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THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS IN WORLD WAR II. Com-piled and Edited by Stanley E. Smith. (New York: Random House, 1969, pp. 969, 16 maps, 140 photographs, $17.95.)

Reviewed by LtCol P. R. Hines

Critics of books, like Monday morning quarterbacks, often succumb to the adjectivial or adverbial extreme in rendering their verdicts.

But it might be all but impossible to find any reader who could in good conscience disagree with this reviewer's one-word summation of Mr. Smith's latest work. That word is "masterful."

Marines might say that any book which holds up a mirror in front of the Corps' performance in World War II could be nothing less than magnificent. True; but such a contention still must pay high tribute to Mr. Smith's choice of mirror and his confident, strong grip upon the one which he chose.

The mirror. In this case, is a com-
pose: The Corps accomplishments in
World War II are related, in large part,
by the men who helped to make them
reality. The author list reads like an
 honor roll of the Corps: Gregory (Pap-
py) Boyington, Marion E. Carl. Clifton
E. Cates, Joe Foss, Pedro delValle, Jim-
my Devereux, Thomas Holcomb, Rob-
ert Leckie, Mitchell Paige, Lemuel Shep-
herd, Holland M. and Julian C. Smith,
A. A. Vandegrift.

Complementing them are equally
well-known names: Hanson Baldwin,
Burke Davis, Robert Heinl, John Her-
sey, Tom Lea, Walter Lord, Jim Lucas,
Douglas MacArthur, Chester Nimitz,
Fletcher Pratt, Ernie Pyle, Robert Sher-
rod, Richard Tregaskis.

In all, there are more than 80 of
them, and they weave the accounts of
the Corps' valor on a battle tapestry that
stretches across the grimly glorious days
of Wake and Corregidor, through the
Solomons, Cape Gloucester, Tarawa,
Peleliu, the uncommon valor that was
Iwo, on to Okinawa, and the end of the
Japanese Empire, to the surrender at
Tsingtao.

There is heartbreak: Col Howard of
the 4th Marines weeping at the surren-
der of his regiment at Corregidor; and
triumph: The nameless rifleman stum-
bling across the coral of Tarawa after
beating off the final Japanese banzai,
"They told us we had to hold, and by
God we held."

There is the terror of war: Two
gravely wounded Leathernecks playing
dead amidst a concentration of Japanese
along Guadalcanal's Lunga River; and
there is laughter in the face of death:
Fred Stolley and his sidekick Sloan sing-
ing the Marine Corps Hymn at a drunk-
en Japanese victory party on Corregidor
to wild Oriental applause.

And there is the Marine's own matter-
of-fact approach to the Corps mystique
that is a mystery only to those who have
never worn the Globe and Anchor: At
the first flag-raising on Iwo Jima, PFC
James Robeson refused to be in the
photograph ("Hollywood Marines," he
snorted of those in the picture), instead
keeping his rifle ready and cutting down
two Japanese who tried to interfere with
the impromptu ceremony.

In short, Mr. Smith's careful choice of
works and his skillful transition from
one to the next carry the reader through
every major Marine action of World
War II without ever faltering or letting
him down. And, although the book obvi-
ously is too long for anyone but a
super-reader to finish at one sitting, it
loses none of its thrust when it is re-
sumed after being set aside for an hour,
a day or a week.

Mr. Smith, a Navy veteran of World
War II, has in this volume equalled
(and in the opinion of this reviewer has
surpassed) his previous similar work,
The United States Navy in World War
II, which won high praise from both
Naval and civilian reviewers.

His volume on the Corps should be
required reading for all professional
Marines, as well as for those who have
ever worn the Globe and Anchor. It is
guttier than most novels and as informa-
tive as any historical work on World
War II Marines.

The spirit of the Corps has frequently
been an object of mystery among Ameri-
cans who wonder what it is that makes
Marines a little different from other
people who wear uniforms. Those who
read this book very probably will find
some solid answers.

AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY. By Henry Kissinger. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1969, $3.95.)

Reviewed by Maj Peter F. Duggan,
C&SC Student

In December 1968, President-elect
Richard Nixon selected Dr. Henry Kiss-
inger to serve as the Assistant to the

President for National Security Affairs.
In announcing his selection, the Pres-
ident-elect indicated that he intended to
revise the National Security Council
and restore it to the important policy
development function it served during
the Eisenhower Administration. Profes-
sor Kissinger was designated to play a
major role in that revival. By every
estimate, this assignment made Professor
Kissinger one of the most influential
men in the new administration. He is in
position to personally affect the develop-
ment of American foreign policy and to
advise the President on America's role as
the world's leading military power.

As Marines, we must be intelligently
informed concerning our nation's for-
eign policy. At our best, we Marines
serve as effective instruments of the poli-
cy decisions made in Washington. To be
best, we must understand the rationale
behind those decisions and particularly
the limits which must be observed when
America's power is employed.

Dr. Kissinger's most recent book,
*American Foreign Policy*, is a concise,
highly readable statement of his person-
al views concerning several of the major
foreign policy problems now confront-
ing the United States. Actually the
book is a selection of three essays which
were published during the period from
1966 to 1968 in various scholarly publi-
cations. Despite the time element and
the different audiences addressed, the
essays present a cohesive overview of our
nation's foreign policy problems.

