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Sam Huntington is a bit too young for this, and his manner is a trifle on the nervous and immature side, but he is a very intelligent fellow, and we could really do worse. Kermit Gordon, I agree, would be very good, and I think Martin is an excellent idea in the other two spots.

While we are on the subject of the Seminar, I think that it would be useful if we had one or two additions to our American side. I suppose that Ken Keniston is still around and usefully available, and I would very much hope that Chris Bird will be here this Summer to help out with the Political Geography Conference, and that you could make some real use of him on the social side of the matter, and also as someone who could talk with the members of the Seminar. He has developed quite a lot and has really an excellent linguistic and cultural-anthropological background at this time. One of my best students is Richard H. Ullman, who is a Rhodes scholar at this time and a fellow of great power and balance, former editor of the *Crimson*, and really first-rate in every way. I believe I have sent to your Weld office an excerpt from his thesis which shows what an interesting job he is doing. I would warmly recommend him as an American participant if, as seems likely, he is back here this Summer. His address is Nuffield College, Oxford, England.

I don't know how busy Evron Kirkpatrick is in the Summer. He is the Secretary of the American Political Science Association and a quite able fellow. Chuck Thompson is not an impossibility, and, of course, Norman Palmer is a very impressive looking and really decent fellow, somewhat too much on the understanding line, but still a fellow of generally sound principles and opinions. It is just possible that he might be interested in something of this sort.

I wish it were possible for you to go out to the Principia Conference this year, which meets on April 4, 5, and 6, for at least a day of the conference, preferably the 5th. They need someone to talk about the future of Germany, and I am at a loss to know whom to get for them. Is there a possibility that you could snatch off a day from your already overburdened schedule? You know what a great impression you made on them last time, and how useful it was. But I would probably be honest in advising you not to burden yourself any further. If you have a good thought about it, however, do let me have it. Really what is wanted is something about Germany in relation to NATO, I suppose.

There are two other possibilities for the political scientist, both of whom you probably remember--Raymond English is a thoroughly conservative chap with a good deal of real brains, who is now a professor at Kenyon College. He used to be an assistant of mine in Government 1, and was a serious and weighty kind of fellow, of British background but thoroughly American now, I think. The other one would be Paul Hammond, who is extremely knowledgeable and dignified, though at first blush, as you know, he does not bowl people over. He is certainly able to operate on a high level, and I think would be very useful. I am sending you along Raymond English's name in connection with a conference which he has

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organized at Kenyon. He has written some very interesting things, and I like him personally very much. But he would be well down the list in the light of the possible availability of others. I think I should rate him below Hammond, though he would be quite close.

It occurs to me that a very able political scientist, whom I think extremely highly of, is here this year in the Defense Policy Seminar. His name is Professor William Emerson, from Yale, and I would think that he is as good as anyone we have thought about. You might have Graubard look him up and talk to him and arrange a time so that you could see him. But on the whole he seems to me to be about the best person that we have a prospect of getting. Of course, he may not be available. He has the requisite character and weight, and is an extremely able fellow in dealing with high-level minds. I suppose he is as much of an historian as a political scientist, but that is all to the good. He made, I think, the most impressive contribution to the General Education Conference of any of the speakers last Summer, and you would find him, I am sure, as I do, personally as delightful a fellow as you would be likely to run into.

There is a young ex-Balliol man here doing graduate work and writing on Colonel House, who is also a fine candidate for one of the American jobs. He would be as good as Ken Keniston, I think. He has been offered a job in Washington, but may go on with his Ph.D., which will be a biography of Colonel House and the relations of that worthy to Wilson. His name is Stephen Stamatopulos. I have suggested that he talk to Graubard in order to initiate discussions, though with no commitments of any sort. I really believe Bill Wilson is the best bet that I have so far thought of, and I think you would agree if you knew him. I can at least try to find out what his movements are likely to be this Summer, but I will go no further until I have heard from you and until you have seen him.

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Encl.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Department of Government
PROFESSOR WILLIAM Y. ELLIOTT

LITTAUER CENTER M-26
CAMBRIDGE 38, MASSACHUSETTS

March 7, 1957

Mr. David H. Popper
Deputy U.S. Representative
for International Organizations
United States Resident Delegation
and Consulate General
Geneva, Switzerland

Dear David:

I am delighted to know of what you are doing in Geneva, and
to hear from you and from an old friend, Georges-Henri Martin.

I am sending along your recommendation to Henry Kissinger,
who is in charge of the International Seminar of the Harvard Summer
School, and I am sure that your recommendation and those of Henri Martin
will carry weight. We do, of course, have a very heavy "over-application"
for this quite limited group, but M. Roulet sounds very interesting indeed.

Thank you very much for your thoughtfulness, and do drop me a
line from time to time. I ought to add, I suppose, that we give
preference, in general, in the Seminar to people who would otherwise
not be coming to the United States, and this may militate against
M. Roulet's admission, since he appears to know this country both
from his past student days, and from his prospective tour of duty
with the Washington Post.

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cc: Mr. Henry A. Kissinger (with enclosure)

cc: Mr. Henry V. Krasinger (with eulogues)

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William Y. Effett

Sincerely yours,

with the *Washington Post*.
from his beat correspondent's, and from his prospective torn of duty.
Mr. Rolfelt's admission, since he appears to know this country both
not be coming to the United States, and this may influence against
preference in general, in the Seminar to come who would otherwise
fine from time to time. I ought to add, I appreciate, that we give

ter for this quite limited group, but Mr. Rolfelt sounds very interesting indeed.
will certainly weight. We do, of course, have a very heavy "over-sublimation"
School", and I am sure that your recommendation and those of Mr. Martin
who is in charge of the International Seminar of the Harvard Summer
I am sending a strong your recommendation to Henry Krasinger.

to hear from you and from an old friend, Georges-Henri Martin.
I am delighted to know of what you are doing in Genesee, and

Dear David:

Genesee, Switzerland
and Connecticut General
United States Federal Delegation
for International Organizations
Deputy U.S. Representative
Mr. David H. Bobber.

