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CLEVELAND, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1974

Eaton finds Castro
'eager' for detente

By Allen Wiggins

Copyright, The Plain Dealer

The cold war with Cuba may be com-
ing to a close.

Cyrus S. Eaton, returned from a
week's visit with Cuban Prime Minister
Fidel Castro, said yesterday that Castro
himself, most Cuban exiles in this country
and top American businessmen are saying
privately that they want to make relations
normal between the United States and
Cuba.

"It doesn't make sense," Eaton said, to maintain hostility towards Cuba "when we have already made peace with Russia and China."

Significant in Eaton's account of his
visit to Cuba is the revelation that Castro is
"eager" for rapprochement with the United
States. The 15 years of American economic
embargo of Cuban goods have until now
been matched by belligerent rhetoric from
Castro.

Eaton said his visit was the climax of
a two-month series of talks with successful
Cuban emigrants here and with leading
American industrialists and businessmen.

Without exception, all are anxious to
resume relations with Cuba, although most
of the businessmen have not yet been will-
ing to say so publicly, he said.

"What is obviously needed is for Mr. Kissinger and Nixon to give their attention to the problem. Castro has the authority and the intelligence to deal with the problem," he said.

Asked if he had talked with any top
American officials about softening relations
with Cuba. Eaton said, "Not seriously, but
I hope to have some talks."

Eaton has been an advocate of
"friendship and peaceful relations" with
the Communist world for two decades. By
this, he makes it clear, he means "doing
business" with them.

Eaton said he had discussed a detente

Cleveland industrialist Cyrus Eaton and
Cuba's Fidel Castro renewed their
friendship last week in Havana.

"quite frankly" with Castro, and he was all
for it.

"He said one example that might show
the American people his friendliness was
the speed and vigor with which he moved
against airplane hijacking."

Eaton warned that Castro's eagerness
for normal relations should not be taken as
a "yearning" or in any way a weak posi-
tion.

"There's no use in talking to them about how powerful we are when, after 15 years of embargo, they have developed a world market for their exports at prices that are from 10 to 20 times what they were 15 years ago when we cut them off," he said.

"It has been very popular in the media to denounce Castro, but with a man with the courage and fighting qualities he has — remember, he originally landed in Cuba with 39 followers — strong talk isn't going to have any influence on him."

"A little nation that has the support of
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Castro, exiles are eager
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Russia and China has a power we'd better
recognize."

Eaton's visit to Cuba last week was his
third since 1958, but its origins were differ-
ent from the others. He said that about two
months ago he met a prominent Cuban,
who had become an American citizen, and
was "amazed to hear him say that he
would like to see the United States resume
relations with Cuba."

Eaton said he then sought out and
talked with about 20 Cubans who had be-
come successful in America. He said they
were "without exception and without reser-
vation" in favor of normal relations with
Cuba.

Eaton said he asked them whether the
senators and congressmen from Florida
were in favor of renewed relations. "They
said that they probably wouldn't say so
publicly yet, but, that they would actually
support the move," he said.

The only group Eaton said, still in
favor of hostility towards Cuba are "some
of the unfortunate ne'er-do-wells from
Cuba, now solely dependent on the CIA for
a meager living. These people and the CIA
have a mutual interest in keeping the feud
going so their meal ticket holds out."

"I'm hoping businessmen will say pub-
licly what they say to me privately," he

said, "and I hope journalists and educa-
tors, with their vast influence, will take the
same attitude."

Eaton has often been accused of being
a Communist sympathizer, a view that
amuses him, as one of America's most suc-
cessful capitalists.

Yesterday he cited an incident, never
before made public, that he said indicates
his real concerns.

In 1955, he said, Cuba's dictator Ful-
gencio Battista passed a $100 million bond
issue to finance a national railroad system.

"A group of American banks agreed to buy the bonds on condition that the Chesa-
peake & Ohio Railroad could have experts
examine the planning of the railroad to
make certain it was sound," Eaton said.

"We sent eight men, engineers, ac-
countants and so forth. They discovered
that what Battista had in mind was spend-
ing about $5 million on the railroad and the
rest would be put in Swiss banks under the
names of Battista and his cronies.

