ESTU
INSTITUTE FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES

SECRETARIATE: GRAZ March 1 1966

ZINZENDORF CASSE 5
TELEFON 34 70 15

Referring to our communication of December 15, 1965, we can
now confirm our project. Numerous comments by scholars for Western
and Eastern Europe, as well as the USA, were received. We must
mention at the outset, however, that it was quite impossible to
coordinate all the suggestions, however valuable. The Institute
attents to integrate different opinions, as far as it is possible.
We ask those of you whose suggestions could not be fully incorpo-
rated to understand the difficulty of such an undertaking.

This letter purports to explain the enclosure, Document Nr.2
and wishes to raise a number of organizational questions.

The closer the Second International Expert Conference approaches, the more we need limiting the scope of our inquiry. Unfortunately, this means also excluding some especially interesting questions. We like to think that we are only postponing them to a later Conference. We had to decide to drop the discussion of the highly important, yet very technical and specifically military questions. We want to stress the "specifically military", since political questions can not and should not be entirely divorced from military ones. The decision was somewhat eased, because during 1966 and 1967 numerous international conferences on those very questions are scheduled to take place. We too like to plan next year to concentrate conferring around the political-military coexistence problematic, with special emphasis on the "German Question". Furthermore, our revised draft proposal subsumes the international illegal questions under the main political questions, since the results of the Sixth Commission of the United Nations seem to indicate such a development.

Sections 1, 2 and 3 have thus gained fairly equal weight.
If participants agree with this, it will become unavoidable that
we plan two or three study sessions meeting simultaneously.

The second draft proposal remains, therefore, yet another
frame within which operatical changes may take place. We name
several main headings and some subheadings connected with them,
leave it, however, to the conference participants to emphasize
or deemphasize pragmatically one or the other point. The final
program can be presented only after participants have sent in
their working papers. The second draft proposal appeals not only
to those having received the first document, but also to additional
interested parties, because our project has met with a much larger
interest than we ever expected.

Permit us to put a few questions to you and to ask you to
return the answers by April 1, the latest. The necessary preparatory

Scientific Advisory Board: Gunnar Adler-Karlsson (Stockholm), Josef Dobbetsberger (Graz), Ragnar Frisch (Oslo), Josef Horsky (Prague), Gerhard Kade (Berlin), Michael Kaser (Oxford), Vjekoslav Meichsner (Skoplje), Rudolf Nötel (Geneva), Adolf Nußbaumer (Graz), L. A. Puntila (Helsinki), Imre Vajda (Budapest), Stephan Verosta (Vienna)

Secretary General: Helmut Romé (Graz) Scientific Coordination: Hans Mayrzedt (Vienna)

Bank account: Creditanstalt · Bankverein, Filiale Graz, Nr. 2289

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work will be greatly facilitated by your cooperation in this
matter. In your answers you may refer to simply the parts 1 to 4.

1. Do you wish and plan to participate in the Conference?
Can you name us possible further interested parties,
especially those willing to make a major contribution ?

2. Would you prepare a working paper ? With which title,
on which topic ? Would it be possible to have an outline
or disposition by May 1st ? Working papers are requested
by July 1st, at the latest.

3. Do you prefer the beginning or the end of September as most convenient for the Conference ? Do you prefer four or five conference days ?

4. The costs to convene and conduct the conference will be born by the Institute. Since, however, 1965 has been a year of natural catastrophes in Austria, it will not be a simple matter to raise sufficient sums. We would like to ask you, therefore, whether you could procure travel costs through your Institute, Government and the like; or whether you could at least partially finance your travel.

Very truly yours

Prof.Dr.Ernst Florian WINTER
Director

Scientific Advisory Board: Gunnar Adler-Karlsson (Stockholm), Josef Dohretsberger (Graz), Ragnar Frisch (Oslo), Josef Horsky (Prague), Gerhard Kade (Berlin), Michael Kaser (Oxford), Vjekoslav Meichsner (Skoplje), Rudolf Nötel (Geneva), Adolf Nußbaumer (Graz), L. A. Puntila (Helsinki), Imre Vajda (Budapest), Stephan Verosta (Vienna)

International Expert Conference II. Autumn 1966/Note 2/March 2, 1966

BASIC QUESTIONS OF CO-EXISTENCE

Programme

1. Some basic methodological questions.

1.1 Formal sciences

1.11 Theory of science and criticism of ideology

1.12 Question of mutuality or difference of scientific language and the sources of cognition.

1.2 Theories of integration and conflict in international relations and their application to East-West cooperation and conflict.

