IMPERIAL EMBASSY OF IRAN
WASHINGTON, D. C.

February 26, 1973

The Ambassador

My dear Dr. Kissinger:

Just prior to leaving Washington upon
the termination of my office as Ambassador of Iran to
the United States, I wish to extend my appreciation for
all the courtesies and cooperation received during my
stay.

My tenure in Washington has been most
gratifying as I feel a strong rapport between my country
and the United States exists, and it is my wish that it
shall continue to do so.

With best regards,

The Honorable
Dr. Henry Kissinger
The White House
Washington, D. C.

KISSINGER, HENRY

April 23, 1969

Lt. Colonel Ralph Albertazzie
Presidential Pilot's Office
Andrews Air Force Base
Washington, D. C.

Dear Colonel Albertazzie:

The children were simply overwhelmed with their lunch on board Air Force One on Monday. They were also thrilled to receive the autographed photos of the plane.

I want to thank you for all the preparations you and the crew went through to make their vacation in Washington something they will long remember.

P.S. Who knows, maybe I will even enjoy flying some day.

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MEMORANDUM FOR DR. KISSINGER

January 7, 1971

FROM: Harold H. Saunders
SUBJECT: Letter to You from Indian Parliamentarian

At Tab B is a letter that has only just arrived from Joachim Alva, member of the Indian Parliament, who notes that he had recently come across your letter to him of January 1969. He travels consistently between Delhi and Bombay and his mail is held up.

[Background: Alva seems to know you, perhaps as a result of your private travels to India. You apparently met him before the banquet in Delhi on July 31 during the Asian trip in the summer of 1969. At Tab C is your exchange with him following the Asian trip.]

[Joachim and his wife, Violet, were the first elected couple to Parliament under the universal franchise following India's declaration of a Republic in 1952. In the Indian context, she was certainly more famous than he--as a woman lawyer and successful politician. In 1962 Violet Alva became the first woman Deputy Chairman of the Upper House of Parliament until shortly before her death in November 1969. She resigned that position having failed to be chosen as the Congress party nominee for Vice President following a lifetime of government service. Fuller accounts are contained in his attachments: a mourning card and a copy of Forum--which Alva edits--devoted to Violet Alva's career. As a measure of her import on the Indian political scene, we judge her to be the equivalent of a Margaret Chase Smith.]

Joachim Alva's letter opens with lamentation over his wife's death and notes that, expecting a condolence message from you, was disappointed that none arrived. [This is simply a case where Violet Alva's death was notable in the Indian context but not in our own.] He also hopes you will pass the attachments on to Mrs. Nixon who had met Mrs. Alva in Delhi.

The remainder of the letter concerns itself with (1) criticism of American military aid, especially to Pakistan; (2) American materialism, with references to your writings on Vietnam in *Foreign Affairs* [sent with your January 1969 letter]; (3) his interest in reading whatever else you have written.

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I have drafted a letter from you to Alva at Tab A based upon my
superficial knowledge of the extent of your acquaintance with him.
You may wish to revise it in accordance with your own feelings
as to the death of his wife and you may want to send along some
further reading materials for him.

**RECOMMENDATION:** That you revise--or sign--the letter to
Joachim Alva at Tab A.

MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT
(RAJYA SABHA)

सत्यमेव जयते

Queen's Court,
Opposite Oval,
Bombay-20.

Telephone: 259989

7th October 1970.

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

I travel between Bombay and Delhi and sometimes my letters hang at one place. Only today I found your well enclosed envelope of January 1969 addressed to both of us. Thank you very much for the two copies of the Vietnam Negotiations from _Foreign Affairs_ and the Central issues of American Policy.

I am very much distressed to inform you that _my beloved wife Violet died on our 33rd wedding anniversary on November 20th 1969._ It has been a very difficult period for me since then, as we had done everything together, and the rest of my life is going to be a problematic one. I am grateful for the _New York Times_ for the splendid paragraph they gave her in their paper. _I expected two messages of condolence and was disappointed._ One message was from _Speaker McCormack and other one from yourself_ : Fortunately good old Speaker McCormack had welcomed Violet in the First Indian Parliamentary Delegation in the USA. I am also grateful to Mrs. Galbraith for her genuine message. She was received by both the Kennedys and has a smiling picture with Mr. Robert Kennedy, which is a rarety indeed.

I read both your articles today taking nearly two hours to

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read them both. Your stuff has to be digested. But I am afraid you will never agree with my firm and unequivocal statements. On the 25th anniversary of Vietnam last month I presided in Delhi at the meeting addressed by MPs and Shri Krishna Menon spoke a lot about Principles and Policies of the Geneva Agreement. I begged of him to write a hundred pages book about what he saw in Geneva. However, I heard a most interesting story at a tete a tete late at midnight at the American Embassy in Prague in 1958 with Mr. Alexis Johnson who was your Ambassador there and his meetings with the Chinese diplomat.

This is what I said that day at the Delhi meeting:-

1. American civilisation started on the extermination of another race through the gun when poor innocent Red Indi-ans were annihilated. The beginning will lead to an end of that type; hence the inseperable atrocities of destroying and women children, destroying food. I was the first Indian MP to denounce the French for using napalm boming in Indo-China and ofcourse the Americans thereafter.

2. The Jews faced unspeakable horrors especially in Auschwitz Prison Camp which I have seen with horror. Yet they have inflicted persecution and horror on the Arabs. Arab lands are immorally and unjustly occupied by Israelites. Had American not armed Pakistan despite the solemn protests of Jawaharlal Nehru, there would have been no war against India by Pakistan.

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Thereby the Chinese were brought to our door step which nobody likes not even anyone in Washington.

I am fanatically wrong. I hold certain principles very strongly. White people have sucked the people of the East dry and built up civilisations on our ruins.

In your article of The Vietnam Negotiations, I would like to point out that above all I liked your remark made on page 215. "One ironic aspect of the war in Vietnam is that while we profess an idealistic philosophy, our failures have been due to an excessive reliance on material factors". And on page 226 "bombing halt will turn out to be an admission ticket to another deadlock" and "we have achieved our minimum objective: Hanoi is unable to gain a military victory. Since it cannot force our withdrawal, it must negotiate about it"-therein you hit the target.