"We never let this out publicly be-
cause it was embarrassing to the banks to
have the people know how close they had
come to being made dupes.

"Now, I haven't spent any time or
money trying to establish socialism, but
when I see capitalism betrayed by a den of
thieves I'm going to help maintain it."

Los Angeles Times

THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21, 1974

SAYS CASTRO IS READY TO MEET
Cyrus Eaton Calls on U.S.
to End Its Boycott of Cuba

BY CYRUS EATON

Starting 150 years ago, my ancestors in
Nova Scotia were engaged in the shipping
industry between Halifax and Havana.
Personally, I had substantial investments
in Cuba before the revolution, and have
been going there for more than 50 years.

I have just returned from another visit
to Cuba. Prime Minister Fidel Castro
and I have met on a number of occasions,
and during this most recent trip to Ha-
vana I found him in excellent spirits, con-
fident of his own and his country's future
and considerably encouraged by the ad-
ditional extension of credit arranged by
Soviet Communist Party chief Leonid I.
Brezhnev on Brezhnev's visit to Cuba a
few days prior to mine.

In addition to meeting with Prime Min-
ister Castro, I also had important discus-
sions with Dr. Carlos Rafael Rodriguez,
vice prime minister and minister of
foreign affairs, with President Osvaldo
Dorticos and with Jose Fernandez, minis-
ter of education. Ramon Castro, the prime
minister's brother, spent a day with me
inspecting various agricultural facilities
in the Cuban countryside about 75 miles
from Havana. Every detail of my visit
was handled efficiently by competent and
well-trained individuals—despite my be-
ing an American.

Over the years, the U.S. government has
not been sympathetic to the revolutionary
government and has believed all along
that it could overthrow Castro and bring
Cuba to its knees through economic pres-
sure. This not only closed American
markets to Cuba, but also halted the flow
of American products into Cuba. The em-
bargo meant, among other hardships, the
virtual overnight cutoff of Cuba's entire
supply of fuel, including coal and oil from
the United States.

As a result of the embargo, Cuba has
had support from the entire Communist
world, with a continuing supply of neces-
sary goods and products. Cuba's allies
have also lent her vast amounts of money
at low interest rates.

Cuba has been fortunate to develop a
worldwide market for all the products of
her land. The world demand for sugar has
driven the price from 1½ cents per pound
at the time of the embargo up to the cur-
rent price of about 20 cents.

In my talks with Cuba's leaders, I
learned some of their plans for the future.

Cyrus Eaton, 90, is chairman of the
board emeritus of Chesapeake & Ohio
Railway. He lives in Northfield, Ohio.

There is an immediate program to expand
and develop its electric power generating
facilities by 50%. They want to increase
their nickel production and bring about
the mechanization of sugar-cane harvest-
ing, to expand their sugar refining indus-
try, to increase their port facilities and to
reconstruct and modernize their railroads
(Seventy diesel locomotives have just
been purchased from the Soviet Union.)

Plans are also under way to construct
more roads and improve telephone and
radio communications. Educational facili-
ties, from the elementary level to the uni-
versity, are being expanded greatly, and
low-cost housing is being constructed on a
mammoth scale. The Cubans plan, in ad-
dition, to construct more airfields and to
improve computer technology.

In agriculture, Cuba has made great
strides and has wisely improved the qual-
ity and quantity of both dairy and beef
herds of cattle, through the importation of
foundation stock from Canada and Eu-
rope.

The boycott — quite clearly — is not
working, and the United States should
put an immediate end to it. Our govern-
ment should allow American companies
to supply the raw materials and technolo-
gy now being obtained from the Soviet
Union, China, Germany, England and
Canada.

In addition to this economic step, the
United States should change its political
approach to Cuba.

My uncle, the late congressman Charles
A. Eaton (R-N.J.), was one of the five.
Americans who participated in the con-
ference which set up the United Nations
in 1945. I think the Cuban problem, from
the beginning, should have been referred
to the world body. Our government
should make more use of the United Na-
tions in all international questions.