1.3 Application of game theories.

2. Some basic social and economic questions.

2.1 Two main types of industrial society in Europe

2.2 Problems of divergence and convergence of economic systems in Eastern and Western Europe.

2.3 Problems of intensified economic cooperation between Eastern and Western European countries:

2.31 between countries themselves

2.32 between types of integration.

3. Some basic political and juridic questions.

3.1 The process of depolarization in Western Europe, in Eastern Europe, in world politics (USA-Western Europe; Societ Union-China)

3.11 Different types of depolarization, deduced from the differences of original polarization types.

3.12 Structural changes of alliance systems (of which nature are these changes and which are the conditions?)

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3.2 Regional disengagement tendencies and regional plans of cooperation; the example of Europe.

3.21 atom free zones, non-aggressive pacts and non-proliferation (the plans of Eden, Gaitskell, Undén, Rapacki, Kekkonen etc.)

3.22 stabilization in the Balkans

3.3 Neutrality politics - with special reference to European neutrals

3.31 Depolarization

3.32 Differences and similiarities of political conditions for neutrality politics

3.33 the limitation of "non-alignment", "block-free", "third group" etc.

3.4 Juridic problems in friendly relations among states (work of the 6th Commission of the United Nations).

[L.C]

May 29, 1966

This is to inform you quickly that I'll be teaching at Columbia University's Summer Session in New York. Mail will reach me at 20 Andre Hill, Tappan, New York.

I'll also be available for lectures and talks to academic and non-academic groups on a number of topics, listed below.

After living and working 4 years in Europe with only two brief intermissions, when I was back in the States, after having travelled extensively and having met many people East and West, I am, of course, quite willing to prepare a talk on topics falling into my competency.

You can imagine how I am looking forward to the challenge of working again at such an outstanding university, my alma mater. But I am also looking forward to becoming involved again in the American scene. I hope to be able to travel around a bit to visit friends and share my experiences with you.

In the process of teaching and lecturing, I also hope to arouse some further interest in our private venture and work in 'international education---the Seminars at Schloß Eichbüchl---which you read about in our last two Christmas letters. While, in fact, the family dislikes spending the summer vacation separated from one another, we all are convinced that it is worthwhile for the common goal which includes the Eichbüchl Seminars into which we have already invested so much---ideas, energy and money. We are sure that they contribute greatly to strengthening democratic consciousness and international understanding. We have pumped-primed with our private resources a valuable movement in the spirit of the late President Kennedy---see what you can give first before asking for assistance. We have done that and now seek some aid.

Please communicate any wishes or suggestions as soon as possible, in order for us to plan a successful summer. Till July 1st mail will reach me in Austria (Schloß Eichbüchl, Katzelsdorf/Leitha 2801, N.Ö.)

With best regards,

Ernst F. Winter

1. The Diplomatic Academy in Vienna (New concepts in training for international service)

2. Austria Ends Left-Right Coalition Government (A modernization experiment in development politics)

3. Some Trends in Recent European Elections (Significance for American policy in Europe)

4. Is There the Development of a European 'Nationalism' ?

5. Dilemmas of East European Liberalization as seen from Vienna

6. A Look behind the Scenes of the European Common Market (Some developments Americans ought to know about)

7. Peace Research in Europe

[L.C.]