In your article on Central Issues of American Policy, you are right when you say at the outset that there are deep seated structural problems. Your knowledge of nuclear warfare has induced you to say "If the Soviet Union has occupied Western Europe but has reminded without nuclear weapons it would be less powerful than it is with its existing nuclear arsenal within its present borders". If you had to say "The American contribution must be more philosophical" in the next decade than it is sometimes heartning indeed.

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The trouble is that every action of the USA is based on sheer materialism and you must admit when you say "on the other hand the United States, professing an idealistic philosophy, often fails to gain acceptance for democratic values because of its heavy reliance on economic factors". Well it is difficult for us to be reconciled to each other. We must remain cordial despite strong differences. I shall certainly read with interest whatever you say and I would like you to send me your copies on *Foreign Affairs*. I read everything with interest and come to rather obstinate conclusions.

I am herewith sending you two mourning cards of Violet. Please give one to Mrs. Nixon. Violet and she had a chat when you and I was talking to you *before the banquet*. As a matter of fact I was asked to follow my wife and meet Mrs. Nixon. In 1954 I met her, then Vice President Nixon at Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi. I am also sending you two copies of Violet Alva's *Forum* number. Hope you will kindly give one to Mrs. Nixon. I sent them to you through American Ambassador. I do not know whether you got them. *Please send me your* *Foreign Affairs numbers*. My subscription test are overdone. I buy and read London *New Statesmen* and *Observer* carefully.

Thanking you very much and with kindest regards.

Dr.Kissinger,
Special Adviser to President Nixon,
*White House*, Washington.

सत्यमेव जयते

PS:

I see your hand in the Presidents State of Military withdrawal!

Heard on the radio: You have not done anything beneficial to humanity by roasting Cambodia! However though late, very late the Americans do want to get out of Vietnam which should have been left to herself. No one throughout history has suffered so much, persecuted so much and bombed so massively as the Vietnamese afflicted by the USA. Gone are the days when Franklin Roosevelt's golden days of freedom were a source of liberty to the rest of the world, especially the East. Now I am afraid the CIA has got hold of America and I found 1967 (last time at the VN) in a worse condition than 1960 under Kennedy when I first saw the VN. Pardon me. When shall we make the world a better place for the coloured folks to live in. However greetings to you to make President Nixon return to the White House next time!

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Party of India (Marxist and Communist), Shri A. K. Gopalan, Shri Ramamurthi and Shri Bhupesh Gupta respectively and also Parliamentary Swatantra Leader, Shri N. G. Ranga. Many thanks to Cardinal Gracias and Parkattal, Metropolitan of India, Archbishop de Mel, Shri J. R. D. Tata for floral tribute and Shri B. M. Birla for kind messages respectively.

The family is overwhelmed with indebtedness to numerous people, most of whom are not known to the Alvas for their genuine messages of condolences by wire and letter.

They shall also treasure the handsome tributes paid in the New York Times by their Special Correspondent in Delhi, Mr. T.S. Schalenberg, for the editorials mourning Violet's loss which appeared in the Indian Express (Edited: Frank Moraes), Blitz (Edited: R. K. Karanjia) National Herald (Edited: Chelapathi Rao), Tribune (Edited: Madhavan Nair) Deccan Herald (Edited: V. B. Menon) and Southern Economist (Edited: K. Subramanyam).

Violet died as she lived — her last ride, ten hours before her death was on a rickshaw along with her husband from her residence, 3 Ashoka Road to the All India Congress Committee (R) Office at 17, Windsor Place to be followed by the final ride on a truck to the Jamuna.

Bishop Parmar, the Anglican Bishop of Delhi (alas! now no more!) performed the funeral rites and officiated at the Memorial Service. Archbishop Angelo Fernandes, Catholic Archbishop of Delhi also assisted at the funeral rites. Rev. Fr. Patri D'Souza (now first Catholic Bishop of Benares) also attended the rites at the Jamuna.

Jan Sangh Parliamentary Leader Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee attended the cremation at the Jamuna.

May God grant peace unto the soul of Violet — meek and humble, genial and incorruptible, ever ready to serve just, noble and patriotic causes.

## वायलेट आल्वा

"She was one of the great women of our time — a small woman of tremendous stature.. her light still inspires women throughout the world in the struggle for equality and human dignity."

Magazine La Abogada International

Federation of Women Lawyers, Spring 1970, New York.

VIOLET ALVA

Mater Doloresa

PEACE

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In ever loving
memory of

### VIOLET ALVA

Born : 24th April, 1908

Married : 20th Nov., 1937

Died : 20th Nov., 1969

Daughter : Manorama & Rev. Laxman Hari, Pastor, Church of England, Bombay.

Married : Joachim Alva. 20th Nov. 1937.

Children : Niranjan Thomas (1939) Christened by Archbishop Thomas Roberts, S. J.

Bhulabhai Jivanji Desai, the famed Defender of the Indian National Army, proposed the toasts at the Alva Wedding & Christening of Niranjan.

Chittaranjan Francis (1942) hitch-hiked from India to United Kingdom; toured Iran, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Switzerland, France and U. K.

Chittaranjan when six months was jailed with mother.

Maya Farida Fidele (1947) born on 4th July; the U. S. American Independence Day. Dr. Henry Grady, the First U. S. Ambassador to India attended St. Ignatius Church, Bombay, along with his colleagues Dorothy and Albert Rabida. They became the God-Parents. Cardinal Gracias, performed the christening rite assisted by Monsignor Eddie Fernandez who graced all the Wedding and Christening rites as the Vicar at St. Ignatius Church, Jacob Circle.

Maya worked for Arab Refugees in Jordan along with other British Students under Israeli Planes (1969).

Joachim Alva suffered three years imprisonment in British Jails in the freedom movements.

Violet and Joachim Alva were the first elected couple of the Indian Parliament under universal franchise, after India declared herself a Republic (1952).