The first essay discusses the difficulty
encountered in developing an effective
foreign policy in the complex, 20th cen-
tury world. Dr. Kissinger identifies the
primary difficulty as one of problem
definition. In other words, the United
States must deal with the Communist
powers, who approach issues from an
idealistical point of view, and with the
emerging nations, who view the same
issues from revolutionary perspective.
To quote Dr. Kissinger: "Considering
domestic structures—and the concept of
legitimacy on which they are based differ
widely—statesmen can still meet but
their ability to perceive the issues been
reduced for them no longer speak the
same language."

The second essay is titled "Central Issues of American Foreign Policy." In a sense, that title is deceptive for the article does not deal with the nature of and possible solutions to specific policy issues such as Berlin, Cuba or the Middle East. Rather it discusses foreign policy problems in their "conceptual" sense. Of specific interest to Marines is Dr. Kissinger's discussion of the nature of power and its application in the current world. The author's central theme is that in the nuclear age, military power does not automatically confer influence. Although not mentioned by Dr.

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Kissinger, the most striking example of this difference between power and influence is the war in Vietnam. It is evident that the United States has possessed the power to destroy North Vietnam since the beginning of our involvement. However, in today's world it has been impossible for us to use that power and, more important, North Vietnam has been aware of the restraints on American military action. It is Dr. Kissinger's contention that as the military superfortitude "of the superpowers over the other states" widens, the smaller states obtain an increased area for "autonomous action."

The third essay, "The Vietnam Negotiations," has the most immediate impact. It contains a brief analysis of what has gone wrong with the American military effort in Vietnam and it outlines a negotiating procedure including definition of objectives which might serve to break the deadlock in the Paris discussions. Dr. Kissinger's proposals for a negotiated settlement seemed to me to be particularly worthy of note. Neither hawk nor dove, his ideas represent an attempt to find a solution which will allow both Washington and Hanoi to avoid military surrender.

### American Foreign Policy

American Foreign Policy should be considered "must" reading for a number of reasons. Dr. Kissinger is an historian, an expert on foreign affairs and a brilliant strategic analyst. As mentioned earlier, since writing these essays he has become one of President Nixon's key foreign policy advisors, and his views on foreign policy are bound to be of increasing future importance. Finally, on its own merit the book contains three extremely well written, thought provoking essays on America's role in world affairs, a role that is constantly changing, and a role that has practical meaning to every Marine.

### THE WAR BUSINESS

By George Thayer. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969, pp. 383, $6.95.)

Reviewed by Maj Richard O. Merritt, C&SC Student

George Thayer has written two other books, *The British Political Machine* in 1965 and *The Farther Shores of Politics* in 1967, which have given him the necessary foundation and background for his latest work. Thayer is an independent writer who spends much of his time doing political research. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics. While in England, he served as a research assistant on the biography of Winston Churchill and published his first book. His 1967 book, *The Farther Shores of Politics* received excellent reviews in *The New York Times Book Review*.

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Dear George:

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to be kept in touch with what is happening to
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W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
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KISSINGER, HENRY A./B*

Dear Mr. Malof:

Thank you for your letter of June 26. I enjoyed talking with your people and am pleased to know that they found our meeting worthwhile. Your program for the coming year looks most interesting. I wish you well in it.

I appreciate your thoughtfulness and writing
and am especially pleased to hear of the
good job done by Mr. Saunders.

Mr. Peter Malof
Coordinator of Business Programs
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20036

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The Brookings Institution

1775 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE N.W. / WASHINGTON D.C. 20036 / CABLES: BROOKINST / TELEPHONE: 202 HUDSON 3-8919

Advanced Study Program

June 26, 1970

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs
The White House Office
Washington, D. C. 20500

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

The impact of your meeting with our round table participants went far beyond the assembled corporate executives. I think you made a deep impression on the men which will extend to their many associates throughout industry and in their local communities.

The group was particularly struck by the disciplined knowledge, sense of purpose, and control that underpin the Administration's foreign policy efforts, and by the great need for constructive support of broad national goals. The sense of concern with what society must provide for effective Presidential direction in this difficult arena is shared at Brookings.

Incidentally, Harold Saunders, who met with the group later in the program, did a masterful job in analysing the intricate set of forces at loose in the Middle East. His appearance again instilled the group with tremendous respect and confidence in the intellectual and analytical resources available to our government.

With deep gratitude for your cooperation.

Enclosures

P.S. I thought you might be interested in the enclosed document illustrating the range of executive education programs planned for the coming year, and the reactions of business executives to these programs.

The Brookings Institution
Washington, D.C. 20036

May 1970

REACTIONS OF BUSINESS EXECUTIVES TO
CONFERENCES ON FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

As a unique effort in executive education, the Brookings Institution since
1961 has been conducting a continuing series of week-long Conferences for
Business Executives on Federal Government Operations.

In each conference, approximately thirty senior-level corporate executives, representing a cross-section of industry and commerce, meet informally for intensive discussions with policy-level Federal officials representing a cross-section of governmental institutions and agencies.