4. Adventsonntag, 20.XII.1965

Das Experiment unseres Lebens trat wohl heuer in ein besonders akutes Stadium. Gerade als ein sehr interessanter Posten, als Direktor der Diplomatischen Akademie, Ernst in Österreich eine fruchtbare Arbeitschance bot und als sich die Eichbüchler Gespräche und Seminare (wir hatten 9 Seminare heuer) zu einem der erfolgreichsten Bildungsexperimenten Österreichs auszugestalten begannen (wir investierten für deren Gelingen auch heuer wieder ca $ 2200), sah sich der amerik. Besitzer von Schloß Eichbüchl genötigt zu verkaufen. Die Wohnungsnot und der kleine Gehalt ließen es bald als aussichtslos erscheinen, daß am Österreichischen Wohnungsmarktein auch nur annähernd passendes Objekt für Familie, Studenten, 10.000 Bücher und 200.000 Separat etc gefunden werden könnte. Eichbüchl war immer mehr für junge Menschen aus allen Österr. Lagern und Sozialschichten, von Ausländern und Berufsmenschen zu einem Gesprächsort geworden. Wir versuchten mit neuen bildnerischen Mitteln und Methoden daraus eine Oase konstruktiver geistiger Auseinandersetzung verschiedenartigster Anschauungen zu machen. Über 300 Seminarteilnehmer aus diesem Jahr beteuerten uns die Wichtigkeit unseres Einsatzes. Nun mußten wir uns aber, wie so viele unabhängige Österreicher, mit dem Gedanken tragen wieder auszuwandern. Dieser schwere Entscheid schien etwas leichter zu fallen, da Ernst seine 12. Berufung ins Ausland bekam, seit unserer Rückkehr nach Österreich vor vier Jahren. Dieses mal hieß es nach Washington, D.C., um seine 15-jährige Lehrtätigkeit als Professor der Politikwissenschaft wieder aufzunehmen. Aber gerade die Familie hoffte, daß die viele Arbeit, die sie in Eichbüchl investierte, nicht umsonst gewesen sei. Im September schien es aber doch eher aussichtslos und so fuhr Ernst nach USA. In Eichbüchl wurde gepackt. Die Familie hatte Karten für den 26. Oktober, auf der Raffaello.

Da geschah das "Österreichische Wunder": am 15. Oktober benachrichtigten uns die neuen Besitzer von Schloß Eichbüchl, daß wir dort bleiben sollten, unsere erzieherischen Experimente fortsetzen und intensivieren sollten. Gerne packten wir wieder aus und sind soeben Ende Advents damit fertig geworden. Die Arbeit an Aufbau und Neugestaltung der Diplomatischen Akademie kann weitergehen, die Eichbüchler Gespräche können intensiviert werden, die Landwirtschaft für nächstes Jahr wieder bebaut. Ernst Leopold, der aus USA wieder zurückkam und die anderen Kinder Florian Stephan, Johanna Maria, Notburga Maria, Hemma Maria, Agatha Maria und Severin Wolfgang Wenzl haben weiterhin ein geborgenes Heim, so wichtig in den formativen Jahren, besonders auch deswegen, da sie alle, bis auf Johanna, die in die American International School in Wien geht, mit ihren Schulen nicht recht glücklich sind. Ja, auf dem Bildungssektor ist noch ungeheuer viel zu leisten! Es bedarf sowohl der Verwissenschaftlichung wie der Vermenschlichung dieses Sektors, soll der Welt eine geistig und seelisch gesunde Jugend zur Bewältigung der risigen Aufgaben von Morgen, geboten werden können.

Möge Schloß Eichbüchl daher weiterhin ein Bildungszentrum für die Jugend der sich erneuernden österreichischen Nation und ihren ausländischen Gästen bleiben. Es wehen über Österreich Krisenwolken. Solange es aber österreichische Menschen und Stätten der Begegenung gibt, wird das Einigende über das Trennende auch neue Wege in den Morgen zeigen. Innerer Friede und Glück für 1966 sind unsere aufrichtigen weihnachtlichen Wünsche !

December 20, 1965

The central theme of our very busy, eventful and hopeful year 1965 became the new horizons in education we began to discern. The reestablishment of the Diplomatic Academy on the base of a 212 year old tradition presented Ernst, its first post-war director, with challenges demanding all his imagination and stamina. The educational experiment initiated at the Academy is completely new for Austria: college, international house and institute for advanced studies all in one. Its close-knit community is pluralistic - 48 students from 18 nations, East, West and Third World; multilingual concentration on modern subjects and projects; visiting lecturers from around the globe. Carnegie sponsored Africans and Asians, and young African UN diplomats who stayed at the Academy were truly impressed by our atmosphere of cordiality and competency. The product the Academy has the ambition to deliver for international service in the future, has already acquired remarkable features of factual competence and friendly openmindsness.

Perhaps Vienna could become a good location for some other novelties in education. Once a week Ernst meets with up to 30 colleagues in an interdisciplinary seminar, working on abstracts for a "future research" bibliography they want to publish as a quarterly. 1985 has become quite familiar to these young enthusiasts.

