30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, N.Y. 10020

Room 5600

Circle 7-3700

June 23, 1975

Dear Henry:

Our warmest thanks to you for being the guest of honor at our Japan Society annual dinner. From our point of view, the evening could not have been more successful thanks largely to you.

We are especially grateful to you for your thoughtful and truly significant speech. It was so timely and said just what needed to be said right now. We of the Japan Society were pleased indeed to be able to provide the platform for this most important foreign policy statement.

If I have any further thoughts on the population question, I will be in touch with you. What you do within the Department in this connection is, of course of considerable importance. Let me say also how much I enjoyed being with you at dinner.

With warmest personal regards, I am

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
Washington, D. C. 20500

Room 5600

Circle 7-3700

June 23, 1976

Dear Henry:

Thank you for your letter of June 16th concern-
ing our invitation to you to speak at the Asia Society's
dinner on June 30th. We completely understand your situa-
tion and look forward to the possibility of your coming
later as you mentioned.

Thank you also most warmly for the last para-
graph of your letter in which you speak of the work of
the Asia Society and its contribution to U.S.-Asian
relations. Your comment that the Department of State
finds it "of the highest importance" is gratifying in-
deed.

My every best wish to you.