May 23, 1966

Mr. Friedrich A. Kolb
Associate Director
Institute for Advanced Studies
Stumpergasse 56
Vienna VI, Austria

Dear Mr. Kolb:

I am writing you about a slight change in my schedule which I hope will not create too many difficulties.

It appears now that I will not be able to arrive in Vienna until June 14th because I must make a stop in Paris on which I had not counted. I will now arrive in Vienna at 3:30 p. m. on June 14th on Austrian #702 from Paris.

For that reason I must ask you to shift my seminars during the first week to Wednesday and Thursday. I hope this is not too inconvenient for you.

With kind regards.

Henry A. Kissunder

With kind regards.

hope this is not too inconvenient for you.
during the first week to Wednesday and Thursday. I
For that reason I must ask you to shift my seminar
on Anatira $4702 from Paris.

now arrive in Vienna at 3:30 p.m. on June 14th
atop in Paris on which I had not counted. I will
in Vienna until June 14th because I must make a
It appears now that I will not be able to arrive
difficulties.

schedule which I hope will not create too many
I am writing you about a slight change in my
schedule which I hope will not create too many
difficulties.

Dear Mr. Kolp:

Vienna VI, Anatira
Stambergasse 36
Institute for Advanced Studies
Associate Director
Mr. Friedrich A. Kolp

May 23, 1966

INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES
VIENNA

Friedrich A. Kolb, Ph. D.
Associate Director

MAY 26 1966

Date ... May 23, 1966 ...
1060 Vienna VI, Stumpergasse 56
Tel. 56 36 01
Telegrams: TRANSACADEMIA

Dear Professor Kissinger,

Re: *Your letter of May 12, 1966.*

I shall certainly try to arrange some appointments
for you in the Foreign Office and in the Ministry of
Defence. I suppose it will be enough to inform you
about the details on arrival?

With kind regards,

Prof. Henry A. Kissinger,
Harvard University,
Center for International Affairs,
6 Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge,
Massachusetts,
02138. U.S.A.

FK/vjc

Henry A. Klaander

Sincerely yours,

With kind regards.

a great deal of work along.
afternoons free since I will bring
you keep either the mornings or
May I and/or beat, however, that
pointments when I arrive.
of time to inform me about my sub-
Of course, there will be plenty

May 23rd.

Thank you for your nice letter of

Dear Mr. Kolb:

Anatris
Vienna VI
Stambergstraße 36
The Institute for Advanced Studies
Associate Director
Mr. Friedrich A. Kolb

June 1, 1966

CHICAGO DAILY NEWS, Thursday

Joseph Kraft's Column

# Ky Regime Riddled with Weaknesses

WASHINGTON — Marshall Nguyen Cao Ky's show of force in Da Nang and Hue has been hailed by his admirers in the Saigon embassy,

the State Department and the press as a great success. But for whom?

Not, certainly, for the United States. For the chief result of the recent events is to identify the

American stake even more closely with the fate of the Ky regime. But, whatever its immediate ups and downs, the Ky government is a no-exit government — a government without a future.

JOSEPH KRAFT

**IT CANNOT FIGHT** a war. Still less can it pacify the country in the wake of American military success. Least of all can it work out an agreement with the other side.

The basic weakness of the Ky regime is that it is not a government so much as a ramshackle collection of

opportunists who have risen to the top through a crazy succession of military coups. Far from working together in accord on government business, the chief military figures in the regime tend to pursue their own private and local interests. And nothing shows it better than the basic military command built around the four army corps.

The 3d Corps, around Saigon, because of its proximity to the capital, has in general been responsive to central direction. But the 1st Corps has been mainly taken up, one way or another, with the Buddhists. The 4th Corps, in the rich delta region, has been largely a fief for the accumulation of personal fortunes. The 2d Corps, embracing the highland district, the scene of most of the American military activity, has been much the same.

**IN THESE** circumstances, morale in the Vietnamese army has steadily sunk. Desertions, which are mainly cases of men going home, have been running at the rate of at least 7,500 per month. The capacity

and interest of the Vietnamese army in fighting the war has dropped accordingly. And thus it happens that Americans are doing most of the fighting and now absorbing most of the casualties.

The weaknesses that debar the Ky regime for waging the war effectively are even more critical when it comes to pacification. For pacification involves chiefly winning the confidence of local people through civil police actions and social reforms.

But the Ky regime, after the fashion of most military regimes has only contempt for the civil police function; the police remain among the poorest paid and worst trained officials in South Viet Nam. As to social reforms, they are constantly being obstructed and diluted by the corruption endemic in the regime. The true condition of social reform is the one thing the Ky regime seems unable to admit—that is a freely elected civil government with popular support.

**LASTLY,** with respect to

wrapping the war up through negotiations, the Ky regime is doing so poorly in fighting and in pacification, that the insurgents are bound to believe that time is working on their side. The transparent ineptitude of the regime, in other words, can only encourage the rebels to step up their activities — the more so as they must now see the prospect of enlisting some of the Buddhists.

Moreover, even if the time came when the other side was ready to negotiate, the Ky regime would constitute an insuperable obstacle to talks.

June 28, 1968

Mr. Friedrich A. Kolb
Associate Director
The Institute for Advanced Studies
Stumpergasse 56
Vienna VI, Austria

Dear Mr. Kolb:

This is just a note to thank you for all your kindnesses to me while I was in Vienna. My visit was extremely worthwhile thanks largely to your helpfulness.

I hope we can stay in touch.

Next week I will be sending you a statement on the Atlantic Alliance which I made before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

With kind regards.

Henry A. Klaarman

Sincerely yours,

With kind regards.

Relations Committee.
which I made before the Senate Foreign
a statement on the Atlantic Alliance
Next week I will be sending you

I hope we can stay in touch.

while thanks largely to your helpfulness.
Vienna. My visit was extremely worth-
all your kindnesses to me while I was in
This is just a note to thank you for.

Dear Mr. Kolb:

Vienna VI, Austria
Stambergasse 26

The Institute for Advanced Studies
Associate Director.

Mr. Friedrich A. Kolb

June 28, 1966