VIOLET ALVA

Violet was born of a family of five brothers and one sister, all of whom preceded her in death: Dr. Daya, Philip, Clement, Nathaniel, Thomas, Dr. Simon and Rufus Hari; M.A., LL. B., Educated in Clare Road Convent, St. Xavier's College and Law College, Bombay, Professor of English, Karve's Indian Women's University, Bombay (1936); President Juvenile Courts, Bombay; Joined with her husband in founding and running FORUM magazine; Founded BEGUM women's magazine (now closed); Member, elected unopposed, Bombay Municipal Corporation (1941); First Woman Advocate to appear successfully and argue an appeal before any Full Bench of any High Court in India or Pakistan; Jailed with her 5 months old child Chittaranjan, Women's Day (April 1943); Organiser and first President, Agripada Rahawasi Mandal, Bombay, Social Service Organisation in Bombay's oldest and largest Chawl area (1945); Member, Bombay Legislative Council (1947-52); Vice-President, All-India Christian Conference (1946); Member, First Indian Press Delegation to Egypt (1950); First woman elected, Standing Committee, All-India Newspapers Editors Conference (1952); Elected to Rajya Sabha (1952) retaining Membership until her death; Secretary, First Indian Women's Delegation to USSR (1952); Only woman Member, First Indian MPs Delegation to USA (1953); The first woman M. P. in the Indian Parliament to speak on Defence. At the end of her speech, the then Leader of the House who was then Minister of Defence (the late Shri N. Gopalswami Ayyangar) scribbled a note to her stating: "You have done better than a man could do!" (1953); Observer to the United National Seminar in Asia and the Far East on Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders, Rangoon (1954); Twice elected Member, Executive Committee, Congress Parliamentary Party (1955-56); Twice elected Member, All-India Congress Committee; Deputy Home Minister, Government of India, (1957); Represented, Federation of International Women Lawyers at the International Labour Conference,

Ne'w Delhi (1957); First Indian Union Minister to visit Andaman & Nicobar Islands; end of the tour escaped death on sea. Bishop Richardson, ex-M. P., jumped into the sea & saved her (1958). Representative to United Nations Seminar on Human Rights, Ceylon (1959); Elected Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha (India's Upper House) with a rank of a Minister of State (1962) holding that Office until her death in 1969; Member and Leader, Parliamentary Delegations to Lagos, Teheran and Trinidad; Twice Indian Delegate, World Council of Churches, Switzerland and Sweden; President, Federation of International Women Lawyers, World Session at New Delhi (1963); Represented Federation of International Women Lawyers, Human Rights Commission, New Zealand; Member, Kasturba Trust; Only Indian Delegate, 20th Anniversary Celebrations, German Democratic Republic (1969); Resigned Deputy Chairmanship, Rajya Sabha four days before her death. A number of speeches from all sides of the House, headed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, greeted her farewell with warm tributes. Violet proudly claimed that she served under three great stalwarts of Indian Nationalism who successfully succeeded the Presidentship of India—Dr. Radhakrishnan, Dr. Zakir Hussain and Shri V. V. Giri.

Violet has met and talked to the following:-

Pope Paul; Former Prime Ministers, Messrs. Krushchev and Bulganin of the USSR; Prime Minister and ex-Attorney General Messrs John and Robert Kennedy of USA; Secretary of the Communist Party, Mr. Brezhnev of the USSR; Prime Minister, Mr. Kosygin of the USSR; The Shah & Queen of Iran; Foreign Minister Mr. Gromyko of USSR; President and Prime Minister of German Democratic Republic, Mr. Ulbricht and Mr. William Stoph; Madame Sun Yat Sen of China; Mrs. Patricia Nixon of the USA; Mrs. Martin Luther King of the USA; Former President, Mr. Lyndon Johnson of USA; Former Chancellor George Kiesinger of Federal Germany.

Mrs. Bhandarnaike, (The Prime Minister of Ceylon) generously acknowledged the inspiration she got from "a leading Indian Woman politician to enter Political Life when Mr. Bhandarnaike was alive" as reported by the special correspondent of Hindu. This refers to Violet Alva.

The family is grateful to the President of India, Shri V. V. Giri, for his visit to the Alvas and his memorable address at the Memorial Service at the Cathedral of Redemption, New Delhi and for the gracious presence of Prime Minister, Shrimati Indira Gandhi, twice at the funeral and again thereafter at the Memorial Service.

The family acknowledge with utmost gratitude the touching, tributes paid by the Vice-President (Shri G. S. Pathak) and Speaker (Sardar Dhillon) along with the Prime Minister, Shrimati Indira Gandhi and the leaders of the Opposition, when both Houses of Parliament adjourned on her death for the day. They also express their gratitude to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India, Shri Hidayatullah, the Ambassadors of USSR (Mr. Pegov), USA (Mr. Keating), France (Mr. Daridan), Rumania (Mr. Tanasia) UAR (Mr. Amin Hilmy), Kuwait (Mr. Abdul Rahman Al Essa) and Hungary (Mr. Peter Kos); High Commissioners for Nigeria (Mr. Ukegbu), Kenya (Mr. Odero) and Tanzania (Mr. Chale); Counsul General for North Vietnam (Mr. Nguyen Hoa) and Trade Representative GDR (Mr. Fischer) and several other diplomats for their floral tributes, and presence at the funeral or Memorial Service.

The family expresses its sincere thanks for the generous messages of condolences from Miss Angie Brooks, President of the UN Assembly, President Nasser, Archbishop Ramsey of Canterbury, Mrs. Harold Wilson, Prime Minister Mr. Lynch of Ireland, Foreign Minister Mr. Manescu of Rumania, and Former British Minister of State, Mrs. Shirley Williams and Mrs. John Galbraith.