March 3, 1957

PROFESSOR WILLIAM Y. ELLIOTT
Department of Geology

CAYBRIDGE 38th WYSVCHURBLES
ILLITURNER CENTER W-30

FACULTY OF VRLS AND SCIENCES
HARVARD UNIVERSITY

MAR 4 1957

UNITED STATES RESIDENT DELEGATION
AND CONSULATE GENERAL
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

February 25, 1957

Professor William Yandell Elliott,
Harvard University,
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts.

Dear Professor Elliott:

M. Georges-Henri Martin, an editor of the *Tribune de Geneve* and a leading figure among Geneva personalities interested in the United States, asked me a few days ago to interview M. Alfred Henri Roulet of the Tribune's staff, in order to give him some counsel regarding a projected application for a grant to attend a seminar at Harvard next summer.

I had a very pleasant chat with M. Roulet, the substance of which is described in the attached Memorandum of Conversation. My acquaintance with M. Roulet is limited to this one meeting, and I have no information regarding him except for that which M. Martin and he himself have given me. As you will note from the memorandum, I consider him an intelligent, frank and energetic individual who strikes me as an able person who would benefit by attendance at Harvard and (as I gather would be the case) by a subsequent short tour of duty with the *Washington Post*.

M. Martin and I are of course aware that the Seminar at Harvard is a purely non-governmental activity. I am nevertheless writing this letter in the hope that it may be of some assistance in your selection process, in a wholly informal way.

Enclosure:

Memorandum of Conversation
dated February 20, 1957.

MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION

Date: February 20, 1957

SUBJECT: Attendance at Harvard University Summer School Seminar in the Humanities.

PARTICIPANTS: M. Alfred Henri Roulet
David H. Popper

Upon introduction by M. Georges-Henri Martin of the Tribune de Geneve, M. Roulet came to see me this morning to inform me of his desire to attend the 1957 Seminar in the field of Humanities to be held at Harvard University during the 1957 summer session. M. Martin is encouraging M. Roulet, who has a position on the editorial staff of the Tribune de Geneve, to make application for the Seminar.

Roulet is Professor of Dramatic Literature at the Geneva Conservatory in addition to his journalistic work. He has worked in the field of the drama for many years. He has been active in the French National Theater in the French provinces as a producer and reconstructed the Geneva Little Theater (Theatre de la Cour St. Pierre) and directed its activities for two years. He was Secretary of the Geneva Arts Festival (Rencontres Internationales) at Geneva last fall.

At Harvard M. Roulet would be especially interested in developments in the American Theater and in research at the Harvard University Library in the French Drama. According to Roulet the best texts published on the French Drama are those in the United States.

Roulet, who is 36 years old, appears to be an intelligent and frank individual with a pleasing personality. He was in the United States four or five years ago on a student grant, during which he made a tour of the country that lasted several months. Although his English is very rusty he says that he has no difficulty in understanding lectures, or theatrical productions, or in reading. He expects to apply at Harvard within the next few days.

cc: Mr. Henry V. Krasinger (with enclosures)

MWF:pm

William Y. Elliott

Ya ener.

With great respect and best wishes,

for their holiday in June. We wish you look forward to seeing you.
Compliment your pack from the train and brochuring to take the pole down
forward to seeing you in May. I hope so that time she will be in
forward to seeing you in May. I hope so that time she will be in
forward to seeing you in May. I hope so that time she will be in
forward to seeing you in May. I hope so that time she will be in

Thank you very much for your letter. I hope so and I will look

forward to include it in this package with my limited budget.
for the seminar, but Dr. Unland seems the kind of person whom we result
pleasure to see him if he is admitted. We are heavily "over-subscribed"
classes interesting enough to look in on, and if would certainly be a
series of political science at Harvard, put me in touch with the
from him. I doubt if now much the seminar can help him with the
over to Henry Krasinger, and I am sure it will get your consideration
your very helpful recommendation for Dr. Unland I am turning
the one eventful that he could see me.

the one eventful that he could see me.
I got a call to Washington which made it impossible for me to be here
I was extremely sorry to hear Carl Friedrich's brother, Offo.

Dear Henry:

Vermont
Hartland
Mr. Henry Barning

March 7, 1927

PROFESSOR WILLIAM Y. ELLIOTT
Department of Government

CUMBERLAND 38, MYSZCHENELLS
LILLAVUER CRIMES M-30

FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

MAR 4 1957

Hartland, Vermont

February 28, 1957

Dear Bill,

Last week-end, when Carl Friedrich's brother Otto, who
is a good friend of mine, was in Cambridge, I hoped to come
down, and to be able to see you and Louise. Instead, Carl
Friedrich brought his brother to his farm in New Hampshire,
where I met them. Had I been able to see you, I would have
raised the following question.

My assistant at the University of Cologne, Dr. H. J. Onland,
who has studied law and political science and wrote an excellent
thesis for his doctor's degree in law, has applied for the
Summer School International Seminar. After a semester, I found
him the ablest member of my seminar, which he had joined because
of a special interest in Anglo-Saxon law and constitutional his-
tory. In the past three or four years he has concentrated on
Anglo-Saxon legal and administrative problems and especially on
the role of the Supreme Court in Washington. He has an unusual,
instinctive understanding of Anglo-Saxon institutions and tradi-
tions -- I think because he comes from my native part of Westphalia,
where old Saxon legal traditions survived without interruption
until the Napoleonic occupation.