The aims of the program are to give current and emerging business
leaders a more intimate awareness of (a) the nature of governmental operations
and processes, and (b) the working environment, objectives, and problems of
public officials.

What follows is a sampling of typical comments offered by recent conference
participants to illustrate the educational impact of the program.

New Insights Acquired

"The week provided more insight and information about Federal government processes, and the tasks and responsibilities of people who are government, than I had previously learned in a lifetime." P.A.S., Calif.

"The conference brought out clearly how complex is the process of
government. Possibly the most frequent remark made amongst
ourselves was 'How can anything be accomplished given the back-
ground of pressures, etc.? ' In fact it obviously does work."
D.F., New York

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"...an excellent job was done in touching on all key elements of government so that by the end of the week the participants gained a better insight into each of them, their relationship to each other and to the country." -- J.A.K., Pa.

"The complexities of federal government processes were well brought out, not by any individual, but by the combination of individuals and a showing of diametrically opposite viewpoints." J.R.B., Texas

"My experience at the Conference on Federal Government Operations allowed me to reflect on my own inadequacies regarding an intelligent appraisal of our federal government at work. I realized that my perspective on current practices and procedures of government was quite shallow. As a student of political science in college, I was familiar with the formal structure of government, but the Brookings conference provided more dimension in enlightening me on the practical application of our government at work....I was truly amazed at the extent to which our federal government is, indeed, a conglomerate. The visitations to various government departments and agencies served to accentuate this point." -- K.E.F., Utah

"I found the meetings constantly provocative whether or not I agreed with the speaker. The opportunity to listen and enter into dialogue with key government personalities was uniquely meaningful....What I heard during my visit was very disturbing and at times frustrating. However, unless one is Pollyannish, it is better to know than to be ignorant, even if it is disturbing." G.L.S., New Jersey

## Respect for Public Officials Enhanced

"I now read the news media with greater interest of the issues and have a much better understanding of the practical compromises our governmental leaders have to make in achieving their objectives -- whether they are to be re-elected or whether they are to get something done." -- M.G., New York

"I came away from the program with a strong feeling of dedication as far as our Federal Government service personnel are concerned." -- J.C.M., Wisconsin

"Another impression one gets from meeting the people we met during this week is that there are in this level of government many very, very competent people. This is indeed reassuring." R.T.H., New Jersey

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"It gave me a deeper awareness of the high caliber of personnel involved in these processes." -- L.J.B., Pa.

"The exposure to top level governmental people was extremely enlightening. The enormity of the problems that these people are confronted with impresses me a great deal and their frustrations on how to make major changes within their own agencies were greater than I thought they would be." -- M.A.K., Kansas

## Perception of Business Environment Broadened

"My summary comment would be that this was a most gratifying week to experience in regard to broadening knowledge and citizen education....While the exposure to agencies directly related to the regulation of business was necessary and valuable, the rare opportunity to gain summary understanding of governmental functions in social, foreign, and military affairs was most welcome to provide a better overview of the total action and effect of our governmental process." -- W.G.L., New York

"The conference did meet its objectives and, perhaps even more important, the objectives are appropriate for today's businessman.... No businessman in a policy making position can afford to be uninformed on the current issues being debated in Washington, the governmental processes, and the caliber of people in our government." S.W.S., Nebraska

"Regardless of your objectives, I find myself much more aware and concerned about government action and legislation." W.D.W., Ohio

"I feel that the attention to foreign and military affairs and to domestic and social problems was much more valuable than any emphasis on agencies directly related to business." -- K.W.B., Florida

"I feel I obtained enough of the undercurrent struggles that are in constant motion between Capitol Hill, the Executive Branch, the Federal Courts, and various Federal Agencies, to help focus much better on the problems of our industry....I do feel that for people who must make policy decisions and contribute to the company's long-range development, this week can be extremely enlightening." G.A.C., Ohio

These and many similar comments suggest that this program of executive education makes a significant contribution in developing within American business leadership a heightened awareness of the national environment in which business is challenged to survive and grow.

Brookings Programs
for Business Leaders

The Brookings Institution's educational programs for business executives are undertaken in cooperation with the business community by the Institution's Advanced Study Program, directed by James M. Mitchell. Since 1961, 127 conferences, seminars, round tables and other educational activities have been conducted for over 3200 business leaders from more than 400 companies. A substantial portion of these programs are designed to offer corporate executives opportunities to gain increased understanding of public decision-making processes and policy issues and to enhance communication between leaders in the public and private sectors. Other programs attempt to provide neutral forums where business and government leaders can meet to explore issues, choices and trends in areas of key public policy. The programs which the Institution offers for 1970-71 are a continuation of these unique efforts in executive education.

The "Public Policy Dimension"

The business community has become increasingly
aware of a "public policy dimension" in the job
of the business executive. In addition to technical,
administrative, and human relations skills, he must
be proficient in conceptual skills—one of the most
important of which involves public policy and
government-business relationships.

Government and business interests have become inseparably intertwined, and recognition has been growing that each of these major sectors of society is dependent upon the other for survival, internally and on the international scene. Thus, both business and government executives require opportunities to enhance mutual communication and understanding, and to share knowledge contributing to the solution of major national problems. It is this rationale which underlies the Brookings Institution's efforts to bridge the gap between the federal government and business.

