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Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, Mass. 02138

Dear Henry:

You might be interested and perhaps even pleased to know that through my association with your lawyer, Bill Andres, I recommended to a dear personal friend that she try to get help from him in obtaining a divorce in Boston. The proceedings have now gone far enough so that she has reported back to me that she couldn't have made a better choice of counsel. One thing does lead to another.

Don Lamm and I have tried to restrain ourselves from being a nuisance to you by asking about progress toward the textbook, and we shall continue to make occasional inquiries in a low key. We would, of course, be pleased to hear from you that you can see your way to getting back to work on it.

I hope that you are having an enjoyable summer.

JEN:nhc

Henry A. Klaasen

Sincerely yours,

With kind regards.

appreciate your asking me.
York on either of those days, but I
Unsatisfy, I will not be in New
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34th inviting me to the Norton "coffee
Thank you for your letter of August

Dear Don:

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Dear Henry:

At the American Political Science
Association meetings this year we are departing
somewhat from custom. A Norton party will be
given in the form of "coffee breaks" on Wednesday
and Thursday, September 7 and 8, from 8:30 to
11:30 a.m. in the Town Room of the Statler Hilton
hotel. The Town Room is located on the first
floor, one flight above the exhibits floor, and
signs will be posted to direct you.

We very much hope that you can join us
on either or both days.

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Henry A. Klaarner

Sincerely yours,

With kind regards.

during the summer.

I think we should wait. Neurastadt will let you know into a decision now, it will be negative. I, therefore, would like to defer his decision. If we force him Kennan, with whom I had lunch the other day, it at a high level. I, myself, will not be there. It might be interesting to you if you haven't seen the Administration's point of view across which have been invited primarily an attempt to get I an aspect that the Conference to which you to you.

rescued me just as I was on the eve of writing
Thank you for your letter of May 31st which

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Dear Professor Kissinger:

I want to put down on paper the thoughts that came out of our talk yesterday about our proposal for short books dealing with significant crises in international affairs. The general editorial program might follow these plans:

Each volume would consist of a historical-analytical essay of approximately 30,000 words buttressed, where desirable, by a section of documents and extracts, treaty provisions, memoirs of participants, etc. A third section of critical pieces by other writers might be included, but in no event should it exceed the opening essay in length.

The topics will be selected to cover the range that ordinarily is found in the introductory international relations course; among the titles we discussed were:

* The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

* Berlin Blockade

* The United Nations Charter: Success and Failure

* The Cuban Missile Crisis

* The Common Market

* The Foreign Policy of Charles de Gaulle.

We find the following eminently desirable as writer-editors:

* George Kennan

* Arnold Wolfers

* Robert Murphy

* Richard Gardner

* Thomas Schelling

* Robert Osgood

* Theodore Draper

* Richard Ullmann

* Ernest Haas

* Paul Seabury

Stanley B. Stanley Hoffmann.

But the choice of topics and writer-editors need in no way be restricted to

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the above. We see this as an open-ended series with individual volumes to appear both in clothbound trade editions and paperbound college editions. The writer-editors can count on very substantial advances, with $1,500. a minimum figure. Delivery dates will be adjusted to meet the schedules of the individual writer-editors. We are quite prepared to go ahead with any number of these books that can be nailed down.

We look forward to reading the chapters from your Bismarck book and the article prepared for *Daedalus*. These should enable us to give you a more precise reading on the question of the balance between the historical materials and the rest of the text.

We have heard through the grapevine that you play a mean game of tennis. Why don't we plan to meet again soon, rackets in hand, in Cambridge, New York, or some neutral ground.

DSL:lme

(Dictated 3/23 by Mr. Lamm but typed in his absence.)

Henry V. Kleunder

Sincerely yours,

Beat redsaga.

mind?

This might come in handy. What if you did you have in
to give me an advance also as each book is signed up.

Finally, you mentioned that you would be prepared

comments?

on whom we agreed. Could you let me have your
with modifications, we may then use for some of the

I am enclosing a draft letter to DeanACHEAON which

good friend.

who specialize in doing case histories and who is a
Viao, I wonder what you think of Richard Menasdi.

I think DeanACHEAON would be a splendid addition.

to authors in this series.

Thank you for your letter about the advances

Dear Jack:

New York, New York
22 Fifth Avenue
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Mr. Jack Neill

April 13, 1966

ROUGH DRAFT

April 13, 1966

Mr. Dean Acheson
Covington & Bruling
701 Union Trust Building
Washington 5, D.C.

Dear Dean:

It is much too long since I have had the pleasure of exchanging ideas with you and of benefitting from your wisdom. I cannot tell you how pleased I was by James Reston's article about you some weeks ago. It expressed my own sentiments though no doubt I would have been more ponderous about it.

I am writing you today in connection with a project I have agreed to undertake for W. W. Norton & Company. In brief, I am going to edit a series of case histories on foreign policy. Each volume would consist of a historical-analytical essay of perhaps 30,000 words explaining the issues involved in a particular international decision. The rest of the volume would contain documents and reprints of articles and other material relevant to the subject.

