter, and you may wish to jot some instructions down on it to give to your secretary here.

I am afraid that I cannot make the Monday meeting on the 29th, if that is still on. After the exchange between my secretary and Miss Flinn, it is my own secretary's impression that the date has been changed to Wednesday, and I certainly intend to come down for that meeting. At that time may I pick up the manuscript of the outline of my book, and particularly Chapter Three, of which you have the only two corrected copies.

My original understanding was that the Monday meeting was of a different panel, and not Subpanel VI, but I may be in error on this point. I have not heard further from Chuck Thomson, but I suppose that he will send me whatever he wishes me to look at, and I would certainly be glad to help if I can.

Nor as yet have I had copies either of the short summary of my book, *A Moral Basis for American Foreign Policy*, or the reproduction of the piece on leadership, though I take it that both these are in the mill.

WYE:hw
Encl.

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April 23, 1957

Henry A. Kissinger, Esq.
22 West 55 Street
New York 19, New York

Dear Henry:

Thank you for letting us see William Elliott's piece on colonialism. It contains some provocative ideas, especially in the concluding section on winning the support of intellectuals. I had some difficulty, however, in reconciling this section with what had gone before. For example, the proposal to place dependent peoples under a NATO Trusteeship does not seem to me well calculated to win the support of intellectuals in politically undeveloped countries, but rather would be interpreted as a means of strengthening the white man's club of unreconstructed colonial powers. Similarly, the notion (p. 17) that a new conception of the legitimacy of ownership and control in the basic vital resources of the world should be developed by NATO fills me with alarm. Many such points made by Professor Elliott, while carefully reasoned and appealing in the abstract to a Western reader, seem to me to be somewhat removed from the real world in which we live.

I say these things reluctantly and with a consciousness that my own prejudices may be showing.

enc. "Colonialism: Some Conclusions and a Program"

April 29, 1957

Dear Mr. Elliott:

April 30, 1957

Dear Mr. Marshall:

You may remember that some months ago we exchanged
letters about Mr. Ecevit. It appears that we would be able to
include him in our Seminar if, as you indicated, you would assume
the expenses which would amount to $500 for the summer.

Could you let me know about this, please.

Best regards.

May 3, 1957

Dear Kissinger:

I have your letter of April 30, 1957, saying that
it seems possible that Bulent Ecevit might be a member of your
seminar this summer if the Foundation could meet the expense
involved amounting to some $500.

I am afraid I have to ask you what this represents.
I believe that Ecevit's fellowship appointment does include some
provision for tuition but this is a fairly sizeable sum to get
covered in this way. Perhaps if you can explain it a bit, I
might see some way in which it could be arranged.