Really I make practical use of the exercised international co-
operation and understanding in my daily work: having worked in Paris and
London 1954 for EDC and NATO--arrangements later, I found it helpful to be
trained a little bit in getting in touch with other nation's representatives
and to argue about national interests and to compromise.

The proportions between my own country - Europe - American - Asia-
world and their interests are put in a better relation - it makes me happy
to work for my country in regard of others. So I'm thankful and I hope
to give my small contribution to society and humanity. Please take my
friendship for the new year too and count on me whenever you will.

The old year passed quietly: I was after more than one year's ab-
sence back in my own apartment again--please find the new address--my
mother came from Berlin to have X-mas and some time with me. Thoughts
went back and forward. The - even poor - 'yes' of the French Assembly was
welcomed and we hope to continue more steadily and happily 1955 than before.
But step by step- and I'm sure that by working together confidence will
grow better than asked as a prior aim before working together.

With all best wishes.

Yours ever,
Horst Krueger
German Representative
on the NATO Council

My dear Mr. Kissinger:

Time certainly flies, for it has now been over a week since I
left the Harvard Yard and the unforgettable memory of those joyful days
I had the pleasure of spending with you and the other members of the
Seminar, associated with the picturesque vision of green ivy scrolling
over those historic, old buildings, is still warm in my heart.

I sincerely wish to express my heartfelt gratitude to all
those to whom I owe so much for those many happy days I spent in the
Yard, and I am sure that the other Japanese participants join me in
expressing these sentiments. Before our common tie of humanity, differences
in manners and customs among races mean next to nothing. It is our utmost
pride that we have felt the great tradition of Harvard and that we have
learned the noble spirit which should prevail in the future by our friend-
ship with all the nationalities of the world. We are very happy in that
we have learned so much from you and the others although we regret having
brought so little to you.

My activity here has been directed toward the promotion of
strong, frank and friendly relations between the U.S. and Japan....

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

At this precise moment, I receive a letter from Alain Clement
(a French participant and correspondent for the neutralist influential
*Le Monde*). I never saw a reasonable young Frenchman so enthusiastic
about anything. The U.S.A. is wonderful, Harvard is wonderful, the
Summer School Director is wonderful, and so on and so forth. It certainly
was a hit, and that fact gives me great pleasure: he tells me he is to
write on his American experiences in *Le Monde*, and I only hope he won't
lose his job for being sold out to the Yankees. Seriously, I am convinced
that this kind of thing is just what the USA ought to go for. Unfortunate-
ly, they are not always convinced of that - and they do not always find
the human material they would need on this side for a good job.

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

It is with much pleasure that I send to you a copy of our
Magazine containing an article on "The Harvard International Seminar,
1953" contributed by me. The magazine is monthly issue and its circu-
lation is 30,000 copies. It will be distributed to all the schools and
libraries both in the urban and rural areas of the country. In fact, it
will reach every nook and corner of the country and I hope the account
on the Seminar will be of some interest to the reading public of the
magazine.

I am sorry that the article is written in Burmese. But it
will serve its purpose well, since the dissemination of any news in
Burmese is more effective in this country. The contents of the article
are: How I got selected as a participant in the Seminar; purpose of the
Seminar; journey to the Seminar; friends from all over the world; the
Seminar itself; how I enjoyed the Seminar; Executive Director's remarkable
talk at the beginning and end of the Seminar; back to home.

Once again I thank you very much for your kindness and deep
concern shown towards me during the last Harvard International Seminar.
I hope I will see you in Burma one day.

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

Today it is the day of the Soviet treason in Hungary. I do not know what has been the reaction in the U.S.A. In this country public opinion is on a boiling point. I cannot remember that we have ever been so closely with our feelings with the fate of a nation dying in the hands of murderers. All Dutch radio stations have changed their programs. They only give serious music or sober comments. The flags from all houses and public buildings are half mast to pay tribute to the Hungarian fighters. Sport events have been cancelled and the Dutch team shall be withdrawn from the Olympic games unless the Soviet Union withdraws its teams. There is a strong pressure to cut all diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.

What especially occupies me is that all our ideals to come to a world based on a small number of essential fundamentals for international cooperation are burning. This applies also to your international work. Though small its contribution may be in the whole of world events, it meant something. It meant something to all those who subscribe to the ideals on which your work was based, and quite a few of those who participated in this work have some influence in their countries.