But greatest fun, because the family can also be involved in it, have been the Eichbühl Seminars. The castle has become a unique oasis for Austrians from all social strata, political views and walks of life, as well as international youths, professors and men of affairs, where in beautiful and healthgiving surroundings articles and books were again written, discussion and 9 seminars took place (US Foreign Policy, Game Theory in Economics and Politics, University Reform, Materialism East and West, Christianity and Islam, Political Socialization in Austria, Miss Ellwood's Nutrition World Tour etc). Since we have continuous open house, the houseguests are many. More than 300 came to the seminars alone. Without the dedicated help of each member of the family---we service the guests ourselves---the experiment would have been impossible; above all, without the wonderful and courageous housemother unthinkable. True, seminar guests pitch in through work crews; Austrian student organizers deserve special credit for planning the musical and social side of events; true, three seminars were able to finance themselves. The rest we continue to subsidize ($ 2200.- this year) from our family savings (sale of American property). Young people in Europe have very little money ! We hope that our free enterprise and idealistic example will increasingly attract schools, groups and foundations who will want to join our investment in the future of our youths. The small seminar approach has intensified the experiments with group dynamics and remained strongly social science oriented, especially in view of guests from Eastern Europe and development countries. In fact, Ernst continues his crusade for a greater awareness of political science by again voluntarily conducting political science seminars in Vienna and Graz. Youth is starved for modern intellectual orientation; starved for non-partisan dialogue. Eichbühl has, therefore, also become a meeting place to discuss conflict and its resolution, divergent viewpoints and their coexistence.

Problems of education have also been the preoccupation of the family. Ernst Jr. returned from progressive Big Horn School in Wyoming, where he had

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successfully finished freshman year in high school and accomplished a great deal in personality building. Back in Austria he felt, however, the school system so old-fashioned and authoritarian that he preferred to work at a scale-manufacturing plant for a while. Most likely, he'll return to the States. Florian is in 4th grade "Gymnasium". Fortunately, he has two good teachers who partly make up for the rest... The American high school and the American college are school types you don't want to miss, one you have experienced their benefits. Johanna attends 7th grade at the American International School in Vienna, by far the best school experience of any of the children: free personality development, disciplined subject matter acquisition in traditional and modern fields, humane atmosphere. She loves school, while all the other rather fear it, despite the fact that they are all good students. Burgi, Hemma and Agatha still attend convent school, but begin to rebel against its old-fashioned attitudes. Severin is in first grade--- where, unfortunately, the great ambition of teachers seems to be to make children afraid of them. The overwhelming "authoritarian personality" of Austrians makes it difficult to modernize the system; keeps us parents busy preventing warped minds and damaged temperaments. Mother is doing a heroic task in this ! Our liberal attitudes at home, altough much appreciated also by our many youthful guests, really alienate from the conservative environment. So far, the reaction of most is to emigrate. It is a challenge to mobilize modernizing resourcefulness in a gifted people and couple it to staying on in the country. We have felt like helpers in a development country during this past year and like them, we often walk in uncertainties in the face of ancient societies.

Our farm enterprise returned our bio-organic attention with bumper crops (selsufficiency plus) to the unbelieving amazement of our peasant neighbors. Even in agriculture nothing seemed more difficult this year than help modernize our fetish and taboo ridden society, because every example and suggestion is identified with "American" at a time of declining prestige. The Vietnam war is putting some finishing touches on anti-American resentment which now vocalizes itself also by anti-modernizing measures. The major recourse in Austria is increased obstruction by bureaucrats. Nonetheless, we thought we had a good base of operation here at the castle until the American owner suddenly was forced to sell. With the enormous housing shortage in Austria and the woefully low salaries (Ernst makes $ 300.- monthly), it soon became apparent that it would be impossible to find another similar base for independence to house the family, houseguests, 10,000 books and 200,000 reprints and clippings---all the fruits of diligent collection since 1938 for the purpose of educating the young. Since we had learned how to work hard in America, we hoped for just a place to till and manage. Towards the end of summer realization of this dream in Austria at this time appeared dim. Besides, there arrived the 12th invitation to return and to teach again in the States at much less exhausting and more lucrative stipulation than here, to Washington, D.C. It seemed like a very good and desirable alternative. We packed everything and were set to sail on the new RAFFELLO Oct. 26. On Oct. 15, the new owner of Eichbüchl asked us to stay on, to continue our educational experiments and intensify our pedagogical work. In view of the enormous responsibility towards the education of youth here we accepted. It took till Christmas to unpack again !