Requests for information should be addressed to:
Peter Malof Coordinator of Business Programs

Advanced Study Program
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D. C. 20036
Telephone 202: 483-8919

Conferences
on Federal Government
Operations

These are one-week conferences held in Washington **for senior business executives**. Each conference is an intensive educational experience designed to sharpen the sensitivity of participants to the complexities of federal government processes, public policy issues, and business-government relationships. It also seeks to increase their understanding of the responsibilities, pressures and problems that confront leaders in public life. Conferences are scheduled on the following dates:

September 13-18, 1970

December 6-11, 1970

January 17-22, 1971

January 31 - February 5, 1971

March 7-12, 1971

March 21-26, 1971

April 18-23, 1971

May 2-7, 1971

June 6-11, 1971

July 11-16, 1971

The conference fee is $600 and covers tuition, reading materials, group meals and related educational costs, excluding lodging. (See insert for details.)

Equal Employment Commission
Chairman William H. Brown III

Senator Peter Dominick reviews
major legislative issues

Seminars
on Federal Government
Policy

Three-day policy seminars are held in Washington and are limited to business executives who have previously participated in a Brookings business program. Seminars afford these executives with opportunities to update their knowledge of major public policy issues through in-depth analyses of several current issues in economic, domestic, and international policy. Specific topics for each seminar differ as the evolving political situation changes the focus of importance. Discussion sessions with key government officials and academicians are scheduled from Tuesday dinner through Friday luncheon. Participation in each seminar is limited to 25-30 persons.

Seminar dates are **November 17-20 and December 1-4, 1970, and April 27-30 and June 22-25, 1971**. The seminar fee is $350 per participant and includes tuition, reading materials, group meals, and related educational costs, excluding lodging.

FTC Chairman Casper W. Weinberger
analyzes regulatory problems

Congressman John Brademas and
Assistant Secretary of Labor Arnold
Weber discuss manpower policies

Round Tables
on Government,
the Economy
and American Society

Five distinct round tables—of-
fered as a "package" program—
are held monthly in Washington
from February through June
1971 to develop fresh perspec-
tives on the direction of federal
policies in major political,
economic and social problem
areas. Discussion sessions with
leading government officials
and scholars are scheduled from
Tuesday dinner through Thurs-
day luncheon.

These programs are designed
**for vice presidents, or com-
parable-level executives who
serve as principal advisers or
spokesmen for corporate
policies related to government.**
A total of twenty-five company
subscriptions are offered for
these round tables. Each
company is limited to one space
in the series, but may rotate
monthly participation among
several executives, depending
on individual interests and
functional responsibilities
within the company. However,
continuity in attendance is
recommended where possible.

Dates for the 1971 series are
**February 2-4, March 2-4, April
13-15, May 11-13, and June
15-17.** The fee for the series
is $1500 per company to cover
readings, meals, honoraria, and
related educational costs,
excluding lodging.

Seminar on Economic Policy Issues
with Under Secretary of the Treasury
Charls E. Walker

Assistant HEW Secretary James Farmer
addresses current social issues

Round Tables
for Specialists from
Business and
Government

These round tables focus on
public policy issues in selected
professional disciplines and
include participants from the
business community, the federal
government, and, on occasion,
from state or local governments.
Each round table is designed
to provide a neutral forum
and educational setting in which
problems and issues of mutual
concern may be more clearly
defined and alternative solutions
explored. Round tables are
scheduled as follows:

September 20-25, 1970:
**Selected Issues in Public Law** for
federal department or agency
counsels and corporation
counsels.

October 20-23, 1970:
**Issues in Financial Management,**
**Public and Private** for financial
officials of corporations, the
federal government, and
professional accounting firms.

January 24-29, 1971:
**Public Policy Processes and
Urban Issues** for corporate
officials responsible for urban
affairs affecting the corporation,
federal officials in urban-related
organizations, and state and city
officials.

May 2-7, 1971:
**Issues in National Science Policy**
for scientists, administrators
of science programs, and
engineering executives in
business and government.

The fee for the Round Table
on Issues in Financial Manage-
ment is $300; the fee for the
other round tables is $450. Fees
include tuition, reading mate-
rials, group meals and related
educational costs, excluding
lodging.

Round Table
on Fiscal and Monetary
Policy

This round table brings together
**senior financial officers of
corporations and officers of
investment or brokerage firms**
with key federal policy makers
and scholars for the purpose of
exploring problems and issues
of mutual concern in the fiscal
and monetary policies of the
federal government. A round
table is scheduled for **October
6-9,** 1970. Subjects of discussion
in this round table will include
important issues in current
and proposed federal economic
policies, including expenditure
alternatives, the federal budget,
the revenue system, alternative
uses of the instruments of
monetary policy, and interna-
tional finance. The round table
fee is $350 and includes tuition,
reading materials, group meals
and related educational costs,
excluding lodging.

Management
Study Course
on Government
and Business

This group self-study program
provides an opportunity for
business executives to under-
take systematic study of
government processes and
public policy problems, and
their relevance to corporate
decision making. Participating
companies arrange for the
program to be conducted during
or after working hours at
company locations. Each study
group includes from fifteen to
twenty business executives. The
course is based on study and
discussion of reading assign-
ments. Qualified resource
leaders are made available to
provide advice and assistance
as required. The cost of the
course, including the adviser, is
$1500 for a group of fifteen
participants.