I am writing you because I would ask you whether it would not be possible to come in these gloomy days to some closer contacts between the members of the Harvard International Seminar, or to some greater activity.

I am fully aware of the fact that the contribution of the Harvard International Seminar may only be extremely small. Nevertheless it may satisfy some basic humanitarian feelings of international understanding.

I have no concrete proposals, but I am thinking for instance of the following idea: Would it not be possible to collect funds among the members of the Harvard International Seminar which might enable a victim of brute and inhuman aggression to study in the free world. Thousands of refugees are now pouring from Hungary into Austria. Among them are boys and girls who fought for the ideals we subscribe to, or at least which we are expected to subscribe. By a fund as proposed above we might help one or more boys and girls to live in a world which is (still?) free. They might for instance study at a University whether in the East or in the West on behalf of the Harvard International Seminar. I am convinced that my proposals would at any rate be shared by the members of the small countries in Western Europe. What are your ideas about some greater activity in these challenging days?

You may quote this letter if you would like to do so, and may count on any contribution from my side.

You will be astonished, if I tell you, that I felt more than
one time homesick for Harvard and when I told a few days ago to a group
of young students about my stay there, I was moved to tears and don't
feel ashamed about that - besides, this happens rather seldom with me,
you know I am more or less - or pretend to be - a cynic fellow.

Forgive my many mistakes, please, I can't use my English.

Best regards.

Sincerely yours,

Wilfried Gredler
Member of the Austrian Parliament

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

The Seminar came up to my expectations. This is largely due to
the vividness and sometimes penetrating character of the debate and
discussions.

It certainly fills the needs we generally feel to understand
each other, for only by grouping many kinds of ideology, individual
viewpoints and discussion, we may understand each other, even if we
do not share each other's viewpoint.

Seen from my individual interests (politics as well as culture),
I must say that this Seminar has given me much to think about, on political
as well as humanitarian field, as regards the United States as well as
the other countries, where the participants come from.

Yours truly,

Hazil
Executive Assistant to the
President of Pembangunan LTD,
Publishers and Booksellers, Indonesia

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

I received the picture of last year's group. As soon as I
got it, I looked back upon our life at Harvard last year and became
a little sentimental. So long as I am alive, my memory of the Seminar
will never wither away and urge myself in many respects.

Yours sincerely,

Homin Yang
Lecturer in Political Science,
Korea

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

I avail myself of this opportunity to express my deep thanks to you for making it possible for me to participate in the 1956 session of the International Seminar. I must say that the Seminar has done me good, and that I understand the American point of view on the issues that divide our two countries better than I did before. The value of the Seminar from the point of view of my own interests, expectations and needs lies in getting an opportunity to have a heart to heart talk with the people of different nationalities, with a view to stressing the fact that we are more alike than different and that it is in our interest to explore more and more the areas of our agreement than to exaggerate our differences.

From this point of view, the Seminar has been an unique opportunity in my life. And I am sure that out of such Seminars will evolve better understanding and closer ties of friendship.

I must conclude by saying that though my stay here has been short, my memories of it will be long. I carry with me a fund of goodwill towards America and her people.

Thanking you,

N.D. Rajadhyaksha
Lecturer in Logic and Philosophy,
Jai Hind College, Bombay; also
closely associated with adult
education work

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

The Seminar fulfills the purpose of making people from different countries, religions and ideologies, live together and share the same activities. It makes many of them overcome prejudices and understand problems different than theirs. On the other hand, I think it gives the chance to many to get acquainted with many aspects of the American life. In this aspect too many preconceived ideas disappear and one can get a more impartial knowledge about the American questions. But above all the experience of getting along with people for whom you do not very often care much or have anything in common, is from my point of view one of the main fruits of the Seminar, since you prove you can get along.

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

Back home I am availing the first opportunity to convey my sense of deep gratitude to you personally and the Harvard University International Seminar for my trip to U.S.A. and the eight weeks long participation in the Seminar.

It is impossible to repay the hundreds of courtesies we
received during our stay from your countrymen. In my own small
way I have contacted the local United States Information Services
and the local American consulate general telling them that I would
be happy to receive at my home Americans who may be visiting India
and may like the taste of a typical Indian home.