I can think of no one whom I would rather have participate in the series than you. You are, in fact, the first person I am approaching. Given your experience in foreign affairs it would be presumptuous for me to attempt to prescribe any particular topic. Almost any subject that would seem interesting to you would be agreeable to me. You might wish to deal, for example, with the genesis of the Marshall Plan or of NATO or any other problem that you consider worthy of treatment.

of treatment.

Plan or of NATO or any other problem that you consider worth
would to deal with the defeat of the Marshall
interesting to you would be desirable to me. You might
any particular topic. Almost any subject that would seem
it would be preeminent for me to attempt to describe
I am approaching. Given your experience in foreign affairs
in the series thus far. You are, in fact, the first person
I can think of no one whom I would rather have participate

of articles and other material relevant to the subject.
rest of the volume would contain documents and reprints
of issues involved in a particular international decision. The
analytical ease of perhaps 30,000 words explaining the
foreign policy. Each volume would consist of a historical-
in brief. I am doing to edit a series of case histories on
I have agreed to undertake for M. W. Norton & Company.
I am writing you today in connection with a project

more heterogeneous about it.
my own sentiments though no doubt I would have been
Reaton's article about you some weeks ago. It expressed
wisdom. I cannot tell you how pleased I was by those
exchanging ideas with you and of benefiting from your
It is much too long since I have had the pleasure of

Dear Dean:

Washington 3, D.C.
201 Union Tract Building
Covington & Burling
Mr. Dean Adeson

ROUGH DRAFT

April 13, 1966

ROUGH DRAFT

Mr. Dean Acheson

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W.W. Norton would be prepared to give you an advance of $3000 for this essay. The collection of documents and reference material could be carried out here by a research assistant under my supervision subject to your final approval.

The date for completing this could be flexible and might be as much as two years away.

Is it at all possible to interest you in this? I strongly hope so--not only for the contribution you would make to the series, but also for the pleasure it would give me to be associated with you again.

Kind regards.

ROUGH DRAFT

Mr. Dean Acherson

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my supervision subject to my final approval.
material could be carried out here by a research assistant under
$3000 for this easy. The collection of documents and reference
W.M. Norton would be prepared to give you an advance of

The date for completing this could be flexible and might be
so much as two weeks away.

Is it at all possible to interest you in this? I strongly hope
but also for the pleasure it would give me to be associated with
ac--not only for the contribution you would make to the series,
you again.

Kind regards.

April 6, 1966

Dear Henry:

I have now read and mulled over the *Daedalus* article and the chapters
from your Bismarck manuscript. What follows may be a case of adding
one and one to get three.

Let me start with an oversimplification by considering the *Daedalus*
piece as a highly compressed model of Part I of the textbook; the Bis-
marck chapters as a magnified segment of Part II. History in the first
instance is often marshalled to support theory, e.g. "the domestic
structure is not irrelevant in any historical period." Theory, or
theories, in the second instance emerge from the close study of historical
facts. Are the two approaches compatible? Yes, for this is not a case
of the right and the wrong ends of a telescope. But inevitably there is
the prospect of overlap between the two parts of the textbook. It would
be a mistake to limit yourself in Part I to obscure historical examples
to avoid "giving away" aspects of the historical studies in Part II.

What this suggests to me is that in the course of writing you will strike
a balance between the two parts, that material now seemingly destined for
Part II will crop up first in Part I and require less elaboration subse-
quently. Take, for example, the Metternichean system; presumably it will
appear in the course of discussing theories of international relations
(Part I) even if its fullest development is reserved for the analysis of
the Congress of Vienna and its aftermath (Part II). As long as Part II
is cast in the form of linked case studies rather than an attempt at a
capsule history of 19th- and 20th-century Europe, fine. I think the dif-
ference in content and approach between Chapter VI and Chapter III of the
Bismarck manuscript illustrates this distinction.

In the end we come back to the matter of proportions. Jack and I mentioned
in Cambridge. The historical case studies can afford a decided competitive
advantage if they do not overbalance the theory. At this point it would be
senseless to set up arbitrary lengths for each part, for we cannot estimate
the distribution of historical discussion, nor can we guess how much space

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will be reserved for the contemporary world situation in Part III. As a rule of thumb, it would seem desirable to keep Part II compact enough that it does not exceed one third the total length of the text. This means, of course, the sacrifice of some detail in favor of bolder strokes; again the contrast between Chapters VI and III of the Bismarck manuscript comes to mind.

I am reluctant to lean into this harder at this stage. Over the next
several weeks I shall be out in the hinterlands a good part of the time,
and I expect to make some further soundings. No great textbook has ever
resulted from an effort to achieve a consensus. But it will be useful
to test out the question of the mix of history and theory by observing
what actually is done in some representative courses.

DSL:1me

PS. I have enclosed the Bismarck chapters. I enjoyed reading them and now will return to A WORLD RESTORED which I only managed to skim last spring.

Encl.