Programs for Federal Executives
on Business Operations

In order to enhance understand-
ing by federal policy makers of
the philosophy and operations
of business corporations,
Brookings offers a series of
unique programs conducted in
corporate offices throughout the
country. Among these are the
"reverse" of the Conferences
for Business Executives on
Federal Government Operations.

One-week Conferences for
Federal Executives on Business
Operations provide top-level
federal administrators with a
better understanding of the
functions and problems of major
corporations, the creation and
implementation of corporate
policies and the day-to-day
responsibilities, motivations and
outlook of top corporate
executives. Each conference
also explores business-govern-
ment relationships and the role

of business in society. The
principal methods employed to
achieve these objectives include
seminars and discussions with
corporate officers at their head-
quarters, a reading program
and visits to offices and research
installations. The dates and
locations of the five conferences
planned for 1970-71 are
as follows:

October 25-30, 1970: New
York City

December 6-11, 1970:
Atlanta/Greensboro/Win-
ston-Salem

January 24-29, 1971: San
Francisco

April 25-30, 1971: Pittsburgh

May 16-21, 1971: Chicago

Companies interested in par-
ticipating in these conferences
by meeting with these groups of
federal executives are invited to
contact the Institution.

FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
EXECUTIVE

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA

E. RANDOLPH BROOKS
PRESIDENT

July 2, 1973

Dr. Henry Kissinger
Room 373, Old Executive Office Building
National Security Council
White House
Washington, D. C. 20002

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

As President of the Rotary Club of Savannah, I hasten to give you
a report on Mr. Droge's appearance before our Club today.

He was an outstanding speaker and never can I recall having seen
so many business leaders of our community sit so still and be so
attentive for ten minutes beyond our ritualistic adjournment hour.

Upon my return to the office, I received numerous calls saying in
effect, "He is a credit to the National Security Council", "He gave
us an entirely new insight into the situation in Southeast Asia",
"We must get him back down here to talk to our college students -
they are the ones that should hear this story".

I could go on with the very favorable comments and I want to thank
you for having made Mr. Droe available for this visit. We hope
very much to entice him back for an even larger audience and,
hopefully, with many of our younger citizens present.

Best wishes to you in your somewhat frustrating endeavors.

ERB/js

cc: Mr. Dolf Droge

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official
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BROSIO
(Last name and pending date)

Name: Miss Brosio, RAI TV (Rome, Italy)

Request: Doing a 5 hour documentary on the possibilities for peace in our society. Part to be filmed in the U.S. Economic, military, social, psychological possibilities, etc. Would like to interview HAK as spokesman of the Govt. antime between Nov. 15 and Jan. 15 for half an hour. They have already commitments from Drs. Sabin, Salk, Bolding, and Prof. Galbraith. Herman Kahn, with possibilities of Prof. Galbraith, U Thant and McNamara.

212/265-8440

DRY's Recommendation:

HAK's Answer: No 11/13

Date and Time:

Party Contacted: 11/13

Additional Information:

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Resolution:

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Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
6 Divinity Avenue
International Seminar
Harvard University
Mr. Benjamin H. Brown

Henry V. Kieinger

Warm regards,

Looking forward to seeing you this fall.

California, but he never contacted us.
I was looking forward to seeing Mohamed Berjouli out in
rate and provided a high point for the members.

embraced, that the speakers that were lined up were all that
that I would have liked to address. I am pleased, and not
Seminar to Washington. You well know that this is one group
Thank you for your recent letter on the visit of the International

Dear Ben:

KISSINGER, HENRY V. / 8

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MEMORANDUM

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

September 12, 1969

ACTION

MEMORANDUM FOR HENRY A. KISSINGER

FROM: Morton H. Halperin
SUBJECT: Acknowledgement of Letter from Ben Brown

Attached at Tab B is a letter from Ben Brown complimenting the session we arranged for the Harvard International Seminar when you were in California.

Attached at Tab A for your signature is a brief acknowledgement of his letter which includes a comment that you were looking forward to seeing Mohamed Berjaoui in California but that he had never contacted you. You had agreed, at Ben's request, to see Berjaoui who is a former member of the Lebanese Parliament and a candidate for the post of ambassador in the Lebanese Foreign Service.

RECOMMENDATION:

That you sign the letter to Ben Brown at Tab A.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

CONFERRED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE
HARVARD SUMMER SCHOOL
OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AND OF EDUCATION

6 DIVINITY AVENUE
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 02138

HENRY A. KISSINGER Executive Director

(on leave)

August 13-16, 1969

Professor William Y. Elliott
Littauer 119

Dear Professor Elliott:

I guess my remarks on the telephone were the best response I can give to your thoughtful letter of July 28. I have no doubt whatever that the Seminar has a strong future, but for a variety of reasons, I think there probably is no alternative to suspending it for the time being.

First, there is the problem of finding a capable, experienced person to take responsibility for the administration of the Seminar, which would inevitably include a lot of planning and fund raising in the winter. My own commitments in the coming year are such that I do not think I could undertake this task. Moreover, my wife and I are looking forward to a relaxed summer in 1970 and perhaps will be away much of the time.