Ernst had been to the States in September (Ann Arbor, New York, Washington). The greatest experience were again the American people: such friendliness, so much good will, help, optimism, despite the awsome difficult crossroads the American nation finds herself at. Other trips abroad included the 'Futurible Congress' in Paris, the 'Government and Opposition' congress in England, a TV appearance in Hamburg etc. The well-proven device to take the entire family, tents and sleeping bags on some of father's lecture tours paid again off: two weeks at Alpach, Tyrol (where Ernst conducted a political science seminar with a wonderful group of students, especially from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary). We continued a trip through Switzerland, France and Germany (when Ernst lectured at the Free Europe summer school at Strasbourg about "Planning Models East, and West" to a great group of Africans studying at Eastern European universities).

Our hopeful exertions for next year will be the consolidation of the Eichbüchl enterprise. Come and visit us ! Our fondest wishes for a merry Christmas and happy 1966 !

SEVI

Hunme

4th Sunday of Advent

[LJ]

MAY 19 1966

SECRETARIAT: A-8010 GRAZ
ZINZENDORFGASSE 5
TELEFON 34 70 15

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

Dear Prof. Kissinger :

Director Kolb of the Institute of Advanced Studies assures me that your coming is now almost certain. That is very fine !

You recall that we offered to put you up at the Diplomatic Academy. Please inform us early enough of your intended dates of residence. We also want to supply you with a number of theater and opera tickets. Thus, the earlier we know of your coming, the better.

If there is anything else that we could prepare for you, let me know. The students of the diplomatic Academy will attend your classes at the Institute, as is customary. Of course, we would be delighted, if you take meals with us and continue to converse with the academicians.

Now to another matter, I am helping a group of young students here in Austria plan and arrange a conference which seems to be evoking very much interest in Eastern European countries, though, alas, the political tension between them and some Western European ones is on the ascendancy. Austria and Czechoslovakia are at loggerheads over property negotiations. Poland has just today refused the only two buses of pilgrims to Poland's millenium at Czestochowa which had previously been granted out of many, many applicants, visum today. Thus, no Austrian pilgrims will arrive at all. On the other hand, just because tensions are rising again, much, of course, as a concomitant phenomenon to the Vietnam war, we think a conference on Co-Existence is quite necessary. Austria is in an excellent position to have such a meeting, because everybody can come here. Last night I attended a conference of young government people and political scientists from East and West (Mkoyan's son was also in attendance) at Gars/Kamp, organized by the Quakers. It was quite a success...a week of intensive discussions.

It would be great could you send some advise, attend yourself or designate someone to attend. I am enclosing the present work-papers. Quite a number of serious people from many countries have confirmed their invitation.

With best regards,

Prof. Ernst F. Winter, Director, Diplomatic Academy, Wien IV, Favoritenstr. 15
Scientific Advisory Board: Gunnar Adler-Karlsson (Stockholm), Josef Dobretsberger (Graz), Ragnar Frisch (Oslo), Josef Horsky (Prague), Gerhard Kade (Berlin), Michael Kaser (Oxford), Vjekoslav Meichsner (Skoplje), Rudolf Nötel (Geneva), Adolf Nufibäumer (Graz), L. A. Puntila (Helsinki), Zdzisław Sadowski (Warsaw), Imre Vajda (Budapest), Stephan Verosta (Vienna), Ernst F. Winter (Vienna)
Secretary General: Helmut Romé (Graz)
Scientific Coordination: Hans Mayrzedt (Vienna)

Bank account: Creditanstalt - Bankverein, Filiale Graz, Nr. 87-25145

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Vienna, May 17, 1966

MAY 25 1966

Professor
Henry A. KISSINGER
Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass.

Dear Professor KISSINGER:

I have just learned of your approaching visiting date in June and would like to tell you that your apartment is ready.