I can recommend him for the International Seminar from every
point of view. Apart from his personal interest, my interest
in his coming here is based on painful experience in the last few
years in Germany of the number of people writing and talking about
Anglo-Saxon legal and political principles without the slightest
knowledge of their concrete application or their development.
Even among my colleagues in the University I found a very uneven
acquaintance with Anglo-Saxon institutions; after the First World
War the study of English constitutional history came into neglect,
and after the Second World War people were overwhelmed with super-
ficial and often misleading advertisement of English and American
institutions.

Probably my successor in the chair at Cologne will be Prof. Leib-
holz, who lived and taught at Oxford, but as far as I know has
no experience of the great differences between English and
American practise. For him, therefore, and for the sake of con-
tinuity in the seminar I tried to establish, it would be very
valuable for Dr. Onland, as the seminar assistant, to have
some direct acquaintance with American theory and practise, and
to study the practical organisation of the study of political
science at Harvard. What the German universities have adopted of
"political science" is so far only a veneer over the older
study of political problems either in the law or in the historical
faculty. In this respect the University of Cologne has special
difficulties. Established by Albertus Magnus in the thirteenth

differences. Eatsplashed by Albertus Magnus in the thirteenth
faculty. In this respect the University of Cologne has special
study of political problems either in the law or in the historical
"political science" is so far only a veneer over the older
science at Harvard. What the German universities have adopted of
to study the practical organisation of the study of political
some direct accordance with American theory and practice, and
available for Dr. Unland, as the seminar saalatsant, to have
tinuity in the seminar I tried to eatsplish, it would be very
American practice. For him, therefore, and for the sake of con-
no experience of the great differences between English and
hols, who lived and taught at Oxford, but so far as I know has
propably my successor in the chair at Cologne will be Prof. Reip-

institutions.

tifics and often misleading advertising of English and American
and after the Second World War people were overwhelmed with au-
war the study of English constitutional history came into neglect,
acquaintance with Anglo-Saxon institutions; after the First World
Even among my colleagues in the University I found a very uneven
knowledge of their concrete application or their development.
Anglo-Saxon legal and political principles without the slightest
yours in Germany of the number of people writing and talking spont
in his coming here is based on painful experience in the last few
point of view. Apart from his personal interest, my interest
I can recommend him for the International Seminar from every
until the Asboleanic occupation.

where old Saxon legal traditions survived without interruption
tions -- I think because he comes from my native part of Westphalia,
instructive understanding of Anglo-Saxon institutions and tradi-
tional the role of the Supreme Court in Washington. He has an unself-
Anglo-Saxon legal and administrative problem and especially on
tory. In the last three or four years he has concentrated on
of a special interest in Anglo-Saxon law and constitutional his-
m him the subject member of my seminar, which he had joined because
Summer School International Seminar. After a semester, I found
theatre for his doctor's degree in law, has applied for the
who has studied law and political science and wrote an excellent
My saalatsant at the University of Cologne, Dr. H. J. Unland,

rather the following question.

where I met them. Had I been able to see you, I would have
Friedrich brought his brother to his farm in New Hampshire,
down, and to be able to see you and Loniea. Inated, Carl
is a good friend of mine, was in Cambridge, I hoped to come
last week-end, when Carl Friedrich's brother Otto, who

February 28, 1927
Hartland, Vermont

MAR 4 1927

century, it was closed by the French Revolutionary troops. After
the Peace of Vienna, its surviving funds and officers were trans-
ferred to Bonn. About 1900 Cologne became interested in re-
establishing a university there, and they started with a school of
commerce, which became the most famous of its kind in Germany. A law
school followed, and a medical faculty, and only then a philo-
sophical faculty. More than half the students today are enrolled
in the commerce school, which also includes business law and where
a number of special chairs -- for history and for political science --
have been established. The chair of political science was estab-
lished five years ago in the school of commerce rather than in
the philosophical or law faculty so that the great body of
students should get at least an introduction to the subject, in
addition to the excellent special business training. That these
commerce students should get a good introduction to politics is
rather important, for they are practically certain of good posi-
tions in business when they graduate, and a large percentage of
them later become influential figures in industry and finance.

You will see from all this that I think Dr. Unland especially well qualified to benefit from the International Seminar, and I would be grateful if you could make it possible for him to participate. He has mailed his application directly.

I plan to be in Cambridge for a few days in May, when I
hope very much to see you and Louise.

With kind regards and best wishes,

(copy to 10 Weld Hall)

(cody to 10 Weld Hall)

Ya ever, youra

Hope very much to see you and poniea.

for him to participate. He has mailed his application directly.
Seminar, and I would be grateful if you could make it possible
becausy well désulted to benefit from the international
You will see from all this that I think Dr. Unland es-
them later become influential figurea in industry and finance.
and a large percentage of
commercial students should get a good introduction to politics is
addition to the excellent specialist business training. That these
students should get at least an introduction to the subject, in
the bibliographical or law faculty so that the great body of
listed five years ago in the school of commerce rather than in
have been eapslashed. The chair of political science was eaps-
s number of specialist chairs -- for history and for political science
in the commerce school, which also includes business law and where
specialist faculty. More than half the students today are enrolled
school followed, and a medical faculty, and only then a philo-
commerce, which became the most famous of its kind in Germany. A law
eapslashing a university there, and they started with a school of
founded to Bonn. About 1900 Cologne became interested in re-
the peace of Vienna, its surviving funds and officers were trans-
century, it was closed by the French revolutionary troops. After

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

March 19, 1957

Mr. Richard W. Elliott, Jr.
Box 9, APO 63
San Francisco, California

Dear Richard:

I am sending on your recommendation to Henry Kissinger
and to Steve Graubard, and I am sure that it will be taken
seriously.

Unfortunately, unless we raise some more money rather
soon, we are not going to be able to get twenty people all the
way from Asia. The Ford Foundation has reduced its grant, and
so has the Asia Foundation, apparently in line with the general
mood of "economy", which comes at about the worst time that it
could in our international responsibilities.