The Alvas are exceedingly grateful to the Presiding Officers of several Parliaments of the world, the legislative bodies of all the States of India; the Governors of Madhya Pradesh (Shri K. C. Reddy), Mysore (Shri Dharma Vira), Maharashtra (Acting Shri Kotwal and Governor Nawab Ali Yaver Jung), Tamil Nadu (Sardar Ujjal Singh), Uttar Pradesh (Shri Gopal Reddy), Punjab (Dr. Pavte), Andhra Pradesh (Shri Khandubhai Desai) and Haryana (Shri Chakravarti). Grateful thanks to most of the leading Municipalities of India headed by Bombay, Calcutta and Madras Corporations for their resolutions conveying expressions of sorrow.

Heartfelt thanks to the following who amongst others, also attended the funeral-Violet's old Presiding Officer-colleague (ex-Speaker, now Governor of Rajasthan) Sardar Hukum Singh, the Chief Ministers of Andhra, Kerala and Mysore, Shri Brahmananda Reddy, Shri Achuta Menon and Shri Virendra Patil respectively, the Presidents of the Indian National Congress (R & O), Shri Subramanyam and Shri Nijalingappa, the Parliamentary leaders of the Communist

GENERAL

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

August 8, 1969

Dear Mr. Alva:

Thank you for your letter of August 1. It was
a pleasure seeing you again.

Thank you also for including a copy of Rajya
Sabha. I enjoyed reading your references to
President Nixon.

I have enclosed a copy of three of my essays
on foreign policy.

Mr. Joachim Alva
3 Ashoka Road
New Delhi, India

3 Ashoka Road
New Delhi

Phone: 40968

August 1, 1969

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

We were indeed happy to meet you yesterday renewing our acquaintance of your visit to our place on the last occasion.

I am herewith sending you a copy of the Rajya Sabha (India's Upper House of Parliament) debates of 24th July, 1968 wherein my speech is reported on the Soviet Arms aid to India. I have therein referred to my first meeting with the Hon'ble President Mr. Nixon. I may be forgiven for being harsh, but it is my motherland which suffers harshly indeed by the massive arms aid to Pakistan and now the USSR have entered into the picture. The great Nehru thundered nobly against your aid to Pakistan.

However, one finds a considerable change in the outlook of President Nixon. In the fifties he was known to be not on the side of the progressives, but now many of his

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pronouncements and policies are more tended to-
wards human welfare. Is that due to your
influence on the force of circumstances? What-
ever that may be President Nixon today has a
different image altogether, more esteemed than
in the last decade.

The copy of my speech will certainly add
to the literature you already have on the India-
Pakistan subject and also another copy of my
speech delivered when I was a member of the Lower
House of India's Parliament, the Lok Sabha on the
Indo-Pakistan conflict. Please pass on the
speeches to the Hon'ble Mr. President. Thanks
very much.

We were delighted to see Hon'ble Mrs. Pat
Nixon. She is a soul of goodness and as one who
was present during the Kennedy-Nixon elections in
1960 in the United States, I realise what a huge
responsibility, physical and mental she shouldered
during that election. That time's *Time* magazine
cover revealed her excellent human qualities. We
only wish she were physically stronger to face
her enormous responsibilities. May there be more

DEFENCE

Demand for Two Million Army :
India should never have been partitioned

(Shri Joachim Alva, oldest member of the Consultative Committees of Parliament on Defense and External Affairs spoke on the Defence Estimates debate of 1965. He was the first speaker on behalf of the Congress, Parliamentary Party. The following are extracts from his speech in the Lok Sabha.)

Our defence problems have increased a hundred-fold by the partition of our land. Only yesterday, or two days ago in Karachi Marshal Chen-yi had the audacity to outrage the sense of protocol and to invite Sheikh Abdullah over our heads and convey that invitation through the Foreign Minister of Pakistan.

He also declared that Pakistan under the leadership of President Ayub would foil any attack from any quarter. Which quarter did he mean? Did he mean Russia? Was Russia going to invade Pakistan? Was poor Afghanistan ready to in-

the treaty between them would have somewhat the proportion of seven points for Russia and two points for Iran and that the day when that proportion was disturbed, the treaty would be annulled and Russia would be entitled to enter Iran.

DEFENCE RATIO

In this country, while we were most anxious to capture the seats

portion of two points and we had five points, of the Defence ratio and that if that proportion or the ratio was disturbed, we would enter Pakistan stating the treaty was annulled.

Today, when that proportion has been gravely disturbed, when the ratio of defence is disturbed, the partition of the land should have been annulled. And we could have entered Pakistan.

But then we had forgotten that sovereign nation-saving clause. We entered upon the partition agree-

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

September 12, 1969

Dear Miss Anderson:

I wanted to let you know how thrilled my children were to see the set of "Ironside." I shared their pleasure in meeting you, and I apologize for my lack of knowledge of the top television shows -- my present position does not permit me to do many of the things I should like to do. I hope you were not offended. I will make every effort in the future to schedule my Thursday nights so that I can keep up with your show.

When you next have an opportunity to visit Washington, I would be happy to give you a special tour of the White House, although I am sure you are already better informed about my business than I, regretfully, was about yours.

Again, my appreciation for your kindness to me and my children.

Miss Barbara Anderson
Universal Studios
Universal City, California

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much more time goes by.
I hope to have a chance to see you before too
times.
expression of it especially during these troubled
your friendship always, put am grateful for your
I appreciate your kind words very much. I value
embraced that you brevail.
to hear of your ill health but knowing you am not
Thank you for your letter of May 7. I am sorry

Dear Max:

MAY 13 1970

KIAISINGER, HENRY V.

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

NOV 18 1970

Dear Max:

Many thanks for yours of November 13.
It seems a long time since I have heard
from you.

The Wall Street Journal's declining to pub-
lish your "Reflections on the Scranton
Report" was their loss. They missed a
most thoughtful and, as always, well-written
piece. Thank you for sending it to me.

I have great sympathy with you in your
book writing. Such efforts have a way of
getting tougher instead of easier as they
go along. I am looking forward eagerly to
reading "The Revolt Against Freedom."

We must get together to talk and I have no in-
tention that our next meeting should wait
until I am out of office. Please stay in touch.