I now have an idea and hope you will be able to accept its implications. A few days ago I was reading your "Reflections on Power in Diplomacy" in "The Dimensions of Diplomacy", especially your comments on neutrality. I am enclosing a post-card of a place which my family and I are now renting outside of Vienna where we conduct numerous seminars, particularly those concerned with East-West problems. It only occurred to me reading your reflections that we ought to invite you to be the main discussant at such a seminar. I would think of June 18th and would invite the leading young international relations people of Austria, I am also quite sure that I can interest the present Minister of Foreign Affairs, TONCIC, and the former Minister KREISKY to attend such a seminar. As to the topic I first thought of neutrality, but am now persuaded after reflecting on it, that the most useful topic for Austrians in international relations would be the "Role of small States in International Politics". I wonder whether you would accept an invitation to spend a day or part of a day at least with us at Schloss Eichbüchl in such a seminar. Assuming you will be interested and that perhaps only your tight schedule might prevent you from accepting it, I will make the necessary contacts right away, so as to loose no time.

Really hoping to have such a gathering and seminar for you (if you wish also press, both Austrian and foreign),

I remain,

encl.

Henry V. Klaander

Sincerely yours,

With kind regards.

I look forward to meeting you.

field. I would appreciate anything you could do to assist me in
meeting with Anatrian officials in foreign policy and the defense
I have said. I asked Mr. Kolp whether he could arrange some

would appreciate that we talk about it when I get there.

As for the Conference you are planning to organize, I

consider the most useful focus for my lectures. We have a few lines before I leave here about what you would like.

Vlad, I would appreciate it very much if you could drop

do directly to your institute?

France #738 at 12:38 p.m. coming from Paris. Should I
plan to arrive in Vienna on Monday, June 18th on Air
are making available to me very much indeed. My present

Thank you for your letter. I appreciate the facilities you

Dear Professor Winter:

Vienna IV, Anatria
Favoritenstrasse 10
Diplomatic Academy
Director
Professor Ernst F. Winter

May 19, 1966

May 25, 1966

Professor Ernst F. Winter
Director
Diplomatic Academy
Favoritenstrasse 15
Vienna IV, Austria

Dear Professor Winter:

In Mr. Kissinger's absence from the office
for several days, I read your letter to him in
our telephone conversation this morning.

In principle, he would like to accept your
invitation to participate in the seminar at
Schloss Eichbüchl. Unhappily, on June 18th,
he has agreed to give a talk in Munich. Would
it be possible to schedule the seminar on June
20th? He would be available then.

Could you let him know about this?

DIPLOMATISCHE AKADEMIE

1040-WIEN IV, THERESIANUM, FAVORITENSTR. 15

TEL. 65 72 72

1069-DAV/66

Vienna, May 27, 1966

JUN 2 1966

Dear Professor KISSINGER:

Your letter of May 19th has arrived and I am hastening to
answer you confirmatively. Please do come directly to the Diplom-
atic Academy from the airport, in case nobody is there to meet
you. If I can make it I would like to try to fetch you myself or
send some students of ours. But I am sure you will not be dis-
appointed in case you have to grab a taxi and drive right in.

In case Dr.Kolb has not yet written you about a focus on
your lectures, permit me to make a few suggestions from my own
experience here and the need of the students both at the Institute
for Advanced Studies and the Diplomatic Academy. Both institutions
are a novel experience and experiment for Austria. The most success-
ful seminars and lectures at both have been those who addressed
themselves with a rigorous clarity to a specific problem which
also has a meaning for a local candidate. On the one hand a
presentation must not assume too much, on the other hand it must
not be too shallow for the usual spiritual European audience.
Perhaps you could tackle the following: some theoretical founda-
tions for the study of international affairs, international diplo-
macy, international politics; small power politics in the nuclear
age; change in outlook in methods and contents of contemporary
diplomacy; balance of power and other models. The participants
in the institute will be more interested in theoretical aspects,
while my academicians here would be more interested in practical
and historical questions.

It is intended to have groups attend the same series of
lectures, while possibly you might feel like meeting my own
students, who will be living with you in the same house, for a
few hours of plain discussion.

I shall assist Dr. Kolb in arranging some meetings with
foreign policy makers and defense people in Austria. In this
connection a suggestion I made in my last letter, for a seminar
at Schloss Eichbüchl, obtains added significance.

With best regards,

Sincerely yours

June 3, 1966

Dear Professor Winter:

Thank you for your most helpful letter of May 27th.