The embargo could be terminated swift-
ly, handled directly either by President
Nixon or Secretary of State Henry A. Kiss-
singer. A couple of days spent by the
President or Kissinger with Fidel Castro
at some neutral spot such as Nassau or Ja-
maica should produce an immediate and
satisfactory solution and lay the ground-
work for friendship and understanding
with the little nation whose progress,
since its discovery by Columbus in 1492,
has been affected by outside countries, in-
cluding Spain, England, France and the
United States.

As far as the government of Cuba is
concerned, it appears prepared to act at
once. The ball is now in our court.

THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

26 March 1975

PERSONAL

Dear Henry,

I wish to express to you personally my concern over
the article which appeared today in the Austrian news-
paper "Die Presse". As you know, I have already been
in communication with Mr. Sisco about this matter. I
can only assume that the article originated in a conver-
sation I had a week ago with a representative of "Die
Presse" who was in the United States on a State Department
fellowship. The conversation was a wide-ranging and
general one on the role of the United Nations and its
difficulties. I am sorry that, out of this background
conversation and evidently in the light of the develop-
ments since that conversation took place, the writer has
apparently now published a story which in a number of
aspects distorts the views which I expressed. This has
been magnified by the summary given by Reuters.

I wish to tell you how much I regret this, not least
because I can understand very well the pressures which
you have been under and the enormous difficulties which
you face, and the last thing which I should wish to do
would be to add to them.

I think you know very well my appreciation for your
personal efforts and all they have contributed in recent
years. In fact, the last occasion on which I showed this
appreciation was in paying tribute to your latest efforts

The Honourable
Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
Department of State
Washington, D.C.

THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

4 September 1975

Dear Henry,

Thank you very much for your message of
1 September 1975 which was transmitted to me on the
same day by Ambassador Moynihan.

I am very grateful for the information which you
have conveyed to me about the outcome of your efforts
to achieve agreement for a second disengagement in the
Sinai and the problems encountered in this regard.
I am gratified that your efforts have proved successful,
and I wish to congratulate you on this achievement.

Upon learning of the initialling of the agreement,
I issued a statement expressing appreciation to all
those who, with patience and determination, have made
the agreement possible. I also expressed the sincere
hope that all the parties concerned would maintain the
momentum of negotiations, thereby opening the way to
the next steps toward a comprehensive settlement and
the establishment of a just and durable peace in the
Middle East.

I have instructed Lieutenant-General Ensio Siilasvuo
to proceed to Geneva in order to be present at the
signing of the agreement and for the proposed meetings
of the Military Working Group of the Middle East Peace
Conference. I have also transmitted the text of the
agreement to the Security Council. Be assured that
I shall do my best to assist in the implementation
of the agreement.

The Honourable
Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
Department of State
Washington, D. C.

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

My dear Mr. Secretary:

We are very much complimented by your having taken time out of your extraordinarily busy and important schedule to be with us at Walt Disney World for our EPCOT/World Showcase presentation.

EPCOT/World Showcase is one of the most unique and ambitious ideas conceived by Walt Disney before he passed away in 1966. It is number one on our priority list not only because of what it meant to Walt personally, but also because we honestly believe that through this approach we will be making a contribution toward better living for all peoples of the earth. I sensed from your comments to me that you fully understood the broad ramifications of this project and how valuable it might be in helping to bring the nations of the world together to communicate in a peaceful and cooperative atmosphere.

I am looking forward to seeing you again at Walt Disney World whenever your time permits. Knowing how rarely this happens, we would cherish a visit by you and your family even more.

Until I have the opportunity to talk with you again, I would like to say once more how much I personally value your role in achieving world peace. To me you are the only real hope we have of avoiding a confrontation which could lead to full scale world war and the inevitable cataclysmic results which would follow. Your perseverance and individual dedication for the benefit of all mankind will never be forgotten, and future generations will learn from history of the man who single-handedly succeeded where the United Nations failed. Those of us watching these historic moments unfold take great pride in seeing our country represented by a truly remarkable and talented man.