Our best love to you and June and little Richard and
Edward. I got some fine letters from Dick expressing his
grandfatherly happiness. I hope very much that you won't be
so long returning home again. We very much enjoyed your stay
with us, and I was glad that the car could be put to good use.
I have had it completely revamped, so it may even last out till
your next visit.

Best love to all from your Uncle Will,

William Y. Elliott

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cc: Mr. Henry Kissinger, New York (with attachment)

cc: Mr. Stephen Graubard, Weld 10

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

SUMMER SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AND OF EDUCATION

2 WELD HALL, CAMBRIDGE 38, MASSACHUSETTS

WILLIAM YANDELL ELLIOTT, Director
THOMAS EUGENE CROOKS, Assistant Director

DANA MESERVE COTTON, Associate Director
MARGUERITE HILDEBRAND, Executive Secretary

April 16, 1957

Professor Ernest Barker
17 Cranmer Road
Cambridge, England

Dear Professor Barker:

I cannot believe that you really thought I would hardly
remember you, given the fact that your own influence on my political
thinking, as I have acknowledged to you, has been one of the greatest
of any of the teachers and writers that I know.

Nor can I allow you to claim to be a voice from the past,
except insofar as you have made the past a living reality for so many
of us. We will continue to send you *Confluence* as long as you are
willing to read it, and shall feel honored to do so.

Alas, those days in the 20's when you laid out so many of
the problems that were to come seem, by comparison to our own times,
almost idyllic. At least at that period the issues seemed to be open
ones, and the choices of the roads were real. One gets a depressing
feeling at times that *quantulum sapientiae* is a measure not only of
rulers, but of us all.

I am looking forward to your completion of the great work
on the Byzantine Empire. Please do not forget to write me from time
to time and let me know of the progress of this work, which I trust will
not be your last one. After all, we are quite often in the habit of
making that kind of bow to posterity---fortunately prematurely.

With the warmest regards and cordial memories of your visit
here, I am

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cc: Mr. Stephen Graubard
International Seminar, Weld 10

International Seminar, Meld 10
cc: Mr. Stephen Grangard

MEL:1m

WILLIAM Y. ELLIOTT

Genuinely yours,

pere¹, I am

With the warmest regards and cordial memories of my best friend

making that kind of pen to bestow forthmately, gratefully.
not be your first one. After all, we are quite often in the habit of
time and yet we know of the progress of this work, which I trust will
on the Basque side. Please do not forget to write me from time
to time

myself, put of na eff.

seeing at times that *grandfather* says he is a mesmer not only of
ones² and the choices of the roads were best. One beta a decepting
sight idyllic. At least at that period the idea seemed to be open
the problems that were to come seem³, by comparison to our own time⁴,
Viva⁵, please give in the 20's when you read out so much of

willing to read it⁶, and would feel honored to go so.

of na⁷. We will continue to send you *Conjunction* so long as you see
except in order so you have made the best a living result so much
nor can I allow you to claim to be a notice from the best⁹.

of us and of the teachers and pupils that I know.

chilling⁹, so I have acknowledged to you¹⁰, put pen one of the greatest
remember¹¹, so then the fact that you own influence on my boffin¹²
I cannot believe that you really thought I would really

Dear Professor Barker:

Cambridge, England
17 Grimmer Road
Professor Ernest Barker

Vb44T 7c, 1828

THOMAS ENOINE CROOKS⁴, Assistant Director
WILLIAM YANDETT ELLIOTT⁵, Director

MYRONERILE HILDEBRAND⁶, Executive Secretary
DANIEL MESSERAS COLTON⁷, Associate Director

3 MELD HAY, CAMBRIDGE 38 MYSCHUZELLS

SUMMER SCHOOL OF YALE AND SCIENCE AND OF EDUCATION

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

C4

Paris, March 12th., 1957.

Mr. Henry Kissinger
10 Weld Hall
Harvard University
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

You undoubtedly remember the correspondance we exchanged some
4 or 5 years ago. At the time, you asked for my advice, and I bel-
ieve I recommended several young French writers to your office, who
were subsequently invited to the Harvard Seminar.

It just happened that within a matter of days I met four or five
colleagues, all of whom went at one time or another to the Seminar.
They all inquired whether I would be interested in going to Harvard
this year. As a matter of fact, I think it might be a splendid idea
if I fall within the category of eligible people. When we last corr-
esponded, the major obstacle seems to have been my American citizen-
ship. I wonder whether the rules are still the same, in
this respect.

Although a naturalized citizen, I am a permanent resident of
France, and a French writer. I have by now published some twenty
books, and I have specialized in propagandizing American literature.
Last year alone, I have published an " Anthologie de la poésie amé-
ricains, des origines à nos jours ", a bilingual volume of 660 pag-
es entirely translated by myself. I also published a bilingual
edition of Carl Sandburg's Selected Poems. This year, I've just
brought out an anthology of the " twenty best " American short sto-
ries; and a 200 page essay on Emily Dickinson. Another volume on
Conrad Aiken is on its way.

In other fields, I have published dozens of articles, poems, &.
The enumeration would be tedious. As editor of the literary page
of " Combat ", regular contributor to all magazines and literary
critic on the radio, I believe I might be qualified to represent
French literary circles and conduct useful talks.

I'd appreciate your telling me whether a trip to Harvard could
be arranged, either this year, or next year. If not, is there any
possibility for remunerated lectures, without Harvard paying for
travel expenses?

With personal regards,
yours very sincerely,

Alain Bosquet
22, avenue de l'Opéra, Paris 1er.