Second, and perhaps more important, I think the revival of the Seminar after one or two summers of lapse will probably be easier than struggling to keep it afloat now against the resistance of people who are assuming that it will be suspended. The foundations, as well they might be, are preoccupied with the cities and racial problems in this country. They are looking with a very skeptical eye at requests for support of international programs. You and I know that the Seminar merits their support, but I think they are inclined to use Henry's absence from the University as a rationale for discontinuing their support, at least for a period of time during which they can assess the need in terms of how much the Seminar is missed. I think a lapse of one or

Benjamin K. Brown

RE: JAN 0 970

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two summers will show more convincingly than anything we can say now that both the country and the university will be poorer if the Seminar is not revived. In the long run, that is a stronger position for the Seminar to be in than if we are thought, however wrongfully, to be struggling to hold on to it merely because we have got the habit. In other words, after a brief lapse, the Seminar will be judged on its merits, without the implication, which the foundations are all too quick to think, they see at present, that we are acting out of some kind of institutional inertia.

The Seminar owes a great deal to you, and I deeply appreciate the disinterested spirit in which you wrote. I honestly think that our hopes will be better served after everyone concerned has contemplated the yawning gap that the temporary discontinuance of the Seminar will leave.

I hope all goes well with the Round Tables for Freedom and for the Republic. With best regards to you and Mrs. Elliott,

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT

August 14, 1969

Mr. William F. DeMyer
Chief, Educational Support Branch
Information Center Service
United States Information Agency
Washington, D.C. 20547

Dear Mr. DeMyer:

I regret very much that your first letter to me, written in June, was not forwarded from my apartment. I had had an arrangement to that effect with the apartment, but they are not in the habit of forwarding mail that gets into boxes, and so slipped up.

Alas, I am afraid it is now too late to consider even the suggestion you made on Henry Kissinger's initiative when I told him that I was planning a visit to Korea in September.

There are two good reasons for this, and I am sending him a copy of this letter so that he will understand it. In the first place, I have made other arrangements for the disposition of my time in the fall, including getting a book into print on *The Fruits of Freedom*, which I hope the *Readers Digest* press is going to bring out. The second is that it is too late to plan now for the kind of hit-or-miss arrangement which I am afraid the Volunteer Speakers Service implies. I would have to have a schedule that was laid out, and I would have to be worth enough to the sponsoring agencies, whoever they were, to make it possible for me to make this trip without adding to my own expenses at a time when I have retired from active employment in other fields on my own initiative.

The situation that I confront has been altered by my wife's quite recent illness and the need for an operation, and I don't think I could in any case leave her for the length of time involved, even if I had promised to do so by accepting some arrangements at an earlier time.

For Henry Kissinger's benefit, I am adding the fact that his necessary leaving of his job of running the International Seminar here at Harvard, which I turned over to him shortly after founding it back in the early fifties, has made it very much more difficult to combine this trip of going around to see the alumni, since Henry's departure makes it almost certain that we will scrap it for at least a year or

Mr. DeMyer

August 14, 1969

two, and I am afraid that this may mean that it will disappear forever. It has not been able to serve quite the same uses that it was set up for in recent years, and certainly with Henry's increasing inability to give it the time and attention that he once devoted to it, its position has been radically altered. The present assistant director, who is the director this summer in Henry's absence, feels that he cannot go on with it, and I am inclined to share his views, in any case, for the sake of the seminar. It would be quite impossible for me to devote the time to it unless there were much more available help here to go on with it, and I do not feel that I could face the alumni groups of this seminar, who are scattered through the regions that I wish to tour in, with that kind of bad news. I had hoped to bring them a different message.

So let me thank you for your letter and say that I hope the USIA will be in a better position to encourage selected scholars for selected tours, since a good deal depends upon not having hit-or-miss businesses.

If you take the trouble to read the book that I wrote and edited on Education and Training in the Developing Countries, you will find in the recommendations, which I wrote and Joe Slater helped to put together when he was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Cultural Coordination in the State Department, some views on this matter which may be of interest to you. I have tried to help the USIA and the USIS over many years and found that they were under very grave difficulties from the point of view of understanding the importance of their mission in getting the kind of direction, support, and congressional backing as well as White House attention that they obviously need. I cannot feel very much more cheerful about it if the kind of hit-or-miss arrangements that your letter suggested are the best that can be offered to someone who has spent as much of his life in doing the kind of effective work for the United States abroad that I have done as a scholar from the days when I was a student at Oxford and at the Sorbonne as head of the Confederation Internationale des Etudiants and president of the University Association for the Societe des Nations which was the first fruit of my Oxford Rhodes scholarship and which I organized groups all over Europe for the same purpose,

I hope very much that you may be able to enlist more support, and the next time I see Henry, perhaps I can speak to him about the weakness of the State Department's current position in the cultural coordination area.

WYEsp

cc: Mr. Henry Kissinger

GENERAL

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

MAY 20 1970

Dear Ben:

Thank you for your thoughtful and interesting letter of May 7. I appreciate your taking the time to write and the reasonable way in which you do so. So many shrill voices have been raised and from so many corners; it is a pleasure to hear from you.