Mr. Max Ascoli
660 Madison Avenue
New York, N. Y. 10021

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November 13, 1970

Dear Henry:

If you have wondered what I have been up to,
here enclosed you will find a marginal sample.
The subject has been of interest to you. I wrote
the little piece for The Wall Street Journal, but
one of my idiotic spells of low-grade flu did not
allow me to finish it in time. So the paper re-
gretfully declined to publish it.

I am going ahead with my book but the job
is still tough and, in fact, is getting tougher.
You might remember the title, *The Revolt Against
Freedom*. It's clear now that it is also against
reason -- which is as it should be.

Oh, how I wish we could have one of our
long conversations! But not as long as you are
in office, and I am ready to wait indefinitely.

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
The White House
Washington, D. C. 20500

(Dictated over the phone)

CHARLES W. BAILEY
Bureau Chief

WASHINGTON BUREAU
940 NATIONAL PRESS BUILDING
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20004

October 23, 1970

Dear Henry:

I finally managed to extricate myself from the middle east after a very busy month, and have even managed to write some pieces. (I will inflict them on your already-groaning in-basket later).

I do hope I may have a chance to drop in on you, perhaps after the election (I'm going out with Mr. Nixon next week but presume you'll not be along). I'd like to pick your brain a bit on the basis of some of my own tentative and rather gloomy conclusions from my visits.

Ann Garmon in the press office let me read a newsletter from Nancy Turck about her first couple of months in Cairo. You might find it illuminating; she turns out to be a very good journalist in small but interesting details and I thought she had the peculiar flavor of the place awfully well defined. It would take you five minutes; I'm sure Mrs. Garmon or Miss Passman would give it to you.

Just a random thought, but the stuff had some insights in it.

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

MAR 13 1972

Dear Chuck:

Many thanks for sending me the clipping
from the "Tribune." I was interested to
see the way you handled it and appreciate
the thoughtfulness of the timing.

Congratulations on your new assignment.
I am sorry that you will be leaving this
area, but wish you well in your next post.
Let us make a point of getting together
before the first of June.

Mr. Charles W. Bailey
The Minneapolis Tribune
Washington Bureau
940 National Press Building
Washington, D. C. 20004

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March 2, 1972

Henry A. Kissinger
Assistant to the President
The White House
Washington, D.C.

Dear Henry:

I thought you might be interested to see the use the Tribune made of the section of the President's foreign policy report which dealt with China. We held back running the text until the day Mr. Nixon was arriving in China, and as a result I suspect we persuaded more people to read it than would have otherwise been the case.

The "Background" page is a device we use to provide in-depth information for both the general reader and those students in high schools whose teachers use this weekly page as a take-off point for classwork and assignments. It seems to be working out well -- or so the teachers & students tell us.

I appreciated the willingness of administration officials to spend some time with us yesterday on the China trip. I found their exegesis fascinating and it provided material for a number of pieces now and in the future.

I hope I may have the chance to see something of you in the coming weeks before the Moscow trip -- and before I leave here (June 1 or thereabouts) to become an editor in Minneapolis.

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

December 10, 1969

Dear Mr. Balanchine:

This is just a note to tell you how very much I regret not having been able to attend the Ballet on Sunday evening, after you so kindly arranged such marvelous seats for me.

I received unexpected word that I had to return to Washington and, at the last minute, was forced to cancel my reservation for the performance.

I appreciate very much your assistance and hope that I may prevail on your good offices at some future time.

Mr. George Balanchine
The School of American Ballet
155 West 65th Street
New York, New York

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Best regards,

at some future time.

hope that I may prevail on your good offices
I appreciate very much your assistance and

*MISTAKES*

performance.
forced to cancel my reservation for the ber-
to Washington and, at the last minute, was
I received unexpected word that I had to return
such marvelous seats for me,
on Sunday evening, after you so kindly arranged
regret not having been able to attend the Ballet
This is just a note to tell you how very much I

Dear Mr. Balanchine:

Dear Mr. Balanchine:

December 10, 1969

KISSINGER, HENRY V.

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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

March 16, 1971

Dear Doak:

I have just learned of your illness. It
was a great shock to me and all of your
many friends here. We wish you a swift
and complete recovery.

Your writings and our discussions of
China policy have been very helpful to
me. I look forward to your resuming
activity as soon as you are able.

Professor Doak Barnett
George Washington University
Hospital
901 23rd Street N. W.
Washington, D. C.

Dispatched 3/18/71 (rb)

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

Dear Mr. Barzel:

Many thanks for your letter of
September 10. I assure you that I
found our frank discussion most
valuable and that the President pro-
fited from the opportunity of meeting
with you. Thank you also for the
additional information and views
contained in your letter.

I share your hope that we may have
occasion again to meet and talk
frankly.

Warm regards,

Henry A. Kissinger

Mr. Rainer Barzel
53 Bonn/Rhein
Gorresstrasse
Germany

MEMORANDUM

THE WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON

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ACTION

September 23, 1970

MEMORANDUM FOR MR. KISSINGER

FROM: Helmut Sonnenfeldt

SUBJECT: Letter from Barzel.

He has written to thank you for your frank talk, to report CDU leadership agreement on his line, and to note that he has taken up confidential conversations with Brandt on Berlin using the channel also to give Brandt a suggestion going beyond the Berlin issue (evidently an ellyptical reference to something that was said here but that he did not want others to know about (Tab B). He expresses concern about Wehner's Yugoslav trip and SPD-Yugoslav Communist Party relations. He hopes to have many more confidential talks with you. To avoid protocol problems, he asks you to thank the President in his behalf for receiving him.

If you wish to reply directly to Barzel, who sent his letter via Jonathan Dean of our Bonn Embassy, a letter is attached for your signature (Tab A).

RECOMMENDATION

That you consider sending and signing the attached letter to Barzel. (Tab A).

(I assume no written memo to the President is necessary to convey Barzel's thanks.)

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Germany

10. September 1970

Mr. Henry Kissinger
White House
Washington D.C./USA

Lieber Herr Kissinger,

der ungewöhnlich informative Besuch in San Clemente
war für mich ein großes Erlebnis. Er war zugleich
nützlich und hilfreich.