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

You must have received many letters of appreciation in regard
to the Seminar from the participants and I also should have written to
you many weeks earlier. Yet at this delayed hour may I join others in
saying how much the Harvard International Seminar has meant to me as to
others. I have been tremendously interested in America and the Seminar
gave me the opportunity to come here and to profit from the enriching
experience which the Seminar offered and to know and learn about your
great country. And I wish to thank you most sincerely for giving me
the opportunity to come to America and to attend the Seminar.

With kind regards.

My dear Kissinger:

Though I reached here on the 8th, I haven't yet got over the
crowded excitement of the last few days, and in a sense still seem to
be in the clouds. To you, more than anyone else, I owe all this hap-
piness, and am therefore writing to you first. I did really enjoy my
stay at Cambridge. More than the intellectual stimulus, what gripped
me was the volume of good will in all walks of society, and the warmth
and friendship of so many fine people. The predominant though in me
is, "When shall I go again?"

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

May I thank you again for this exceptional opportunity? We had
an idyllic, almost cloudless time in Harvard (and around) and learned
more in seven weeks than we could have done in seven years as tourists,
students, journalists or diplomats.

In the U.N. I met Mr. Bunche, Mr. Weichoff of the Trusteeships
section, Mr. Mook of the Technical Assistance Administration, and many
many others. To all of them I spoke about the Seminar. So I did when
I was interviewed by the New York correspondent of the Belgian Press
Agency. I was interviewed about the Seminar for the Belgian Radio in
New York, in Flemish, and this was broadcast in my country Saturday last.
So, people will be alerted in Belgium. The first result was a very
intrigued interest for the Seminar from the side of the Belgian Ambas-
sador and governmental circles.

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

It is needless to repeat how much we all profited by attending
the Harvard International Seminar. It was a marvelous experience getting
to know and becoming familiar with so many eminent men and women from
various parts of the world. Making friends with so many, in itself has
made it worth my while to undertake this trip all the way to Harvard.

With kind regards.

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

The Seminar has surpassed my expectations and has corresponded
almost ideally to my wishes..... The teaching in the Political Group could
not have been better and the discussions were quite inspiring. The guest
speakers were a very well-chosen cross-section of leading people.

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

When I was seven years old, my father sent me to a Montessori school: there it was possible to profit variously from the opportunities offered by the school... The experience of the Montessori school made me anti-fascist forever.

When I was thirty-seven years old, my wife let me go to the International Seminar at Harvard University in the far America. The experience of the Harvard University clarified for me that it is possible to be a Friend of Americans forever.

Umberto Serafini
Executive Secretary,
Communita Movement.
Executive Director,
Council of European Municipalities

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

My expectations have in general been surpassed... The most beneficial aspect of this meeting was that I learned about American literature and culture...

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

Finally I think I should say, that I had much benefit by the Seminar. It was for me an unique opportunity to be together with people from so many other countries, to learn about their way of life, their problems and their opinions. Most of peoples consider their own problems as the most important ones. This Seminar showed, that other peoples have problems too, being partly the same than in other countries, partly different, but not less important. Furthermore, it was a wonderful opportunity to see and to learn something about the United States. I have enjoyed the time at Harvard from the first to the last day.

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

Through this Seminar I realized that the world peace and
understanding would prosper as people talks to people; motivated by
this Seminar we would be able to contribute something to our mutual
understanding in the future. In this point of view the Seminar offered
us many tasks to be further executed.

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

You will not be surprised if I confess that I am not "at home"
yet. Of course there is plenty of work occupying me nearly completely.
But I myself am no more the same who started some weeks ago for Cambridge.
What happened in Cambridge was not only a matter of expanding my horizon
but nearly a changing in the way to look at things. I have the feeling
to have made a great jump. Forward, of course. The distance made it
possible to get greater conceptions, no more so much bound to the
everyday problems. Certainly there have been the fundamentals before,
but now I guess I have the problems of Europe and especially Germany
under better control. There is a conception which could lead us out
of our present deadlock. I only hope that the next year gives me a
chance for some scientific work.

