KISSINGER, HENRY A./F*

JAN 2 1 1972

Dear Kenneth:

Thank you for your recent letter and for your
kind words on our recent endeavors. I appre-
ciated your taking the time to get in touch with
me and wanted you to know that I do indeed re-
member our last meeting. I was pleased to be
brought up to date on what you have been doing.

I rarely travel these days to places of my own
choosing with time for personal pursuits. But
I would be pleased to see you again and hope
the opportunity will present itself before too
much more time has passed.

Mr. Kenneth D. Fraser
"Chaseley"
South Cliff, Eastbourne
Sussex, England

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Tel.: Eastbourne 21865.

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger,
The White House,
WASHINGTON,
U. S. A.

"Chaseley",
South Cliff,
EASTBOURNE,
Sussex,
England.

24th December, 1971.

Dear Henry,

The last time we met was when my wife, Edith, Walter and I gate crashed upon you at the home of Lord & Lady Kennet in Bayswater. Do you remember the occasion? And do you know that unfortunately Edith and I are separated? Anyway, the main reason for this letter is to congratulate you on your Chinese coups. God speed to the efforts to obtain world peace. You know, at one time I did not believe it would be possible, and please forgive me, but I thought you and your boss were some of the greatest war-mongers under the sun, but I have very greatly changed my mind. If only the world could get rid of certain trouble spots.

I think great thanks from all humanity are also due to Willi Brand, a fellow-socialist, and how our Labour Party, of which I am still a staunch member despite Harold Wilson's antipathy at the Party Conference at Brighton, which I attended daily as a visitor, and at other times at Parliamentary Party meetings. If only we still had an Aneurin Bevan or a Hugh Gaitskell. The one man who comes out of that whole E.E.C. business with any credit is Hugh Jenkins, whom I admire greatly for his stand on principles.

If ever you find yourself in this country with a little time to spare, I should be very happy to see you again after all these years. Unfortunately I would not be able to produce the kind of female company to which you are accustomed, if the stories in the Boston Globe and other papers are to be believed. But there is one point I should be most grateful if you would clear up for me. Surely you never went to the Gymnasium in Fuerth but were always at the Israelitische Realschule under Dr. Prager who incidentally is still alive in London, and whose son, Oscar I met the other day at a Jewish function. Walter very kindly sent me a photo-copy of one of Justin's last letters. It was addressed to your parents and I had a photo-copy made of it and sent it to Lillian together with Justin's last taped cassette to me, about a month before his death. I now have quite frequent correspondence with Lillian. In a way, however inefficiently, I have taken over my late mother's job.

could pull the Party together.

I am sure that Walter has already told your dear father of the work I am doing for Allen, thanks to him, Walter. I hope I have a bit of peace at the moment because on the 3rd February Edith, my wife will come to Eastbourne to spend five days with me in a boarding house round the corner. I wrote and told Genie and Walter, and also Lillian, Justin's widow about it, in case they could arrange their schedule to be here during these five days, because both Genie and Walter and also Lillian liked Edith very much and the feeling is re-ciprocated by them. It was a terrible shock to me to hear of Justin's death, that leaves me the only surviving member of our immediate family, and I am not much good at anything, not even being able to keep my wife. I still feel as strongly about her as the day she left, i.e. 18th September, 1967.

I suppose you will have a very tough time in Peking and also in Moscow, but I envy you for your exciting and varied life, though it must be terribly tough at times. You must have nerves of steel, or rather no nerves at all. The time for the Presidents fight for re-election will soon be upon him and I am sure you will be deeply involved in that too.

To-day was one of those glorious January days you get at times. I spent 1½ hrs. outside in the garden overlooking the Channel, and as I am writing I am looking out to sea which to-day is like a Mill-pond, most unusual for this time of year. I hope it will be like that in a fortnight when Edith is with me. She too worships the sun, like myself.

Do you remember the occasion when we had lunch together with Max & Else, it was at the time when you were a delegate

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

JAN 18 1972

Dear Ken:

Thank you for your letter of January 8. It
was good to hear from you again and I ap-
preciated your sending the clippings to me.
I had not seen them before.

It was good to hear from you again. It has
been too long since we have been in touch.
It is interesting to learn what you have been
doing and I will tell my father that I have
heard from you.

With all good wishes for 1972,

Mr. Kenneth D. Fraser, M. L. L.
"Chaseley", South Cliff
Eastbourne, Sussex
England

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Tel.: Eastbourne 21865.

Kenneth D. Fraser, M.I.L.,
"Chaseley", South Cliff,
EASTBOURNE, Sussex.
England.

8th January, 1972.

Dear Henry,

I thought you might be interested in the two
cuttings from THE GUARDIAN of yesterday's date and
the 6th. If you already have them, as will probably
the case, you might like to send them to your dear
Father with my love, who, I understand, keeps a scrap
book of all your doings.

You might like to tell him that I have resur-
rected my German Language Qualification and that I
am now on the list of Official Translators accredited
to the German Embassy in London, but that my princi-
pal employer is Allen's, Walter's firm for whom I am
just busy doing a 5,000 word translation into German
after having just finished a 3,500 word translation.

How are you bearing up under the immense strain
of the last few months? I know that all you time
must be committed, but if you should be able to drop
me a line, I should be very grateful.

Hoping that the enclosed will be some use to
you. I intend to give this letter to Anne, Max's
daughter who is coming to see me tomorrow for post-
ing in London, and maybe Max, Else and Anne would cafe
to add a line or two.

With very best wishes, Sincerely Yours,

INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS

ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

WASHINGTON, D. C. 20301

23 MAR 1970

GENERAL

FG6-11-1 / KISSINGER, HENRY

KISSINGER, HENRY A./F/A

In reply refer to:
I-3346/70

MEMORANDUM FOR THE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS

SUBJECT: Australian Minister for Defense, Malcolm Fraser; Appointment with Dr. Kissinger

You have no doubt seen the cable from our Ambassador at Canberra (1247; 180720Z Mar 70), wherein he urged that Minister Fraser be given "red carpet" treatment in Washington, including an opportunity to visit with Secretary Rogers and you.

We have arranged an appointment with Secretary Rogers at 1100 on Tuesday, 7 April. If your schedule is open that morning and you are available to see Minister Fraser, it would be convenient if you could see him at 1000.

If you are agreeable to the meeting, our staffs can firm up the time. Commander E. A. Kuhn, USN, (Code 11-71802/59282) is working with the Australian Embassy in arranging Minister Fraser's schedule.