Sehr herzlich danke ich Ihnen für die Offenheit
unseres Gespräches und für die Direktheit Ihrer
kritischen Fragen.

Es ist mir nun gelungen, die einstimmige Billigung des
Vorstandes meiner Partei für die politische Linie zu
gewinnen, die ich vertrete und die sie sehr gut kennen.
Inzwischen habe ich auch mit dem Bundeskanzler das
vertrauliche Gespräch über Berlin aufgenommen, und
ich habe es benutzt, ihm einen darüber hinausgehenden
Rat zu geben.

Besorgt macht mich der Besuch Herbert Wehners in
Jugoslawien und die Aufnahme offizieller Beziehungen
zwischen der Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands
und der kommunistischen Partei Jugoslawiens.

Ich danke Ihnen aufrichtig und hoffe, noch viele offene,
kritische, informative und völlig diskret behandelte Ge-
spräche mit Ihnen haben zu dürfen.

Ich habe die protokollarische Besorgnis, daß ein direkter

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Dankesbrief von mir an Ihren hochverehrten Herrn
Präsidenten, der mich stark beeindruckt hat, falsch
verstanden werden könnte. Um so herzlicher bitte ich
Sie, in der Form, die Sie für angemessen und richtig
halten, ihm meinen Dank für die Art des Empfanges
und den Inhalt des Gespräches zu übermitteln.

Mit herzlichen Grüßen und allen guten Wünschen und
in der Hoffnung, daß Ihr Kopf nicht der Sorgen wegen
platzt, grüße ich Sie als

Ihr

The White House
Washington

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CD NEW YORK NY FEB 17

DR HENRY KISSINGER

THE WHITE HOUSE
DEAR DR KISSINGER

UNDER THE ASSUMPTION THAT YOU WILL ACCOMPANY PRESIDENT NIXON
ON HIS FORTHCOMING VISIT TO EUROPEAN CAPITALS I TAKE THE LIBERTY
OF SUGGESTING THAT POLITICAL SENTIMENTS AS WELL AS TRADE RELATIONS
WOULD GREATLY BENEFIT IF YOU WOULD MEET AGAIN NOT ONLY WITH PROF ERHARD
BUT ALSO WITH OBERBUERGERMEISTER SCHERZER OF FUERTH STOP THIS WOULD

CLEARLY DEMONSTRATE ABSENCE OF RESENTMENT ON YOUR
PART AND REESTABLISHMENT OF A BOND WITH THE COUNTRY OF YOUR BIRTH STOP
NATURALLY I WOULD BE EXTREMELY PLEASED TO MEET ALSO WITH YOU

IN GERMANY KINDEST REGARDS

JOHN P BAUER PRESIDENT BAUER INTERNATIONAL CORP 39 BROADWAY
NEW YORK CITY AT PRESENT AT BAUER INTERNATIONAL (EUROPA) GMBH
UNTERMAINANLAGE 7 FRANKFURTMAIN
BAUER INTERNATIONAL CORP 39 BROADWAY NYC.

KISSINGER, HENRY

X

Mrs. Leonard Beaton
27 Lloyd Square
London, W. C. 1 England

I was deeply saddened to learn this afternoon of Leonard's sudden
and untimely passing. All those who knew him will feel a keen
sense of loss and I hope you will accept my sympathy on this most
difficult and tragic of days.

Henry A. Kissinger

DRH:wgh:10 Jun 71 (Telegram dispatched 8:41 p.m., 6/10/71)

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difficult and tragic of days.
A sense of loss and I hope you will accept my sympathy on this most
and unmitigating passing. All those who knew him will feel a keen
I was deeply saddened to learn this afternoon of Leonard's sudden

London, W. C. 1 England
27 Lloyd Street
Mrs. Leonard Beston

KISSINGER, HENRY V.

X

ART SEIDENBAUM

# A Requiem for Maggie

Maggie Savoy Bellows was a big woman with a brimming smile and a joyous bearhug on humanity. She changed the world before she left it.

Maggie took that patronizing title, Women's Editor, and squeezed every cuteness, every tea sandwich, every simper out of it. She was a society editor in the most embracing sense, taking on the whole community instead of

the few fashionable creatures who live on guest lists.

Maggie wrote about women and about men, in a real world where women and men scuffle, bleed, beg and once in a while behave like heroes. The way she changed the

world was by introducing strangers to each other—strange faces, strange colors, strange ideas.

Maggie mixed business and pleasure and blurred the lines of both. The people she wrote about were often the people at her home because Maggie inevitably became involved with them. Delegates from high places and from gutters.

Maggie complained one day recently about having no hobbies. She didn't play games or knit or breed orchids. Her whole pleasure-business was people—reporting them, hearing them, reading them, showing them toward good.

## An Impatient Patient

Maggie was bad at being sick because she had to sit in the hospital and let the world come to her, to hear people rooting for her health instead of all of them being outside treating everybody.

Maggie had cancer and I think it annoyed her as much as it pained her. She opted for radical surgery rather than wait for the disease to win.

She insisted on truth rather than to hear sedative lies. She really fought for life and she died hard, not painfully at the end, but hard.

Jim Bellows, her husband, went home and put a sign on the front door. It welcomed any delegate who wanted to arrive, provided they would celebrate Maggie. They came and celebrated, those friends who love their own lives more because they loved Maggie.

## No Time for Tears

She didn't want a funeral and there won't be one. She didn't want flowers sent, either. Anybody who wants to celebrate Maggie by ceremony is invited to make a donation to the Mafundi Institute or the American Cancer Society. Mafundi is Maggie's business-pleasure kind of place, a street-born academy where black and white strangers meet over music and the arts.

Maggie scared me a little when I met her four years ago. She was tall, so obviously strong and so unabashedly outgoing that I took a half-step back to wonder what this woman really wanted.

Maggie really wanted to liberate. Not only women's liberation, which she supported with the rollicking zest of having long been liberated, but men's liberation, too. She wanted to take us out of those self-containing shells we build so that we might mix human business-pleasure.