I now plan to arrive at 3:30 p. m. on Tuesday, June 14th on Austrian #702 coming from Paris. If no one is at the plane to meet me, I shall come directly to the Diplomatic Academy.

I was on the West Coast all last week and, therefore, did not have a chance to write you personally about your nice invitation to participate in the seminar at Schloss Eichbüchl. As my secretary told you, I had already agreed to be in Munich on June 18th. I would, however, be happy to come June 20th. Alternatively, if you prefer to arrange a weekend meeting, I could probably leave Munich the morning of June 19th (Sunday) and arrive back in Vienna by noon. I could then spend the rest of the day at Schloss Eichbüchl. In that case, I would appreciate it if you would cable me so that I can make my plans accordingly.

With kind regards.

["put aligned in his space.\nDioled by Mr. Klaander\nHenry A. Klaander", "Sincerely yours,", "With kind regards.", "I look forward to meeting you.", "I can make my plans accordingly.\nthat case, I would appreciate it if you would cap me so that\nI could then abend the rest of the day at Schloes Eichpfeil. In\nof June 19th (Sunday) and arrive back in Vienna by noon. I\na weekend meeting. I could probably leave Munich the morning\nto come June 20th. Alternatively, if you prefer to arrange\nto be in Munich on June 18th. I would, however, be happy\nto be in Munich on June 18th. I would, however, be happy\nto come in Munich on June 18th. I would, however, be happy\nto be in Munich on June 18th. I would, however,

1040 WIEN IV, THERESIANUM, FAVORITENSTR. 15
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July 14, 1966

Prof. Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass.

Dear Prof. Kissinger,

It was good having your letter of July 7 arrive today.
We too enjoyed having you and are happy to know that the stay in Vienna
was profitable to you and that we were able to contribute to its success.

I am now already well established here at Columbia.
Everyone is quite pleased with my lectures and the colloquium. But especially
pleased is yours truly. I am happy to be back in the States. Working in
Europe is very important and I feel I am accomplishing something worthwhile there.
But coming every so often back to the States is for me a real tanking up.
I am spending hours in the library reading and catching up with some of the
books that have been written, since I left. I hope very much that at least
every 15 months I can come for some academic activity to the States. If you
have ideas in this direction, keep me in mind.

Summer session ends on August 12. I would like to
fly back around the 18th at the latest. Does your invitation to come for a
few days to your seminar at Harvard still stand ? If so, what are the modali-
ties ? Where could I live ? Tell me frankly, if you have some funds to
help me out, or whether I should budget myself. Even just a day or two would,
I am sure, be very interesting. If nothing comes of it, I'll understand and
will fly back earlier, driving back to Vienna via Paris. I flew from Luxem-
bourg, because it is much less expensive and I left my car there, so as to
be able to return via parts of Western Europe.

With best personal regards,

and many thanks !

[LC]

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September 22, 1966

SEP 26 1966

Prof. Henry Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass.

Dear Henry,

Thanks for sending me your "For a New Atlantic Alliance"---a most perceptive and ingenious piece ! I am glad to know that the days at the Academy gave you some of the leisure to word your message.

I am really sorry I missed you at Harvard, since I had a number of good items to report. It appears that all our perseverance and steadfastness of the past five years is being rewarded. You recall that I left the States to work in Europe with the great wish and hope that universities and foundations will recognize the value of teaching and research on two continents. Five years ago such a perpetual and peripatetic academician was rejected. Today it is different. My ideal was Prof. Friedrich. Well, I have not achieved his eminence, nor his connection with such outstanding universities. In a more humble manner, though, I feel the first phase having come to a successful conclusion with my reforming and teaching at the Diplomatic Academy and my renewed teaching at Columbia. The summer at Columbia was a big success. It turned out that my lecture course, as well as the seminar, were among the most popular. I was struck by the change in American youth; the enormous problems the US faces. I was exuberant in being able to make a contribution to resolution of problems. Columbia invited me again for next year. Pres. Kirk, Vice-Pres. Chamberlain, Dean Mosely especially were very much interested.