With many regards,

Dear Prof. Elliott:

I take this opportunity to express my great sense of gratitude
to the organisers of the Harvard University International Seminar for giv-
ing me an opportunity to participate in it. I would like to congratulate
them for the successful and excellent way in which the Seminar was organised
and conducted. It would go a long way in developing a mature understanding
of international problems in a friendly atmosphere and advancing the cause
of peace and prosperity. I have no hesitation in stating that the Seminar
is engaged in a courageous and noble effort for the cause of international
peace and prosperity in the midst of international tension and the race for
producing deadly nuclear weapons. It is indeed admirable to watch a group
of young but mature persons drawn from various countries of the world try-
ing to understand each others problems and becoming a single family at the
close of the Seminar.

Dear Henry:

I'm very glad now that I didn't write an evaluation report
before I left the States as I find that, not only does distance
lend some enchantment, but that certain comments which I should
have made before I left are no longer valid in view of what I find
now I'm home. In an odd way I was able to do a re-evaluation of
Britain and found that certain touchstones - as it were - which I
had carried across the Atlantic with me, and which I used to evalu-
ate certain experiences in the States were, in fact, not valid any
longer even here at home.

For myself - professionally, it was neither here nor there -
as a person, it was a most stimulating and enjoyable time and I
shall always be grateful to you and the International Seminar for
the opportunity to experience it. The subtle attitude of "no pro-
American propaganda" results in my case, at least, of a definite
pro-American awareness! And, joking apart, a sense of being able
to appreciate and recognize manifestations of American thinking and
doing. This, plus the experience of living along with and working
with the other members of the Seminar, has given me a range of thought
and self-questioning which could not have happened otherwise.

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

At the risk of seeming a bit too enthusiastic, I wish to
state here that the International Seminar I took part in did not
only fulfill, but also surpassed my expectations and my needs. The
reason for this may partly be in the fact that I had carefully tried
not to prepare a list of expectations in advance, waiting for the
actual time of the Seminar to come. I am therefore at least able
to say that the Seminar proved to be greatly above the limit at which
a certain degree of disappointment might have commenced to exist.
This might of course not only be due to the lack of prepared ex-
pectations, but also to the fact that, being by far the youngest
member of the Seminar, I am - in principle at least - the least
qualified person to be disappointed. With these reservations,
pointed out only in the wish to explain an adhesion without reser-
vations whatever, I can affirm that the Seminar could not have proved
better, and that my interests, expectations and needs have been com-
pletely fulfilled.

I really feel entitled to say that the International Seminar
is a marvelous institution, for the chance it gives to people to meet
and discuss all sorts of problems in a climate of serene relaxation and
in the magnificent atmosphere of Harvard. It gives them a chance to
see the U.S. (or at least a part of them, if they have not much time
at their disposal), and to acquire greater perspective with regard to
their own national or continental problems. It gives them a chance
to make friends with intelligent and nice people from all over the
world, and to meet eminent Americans at home. And, above all, the ex-
tremely precious experience of finding that international and national

aspects of this country and contributed to the understanding of
what to me was an impressive group. I can assure you that I carried
away a fortified spirit from my experience with your Seminarians.
And so I'm indebted to you.

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

I can assure you that I got a great deal out of my
very short stay with the group and, as some of my colleagues and
friends could readily tell you, have been enthusiastically singing
its praises since. The best compliment I can pay you is to say
that I should like to be a member all the way through one of these
sessions, but that is unfortunately just a dream.

With best regards.

EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS FROM PARTICIPANTS

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

It is hard to put in words just what Harvard and the Seminar have meant to me. Certainly the six weeks on the Yard have had a powerful impact on my thinking about the States. They furnished a grand opportunity to bring my knowledge of the U.S. up to date at a very crucial point in history, but by enabling me to better understand the American present they also opened new vistas upon the future of my own country. Furthermore, I think, the international composition of the Seminar helped me a lot towards a clearer appreciation of the problems of the rest of the world--problems which, as it turned out, concern us all alike.

Sitting at my desk in Hamburg, I still find my thoughts traveling back to Harvard very frequently. The Seminar, after all, was not only an exquisite academic treat but also a human experience that no one will easily forget. In fact, the days after I left Harvard I felt rather sad for a while; it is amazing how quickly our motley group from all over the world had grown into a closely-knit community. I am trying to keep in touch with as many of the seminarists as I can: it would be a pity if "old acquaintances be forgot." And somehow it makes one rather proud, too, to belong to such a distinguished group; almost like having been a Rhodes-Scholar.