SS, avenue de l'Opéra, Paris 1er.
Alain Boadet

Alain Boadet

Journa very sincerely,
With personal regards,

travel expenses?

beapplify for remunerated lectures, without Harvard paying for
be arranged, either this year, or next year. It not, if there and
I'd appreciate your telling me whether a trip to Harvard could
French literature circles and concert would take.

critic on the radio. I believe I might be qualified to represent
of " Combat ", regular contributor to all magazines and literary
The enumeration would be tedious. As editor of the literary page
In other fields, I have published dozens of articles, poems, &c.
Condorcet Viken is on it's way.

ria; and a 500 page essay on Emily Dickinson. Another volume on
promoted out an anthology of the " twenty beat " American short ato-
dition of Carl Sandberg's Selected Poems. This year, I've that
es entirely translated by Mae't. I also published alingual
ricines, des origines & no joura ", a filingral volume of 600 bag-
last year alone, I have published an " Anthrologie de la poeie am-
booke, and I have specified in propagandizing American literature.
France, and a French writer. I have dy now published some twenty
Although a naturalised citizen, I am a permanent resident of
this respect.

enabli. I wonder how whether the rules are still the same, in
abonged, the major opuscule seems to have been my American citi-
z. if I fall within the category of eligible people. When we last cor-
this year. As a matter of fact, I think it might be a splendid idea
They all interested whether I would be interested in going to Harvard
collegues, all of whom went at one time or another to the Seminar.
It that happened that within a matter of days I met four or five
were unprecedented invited to the Harvard Seminar.

I've recommended several young French writers to your office, who
4 or 2 years ago. At the time, you asked for my advice, and I fel-
You undoubtedly remember the correspondence we exchanged some

Dear Mr. Klaasen:

CUMBRIDGE, Mass.
Harvard University
10 Weid Haff
Mr. Henry Klaasen

Paris, March 15th, 1921.

SEMINARIE VOOR ECONOMIE
BIJ DE RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT TE GENT

DIRECTEUR : PROF. Dr A. J. VLERICK

U. 1442
AV/LDN

To: Henry Kissinger

GENT, march 22d 1957

UNIVERSITEITSTRAAT, 14

TEL. 25.35.63 25.06.35

Dear Sir,

A former student of our University
Miss Gilberte De Backer, of Bisdomkaai, 7, Gent, Belgium,
informs me that she has applied for a scholarship in or-
der to attend the Institute of World Affairs' Seminar
to be held from July 6th until the 23d of August at
Twin Lakes.

Since you are a director of this
institute, may I recommend to you this application ?
I know Miss De Backer as an intelligent and able young
person who, having been for six years in high school
teaching, could certainly make a mature contribution to
the seminar. Her interest for problems of international
policy has always been very great and her knowledge of
languages is very good. She speaks fluently Flemish, French,
English and German and has a good basis for Spanish.

By the same occasion may I draw
your attention to the Belgian candidate I suggested to
Mr. Kissinger for this year's Harvard International Seminar.
His name is Albert De Pont. He is an auditor in the coun-
cil of State which is a sort of supreme administrative
court in Belgium. I think Mr. De Pont is an outstanding
man and he could certainly contribute a great deal from
his own experience as a magistrate to the political
section of the Seminar.

I thank you very much indeed for the
attention you will pay to both applications and should
be delighted to give you more detailed information if
you should wish it.

I hope Mrs. Elliott and your children
are all well and your family still enjoys so much your farm
near Washington. Please give Mrs. Elliott and your children
our best regards from my wife and myself.

With very best regards,
sincerely yours,

Prof.Dr.W.ELLIOTT
660, Concord avenue

BELMONT (Mass.)

THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

BALTIMORE 18, MARYLAND

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL ECONOMY

May 13, 1957

Professor William Yandell Elliott, Director
Summer School of Arts and Sciences
and of Education
Harvard University
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts

Dear Bill:

Several weeks ago I wrote to you in support of
the application of Mr. Tatsuhisa Kuroda for membership in
this summer's International Seminar.

Today I received a desperate letter from Mr. Kuroda,
informing me that he was not among the persons selected. He
adds that only three Japanese had been selected, whereas four
places for Japanese had originally been announced; and thus
he hopes that some good words on his behalf may still get him
the fourth place on your roster.

I cannot be so presumptuous as to assume that my
endorsement of Kuroda's candidacy can change the plans of
your selection committee. Nevertheless, I feel morally
obliged to accede to Mr. Kuroda's request and to give him
my strong endorsement. I hope the fact that Mr. Kuroda is
a conservative (non-Socialist) liberal has not reduced his
chances with your committee. I have high regard for Mr.
Kuroda's integrity and learning, and I believe that he would
be an asset in a discussion group of the sort assembled in
your Seminar.

FM:W

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

May 16, 1957

Dr. Eddy Asirvatham
Ranchi College
Ranchi
Bihar, India

Dear Dr. Asirvatham:

I have been trying with Norman Palmer to find a suitable
opening for you on a more or less permanent basis in this country, but
I understand from Professor Palmer that you are now heading up an
important college in India. Is this the Ranchi College of which you
spoke in your earlier letter?

I passed on your recommendation for Mr. R. N. Trivedi. I
am afraid that the limited funds of the International Seminar have
prevented us from including many of the people whom we should have
most liked to bring over. He sounds just about right, and I hope we
can get him at another time. I appreciate your recommendation in any
case.

I am very glad that you have added a chapter on political
thought of Gandhi to your book. Is it available in the United States,
and though what publisher or distribution channel?

We still hope that something may turn up that will be
attractive enough for you, though I am sure that the importance of
what you are doing in India must be more nearly commensurate with
your own very great talents. I was sorry that you did not have time
to look us up on your last trip, and hope for better luck next time.

WYE:hw

cc: Mr. Henry Kissinger

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

May 23, 1957

Mr. Henry A. Kissinger
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc.
22 West 55th St.
New York 19, N. Y.

Dear Henry:

When you are programming people this Summer in the Seminar, I should very much like to have Ted Houser come up. Ted is the Chairman of the Board of the Sears, Roebuck Co.--a perfect example of an American who has come up the right way from a small community--the son of a mechanic; and a very constructive influence in all sorts of civic affairs, particularly in the Y.M.C.A., whose centennial in Chicago he is arranging.

