EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

LONDON

October 12, 1973

COPY

Dear Mr. Hansen:

Knowing that Secretary of State Kissinger is an old friend of Claridge's Hotel, I am confident that you will share my regret that the crisis in the Middle East has made it necessary for him to postpone his planned visit to London.

During these last few days you and your staff have been invaluable in helping us plan for this occasion. The sudden cancellation will no doubt cause many problems for you. I do hope, however, that the inconvenience can be minimized. Mrs. Annenberg and I are grateful for the preparations you had made for the dinner on Sunday, October 14, and regret that the cancellation has added to your dilemma.

When next Dr. Kissinger finds it possible to visit London, I am confident that he will again wish to be a guest at Claridge's. Meanwhile, my grateful thanks to you and your entire organization for their unbending efforts on our behalf during these past days.

B. Lund Hansen, Esq.,
General Manager,
Claridge's Hotel,
Brook Street,
London, W. 1.

Ballerina
says 'I was
indignant'

MISS NADIA NERINA, the ballerina, explained in the High Court yesterday why she wrote to Mrs RUTH HARRISON, an expert on intensive farming methods, suggesting she was not fit to be a member of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Miss Nerina, 45, who, like Mrs Harrison is a member of the RSPCA council, said: "I was irritated by her refusal to say whether or not she had leaked confidential information to the League Against Cruel Sports.

"And I was highly indignant at her irresponsible behaviour over this issue."

Sincere view

Miss Nerina said it was her sincere view that anyone breaking trust with confidential information supplied to them in a privileged position was not fit to be on the council.

She was giving evidence on the fifth day of the libel action in which she is being sued for damages by Mrs Harrison, of Holland Park Road, West Ken

Simon Bostic, 22 months, who suffers from a rare bone marrow deficiency which makes him unable to fight infection, at home last night after a statement that a marrow graft operation at Westminster Hospital last month had taken. With him is his mother, Elizabeth (left) and Mrs Joan McFarlane, 28, who gave the marrow.

February 27, 1974

Dear Henry:

I believe the Chinese have been
credited with the philosophic wrap-up
that one picture may be worth more than
ten thousand words.

In any event, I know of no better
way to describe the enclosed.

Enclosures

The Honorable
Henry A. Kissinger,
Secretary of State.

April 16, 1974

Dear Henry:

Lee and I want to wish your bride and
you at least as much happiness as we enjoy
in our marriage, and extend congratulations
on this most important milestone in your
life.

The surprise announcement was all the
more delightful to me because when I left
you Thursday, March 28th, as we arrived in
Washington you may recall my saying to you,
"if you get bored in Acapulco give me a call
at Sunnylands and I will send my plane down
to rescue you." Some boredom!

Walter Annenberg

THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON

June 30, 1974

Dear Walter:

Thank you very much for your kind letter. Nancy and I deeply appreciate your good wishes, and Lee's, and I'm sorry that events have delayed this reply so long.

I also appreciated the offer of the plane; as you know, I have an affinity for airplane travel.

Again, thank you both so much, and we hope to see you soon.

The Honorable
Walter H. Annenberg,
American Embassy,
London.

September 19, 1974

The Honorable
Henry Kissinger,
Secretary of State,

Dear Henry:

You will recall that when you were last here on July 8 you had a 6:00 p.m. meeting with Ted Heath, and I took the liberty of suggesting you give him a birthday gift. As you might have surmised, I wanted to further strengthen the relationship you had with this esteemed gentleman. You might also recall when we finally returned from 10 Downing Street, after the Wilson visit, and I found your staff had wrapped up one of those boiler plate Government gifts, I re-belied and insisted on rushing out before the appointment with Heath to round up what I considered a suitable gift.

The enclosed photocopy refers to the charming antique bowl I selected at Hugh Moss Ltd., and whose price had been quoted to me as £50. At the time, I was rather startled, but as I was in a rush I immediately placed it in one of Moss' silk brocade Chinese boxes and rushed out with it so as to get back to Claridges before your 6:00 p.m. appointment.

I am sure that Mr. Moss' letter will give you a laugh, but please remind your staff, who indicated that I was to be reimbursed for this expenditure, that nothing is due me. Of course Hugh Moss was duly thanked for his evidence of friendship and good will.