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CHARLS E. WALKER
CHAIRMAN

BERKELEY G. BURRELL
VICE CHAIRMAN

February 28, 1974

W. V. WISHARD
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

The Honorable Henry Kissinger
Secretary of State
2201 C Street, N.W.
Washington, D. C. 20520

Dear Mr. Secretary:

Recently the President appointed me Chairman of
the President's Advisory Council on Minority Business
Enterprise. We are getting underway with the 1974
program for the Council and I want to see the Council
make a genuine contribution to the development of
minority enterprise.

The Advisory Council's Executive Committee will be
meeting in Washington in mid-March. We will begin
with a dinner on March 18 at 8:00 p.m. Prior to the
dinner, at 7:00 p.m., we will have a reception in the
Chinese Room of the Mayflower Hotel. I would like to
 invite you to join us at the reception for whatever
time you can spare, and to meet the members of the
Executive Committee. I am inviting the entire Cabinet,
as I believe it is important this Council feel the
full support of the Administration in the effort to
further minority business.

I know what your schedule is like, but I also know that
the chance for the Executive Committee members to visit
with you, even for a few moments, will substantially
contribute to their approach to this undertaking. I
hope you can join us.

With best regards.

Sincerely,

Charls E. Walker
Chairman

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October 1, 1976

The Honorable Henry Kissinger
Secretary of State
Department of State
2201 "C" Street
Washington, D.C. 20520

Dear Mr. Secretary:

May I just take you away for a moment from your busy schedule to add my deep-felt
and sincere words of appreciation as an active American citizen, for the brilliant
negotiations just concluded in South Africa. This historic success and your already
established and acknowledged successes in the Middle East, should give you a great
source of satisfaction as having achieved what no other Secretary of State has ever
achieved.

Since I visit with Marvin and Bernie Kalb frequently, we speak about you and your
successes constantly, and I know, and obviously you know, that they share with me
the same feelings that I have about you.

I am now also very fortunate in having established a very close and dear mutual friend,
your former Under Secretary of State, Joseph Sisco, who has honored me greatly by
agreeing to accept quite a few important and prestigious engagements, which he has
already fulfilled, with great credit to himself and to his association with you. Just
the other day he appeared for the World Affairs Council in Wilmington, Delaware, and
I was told it was one of the most successful meetings in the history of this very fine
and long established Council.

Sisco has enjoyed these many prestigious and selective groups that I have scheduled for
him with great care and sensitivity, and I know that he especially appreciates the extremely
attractive honoraria that I have been skilful enough to secure for him.

You have become known as the most successful negotiator in diplomacy, and I have earned
the reputation of the most talented and skilful negotiator in the lecture industry. I thrive
at this challenge, just as you have in your historic challenges that have brought you
so much success.

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The Honorable Henry Kissinger

I hope that I will have the unusual honor of being associated with you at some future date, and it surely will be the crowning glory of my achievement when that moment occurs.

As you may or may not know, I represented President Ford as his exclusive lecture manager before he became Vice President, at which time, that arrangement was indefinitely postponed, so do send him my warmest and sincerest personal regards when you next see him.

We have continued our friendship and relationship all of these years through correspondence and visits, and I am quite pleased that the most recent letter I received from President Ford, was just a few days ago.

Again, my best wishes to you.

HW/jc

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

September 21, 1976

Dear Harry:

Thank you very much for your thoughtfulness in writing
to express your support and confidence.

I am deeply grateful for your kind comments concerning
my speech at Kansas City, Betty, and the children. I
am (I think justifiably) very proud of my family and it
is very gratifying to have your complimentary remarks
about them.

I am very optimistic about the election. Our campaign
is gaining momentum and I am confident of victory on
November 2nd.

Thank you again for your friendship and support and
warmest personal regards.

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By a Washington Post Staff Writer

LUXOR, Egypt, Jan. 18—Crowds lining the streets cheered U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger when he arrived here today from Cairo for a long-delayed sightseeing tour.

Kissinger inspected the monumental Temple of Luxor, built beginning in 1405 B.C.

As he walked the 500 yards from the temple to his hotel, men and children in Arab dress cheered and shouted in cadence, “Wel-come” and “Kiss-in-ger.”