I am enclosing a copy of the speech that he made at the Commencement at Loyola, which it seems to me might be a very interesting kind of taking off point for a discussion before the International Seminar here--particularly pages 13 and following. I think Houser is one of the more thoughtful of our American business leaders--very honest, and the kind of person whom the Seminar should get to know.

I am sure he can work out a time with you, and I spoke to him about this at the Business Advisory Council meeting at Hot Springs. I suggest that you write him directly in arranging your program.

WYE:hw

cc: Mr. Stephen Graubard

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

May 23, 1957

Mr. T. V. Houser
Chairman of the Board
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Chicago 7, Illinois

Dear Ted:

It was a great pleasure to see you even briefly at the Homestead, and it greatly cheered up Louise. She has had a small operation on her knee since then to remove a clot but appears to be getting along satisfactorily, though rather more slowly than I had hoped. Do give our best to your wife and say how sorry we were that her friend's serious illness kept her from coming.

I want particularly to thank you for the Loyola Commencement address, which I read with interest and the greatest approval. I particularly liked the part on People's Capitalism. This is the kind of thing that I think it would be very useful for you to discuss with the International Seminar, and I have written to Henry Kissinger, who is now on a short vacation at Antigua, to get in touch with you on his return and work out a convenient time, if you are willing to talk to the Seminar as you seemed disposed to do in our little chat at Hot Springs.

As we grow older the number of people whom we really cherish grows fewer and they become more precious to us. For that reason I do hope that you and Mrs. Houser can sometime manage to get by and see us while we are in Virginia, or bring her along when you come to visit us here and we can put you up suitably at the Dana-Palmer House or somewhere else that you would like in a quiet place.

Warmest regards and gratitude for remembering my request for a copy of the Loyola Commencement address. I hope to see you in July or August of this Summer.

WYE:hw

cc: Mr. Henry A. Kissinger

cc: Mr. Henry V. Krausner

MAR:12m

William T. Effett

Gincerely yours,

or Vincert of this Summer.

a code of the Lobos Commencement address. I hope to see you in May.

Wishes at leave and regards for remembering a redneat for.

Thee that you would like in a chief face.

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where we are in Argentina, or bring her along when you come to visit me

pope that you and me. Homeier can someime send me to get a job and see me

Gomey tower and tied become more precise to get a job and see me

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the Seminar as you seemed to do in our little chat at Hot Springs.

Return and work out a convenient time, it you are willing to talk to

is now on a short vacation at Vincina, to get in touch with you on the

the International Seminar, and I have written to Henry Krausner, who

of thinking that I think if you would be able enough for you to give one

barterarily liked the part on Bedje's Capitulum. There is the kind

squeezes, which I read with interest and the greatest enthusiasm. I

I must barterarily to thank you for the Lobos Commencement

per friend's serotine illness kech per trow coming.

pobed. Do you on the way and say how sorry we were that

seating along astatofacorily, through rather more afowly than I had

operation on per knee since then to remove a crot put sbewe to pe

Homedad, and it greatly cheered me. She has had a smile

It was a great face to see you even prively of the

THOMAS ENOYER CROOK, Assistant Director
WILLIAM YANDETT ELLIOTT, Director

MYRONELLE HINDEBERRY, Executive Secretary
DAVID WREBBE COLTON, Associate Director

J. MELD HULT, CYMBRIDGEE 38, MYRZACHNELL

SUMMER SCHOOL OF YRSL AND SCIENCE AND OF EDUCATION

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Mar 33, 1933

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

May 24, 1957

Mr. Christopher Bird
4009 Roundtop Drive
Honolulu, Hawaii

Dear Chris:

I have had an inadequate answer from the Seminar office giving me the names of people who may be in transit through Honolulu, but they appear not to be able to find, so far, the time of their arrivals or the flights of their planes. I doubt if they will be stopping over in Honolulu, but I have gone back to the Seminar office and asked them to give me as much as they can and to make special efforts so we can have you extend the courtesies which you have kindly offered to do, and which I think would be most useful.

The suggestion about Lederer's encouragement is fine, but I think you ought to have some birds in the hand beforehand in the way of commitments.

Don't forget that I am expecting you to make a rough outline and an analysis of the Soviet plan for the conquest of Africa, about which you have told me, as published by their Ethnographic Institute, in order to follow up General Medaris on political geography and its impact on strategy.

I hope that you can do yourself a creditable job on this, Chris, and that you can put enough into it to make your contribution in this top-flight company worthwhile. I am backing you for making a real contribution.

We look forward to having you with us both in the Seminar and for the Conference which, as you remember, comes on July 29-31, and your paper will probably come on the 30th.

Best regards to you and your lady.

WYE:hw

cc: Mr. Stephen Graubard

cc: Mr. Stephen Gansperd

MYE:in

W.iffuym Y. Kirtoff

Stuolesl'

Best regards to you and hom. Jqcd.

beber will probably come on the 30th.
to the Conference which, as you remember, comes on the 23-27, and hom
We look forward to seeing you with me next in the summer and
contribution.

job-light combend workmanship. I am packing hom to writing a new
and that hom can but enough into it to make hom contribution in spite
I hope that hom can do himself a considerable top on this, Girt.

in order to follow mb General Meeting on beautiful biography and its
which hom has to do with me, as haptively as their biographical history,
and an autograph of the poet, Brian for the condnet of Vida's, spent
Don't forget just I am expecting hom to make a rough outfit
of commitments.