I value your friendship highly and respect your opinions. Perhaps when the times are not so frantic we will have a chance to talk.

Please do stay in touch.

Dr. Benjamin H. Brown
99 Irving Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts

jlp:5/15/70

May 7, 1970

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

Dear Henry:

I write to you as a friend who has my respect and affection and who is in a position, if he sees fit to do so, to represent my views to the President.

(1) I question the wisdom and the morality of the decision to send American forces to deal with "the heart of the problem" by once again attacking "enemy sanctuaries" which serve as bases for attacks. The strategy of search and destroy has not been notably successful in the past; and in its execution it has been morally offensive to me. If the President's decision had been presented as a limited one for the sole purpose of protecting the immediate rear of our withdrawing forces, I might have been inclined to put my reservations aside and to accept the move as a marginal step limited in time and space and possibly necessary to give effect to the national decision to withdraw.

(2) As I read the President's speech, the decision is not so limited, and I am not satisfied by subsequent news leaks suggesting that it is. I heard the President say that Hanoi's intransigence, belligerence and "massive" aggression have become "intolerable;" that North Vietnamese forces are invading Cambodia and encircling Phnom Penh; that if their effort succeeds, Cambodia will become a vast staging area and springboard for attacks jeopardizing the lives of American forces. This seems a

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vast oversimplification, but put that aside. The President
goes on to cast doubt on Cambodia's ability to resist.
The clear implication is that a larger American military
effort to defend Cambodia would be justified.

(3) What concerns me most deeply, however, is
not that the war has been widened geographically (repugnant
and unnecessary as that may be), but that on the evidence of
the President's statement, it has been again widened
conceptually. In the past year our concept of the war seemed
to be narrowing; our rhetoric became less exalted. Now we
seem to be back where we were in 1966-67. We are told that
the outcome of the war will determine whether we shall be
humiliated and suffer our first defeat, followed by a bigger
war, or surrender; whether we shall desert 18 million South
Vietnamese to "slaughter and savagery;" whether the credibility
of the US will be destroyed in every area of the world
where only the power of the US deters aggression; whether
the "forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten
free nations and free institutions throughout the world;"--
or whether we will prove our will and character, win a just
peace in the Pacific, establish our worthiness to lead the
forces of freedom, and make it possible for our sons to live
in peace and freedom. Whatever else it has done, the great
national debate of the past three years has established,
for better or worse (I think for the better), that it is
not possible to unify the American people behind a Vietnam
operation cast in these terms. This concept of the war,
with all that it implies about the nature of the issues at
stake and about America's Final aims and broader purposes in
the world, divides the American people and undermines the
world's confidence in us. To relate the insecurity of small
nations to "anarchy" in America and attacks on our universi-
ties further embitters the division, as events of the past
few days amply demonstrate.

I regret having to write in this way. I know
you are heavily burdened, and I take no joy in adding to your
burdens. Neither my friendship for you nor my conception of
my duty as a citizen permit me to remain silent.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

ROBERT R. BOWIE, Director
HOLLIS B. CHENERY
LESTER E. GORDON
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
SEYMOUR M. LIPSET
THOMAS C. SCHELLING
RAYMOND VERNON

JOSEPH S. NYE, Program Director
LAWRENCE S. FINKELSTEIN, Secretary

6 DIVINITY AVENUE
CAMBRIDGE
MASSACHUSETTS 02138

November 12, 1971

GENERAL

F-96-11-1 KISSINGER, HENRY A

KISSINGER, HENRY A. /B*

Mr. Coleman Hicks
The White House
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Hicks:

I received Dr. Kissinger's note and Dick Smyser told me of his talk with you. We look forward to meeting Dr. Kissinger at the White House at 5 p.m. Tuesday, December 7.

Our group will consist of the Center Fellows and myself. The list is included.

Smyser said the meeting with Kissinger would take place in the Roosevelt Room where we met last year and the year before. May I ask if you would be kind enough to reserve the room from 3 p.m. I am hopeful that we can meet one or two other members of the President's staff--for example Peter Flanigan, Len Garment, Paul McCracken or Mr. Schultz--before we see Kissinger. Smyser thinks the simplest thing will be for me to write them and ask them to coordinate with you if they are willing to see us. If you have no objection I will do it that way.

If you wish to discuss this matter with me I can be reached at (617) 495-2112/2114.

With warm regards,

Adviser to the Fellows

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Center for International Affairs
PROGRAM FOR FELLOWS

The Fellows of the Center for International Affairs are a group of about 15 senior officials and others in public international affairs from various countries who spend the academic year (September-June) in advanced study and research at Harvard. The program is confined to exceptional individuals--able practitioners with a capacity for independent research and analysis. The aim is to select Fellows from roughly the top 5 per cent of the relevant people, usually in the age group 40-45.

Preference is given to candidates who have a contribution to make in Center research projects, either as resource people or in research of their own, or both; and in a few cases to candidates who will relate to the work of other units in the University, such as the regional Centers on Russia, East Asia and the Middle East, or the Center for the Study of Education and Development. Most Fellows have been officials, but journalists, professors and others from the private sphere who have a role in public affairs are also eligible.