Looking at the giant statue of an ancient king 10 times the size of the effigy of his wife standing next to him, Kissinger quipped: “Now that’s what I call an advanced civilization.”

can "do something" and not about the energy crisis or any other problem.

"People feel let down," he admits, "his tone rueful."

And what are Quie's thoughts as he listens to constituents? A lot of them have to do with Richard Nixon. He thought the President's "last best chance" to make a comeback in public opinion was the recently abandoned Operation Candor. Now he does not see how Mr. Nixon can restore his credibility.

He disagrees with many of his Republican colleagues that the House Judiciary Committee should speed up impeachment proceedings. It has to be a slow, careful process, he believes, and one in which Republicans play a key, responsible role if the end result is to be accepted by the American people. "But I don't know how many of my

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Tested on. Weeks between the day hold-strict. He has made a parochial statement to the people outside the Church.

The people of the energystituents want the long and final decision to be made while the prices are high.

FROM THE DESK OF
ROY T. WALKER

P. O. Box 12
Austin, Texas 78767

December 23, 1975

Personal Films

Dear Secretary Kissinger:

My minor son Tim and I were reunited on August 1st, after our not seeing one another for five years and six days, four and one-half of which Tim was held in Angola. Tim's recovery would not have been were it not for feedback from the Passport Office that made his location possible. We owe our reunion and joy this Christmas in largest measure to the Department of State, for which I will always remain most humble and grateful to you and your troops of the Department.

When I received the copy of your telegram to AmConGen Luanda about my family, I was most humbled and warmed. There is just no way I can tell you how I will feel about your considerations forever.

God bless you and thank you with all my heart. I wish you and yours a Most Merry Christmas & A Most Happy & Prosperous New Year!

IRVING WALLACE

308 SOUTH BRISTOL AVENUE
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90049

February 18, 1976

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
2201 "C" Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20520

My dear Mr. Secretary,

I have enclosed an advance copy of my latest novel, THE R DOCUMENT. You may note that the book opens with an epigraph --

In 1787, after the delegates in Philadelphia signed the new United States Constitution, a woman approached Benjamin Franklin. "Well, Doctor," she asked, "what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" Franklin replied, "A republic, if you can keep it."

Of course, we must and will keep it, and it was to underline this necessity that I wrote this book.

My novel is about a day in the very near future when an effort is made, by a majority in the government, to tamper with the Bill of Rights, to find a legal means to suspend it indefinitely when necessary. I have not attempted a scholarly tract on the subject. I am a novelist and a storyteller, and I felt I could best dramatize the vital importance of our first ten amendments in the form of a highly dramatic, suspenseful story.

Because I thought the book and the theme might be of special interest to you, I am taking the liberty of sending a copy to you.

I hope you will enjoy the book.

Original with book
in HAK's office

THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON

February 9, 1975

Dear Martha and Hal:

Nancy and I had one of the most secluded and
relaxing weekends we can remember at your home
in Palm Springs. We deeply appreciate the way
you opened your home to us.

I hope you will stay in touch with us, and
please let us know if you come to Washington.

Henry A. Kissinger

Mr. and Mrs. Hal Wallis
515 Mapleton Drive
Los Angeles, California

From: Dennis Walters, M. B. E., M. P.

HOUSE OF COMMONS
LONDON SW1A OAA

11th December, 1973

Many years have passed since the pleasant days of the Harvard International Seminar. I have followed your ascent into the world political stratosphere with genuine pleasure and your performance with warm admiration.

The Middle East problem is as difficult and testing as any could be. In the past, I have been severely critical of United States policy there and over eight years I have followed events as closely and intimately as any person in the West. I can claim that most of my forecasts have proved correct and I can number some of the key figures in the area among my close personal friends.

I visited President Nasser regularly and after his death I have done the same with President Sadat.

I fully understand what your programme must be like during your visit here but if you could spare me a few minutes, I trust you would find the time spent worthwhile. Needless to say, it would give me enormous pleasure to see you again.

Dr. Henry Kissinger