Maggie broke shells and she helped a lot of us out of them. She committed herself to our commitment. So the world that changed was in us and still is, which is why we celebrate, Maggie.

## Side One

### MOTHER

MOTHER, YOU HAD ME BUT I NEVER HAD YOU
I WANTED YOU BUT YOU DIDN'T WANT ME
SO I GOT TO TELL YOU
GOODBYE GOODBYE

FATHER, YOU LEFT ME BUT I NEVER LEFT YOU
I NEEDED YOU BUT YOU DIDN'T NEED ME
SO I JUST GOT TO TELL YOU
GOODBYE GOODBYE

CHILDREN, DON'T DO WHAT I HAVE DONE
I COULDN'T WALK AND I TRIED TO RUN
SO I GOT TO TELL YOU
GOODBYE GOODBYE

MAMA DON'T GO
DADDY COME HOME

### HOLD ON JOHN

HOLD-ON JOHN, JOHN HOLD ON
IT'S GONNA BE ALRIGHT
YOU GONNA WIN THE FIGHT

HOLD ON YOKO, YOKO HOLD ON
IT'S GONNA BE ALRIGHT
YOU GONNA MAKE THE FLIGHT

WHEN YOU'RE BY YOURSELF
AND THERE'S NO-ONE ELSE
YOU JUST TELL YOURSELF
TO HOLD ON

HOLD ON WORLD, WORLD HOLD ON
IT'S GONNA BE ALRIGHT
YOU GONNA SEE THE LIGHT

WHEN YOU'RE ONE
REALLY ONE
YOU GET THINGS DONE
LIKE THEY NEVER BEEN DONE
SO HOLD ON
HOLD ON

### I FOUND OUT

I TOLD YOU BEFORE, STAY AWAY FROM MY DOOR
DON'T GIVE ME THAT BROTHER, BROTHER, BROTHER,
BROTHER

THE FREAKS ON THE PHONE, WON'T LEAVE ME ALONE
SO DON'T GIVE ME THAT BROTHER, BROTHER, BROTHER,
BROTHER NO 1
I FOUND OUT!

NOW THAT I SHOWED YOU WHAT I BEEN THROUGH
DON'T TAKE NOBODY'S WORD WHAT YOU CAN DO
THERE AIN'T NO JESUS GONNA COME FROM THE SKY
NOW THAT I FOUND OUT I KNOW I CAN CRY
I FOUND OUT!

SOME OF YOU SITTING THERE WITH YOUR COCK IN
YOUR HAND
DON'T GET YOU NOWHERE DON'T MAKE YOU A MAN
I HEARD SOMETHING 'BOUT MY MA AND MY PA
THEY DIDN'T WANT ME SO THEY MADE ME A STAR
I FOUND OUT!

OLD HARE KRISHNA GOT NOTHING ON YOU
JUST KEEP YOU CRAZY WITH NOTHING TO DO
KEEP YOU OCCUPIED WITH PIE IN THE SKY
THERE AIN'T NO GURU WHO CAN SEE THROUGH YOUR EYES
I FOUND OUT!

- I SEEN THROUGH JUNKIES I BEEN THROUGH IT ALL
I SEEN RELIGION FROM JESUS TO PAUL
DON'T LET THEM FOOL YOU WITH DOPE AND COCAINE
CAN'T DO YOU NO HARM TO FEEL YOUR OWN PAIN
I FOUND OUT!

### WORKING CLASS HERO

AS SOON AS YOU'RE BORN THEY MAKE YOU FEEL SMALL
BY GIVING YOU NO TIME INSTEAD OF IT ALL
TILL THE PAIN IS SO BIG YOU FEEL NOTHING AT ALL
A WORKING CLASS HERO IS SOMETHING TO BE
A WORKING CLASS HERO IS SOMETHING TO BE

THEY HURT YOU AT HOME AND THEY HIT YOU AT SCHOOL
THEY HATE YOU IF YOU'RE CLEVER AND THEY DESPISE
A FOOL
TILL YOU'RE SOuckING CRAZY YOU CAN'T FOLLOW
THEIR RULES

WHEN THEY'VE TORTURED AND SCARED YOU FOR
20 ODD YEARS

THEN THEY EXPECT YOU TO PICK A CAREER
WHEN YOU CAN'T REALLY FUNCTION YOU'RE SO FULL
OF FEAR

KEEP YOU DOPED WITH RELIGION AND SEX AND TV
AND YOU THINK YOU'RE SO CLEVER AND CLASSLESS
AND FREE

BUT YOU'RE STILLuckING PEASANTS AS FAR AS I
CAN SEE

THERE'S ROOM AT THE TOP THEY ARE TELLING YOU STILL
BUT FIRST YOU MUST LEARN HOW TO SMILE AS YOU KILL
IF YOU WANT TO BE LIKE THE FOLKS ON THE HILL
A WORKING CLASS HERO IS SOMETHING TO BE

YES, A WORKING CLASS HERO IS SOMETHING TO BE
IF YOU WANT TO BE A HERO WELL JUST FOLLOW ME
IF YOU WANT TO BE A HERO WELL JUST FOLLOW ME

### ISOLATION

PEOPLE SAY WE GOT IT MADE
DON'T THEY KNOW WE'RE SO AFRAID
ISOLATION

WE'RE AFRAID TO BE ALONE
EVERYBODY GOT TO HAVE A HOME
ISOLATION

JUST A BOY AND A LITTLE GIRL
TRYING TO CHANGE THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD
ISOLATION

THE WORLD IS JUST A LITTLE TOWN
EVERYBODY TRYING TO PUT US DOWN
ISOLATION

I DON'T EXPECT YOU TO UNDERSTAND
AFTER YOU CAUSED SO MUCH PAIN
BUT THEN AGAIN YOU'RE NOT TO BLAME
YOU'RE JUST A HUMAN, A VICTIM OF THE INSANE

