for Europe.
Diplated by Mr. Krasufier before his departure

Henry V. Krasufier

Sincerely yours,

Best regards.

will be able to arrange it for that day.
accident for me, and I hope very much that you
will be able to come and assist me with your
kindly. Obviously I could come to New York on
I look forward to seeing you early in
your way be interested.

I wrote for the New Republic in which I thought
enclosed is the manuscript of an article

Dear Mr. Hitzel:

Washington D. C.
1600 E Street Avenue N.W.
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Mr. Sam H. Hitzel

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September 6, 1955

Mr. Paul Nitze
Foreign Service Educational Foundation
1906 Florida Avenue N.W.
Washington 9, D.C.

Dear Paul:

I much enjoyed our conversation the other day. I think
that with limited resources you and Ogloblin have done a marvellous
job. If you could let me see the draft of the integrating chapter
I should be very grateful. The best thing would be to send it to
me at the Council on Foreign Relations.

If you can think of any way by which we can cooperate
more closely please let me know. I have a feeling that a pooling
of brain power might be useful, but I have no precise proposal on
how to accomplish it. Maybe by division of labor.

I am moving to the Council next week, so that mail would
reach me more quickly there than here.

I look forward to seeing more of you next year.

Best regards.

November 18, 1955

Dear Paul:

I was very glad to get your letter of November 15th and I appreciate your stating your feelings so honestly and directly even if not flatteringly from our point of view. I had planned to write you too, but I wanted first to tell Phil and Henry of your and my conversation after the meeting Monday, and I didn't get a chance to do so until yesterday afternoon, as Phil was ill part of the week and Henry was up at Harvard.

To take up your letter point by point: first, I entirely agree that you are entitled to be told directly of any questions the Council might have. This was why I spoke to you at Oslo. I didn't discuss the matter again with either Phil or Henry until Henry last week told me of his conversation with you. At that time I also mentioned it to Gordon. Then, as you know, I wrote you immediately that I would like to talk things over. Both Phil and Henry tell me that they too did not bring up the matter again until last week when they discussed it with me. I am personally entirely convinced that this is so, in spite of what is certainly the strange coincidence of the Ogloblin letter.

Secondly, I quite agree that one exceedingly important purpose of the Council's study and discussion groups is "the development and exchange of ideas on important foreign policy issues among the members with the hope that this would lead to sounder United States foreign policy and a better understanding and support for a sound policy among informed members of the public." I also agree that a very important function of the staff is "to assist the members in having profitable and better organized discussion and in producing, if possible, documents for public distribution which might permit the ideas developed to have wider public distribution." In fact, I don't see how these points could be stated better. I do feel, however, that the original work to be done by the staff is also very important and furthermore that unless a good deal of emphasis is laid on this we would not be able to get the calibre of staff necessary to fulfill the other function adequately. Furthermore, unless the work of our groups results in significant publications, it will become increasingly difficult to get our best members to give the necessary time to them. It was for these reasons that, as you know, I have been concerned from the very beginning to get things set up that our author (in this case Henry--but the same would apply to other projects) would not be

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worrying about another book along the lines of his developing
in part out of the group's discussion and being published somewhat
before his own. A situation of this nature could, it seemed to
me, develop, even with the best will in the world; and it could
put an author under a time pressure which could considerably de-
tract from the final quality of his product, and, more important,
raise a question in the minds of future study directors and authors
of Council works. As I mentioned, articles do not have the same
disadvantages from our point of view, and what disadvantages there
might be are more than compensated by the national interest.

You were generous to say that if you did write a
book, you would submit it to us and not publish it before ours if
Gordon and I felt it was too close to what Henry was doing. I am
sure this question will not, in fact, arise, but in any event your
offer certainly eliminates any possible problem on our part.

I can't end this note without saying how much I regret
the misunderstanding which has obviously arisen. You are one of
our most valuable members. You have done a lot for us in the past,
and I hope you will do a lot more in the future. Furthermore, I
like and respect you. As you say, you understood my position at
Oslo. It hasn't changed an iota since that time, nor has it even
been discussed until last week. You didn't believe this Monday,
and because of the letter from Ogloblin, I do not blame you for not
believing it, but it is the truth, and since you have had time to
reflect, I expect you to believe it now.

Mr. Paul H. Nitze
Foreign Service Educational Foundation
1906 Florida Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C.