I think would be most useful.
I want to extend the thanks which hom has kindly offered to do, and which
Give me as much as you can and to make special effort so we can have
hom help. But I have some work to do, the general office and asked him to
the lights of their planes. I don't think will be enough over in
the dark, not to be able to find' so far, the time of their flights or
me the name of people who may be in transit through Hom's put up
hom help for an inadequate answer from the general office giving

Dear Girt:

Honorirs, Hawaii

WOOd Homfob Drive

Mr. Curtaefopdr Bird

May 5th 1957

THOMAS ENOES CROOKS, Assistant Director.
WILLIAM YONDERFELD, Director.

MYE/FRIDAY HILDEBRAND, Executive Secretary
DANIEL WEREBER COLLIER, Associate Director

S. MELD HAY, CAMBRIDGE 38, MYSCHUSETTS

SUMMER SCHOOL OF VRLS AND SCIENCES AND OF EDUCATION

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

October 10, 1957

Dear Henry:

I hope very much that you can be persuaded to look
in on the Seminar on the Organization and Control of Foreign
Policy, which I believe you have attended before, when
Dean Rusk of the Rockefeller Foundation comes up to talk to
the Seminar about the problems of the State Department. This
is a follow-up on a talk to the Seminar by our colleague,
Robert Bowie, and, as planned, will take off from the
Wriston article on the problems of the Secretary of State
in foreign affairs and raise some further issues.

If you recall, the last time Dean Rusk talked to
the Seminar it was certainly worth listening to, and from
his participation in the Rockefeller Special Studies
Project I don't think this occasion will be less interesting.
I do hope you can find time to come from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
on Monday, October 28, in the Littauer Lounge.

In any case, I do hope you can make it for cocktails
and dinner at the Faculty Club afterwards. We usually just
walk over from the Seminar for cocktails and then in for
dinner and stay until 9:00 or 9:30, or whenever the spirit
moves us to break up. Let me know, please, by telephone if
it is possible for you to come to the Seminar, and to the
dinner, both if possible, but I certainly hope one or the
other.

WYE:hw

Mr. Henry A. Kissinger
Weld 10

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

October 17, 1957

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Weld 2

Dear Henry:

Norman Robertson is coming up to the Littauer Center on November 11. I have had to schedule it on that day in spite of the fact that it is a holiday, to fit in with his program. As you probably know, he is the Canadian Ambassador, and he taught both Government and Economics back in the early '30's here at Harvard.

If you know him at all, and I believe you do, you will recognize that he is one of the most amusing and entertaining, as well as the most knowledgeable diplomats in the field today, and someone whom I would like to do as much honor as possible. He is going to talk to the Seminar from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the Littauer Lounge, on the functions of a modern Ambassador or something around that topic. We will try to have someone at the door to open it up, in spite of the fact that Littauer will be locked up on that day, and we will adjourn for dinner at the Commander afterwards.

I do hope that you can come both to the Seminar and to dinner, as I would like to have a really nice turn-out for a very fine fellow, and someone whom we owe both recognition and courtesy.

WYE:hw

December 5, 1957

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Weld 10

Dear Henry:

This is a draft that I think we might use, along with
the letters that you are preparing, in raising some money. Its
ultimate use would be to run with the March 1958 issue, and I
think it should be followed by a reprint of the first Foreword
of Volume I, No. 1, issue of Confluence.

I have sent a copy to Graubard for his information,
and I would welcome any suggestions that either of you wish to
make if you think it is in need of any especial change.

We have several times talked over the prospect of
having a section in Confluence devoted to letters and announcements
about the International Seminar. I think it would enable us to
function a little bit more, through a pooling of the funds for the
Seminar and Confluence, if we could identify Confluence as in any
degree directly connected with the Seminar. I think it would be
easier to raise funds for both if this connection were established.

Let me know if this goes along with your present views.

WYE:hw
Encl.

W. Y. Elliott

December 4, 1957

# Foreword to Volume VII of Confluence

Confluence, throughout its history, has been marked by a complete absence of editorializing. The only reason for departing from this tradition at this time is to announce our hope of broadening somewhat the scope of Confluence beyond that which was suggested in the Foreword to our first issue, reprinted hereafter as a reminder of our origins, in March 1952.

We do not intend to depart from the general form of discussion. The scope of our interests, reflected by the range of contributors, has gradually grown to include voices from the free nations of the Middle East and of the Pacific area as well as from our Atlantic community, in a forum that often takes the shape of a collective discussion focussed on a common topic, and summarized by an article or two. We still hope to follow the form that Henry Kissinger, the Editor, has, from the beginning, given to Confluence: opening the discussion of a particular topic of great current interest and continuing importance to our free civilization in one issue, and then pursuing it to a conclusion in the next. But we have a hope that we can broaden somewhat the number of letters, particularly relating to the International Seminar, that we have hereto found too little room to print in an adequate way. These letters not only tend to enlarge the area of discussion and to introduce something more approaching a dialectic development into it. They show both the strength and the difficulties of a free society, the first in revealing many facets of situations that present quite different aspects to different cultures; the difficulties arise precisely as a defect of this virtue in achieving anything like a common perspective or a real "confluence" of such diverse streams. By relating one section of the magazine to matters

of special concern to our "alumni" group from the International Seminar--now
between six and seven hundred, all over the world--we hope to tie *Confluence*
in more closely to the development of the Seminar.

Certain leading review articles we hope to supplement by grouping
for appropriate review in each issue a few of the most important books of
the period, not necessarily the most recent ones off the press. If that
hope can be brought into line with the topics under current discussion in
any reasonable way and without Procrustean efforts, so much the better.

I should like at this stage of Confluence's history, after six
full years of steady quarterly publication, to say something that I could
say much better than could the active editors themselves--Mr. Kissinger and
his assistant, Mr. Graubard. They might feel some reluctance to praise
themselves through an acknowledgment of what I believe would be a matter of
consensus among most of us who have contributed to Confluence: Not only has
it served a unique purpose among other magazines in bringing together a
high-level discussion by as competent contributors as could be found, we
think, on each side of the Atlantic, and increasingly from the Pacific area.
More than that, it has served to stimulate discussions on the more fundamental
common issues that frame national policies and often determine national attitudes.