WE'RE AFRAID OF EVERYONE
AFRAID OF THE SUN
ISOLATION

THE SUN WILL NEVER DISAPPEAR
BUT THE WORLD MAY NOT HAVE MANY YEARS
ISOLATION

## Side Two

### REMEMBER

REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG
HOW THE HERO WAS NEVER HUNG
ALWAYS GOT AWAY

REMEMBER HOW THE MAN
USED TO LEAVE YOU EMPTY HANDED
ALWAYS, ALWAYS LET YOU DOWN
IF YOU EVER CHANGE YOUR MIND
ABOUT LEAVING IT ALL BEHIND
REMEMBER, REMEMBER, TODAY

DON'T FEEL SORRY
'BOUT THE WAY IT'S GONE

DON'T YOU WORRY
'BOUT WHAT YOU'VE DONE

REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE SMALL
HOW PEOPLE SEEMED SO TALL
ALWAYS HAD THEIR WAY
REMEMBER YOUR MA AND PA
JUST WISHING FOR MOVIE STARDOM
ALWAYS, ALWAYS PLAYING A PART
IF YOU EVER FEEL SO SAD
AND THE WHOLE WORLD IS DRIVING YOU MAD
REMEMBER, REMEMBER, TODAY

### LOVE

LOVE IS REAL, REAL IS LOVE
LOVE IS FEELING, FEELING LOVE
LOVE IS WANTING TO BE LOVED

LOVE IS TOUCH, TOUCH IS LOVE
LOVE IS REACHING, REACHING LOVE
LOVE IS ASKING TO BE LOVED

LOVE IS YOU
YOU AND ME
LOVE IS KNOWING
WE CAN BE

LOVE IS FREE, FREE IS LOVE
LOVE IS LIVING, LIVING LOVE
LOVE IS NEEDING TO BE LOVED

WELL WELL WELL
I TOOK MY LOVED ONE OUT TO DINNER
SO WE COULD GET A BITE TO EAT
AND THOUGH WE BOTH HAD BEEN MUCH THINNER
SHE LOOKED SO BEAUTIFUL I COULD EAT HER
WELL WELL WELL OH WELL

WE SAT AND TALKED OF REVOLUTION
JUST LIKE TWO LIBERALS IN THE SUN
WE TALKED OF WOMEN'S LIBERATION
AND HOW THE HELL WE COULD GET THINGS DONE
WELL WELL WELL OH WELL

I TOOK MY LOVED ONE TO A BIG FIELD
SO WE COULD WATCH THE ENGLISH SKY
WE BOTH WERE NERVOUS FEELING GUILTY
AND NEITHER ONE OF US KNEW JUST WHY
WELL WELL WELL OH WELL

### LOOK AT ME

LOOK AT ME
WHO AM I SUPPOSED TO BE?

WHO AM I SUPPOSED TO BE?
LOOK AT ME

WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO BE?
WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO BE?

LOOK AT ME
OH MY LOVE OH MY LOVE

HERE I AM
WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO?
WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO?
HERE I AM

WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU?
WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU?

HERE I AM
OH MY LOVE OH MY LOVE

LOOK AT ME, OH PLEASE LOOK AT ME, MY LOVE
HERE I AM—OH MY LOVE

WHO AM I?
NOBODY KNOWS BUT ME
NOBODY KNOWS BUT ME

WHO AM I?
NOBODY ELSE CAN SEE
JUST YOU AND ME
WHO ARE WE?

OH MY LOVE OH MY LOVE

### GOD

GOD IS A CONCEPT
BY WHICH WE MEASURE
OUR PAIN

I'LL SAY IT AGAIN
GOD IS A CONCEPT
BY WHICH WE MEASURE
OUR PAIN

I DONT BELIEVE IN MAGIC
I DONT BELIEVE IN I-CHING

I DONT BELIEVE IN BIBLE
I DONT BELIEVE IN TAROT

I DONT BELIEVE IN HITLER
I DONT BELIEVE IN JESUS

I DONT BELIEVE IN KENNEDY
I DONT BELIEVE IN BUDDHA

I DONT BELIEVE IN MANTRA
I DONT BELIEVE IN GITA

I DONT BELIEVE IN YOGA
I DONT BELIEVE IN KINGS

I DONT BELIEVE IN ELVIS
I DONT BELIEVE IN ZIMMERMAN

I DONT BELIEVE IN BEATLES
I JUST BELIEVE IN ME

YOKO AND ME
AND THAT'S REALITY

THE DREAM IS OVER
WHAT CAN I SAY?

THE DREAM IS OVER
YESTERDAY
I WAS THE DREAMWEAVER
BUT NOW I'M REBORN
I WAS THE WALRUS
BUT NOW I'M JOHN
AND SO DEAR FRIENDS
YOU JUST HAVE TO CARRY ON
THE DREAM IS OVER

### MY MUMMY'S DEAD

MY MUMMY'S DEAD
I CAN'T GET IT THROUGH MY HEAD
THOUGH IT'S BEEN SO MANY YEARS

MY MUMMY'S DEAD
IT'S HARD TO EXPLAIN
SO MUCH PAIN
I COULD NEVER SHOW IT
MY MUMMY'S DEAD

PRODUCED: JOHN AND YOKO AND PHIL SPECTOR

ENGINEERS: PHIL MACDONALD, RICHARD LUSH, JOHN LICKIE, ANDY STEVENS AND EDDIE

COVER PHOTOGRAPH: DAN RICHTER

SLEEVE DESIGN: JOHN AND YOKO

All songs written by John Lennon.

All lyrics ©1970 Maclen (Music) Ltd., (U.K.)

MEMORANDUM

April 22, 1969

MEMORANDUM FOR HENRY A. KISSINGER

FROM: Richard M. Moose

SUBJECT: Birthday Letter - Bergsten

Attached, at Tab A, is a birthday letter to Mr. C. Fred Bergsten. Mr. Bergsten's birthday falls on Wednesday, April 23rd, and it is, therefore, suggested that the letter be signed and dispatched Wednesday, April 23rd.

Recommendation:

That you sign the letter attached at Tab A.

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