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

The experience of the Seminar has been extremely rewarding: I must stress that my field is primarily the study of American civilization. The opportunities offered during the seven weeks of my staying here proved to be provocative and stimulating--I must acknowledge--beyond any previous expectation. I believe that if my forthcoming book will be ready within the end of this year, according to my plans, this will be mainly the consequence of my being able to treasure the experiences mentioned above.

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My dear Mr. Kissinger:

I wish to have this belated opportunity to express my sincere
gratitude to you for having provided us this wonderful chance to learn
about your country and the world.

The Seminar itself was of course very beneficial. The atmosphere
of the Economics Group which I belonged to was very academic, and I am
only afraid that I was not able to make much contribution. I was also
able to learn a great lot through personal contacts with other partici-
pants as well as quite a few Americans, whom I had a privilege to meet
thanks to the kind arrangements made by your office.

The Seminar is really a wonderful instrument for the betterment
of the mutual understanding, and I sincerely hope that this program will
be always successful in future as it has been in the past.

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

I take this opportunity for expressing again all my thanks for
this unique opportunity which you provide me through the International
Seminar. I shall not forget all I have learned by the daily life with
so many different and valuable people, and by our common discovery of
American life and civilization. The mutual knowledge and appreciation
we have got I consider as a great riches and I hope that many more people
will go through the same experience. What I appreciate the most is the
spirit in which you and your collaborators undertake this work; it requires
not only money, but uncommon openmindedness, far-seeing imagination and
readiness to welcome every sort of values to give every participant an
opportunity of giving the best of himself and acquiring a new glance at
others' culture and values.

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Dear Mr. Kissinger:

Still nearer to Cambridge than to Frankfurt, I once again
want to express my gratitude to you, and to all connected to the
Seminar, for all the great things we were happy enough to receive
at Harvard. It was a marvelous experience, and I think we all had
not only a grand time but shall have a lasting benefit for the time
to come. Thus your country, your university, the Seminar, but last
but not least you yourself have become a significant part of our
lives. It is in our everyday work that we shall try to pay back to
those who have contributed to the Seminar intellectually but also
materially. I am sure we won't forget you. Don't forget us too
soon.

Each one of the seminar members will fully realize what
the seminar has meant to him or her only after he has returned
to his normal life. And the main effect of the seminar will also
be purely personal.

The seminar has been the great event in the late fiftieth
for me. One would have to write a whole essay listing the advantages
of the seminar. To make it short: I would like to know that my sons
30 years from now could have a chance to attend the Harvard Inter-
national Seminar.

With many good wishes for the years to come.

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

Now that I have had time to reflect on my tour, I must say
that my time at the Harvard Seminar was one of the most memorable
experiences of my life. The Seminar was a very precious opportunity
for all of us to understand the pertinent problems of each country,
also the democracy of the United States and the American way of life.
I am sure that what I have learned or confirmed will greatly contri-
bute in many ways on my future military service. I shall treasure
my pleasant associations with the faculty and the participants of
the Seminar.

By living together on campus over seven weeks and by constant discussions and informal talks with the members from over twenty-five different countries, each of which is distinct and unique in its own right, in race, language, political system and culture in general, I gradually became familiar with the differences and agreements in the way of thinking in others. Which, the way of thinking, seems to be very contrasting to one another.

Thanks to the very comprehensive and very meticulous planning of the International Seminar, I have seen and become acquainted through lectures and otherwise with some of the development, past and future, of American politics, foreign policies, economic state of affairs and culture, in short American way of life, and this surprisingly well during my short stay.

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

I think that the Seminar is a very good idea and that in broad lines the realization is a correct one. Most useful are above all contacts with the people. You can read many valuable books about America, but still you know very little about contemporary problems facing Americans. I would think that personal contacts are of great importance. The relations between participants were very friendly. On the whole the Seminar has been a great success.

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

I enjoyed tremendously my visit to Harvard and it has left a lasting impression on me. I was particularly interested in becoming more familiarized with the latest American contributions in the field of social science, and from this point of view, I benefited much for this experience. And also I appreciate the opportunity offered me in meeting so many scholars from different lands which was conducing to better mutual understanding.