Fellows are appointed officers of the University. They are colleagues of the Faculty, not students. Each Fellow is free to pursue his own interests in his own way. Some concentrate on research and writing, sometimes with a view to publication; others on new developments in their fields of interest, attending seminars and lectures at Harvard, MIT and elsewhere in the Boston area. Most do some of both. Each Fellow is required to write at least one serious analytical paper on a topic of his choice for discussion at a Center seminar in the spring.

Individual work is conducted in a common framework of study which stimulates comparative analysis and encourages Fellows to identify and explore common interests together. With varied geographical and professional backgrounds, with different ways of looking at the world and diverse habits of analysis and decision-making, Fellows have much to teach their colleagues as well as to learn from them. The University environment permits a quality of uninhibited discussion almost never achieved in official contacts.

Normally, Fellows are accompanied by their families. The Center assists them in locating suitable housing and in choosing schools for their children.

With a few exceptions, Fellows are supported financially (including salary and travel) by their governments. In cases where this is not feasible, they may be supported from Foundation grants awarded to them individually, or from other sources available to them. Office space and secretarial assistance are provided at the Center. Libraries and other resources of the University relevant to Fellows' needs are at their disposal.

Inquiries should be addressed to the Adviser to Fellows at the Center.

DR. Leesh: mm: 3/18/69

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England
London, 2 W 1
Westminster
House of Commons
The Right Honorable George Brown, M.P.*

Henry V. Kissinger

Best regards,

It would be good to have a chance to talk.
I hope you will let me know if you plan to come to Washington.

Our European friends on a whole complex of problems,
that we have at least made a good start on consultations with
The President's trip did go very well, and I am encouraged

been out of circulation for some time.
its American cousin, I can well understand that you have
the British strain of this winter's flu is as unpleasant as
I was very sorry to have missed you in London too. It

Dear George:

March 21, 1969

KISSINGER, HENRY A.*

HOUSE OF COMMONS

LONDON, S W 1

3rd March, 1969.

I had been so looking forward to seeing you in London last week and was most disappointed to miss you. But I have been laid up with rather a vicious attack of 'flu and am only just getting into circulation again.

Judging from what I have read in the press, your tour has been a great success, and the fact that the President took such an early opportunity to sound out opinion at first hand in Europe will undoubtedly have made a very favourable impression and lead to a better understanding of our mutual and national problems.

I am still hoping to come over to Washington before too long and look forward to seeing you there.

(GEORGE BROWN)

Dr. Henry Kissinger,
The White House,
Washington.

EXECUTIVE

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MEMORANDUM

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

February 4, 1972

MEMORANDUM FOR HENRY KISSINGER

FROM: COLEMAN HICKS
SUBJECT: Request for Appointment by George Brown

George brown has cabled indicating that he will be in Washington D. C. in "mid-February". He would like to see you and 'anyone else interested". Do you want to see Brown in the week of your departure for Peking?

Yes [x] no [ ]

Do you have any suggestions of other people who might be interested in seeing Brown?

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FEBRUARY STOP CAN BE CONTACTED VIA EMLYN WILLIAMS COURTAULDS
OFFICE 212 LW4 1600 STOP PERHAPS SEE YOU AND ANYONE ELSE
INTERESTED REGARDS
GEORGE BROWN

COL 212 LW4 1600

The White House
Washington

1772 FEB 4 71 1 50

EXECUTIVE

FG-11/KISSINGER, HARRY
KISSINGER, HARRY 4/13

REQUEST FOR APPOINTMENT

8/25/72, jlp, official

Harold Brown would like to see Mr. Kissinger either out here or in
Washington. (He will be there September 13 and 14) He wants
to talk about next steps in SALT.

He would arrange his schedule to come to S. C. any day Mr. Kissinger was able to see him while out here.

Contact Brown at his Caltech office: 213/795-6841, ex. 2301

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The White House
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HENRY KISSINGER
WHITE HOUSE WASHDC

DIDNT YOU FORGET AND LEAVE YOUR UMBRELLA ON THE PLANE
MRS VIVIAN BROWN 304 PONTE VEDRA BLVD PONTE VEDRA BEACH FLO.

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Type of Request & Date

Browne, Secor D. - before HAK
trip to China

(Last name EXECUTIVE date)

Name: Secor D. Browne, Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board

C034-2

MISSINGER, HENRY Ad

/B. X.

Request: Ed Rector, Special Assistant to Secor Browne, called today to reinstate his request to see Mr. Kissinger, particularly in view of the announcement of his trip today. Mr. Browne is extremely interested in talking to Dr. Kissinger about international air route agreements (the possibility of) to our new Chinese friends on the Chinese Mainland. Mr. Browne sees it as an area where real achievements could be made. As a matter of interest, Secor Browne worked out an agreement with the Russians in the early 60s. Mr. Browne would like to have a meeting, a lunch or whatever.

FG 88

CSH's

XXXXX Recommendation:

HAK's Answer: 10/27-NO

Date and Time:

Party Contacted: 10/27 - purpose T: D. Browne talk

w/j. Holdridge, D.

342-5641

Additional Information: RSVP: Ed Rector, 420/6031

Resolution: