December 3, 1965

GERMAN BOOK

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Henry A. Kissinger
Professor of Government
Harvard University

Karl D. Bracher
Professor of History
University of Bonn

Klaus Epstein
Professor of History
Brown University

Carl J. Friedrich
Eaton Professor of Political
Science
Harvard University

Wolfgang Stolper
Professor of Economics
Michigan University

Karl W. Roskamp
Associate Professor of Economics
Wayne State University

Alfred Grosser
Professor of Political Science
Fondation Nationale des
Sciences Politiques
Paris, France

Karl Kaiser
Research Assistant
Center for International Affairs
Harvard University

Erwin Scheuch
Professor of Sociology
Universitat zu Koln

Hans Holthusen
Critic, Freelance writer

Melvin Croan
Assistant Professor of Political
Harvard University Science

INTRODUCTION

Political Structure and Democracy
in the Second Republic

The German Cultural Situation

Germany and Europe

Planning a Free Economy:
Germany Since 1945

The Foreign Policy of the
Federal Republic

German Foreign Policy at the
Crossroads: Reunification and
the Future of Europe

Continuity and Change in German
Social Structure

Literature and Theater in
Contemporary Germany

Eastern Policy and the Dilemmas
of Germany's Division

December 3, 1965

GERMAN BOOK

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

The German Cultural Situation

Germany and Europe

Henry A. Kieزلger

Sincerely yours,

Kind regards.

Thank you for writing me.

with you.

When it is I will be glad to discuss it
apart to you is not yet completed.

The volume apart which Dr. Scheuch
November 25th.

Thank you for your letter of

Dear Dr. Altenfeld:

Germany
& Frankfurt I
Mainzler Landstrasse 10-13
FISCHER BUCHERREI
Dr. Hane Vittmann

December 3, 1962

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

ROBERT R. BOWIE, Director
HOLLIS B. CHENERY
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
ALEX INKELES
HENRY A. KISSINGER
EDWARD S. MASON
THOMAS C. SCHELLING
RAYMOND VERNON

6 DIVINITY AVENUE
CAMBRIDGE
MASSACHUSETTS 02138

To: Henry Kissinger

From: Bob Erwin

Date: 11/30/65

By way of progress with THE NEW GERMANY (or whatever we end up calling the symposium volume) I can report that the Bracher and Grosser chapters have been edited. As soon as I have them xerographed and write a covering letter, I will be sending those chapters off to the authors to review.

All but one of the queries thus far are routine--"1848 or 1948," "source of quotation," etc. The exception pertains to the following passage by Grosser: "Nothing is more difficult than for a non-German to approach the problem. The Americans and French must be reminded of the impact of the expulsion of millions of people and the 'Polonization' of lands that were already German at a time when the United States did not even exist." This seems extremely exaggerated to me. Prussia received her autonomy from the hands of a Polish king, Sigismund I, in 1525. The political entity called "Germany" is less than a century old. I have raised the objection in a note and left it to Grosser to keep the passage, alter it, or strike it.

A good deal has also been done toward standardizing the form for abbreviations, institutions, names, citations, and the like--e.g., DDR, Bundeswehr, Gleichschaltung--for the book as a whole. I think it would be wise, especially if we hope for college use, to add a Glossary to the List Abbreviations, to which the student can turn for a brief definition when he forgets what Obrigkeitsstaat or Heimat means.

Henry A. Kieisinger

Sincerely yours,

With best regards.

Let you see it.

Conference as yet put when I do I will
I don't have an agenda for our

have been the German ones.
and also the most anti-German authors
I can assure you that the most difficult
your own confidential information.
manuscript for the German book for
I am enclosing some of the

Dear Mr. von Schmidt-Pauli:

Boston, Massachusetts
423 Boynton Street
Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany
Mr. Edgar von Schmidt-Pauli

December 20, 1962

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

ROBERT R. BOWIE, Director
ALEX INKELES
HENRY A. KISSINGER
EDWARD S. MASON
THOMAS C. SCHELLING
RAYMOND VERNON

December 28, 1965

Dean Franklin Ford
Harvard University
University Hall 5

Dear Franklin:

This letter embarrasses me. I don't like to coerce you into seeking
special permission for the Center for something we have already done.
But we told Professor Melvin Croan that he would be eligible for an
honorarium of $1000 upon final acceptance of the chapter he was con-
tributing to the Center's book on modern Germany. You probably recall
that we made a similar commitment to Professor Carl J. Friedrich and
subsequently asked for Corporation approval, and received the approval.
This is the only other outstanding commitment of that sort that we
have, and I am circulating a note to all of the faculty associated
with the Center to warn them that payment of an honorarium to a
Harvard faculty member requires Corporation approval. We have learned
our lesson, and I console myself with the thought that faculty people
like us at a Center like ours inevitably learn some things the hard
way.

Professor Croan of course produced the desired chapter and is looking
forward to the promised honorarium. May I ask your help in getting
one more dispensation of this sort? I shall not promise never to
ask again, only that next time, if there is a next time, we shall
ask you before we incur the commitment, and not put you in the position
that I am now apologizing for.

TCS:ac

TCC:ac

Acting Director
Thomas C. Scheiling

Very sincerely,

that I am now aboafosing for.
ask you before we incur the commitment, and not but you in the beation
ask again, only that next time, it there is a next time, we April
one more delegation of this sort? I April not bromite never to
forward to the bromited honorarium. Not I ask your help in getting
Profeesor Cross of course produced the desired chapter and te looking
may.

like us at a Center like ours inevertably learn some things the purd
our lesson, and I consol e myself with the thought that faculty people
Harvard faculty memper requires Corporation approvall. We have learned
with the Center to warn them that payment of an honorarium to a
payee, and I am circulating a note to all of the faculty associated
this is the only other outstanding commitment of that sort that we
immediately asked for Corporation approvall, and received the approvall.
that we made a similar commitment to Professor Carl J. Friedrich and
tripluting to the Center's poek on modern Germany. You properly recall
honorarium of $1000 how final acceptance of the chapter he was con-
But we told Professor Melvin Cross that he would be eligible for an
special permission for the Center for something we have already done.
This letter embarrasses me. I don't like to coerce you into asking

Dear Franklin:

University Hall 2
Harvard University
Dean Franklin Ford

December 28, 1962

RYAMOND ARONSON
THOMAS C. SCHEILING
EDWARD F. MYERS
HENRY V. KRUSNER
ALEX IKELER
ROBERT R. BOWIE Director

MYERSCHUETEL 05138
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CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
HARVARD UNIVERSITY

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January 7, 1966

Professor Henry Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
Harvard University
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dear Henry:

This morning our editorial board debated the problems involved in publishing the collection of new articles on Germany. Don Lamm in his letter of December 28th to you outlined the pros and cons of the debate. It seemed to us that probably your initial impulse to give this book to the University Press was a wise one; we feel it is too long to be marketed successfully for wide undergraduate use or for the general reader. I would much prefer to be frank about this now rather than to perform disappointingly for you later. I am sure that Tom Wilson will be delighted to have it.

A Spanish publisher just dropped by with a fresh slant on our subway strike. He remarked most enthusiastically how lucky we are that we can have one.

JEN:em

W • W • NORTON & COMPANY • INC • *Publishers* • NEW YORK • 10003

December 28, 1965

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

DEC 30 1965

Dear Henry:

This is the week that was for college publishers, since a number of academic meetings take place all at once. Jack Neill is already out of town and I follow him in twenty-four hours. But I do not want your letter of December 20 to go without a response from this end until the various meetings are behind us.

Let me pass on a few reactions from the editorial chair. The clarification of the contents adds up to some plusses and some minuses for the prospects of the book. On the plus side is the fact that all the contributions are original. This will surely extend the volume's appeal. The length, however, is a decidedly negative factor. Trade booksellers tend to balk when faced with large volumes. There are notable exceptions: Shirer's RISE AND FALL..., Schlesinger's A THOUSAND DAYS, etc. But a book that is the work of several hands will suffer increasing neglect as it stretches above four hundred pages. The college sale, too, will be jeopardized since instructors in most schools are reluctant to require students to purchase a book that could only be assigned in part. I do have the impression from the contents that there will be areas of overlap, e.g. between the Friedrich, Grosser, Kaiser, and Croan papers, and it may be that with judicious editing some repetition can be avoided. I realize that the individual contributions are not to be taken lightly and, further, that some of the contributors (most notably Brocker) customarily write at great length. But the audience for the volume will grow if the overlap is kept down.

One final point, and that at the risk of adding more, not less, length to the volume: nowhere in the contents do I find an article directed to the question of U.S. policy toward Germany now and in the future. It seems to me that the German problem has been, is, and will remain a U.S. problem too, and that the position of Germany in world affairs must be viewed through American lenses somewhere in the volume. Perhaps this is the role your introduction will play. I do hope so.

Our editorial board will convene again next week to consider the various adjustments in the contract that you have proposed. I would think that the sum originally proposed as an advance to cover permissions costs could be transformed into a standard advance against royalties. But I do not want to prejudice the issue and will reserve comment on other specifics until we have all convened again.

With best wishes from all of us here for a happy and productive New Year,

DSL: lme
(Dictated by Mr. Lamm but typed in his absence.)

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

TO: Henry Kissinger

FROM: Bob Erwin RE

DATE: 1/14/66

I gather from Joan that the answer to #1 in my memorandum of January 6
is "no" but that you want to read the letter as it goes out. Here is
the letter.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

TO: Henry Kissinger

FROM: Bob Erwin RE

DATE: January 6, 1966

RE: Germany symposium

1. I have now struggled through to the end of the Schrödinger's chapter--149 pages--and find that about a dozen queries on elements missing from citations need to be cleared up. Is there anything you want me to say to Schrödinger when I address these queries to him?

2. I will deliver Croan's chapter to the author on January 14 and get it back as approved by him before he goes to England.

3. Alfred Grosser has written a silly letter (copy enclosed). With the MS he has done little but say "no" wherever it was suggested that he fill in, rephrase, or explain something. Do you want me to rap his knuckles or soft-soap him? Or do you want to reply yourself?

4. I would probably do a better job with the rest of the MS if I knew whether the volume was going to be played as a textbook, trade book, or "scholarly" book. Have you found a publisher yet, and if so, what do they say?

cmg

Enclosure

February 14, 1966

Miss Maria Pelikan
430 East 20th Street
New York 9, New York

Dear Miss Pelikan:

Thank you for your letter of January 19th.

The question of an American publisher for
the book has not yet been settled. Also, I have
not yet decided whether I will give the German
rights to Piper. Until the question of an American
edition is settled, I would rather not make any
reading material available.

I would, therefore, suggest that you get
in touch with me in a few weeks.

Kind regards.

Bureaucracy, yours,

when some reading material might become available to Piper.
gear Dr. Klaasinger. It would also be nice to know approximately
forthcoming books? I hope this is not too much of a bother for you,
of the authors and/or that of the American publisher of this
of my own ignorance - might I trouble you to let me know the names
correct information. On the other hand, to please away the copwags
out what the foreign-rights situation on it was, perhaps he has the
py you. But, since Mr. Piper wrote from Munich to ask me to find
I was under the impression that the book on Germany was being written
Many thanks for your letter of December 20th. As a matter of fact,

Dear Dr. Klaasinger:

Cambridge, Mass. 02138
Divinity Avenue
Center for International Affairs
Harvard University
Dr. Henry A. Klaasinger

SKRIFTLA LTD., DORGENHAGEN
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January 19, 1962

JAN 3 4 1962

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MARIA PELIKAN

430 EAST 20TH STREET
NEW YORK 9, N. Y.

R. PIPER & CO. VERLAG, MUNICH
SKRIFOLA LTD., COPENHAGEN

December 17, 1965.

Prof. Henry A. Kissinger
Harvard University
Center of International Studie
Cambridge, Mass

Dear Professor Kissinger:

Klaus Piper of Piper Verlag whose American book scout I am
has asked me to inquire whether you would consider letting
Piper Verlag have an option on the German translation rights
to your forthcoming book on GERMANY.

As you probably know, Piper is one of the most distinguished
German publishing houses. Your book would be in excellent
company. May I also ask when reading material might be
available?

February 16, 1966

Professor Ferenc A. Vali
Department of Government
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts

Dear Ferenc:

Your letter of January 21st reached here while I was
in Europe and now I am off again on another trip.

I can fully understand your indignation. There was
no intention of informing you of anything by means of the
7th Annual Report. We have, in fact, been working on
all the contributions and had not made a final decision when
the report was being prepared.

The difficulty with your contribution was that it seemed
extremely legalistic and not really oriented towards the future.
It required the scope of a book more than that of a chapter in
a symposium. My original intention was to have two or three
contributions on German unification. In the meantime, unfor-
tunately, limitations of space have caught up with me.

I hope that this will not affect our long-standing relation-
ship and that you will not feel obliged to make comparisons to
Kaiser's diplomacy (which, while stupid, was not devious).

Best regards.

put signed in his space.
Diplased by Mr. Klaander
Henry V. Klaander

Sincerely yours,

Beat redraa.

Kaiser, a diplomat (which, while a bit odd, was not vonous).
and that you will not feel obliged to make comparisons to
I hope that this will not affect our long-attending relation-

timately, limitations of space have caught up with me.
contributions on German unification. In the meantime, major-
symposium. My original intention was to have two or three
it required the scope of a book more than that of a chapter in
extremely legislative and not really oriented towards the future.
The difficulty with your contribution was that it seemed

the report was being prepared.
s all the contributions and had not made a final decision when
the Annual Report. We have, in fact, been working on
no intention of informing you of any thing by means of the
I can fully understand your indignation. There was

Your letter of January 23st reached here while I was

Dear Ferenc:

Amherst, Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts
Department of Government
Professor Ferenc V. Váll

February 18, 1968

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts
Amherst

DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Harvard University
Center for International Affairs
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, Mass. 02138

Dear Henry:

January 21, 1966

JAN 24 1966

Reading the 7th Annual Report of the Center I noticed, to my most unpleasant surprise, that on page 13 my name had been omitted from among the contributors to the forthcoming volume on Germany and that my topic (reunification problem) had, without even consulting me, been assigned to another person.

Let me hasten to tell you: I can hardly believe that you could directly be responsible for such, in the academic world rather unprecedented, procedure. But I am wondering whether this coup was not, by its perpetrator, intended to be a "tactful" way of imparting the message of my displacement. I do not, at this juncture, know who is responsible and wish therefore to refrain from further views on this line of action which certainly is devoid of the diplomatic skill of a Metternich or Castlereagh but rather reminiscent of the Kaiser's devious diplomacy.

It is perhaps not improper for me to recall at this point that I, under our agreement which also implied the publication of my contribution, did "deliver the goods" in what I consider good and proper form. My essay was found more than acceptable by the conference of authors last March; it passed through the acid test of criticism more unscathed than almost all other draft essays. I also recall that you yourself in a letter dated February 6, 1965, complimented me on having done "a fine job." Furthermore, I undertook to comply with all the recommendations made by you and other participants of the conference. It is, therefore, the more inconceivable why I had to be exposed to such a humiliating treatment by the Center where I have always given my best, during my period of tenure and thereafter.

Because, according to the Annual Report, you are now on sabbatical leave and because I fail to know who else among the faculty members is in charge of the German project, I am sending copies of this letter both to Bob Bowie and Tom Schelling.

FAV/vg

cc: Bowie
Schelling

cc: Caaas Canfield, Jr.

Henry A. Klaasen

Sincerely yours,

Publishers.
to making arrangements with other
Accordingly, I am proceeding
to my letters of February 22nd
Since you have never replied

Germany.
are not interested in the book on
enclosed, I am assuming that you
word about the manuscript I
and March 25th nor sent me any
to my letters of February 22nd
Since you have never replied

Dear Mr. Canfield:

New York 16, New York
49 East 33rd Street
Harper & Row, Publishers
Mr. Caaas Canfield, Jr.

April 8, 1968

Henry A. Klaasen

Sincerely yours,

Kind regards.

it to you.
or so and at that time I will send
should be completed within a week
of the German book. Chapter VII
I am enclosing Chapters VIII-IX

Dear Mr. Camfield:

New York 16, New York
49 East 33rd Street
Harper & Row Publishers
Mr. Cass Camfield, Jr. ...

March 25, 1968

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

To: Henry Kissinger

From: Bob Erwin RE

Date: 4/1/66

With the delivery of multigraph copies of Karl Kaiser's chapter in a day or so, the Center manuscript on Germany will be complete except for title (which in the English-language edition I still think should be THE NEW GERMANY) and Conclusion.

Harper & Row has been sitting on this project a long time. If they do not act or promise to act within a few days, I believe you should submit the MS to Harvard University Press. Moreover, if you are still determined to withhold German-language rights from the American publisher, you might simultaneously open negotiations with German publishers.

I don't know what understanding, written or otherwise, you reached with the authors of the Germany volume about taking proprietorship of their work, but in the parallel case of IN SEARCH OF FRANCE a memorandum of assignment was circulated to the authors. I can show you a copy of this if you like.

Enclosed is a draft of the letter I propose to send to the authors with the MS. Anything you would like me to add or subtract?

Enclosure

DRAFT

Dear __________ :

Under separate cover I have mailed to you a set of all the chapters in
the Center's volume on Germany as they now stand after being edited and
retyped in sequence. As is inevitable in a manuscript of this length,
some typing errors (transposed letters, for example) slipped through.
To the best of my knowledge these have been corrected by hand in the
master copy which will go to the publisher. Should you discover
errors of a more serious nature, however, please let me know. Please
also be sure to keep the copy you receive, so that proofs and any
future editorial queries may pass back and forth without need for
further mailing of MSS.

come from one source.
I would prefer to have all correspondence
has been good. It is merely that
on you or your work which I feel
This is in no way a reflection
to the German book.

correspondence with the contributors
that I would like to handle all future
This is just a note to tell you

FROM: Henry Klaarner
TO: Robert Erwin

MEMORANDUM

April 15, 1966

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17

Harper & Row, Publishers

49 East 33rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10016

INCORPORATED

APR 1 5 1966

April 13, 1966

Dear Professor Kissinger:

Forgive me for not writing you before about the manuscript on contemporary Germany, but I was away in March. I have read with a good deal of interest all the essays. The book is, to my knowledge, the most inclusive analysis of Germany since the War and as such fills an important need. The scholarship seems first rate and some of the articles are quite elegantly written. We do feel that the book, though obviously important, would have a rather limited sale as a general hardcover publication. And further, it is quite long and thus would carry a high retail price. I think the book would have a good sale in paperback in the colleges, but as a hardcover we feel it is a bit specialized for our large general list.

I am most grateful to you for letting me see this manuscript which I was pleased to read. I was particularly impressed by the Bracher, Scheuch, Epstein, Holthusen and Grosser essays. The Karl Kaiser essay was not included and unfortunately neither were your Introduction or Conclusion. Incidentally, I wonder if the Kaiser essay might not be a little repetitious--there are two and possibly three essays on German Foreign Policy. The Stolper and Roskamp essay is rather statistical, but I suppose it has to be.

Obviously, you will have no trouble finding a hardcover publisher. I just wondered if there were any way we could consider including this in our Torchbook paperback series after it's a hardcover. If Harvard University Press takes the book, you might tell them we'd be interested in the paperback rights and we'd be willing to make them an offer at any time, and this would apply, of course, to any other publisher.

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

P.S. I'm returning the manuscript to you separately.

CABLE ADDRESS : HARPSAM • TELEPHONE : MURRAY HILL 3-1900

Henry A. Klaasen

With kind regards.

the enclosed letter from Mrs. Camfield, Jr.
I thought you might like to see

conclusion.
by me though not necessarily a
There will be an introduction

April 38th.

Thank you for your letter of

Dear Max:

Cambridge, Massachusetts
19 Garden Street
Harvard University Press
Mr. Max Hall

May 5, 1966

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

79 GARDEN STREET · CAMBRIDGE 38 · MASSACHUSETTS

Editorial Department

28 April 1966

MAY 2 1966

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Defense Studies Program
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Dear Henry:

Delighted to get the nameless German manuscript today, and will start the process of consideration immediately. I certainly don't anticipate any hitches of any kind, but of course our Syndics will want some scholarly testimony. Thanks for telling me that Carl Friedrich and Klaus Epstein have read all the pieces, and that Harper is interested in the paperback rights.

I notice there is no table of contents. We will prepare one here. Also, I notice that your conclusion is still to come. When can we expect it? Also, will there be an introduction, or at least a foreword? If so, will be be by you? Some introductory piece by you as editor would help to give the book unity.

MH:kd

May 5, 1966

Mr. Cass Canfield
Chairman, Harper Editorial Board
Harper & Row, Publishers
49 East 33rd Street
New York 16, New York

Dear Cass:

Thank you for your letter of April 28th.

I fully understand the circumstances that
caused your son to delay writing. There are
no hard feelings as I agree that the book is
probably not suited for a commercial publisher.

I would be glad to discuss my trade plans
which are maturing though, of course, I must
finish my textbook first.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

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MASSACHUSETTS

June 1, 1966

Mr. Thomas J. Wilson
Director
Harvard University Press
79 Garden Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Dear Tom:

I understand that Max Hall is moving right along with the as yet untitled collaborative volume on Germany edited by Henry Kissinger. Glad to hear it, not only because we think a good book and a good publisher deserve each other but also because we have a proprietary interest in the work as well as giving it our endorsement.

The purpose of this letter is to state in writing the fact of Center sponsorship and proprietorship and to suggest a couple of items for the contract when you come to that stage. First, the contract should be between the Press and the Center rather than the authors. Second, analogous to the case of IN SEARCH OF FRANCE, the Center would like to reserve German-language rights to itself.

Harper & Row, I hear, have expressed interest in getting paperback rights from you eventually. If they can satisfy you on terms and timing, this would certainly be agreeable to us.

cc: Messrs. Kissinger, Hall, Erwin

cc: Meese, Klaarner, Heff, Erwin

Voting Director

Thomas C. Schelling

Sincerely,

certainly be agreeable to me.
from his eventually. It they can satisfy him on terms and timing, this would
Harber & Row. I hear, have expressed interest in betting bookie back rights

German-language rights to itself.
ento the case of IN SEARCH OF FINANCE, the Center would like to reserve
between the Press and the Center rather than the author. Second,
contract when you come to that stage. First, the contract should be
abandonable and proprietary and to avoid a couple of items for the
The burloome of this letter is to state in writing the fact of Center

as giving it our endorsement.
other put side because we have a proprietary interest in the work as well
it, not only because we think a good book and a good publisher deserve each
collaborative volume on Germany edited by Henry Klaarner. Glad to hear
I understand that Max Hell is moving right along with the as yet untitled

Dear Tom:

10 Garden Street

Harvard University Press

Director

Mr. Thomas J. Wilson

June 1, 1988

RnymoD VEnnoN
THOMAS C. SCHELLING
EDWARD R. WYSON
HENRY V. Klaarner
YLEX IKERLER
ROBERT R. BONIS, Director

CEMET FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
HARVARD UNIVERSITY

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April 27, 1966

MEMORANDUM

TO: Zoltan Tomory

FROM: Henry Kissinger

Would you please see that Mr. Erwin Scheuch receives $1,000 for his contribution to the German book? He will be visiting Cambridge from April 29th-May 8th and perhaps the check could just be sent to him at the Center and I will see that he gets it.

Thank you.

MEMORANDUM

FROM Karl Kaiser

To Henry A. Kissinger

DATE: 25 August 1966

When I saw Altiero Spinelli in Rome he told me that he was keenly interested in bringing out an Italian edition of the project on Germany, since there is no good book on Germany in Italian. If possible he wants to begin translating before its English edition comes out. I told him that most probably there would still be plenty of time for such work if you would agree to his taking an Italian edition in his hand.

As you probably know Professor Altiero Spinelli is Head of the new Istituto Affari Internazionali, a most promising institution supported by "Il Mulino", "Nord e Sud" and the Olivetti Foundation. They have started publishing a periodical "lo spettatore internazionale" and are working on numerous book projects. Spinelli's request was meant seriously. I promised him I would pass it on to you and that he would probably hear from you.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
6 DIVINITY AVENUE
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 02138

September 29, 1966

GERMAN BOOK

TABLE OF CONTENTS

<table><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th>Page</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Chapter I</td><td>Karl D. Bracher<br>Political Structure and Democracy<br>in the Second Republic</td><td>1-81</td></tr><tr><td>Chapter II</td><td>Erwin Scheuch<br>Continuity and Change in German<br>Social Structure</td><td>82-207</td></tr><tr><td>Chapter III</td><td>Klaus Epstein<br>The German Cultural Situation</td><td>208-298</td></tr><tr><td>Chapter IV</td><td>Hans Holthusen<br>Literature and Theater in<br>Contemporary Germany</td><td>299-370</td></tr><tr><td>Chapter V</td><td>Alfred Grosser<br>The Foreign Policy of the<br>Federal Republic</td><td>371-423</td></tr><tr><td>Chapter VI</td><td>Carl Friedrich<br>Germany and Europe</td><td>424-464</td></tr><tr><td>Chapter VII</td><td>Karl Kaiser<br>German Foreign Policy at the<br>Crossroads: Reunification and<br>the Future of Europe</td><td>465-564</td></tr><tr><td>Chapter VIII</td><td>Melvin Croan<br>Eastern Policy and the Dilemmas<br>of Germany's Division</td><td>565-670</td></tr><tr><td>Chapter IX</td><td>Wolfgang Stolper & Karl W. Roskamp<br>Planning a Free Economy: Germany Since<br>1945</td><td>671-751</td></tr></tbody></table>

TABLE OF CONTENTS

GERMAN BOOK

September 29, 1966

<table><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1945</td><td>Planning a Free Economy: Germany Since World's Stolper & Karl W. Roekamp</td><td>671-721</td></tr><tr><td>Chapter IX</td><td>of Germany's Division Eastern Policy and the Dilemma Melvin Cross</td><td>265-270</td></tr><tr><td>Chapter VIII</td><td>the Future of Europe Eastern Europe: Remitification and German Foreign Policy at the Karl Kaiser</td><td>466-564</td></tr><tr><td>Chapter VII</td><td>Germany and Europe Carl Friedrich</td><td>424-464</td></tr><tr><td>Chapter V</td><td>Federal Republic The Foreign Policy of the Alfred Grosser</td><td>371-423</td></tr><tr><td>Chapter IV</td><td>Contemporary Germany Literature and Theater in Hans Holtznen</td><td>299-340</td></tr><tr><td>Chapter III</td><td>The German Cultural Situation Klaus Ebstein</td><td>208-298</td></tr><tr><td>Chapter II</td><td>Social Structure Continuity and Change in German Erwin Schenck</td><td>83-304</td></tr><tr><td>Chapter I</td><td>in the Second Republic Political Structure and Democracy Karl D. Bracher</td><td>1-81</td></tr></tbody></table>

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MARK CARROLL, Associate Director

DAVID HORNE, Assistant Director for Editorial Affairs

December 20, 1966

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dear Henry:

I am distressed to learn from Max Hall that we do not yet have from you the long-awaited introduction to the book THE NEW GERMANY. I don't know what I can say that will help you begin and finish this essential part of the book, but nevertheless I am writing. I completely share Max's feeling that an introduction is necessary--an introduction that will really tie the various parts of the book together and point to the meaning of the whole. I would guess that you yourself share this feeling, but that being a busy man, with new interests turning up almost every day, you haven't been able to find the incentive to make you undertake this job which relates to ideas and plans you had quite a number of months ago. I have some personal experience of this kind of difficulty and I sympathize with you, though I am urging you to overcome it.

The one essential point I should like to make, besides the obvious one that we want to publish this book, is the fact that as time passes the book necessarily loses much of its pertinence. We are very anxious to bring it out, and promptly. I think you know that. But the introduction, in the case of this work perhaps even more than in that of the ordinary book, is an essential part, the cornerstone in fact, and we cannot really do anything without it.

Forgive me for writing at such length about a matter that you and Max know intimately and I hardly at all; but I have felt that I must add my urging to Max's.

TJW/em

c.c. Mr. Hall

Professor Vernon

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Editorial Department

November 30, 1966

Re: THE NEW GERMANY (tentative title)

Dear Henry:

DEC 1 1966:

As you know, I always thought we needed the complete manuscript in order to evaluate this book. The case is very different from one in which the author of a book is allowed to supply his preface or acknowledgements after official acceptance of a manuscript. In this case your contribution is no mere preface; it is so important that the book may have a different character without it. This is not only because of your ability and reputation; it is also because the book badly needs a unifying force. So, as I told you last May, I thought we should have your introduction before we sent the manuscript to outside readers and to our Syndics.

In October, feeling uneasy about the long delay, we did bring the matter before our Syndics, but action was postponed until more detailed information and written reports of readers could be provided. The Syndics, however, expressed strong interest in the project.

At that point we sent the manuscript to a scholar--a person, by the way, who has been connected neither with your project nor with IN SEARCH OF FRANCE. I enclose, anonymously, a copy of this person's report, and would appreciate having your reactions to it. We don't expect you to agree with everything the scholar says or suggests, but you will of course be interested in seeing how the collection of articles (the scholar calls them monographs) strikes a well-informed reader approaching it for the first time, and I assume that you will give careful consideration to all the points.

When I sent the manuscript to the reader, I had in mind that on October 3 at the Center's reception you were certain that you would give me an introduction of perhaps twenty or thirty typewritten pages no later than November 15. Knowing that the introduction might affect the reader's report, I arranged to forward it as soon as it arrived. Since it still hasn't arrived, I do not know the answer to the reader's question whether the theme of the book is "Bonn is not Weimar," and if not, whether the book has a single theme. I am sorry the reader had to write the report without seeing your introduction.

We now plan to get one more reading, and I do hope that the second scholar can have the complete manuscript. Indeed, perhaps we should hold it this time until you write the introduction. Do you agree?

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My own reading of the articles shows me that in general they are
good (as expected); that some are better than others (also expected);
and that the Bracher piece is the poorest written. I found the Bracher
piece so difficult to read that I confess I gave it up and skipped to
the Scheucher, which I found quite interesting, but it has 125 pages
of text and 137 notes (some quite long), and I began thinking he should
have quit while he was ahead. I enjoyed both the Epstein and the
Holthusen but wondered mildly why you set two experts to writing about
the same German literary men. (I hope you have written permissions
for the poetry quotations in the excellent Holthusen piece; we can't
send the manuscript to the printer until we have them snug in our files.
This, by the way, applies to any other necessary permissions.) In the
Grosser we need a map showing his six regions; probably Bob Erwin has
this in mind already. I think there are too many subheads in the
Friedrich; but Carl can be approached in due time about this. The
Kaiser needs a good deal more editing, though not as much as the Bracher.
By the way, the early part is so wretchedly reproduced that some of it
is almost unreadable. I went through the Croan very rapidly, on the
assumption that it was good. The Stolper-Roskamp looked in reasonably
good shape.

We had a reading of the articles by another of our editors, who
also was favorably impressed in general.

I agree with the scholarly reader on the need for greater cohesion
in this book. I don't think, though, that much can be accomplished by
cross-references, and I would not advocate putting in a great many of
them (some, perhaps). This is not a solid way to bring cohesion. Nor
can cohesion be truly attained by an introduction; but if you are writing
the kind of introduction I think you are writing, it should help a lot,
giving the purpose of the book and hitting the keynote. I am sure, from
our conversations, that you are not merely summarizing the contributions
(which would scarcely be helpful in unifying the book and which, it seems
to me, is not the function of an introduction of this sort), but are
performing a synthesis and making a substantive contribution of your own.

MH:cen

Encl.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

March 17, 1967

Professor Henry Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Re: THE NEW GERMANY

Dear Henry:

We have been increasingly conscious of the inappropriateness
of this manuscript's sitting idle on our shelves. Clearly, its
place is with you until it is complete and up-to-date; I feel sure
you will agree with this. You told me some time ago that one
essay needs updating, and maybe others do by this time. Since the
updating will have to be done by you and your colleagues, you may
want to put it in progress now, in order to save time later. This
depends, I suppose, on when the introduction will be written. But
in any case, the manuscript is accomplishing nothing here; we have
done all we can do until it is complete. I am sending it to you
herewith.

All of us want you to understand that whenever the manuscript
is complete and ready we will be delighted to have it back again.

MH:cen

Encl.

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<table><thead><tr><th>Author</th><th>Title</th><th>Status</th><th>Erwin has</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Karl Bracher</td><td>Political Structure & Democracy in the Second Republic</td><td>Completed</td><td>xx edited and returned to author (VSP)</td></tr><tr><td>Klaus Epstein</td><td>The German Cultural Situation</td><td>Completed</td><td>xx edited and returned (VSP)</td></tr><tr><td>Carl Friedrich</td><td>Germany and Europe</td><td>Completed</td><td>xx edited and returned (VSP)</td></tr><tr><td>Wolfgang Stolper<br>Karl Roskamp</td><td>Planning a Free Economy: Germany Since 1945</td><td>Fourth Revision ✓ Erwin has 1/24/64 thus w Stolper's comments</td><td>xx (VSP)</td></tr><tr><td>Grosser, Alfred</td><td>The Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic</td><td>Completed</td><td>xx edited and returned (VSP)</td></tr><tr><td>Karl Kaiser</td><td>German Foreign Policy at the Crossroads: Reunification and the Future of Europe</td><td>Revision ready 12/17</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Erwin Scheuch</td><td>Continuity and Change in German Social Structure</td><td>Completed</td><td>xx (VSP)</td></tr><tr><td>Hans Holthusen</td><td>Literature and Theater in Contemporary Germany</td><td>Retyped 12/15 - theater section arrived 12/15 being translated</td><td>XX</td></tr><tr><td>Melvin Croan</td><td>Eastern Policy and the Dilemmas of Germany's Division</td><td>Revision due 12/17</td><td>XX</td></tr></tbody><tfoot><tr><td colspan="4">Note: VSP = Erwin has entire piece 1/17</td></tr></tfoot></table>