I am thankful that during my seven weeks stay in Cambridge, I had opportunity to have a closer look at so many aspects of the American life. However, I hope that in future, those attending the Seminar will have a chance to see more of the United States, by travelling outside the Boston area, and have a more adequate knowledge of American society and culture.

I would like to extend to you, at this moment, before leaving the United States, my most sincere thanks and appreciation for the wonderful time that I have had in your admirable country.

Truly yours,

Shapour Rassekh
Professor of Sociology
University of Teheran

Extract from an article in *Svenska Dagbladet*, Swedish daily paper

by Gunnar Brandell, Staff Writer

There are many ways to promote international understanding, more or less effective, more or less rewarding for the individual. One of the best from both points of view would seem to be to visit for some summer weeks the so-called International Seminar at Harvard University

Under the leadership of Dr. Henry A. Kissinger the seminar gave an all but unique opportunity for becoming acquainted in a short time with contemporary American opinion. Here was apparent nothing of American caution, in ordinary speech called "conformism," the unwillingness to throw oneself into difficult or controversial questions. Frankness was the most striking feature of the picture we got of American problems, foreign and domestic politics, racial integration, the condition of teaching which mobilizes, in an entirely different way than with us, the country's best brains, mass communications and the press, hospitals and prisons, unions, slum districts, the newest psychological and sociological discoveries and much besides. All this was filtered through and commented on in countless discussions by observers from twenty countries, amplified by private meetings with typical or less typical Americans, checked by study trips to factories and institutions and rounded out, finally, in my case by impressions from other sections of the country.

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My dear Henry:

Often enough during the ten years I have so that I have been
working more or less steadily in London I have thought--but
despairingly--how very good it would be to detach a bit of time
from the usual scrabble and to spend it thinking out calmly what
makes sense and what doesn't. And this of course was just what
the seminar gave me the chance of doing. It was extraordinarily
good to have those two months (for the week on the ship counted
too) away from all one's usual commitments and contacts quietly
to reassess and clarify one's ideas and feelings.

I am expressing myself clumsily because it now probably
sounds as if all that time I was thinking away in some little
vacuum of my own. Of course the great value of the seminar was
getting together a group of people so many of whom had exciting
ideas and new approaches to old problems. It was a remarkable
chance to talk to people whose experiences were often so completely
removed from one's own. And I feel infinitely richer for the
friendships made at Harvard.

From my own experience, your method of recruiting
speakers who are critical and who tell us the worst as well as the
best is far more disarming and successful than any sort of tradi-
tional propaganda. During the course I played strip poker with
lots of old prejudices and although I am acutely aware that my
understanding of America is still shamefully inadequate, at least
I think I now have a much fairer idea about a great many things....

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

I returned home three days ago.

The distance from Harvard in time and space has but
increased my esteem and appreciation for the arrangements which
went into the successful consummation of this year's International
Seminar. I have traded in seminars in this country and outside it,
but I can't think of one which comes near in thoroughness of plan-
ning and execution to the one just ended. Back home, when the
piled desk has been cleared and the papers and books from the seminar

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have come in for careful redigesting and systematization, I am
sure that the full import of the seminar will become even better
assessed, and its effect better felt.

The Ministry of Education of the Ghana Government and
the local branch of the USIS, as indeed publishers of journals and
newspapers, will like to have an account of what happened in
Harvard during the summer. An account which is given while a
piece of news is "steaming hot" is one which is best served!

Sincerely yours,

Adali-Mortty
Professor
University College of Ghana

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

During my very short stay in the United States of America,
I have been getting worthy experiences from outside as well as
inside the International Seminar. . . Without any exception, the
Seminar in its entity has been very useful for me personally.

I realize the high purpose of the Seminar, I am also
fully confident that after two months of exchanging views and
discussions, everyone of us will return home with only one general
aim, that is to exert every possible means to bring about the
realization of the purpose of this Seminar in the respective
countries.

Mutual understandings and cooperation is a sound foundation
that must be established within the heart of each nation. Only on
this fundamental principle can mankind peacefully accomplish
progress. That is the reason why everyone of us must work hard to
reach that goal.

Sincerely yours,

Sumantoro
Editor-in-chief
Berita Indonesia