Enclosure

P.S. Incidentally, this bowl would have retailed at approximately £1000, so you see you gave Heath quite a gift.

January 27, 1975

Dear Walter:

Thank you for your letter concerning Pat Moynihan's
December 29 press remarks.

I am the first to acknowledge that Pat's manner of
speech is at times uncomfortably colorful, even hyperbolic. I
suspect he has had second thoughts on some of his more spectacular
utterances.

However, leaving aside the question of the accuracy of
the AP report, it does seem to me that his comments on congressional
aid restrictions were directed less at the President and the
Department than at the legislative branch, itself. He is not alone
in feeling some degree of frustration on this score in the past year.

Pat's remark on our military aid to Pakistan in the
early 1950's -- or AP's version of it -- may be less fortunate.
I might add, however, that my experience with Mrs. Gandhi
makes me cautious about drawing any causal connection between
anything an American Ambassador in Delhi may have said and her
own statements, whatever the subject.

I appreciate your thoughtfulness in writing and want you
to know that I envy your newly-won freedom and privacy.

The Honorable
Walter Annenberg,
"Sunnylands",
P. O. Box 730,
Palm Desert, California.

THE TIMES-PICAYUNE, NEW ORLEANS, LA., MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 16, 1974

# Moynihan Lectures India for Denial of Arms Embargo

By MYRON L. BEKIND

(NEW DELHI, India (AP) — Daniel P. Moynihan, ready to return to teaching at Harvard after 21 months as ambassador to India, lectured the Indians Sunday for refusing to believe that Washington is maintaining the embargo on arms shipments to Pakistan.

He suggested that if India wants the embargo to continue the Indian government should publicly acknowledge that it exists.

Throughout Moynihan's time in New Delhi, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's government repeatedly asked for assurances that Washington would not resume arms supplies to India's long-time adversary. India gets its main military support from the Soviet Union.

The question came again Sunday from an Indian journalist, who wanted to know if there was growing U.S. arms involvement in the region.

Moynihan was visibly irritable. His lengthy reply obvi-

ously was directed to Mrs. Gandhi and the Indian Foreign Ministry.

"I am enough of a professor of government to know that some things sink in pretty slowly, but what in the hell do we have to do?" he asked. "We are the only country in the world which does not sell arms to South Asia that has any arms to sell. We are the only ones.

"You name one. Anybody in this room. Name me a country in the world that sells arms that does not sell arms to South Asia — except us."

Standing at a lectern in Roosevelt House, the ambassador's official residence, he paused for a moment, then continued:

"Well, gentlemen, raise your hands. I feel like I'm back at school already. Can you name one? Can anyone here name a country that produces arms for sale that does not sell them to Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Ceylon, excepting the United States?

"We are the only one. And

we've had the policy in effect since nineteen hundred sixty five ... and yet continually we are asked whether we are going to stop arms to South Asia.

"We adopted this policy with the expectation that it would be met with approval in the region to which it has applied, and approval at least involves some measure of acknowledgment. If there are those who like the policy and who approve it and want it to persist, thoughtful persons might make some effort to

acknowledge that it exists."

Moynihan made a veiled hint that Washington might lift the Pakistani embargo unless Mrs. Gandhi publicly acknowledges the American policy.

"If a policy designed to win a measure of approval wins none, then it clearly is a failed policy," he said. "I don't think this is a failed policy, but I hope it does not become one."

Moynihan is to leave New Delhi in about three weeks for Cambridge, Mass. Atty. Gen.

William Saxbe has been nominated to succeed him.

Moynihan said he tried to practice "quiet diplomacy" here with few public utterances.

But he didn't restrict his comments in cables to the State Department. One, leaked to the press in September, predicted that Mrs. Gandhi would order the development of a nuclear arsenal and missile delivery system while continuing to preach nonviolence. She has insisted since India exploded a nuclear de-

vice in May that her government's nuclear capability is strictly for peaceful purposes.

His main diplomatic achievement is considered to have been the negotiation of an agreement last year in which Washington wrote off two-thirds of India's $3 billion debt for food shipments. At Sunday's news conference, Moynihan announced that India will get another 300,000 tons of U.S. grain — valued at more than $60 million — to be paid for over 40 years at 2 per cent interest.

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I asked Mr. Morton about the
address "Ministry of, etc"

He said the note should go thru
the American Embassy Tehran
and not necessary.