The increasing realization that an Atlantic community requires bases
in a moral and cultural community quite as much as it does military bases has
led to a reawakening of the need for expressing this through various institutes
of a private character and through cooperative public action to pool the
training of scientists, treating the last group primarily as an asset of
power. Confluence remains dedicated to the purpose that freedom must have
a moral basis, also--one that can be maintained for our world only if there

is the type of genuine understanding that comes from honest study and
discussion of problems common to a civilization challenged in its deepest
being. It was conceived in the hope of strengthening the spiritual and
cultural bases of our common civilization by providing a unique forum.
It will continue to cherish this aim as its primary objective, and its
*raison d'être*.

William Y. Elliott

(NOTE: Reprint Foreword from Volume I, No. 1, March 1952, *Confluence*.)

March 11, 1958

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Littauer 125

Dear Henry:

I am enclosing three papers, one of which, "What Is Leadership?", I understand to be printed as a separate appendix, according to the plan that the Chairman, John Dickey, outlined at our last meeting. The second paper on "U.S. Democratic Process: Its Challenge and Opportunity" may be a useful background for the discussion at our final panel meeting. If you think that it would serve that purpose, you could have it distributed.

The third, which was listed as paper No. VI-l, "Summary: A Moral Basis for the Foreign Policy of the United States", I have cut very considerably by suggestions as to what parts might prove most useful for Panel VI.

On the other hand, it may serve a considerable use for Panel VII, or for an introductory statement for the general panel if it is suitably edited. I leave this to your discretion after clearing with the Chairman of the Panel. This was done in accordance with the suggestions made at the close of our discussion. I hope the enclosures will prove useful.

I was sorry not to be able to go down on the plane with you tomorrow, but I have to be there a little earlier.

WYE:hw

Encls.

October 2, 1958

Mr. Henry A. Kissinger
6 Divinity Avenue

Dear Henry:

I am just sending you this as a reminder of the topic which I would like you in general terms to discuss with the Littauer Seminar on Administrative and Policy Problems of the United States in the Field of Diplomacy. Of course I would give you pretty free rein to develop this as it seems most useful.

I wonder if you could suggest some articles that you would like to have them read, in addition to your own books and your recent article in *Foreign Affairs*. The topic that we talked about--the relation of military to foreign policy--is certainly broad enough to cover anything you want to say. I hope, however, that you can deal at least in passing with some of the proposals that Bill Kintner is making in the recent number of *Orbis*, and clarify some of your previous suggestions about the organization of the Defense Department to the national security type of problems and strategic considerations which are basic to all our foreign policy.

I have given them that part of your book on *Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy* which bears on this problem, which you originally published in *Foreign Affairs*. But in the light of your subsequent studies with Nelson Rockefeller, I am sure you would have a great deal more to offer.

I am going to ask Charlie Coolidge to come in for this session, and I thought I would ask Gavin and perhaps Jim McCormack, too. They ought to have some very interesting comments, if they can come.

For your general background, I am enclosing a schedule of the rest of the consultants whom we are proposing to bring up for the course, and their topics. As you have done this before, it will present no novelties to you. I would be glad to arrange a dinner if you feel that it wouldn't be a further burden on your time and take you away from the limited quiet which you can spend with Ann at home.

Let me know if the date and the topic are OK.

WYE:hw

P.S. I am hoping that you will be able to come to either the Seminar or to dinner at the Faculty Club at 6:30 p.m. this Monday, October 6--both if possible, but I certainly hope one or the other.

W.Y.E.

GOVERNMENT SEMINAR 285

Professor William Y. Elliott

List of Guest Speakers

| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| October 6 | Herman Pollock<br>Management Officer<br>State Department | "Organization and Administration<br>of the Department of State" |
| October 13 | Robert Macy<br>Assistant Director, Budget Bureau<br>and<br>Planning Board Member, N.S.C. | "Integration of Programs in the<br>national security area as seen<br>from the Budget Bureau" |
| October 20 | James Howe<br>I.C.A. | "Program Control in the I.C.A." |
| October 27 | Norman Burns<br>Deputy Director for Middle Eastern<br>Affairs, I.C.A. | "Economic Programming in the<br>I.C.A." |
| November 3 | Lincoln Gordon<br>Business School, Harvard | "Control of foreign policy in the<br>field as seen from a mission<br>chief's angle" |
| November 10 | Henry Kissinger<br>Center for International Affairs<br>Harvard | "Integration of military and<br>foreign policy" |
| November 17 | General James Gavin<br>also<br>Colonel William Kintner | "Integration of military policy<br>within Department of Defense" |
| November 24 | Richard Marcey<br>Senate Foreign Affairs Committee<br>or<br>Holbert Carroll<br>University of Pittsburgh | "Congress and foreign policy" |

University of Pittsburg
Helper, Carroll

Committee on
Foreign Affairs
Richard Mance

Committee and foreign affairs

November 13

Clerk Mr. William Kinnon
Clerk Mr. William Kinnon

Department of Defense

Intelligence and military affairs

November 10

Director for International Affairs
Director for International Affairs

Foreign Affairs

November 3

Business Office, Assistant
Assistant General

Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs

October 21

Deputy Director for Military Affairs
Director for Military Affairs

Economic Programming in the
Economic Programming in the

October 20

I.C.V.
James Howe

Program Control in the I.C.V.

October 13

Board Member, N.B.C.
and
Assistant Director, Budget Bureau
Robert Meeh

from the Budget Bureau

from the Department of State

October 9

State Department
Management Office
Assistant Director

Organization and Administration
of the Department of State

State of Guest Speakers

Professor William Y. Hiltorf

GOVERNMENT SEMINAR 1982

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