During the last days in New York something else developed. I briefly want to report to you on it. Columbia is interested to run a summer school with students from various faculties under my direction here in Austria. Home base would be Schloß Eichbüchl. We would use some of the facilities of the Academy. The main concern, however, is to utilize my pedagogical and organisational experiences. You can imagine, how happy I am! I hope that this will be the end of insecurity and that our sacrifices will not have been in vain. I shall keep you informed of the program, because there may be an interest in having some Harvard men join the project.

In the meantime, until this comes off, I have regained some substance. I saved a little over $1,000 which now allows my good wife and me to continue our seminars. We still have not received any support from anyone else. But, in a sense, I am getting proud of such unaided accomplishments. This way we are free ! Internally, both Austrian parties are founding now completely politicized institutions, trying to copy our method and social science approach. Four have cropped up in the last few weeks. They are endowed with millions of political money. Their purpose is to propagandize youth under the veil of "political science". I predict that youth will continue to flock to our seminars, because they are , for politics sake, nonpartisan.

The Woodrow Wilson School in Princeton invited me to lecture there in March. I shall be in the States then and wonder whether anyone in Harvard might be interested in my coming up ? Can you look into this ? What possible topics ? Shall I submit topics ?

HAK\sm

Henry A. Klaander

Sincerely yours,

With kindest regards also to your wife,

Dear Ernst:

Anatolia
Favoritemat. 15
1040-Wien IV, Thereisum
Diplomatische Akademie
Bundesministerium im Anwarsktriangle Andereignenheiten
Mr. Ernst F. Winter

October 6, 1966

Wien, am 13. Oktober 1966

Herrn
Prof.Henry A. Kissinger
6 Dimitry Avenue
Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass.
U. S. A.

Sehr geehrter Herr Professor!

Ich freue mich, Ihnen nunmehr den ersten Band (1965-
1966) des "Jahrbuches der Diplomatischen Akademie" über-
senden zu können. Von den Hörern der Akademie geschaffen,
stellt diese Publikation gewissermaßen einen Nachweis der
wissenschaftlichen Leistungen dar, die in den ersten zwei
Studienjahren an unserem Institute erbracht wurden. Sie er-
sehen daraus, daß auch Ihre Arbeit an der Diplomatischen
Akademie Früchte getragen hat, wofür Ihnen die Direktion
besonders zu Dank verpflichtet ist.

Für Ihre geschätzte Meinung zu diesem Jahrbuche wäre
ich Ihnen sehr dankbar.

Mit besten Grüßen und Wünschen

Prof.Dr.Ernst Florian Winter
Direktor

Danke für Brief !

1 Beilage

December 20, 1966

A year ago we reported to you about the trials of 1965 and our hopes for 1966. It has been an uncertain and busy year, sometimes with inhuman exertions, yet the main hopes have not been blasted. Our dedication to free international education seems to begin to pay off! The family and a growing number of friends and co-workers in many countries can be grateful for the survival of 1966.

In June graduated the first post-war class from the Diplomatic Academy. The educational experiment initiated under Ernst's directorship combines some of the best elements of continental education with educational concepts of the New World and in response to the challenges of the future. The post-graduate level of study is being combined with the college character of an international house. About 70 young men and women from 20 nations participate in this dynamic and pluralistic community, whose orientation is preparation for the multifarious and difficult work of establishing and maintaining peace. The almost puritanical strictness of 'peace academy' work compares to the toughness of 'military academies'. Our returns are language competency (usually five working languages), high awareness of traditional subjects in diplomacy, history, law, politics and economics, and keenness in mathematics, statistics, simulation, cybernetics, as well as modern art, literature and music. Our many guests were lavish in praising the alertness, openmindedness and competency of our students; especially articulate were Omolulu, Sontheimer, Kissinge Joxe, Banfield, Merquiol, May, Nahlik, Minc, Morgenstern, Godfrey, Rubinstein, Gardner, Haines, Polyanov, Shulman and Fiszel. Some of the scholarly essays produced we collected into a yearbook (Jahrbuch der Diplomatischen Akademie 1965-66). Among our present students are three UNITAR members. We have few classes and course, but concentrate on problem study and resolution, research and discussion with resource persons, leading to conceptualizations. Students and faculty collaborate also in working out the curriculum. Students' selfgovernment has been successfully extended also to voting on courses and professors. Ernst has been successful in introducing groups dynamics into the study teams.

While the Academy absorbs much time and energy, Ernst has continued his "hobby" of introducing political science into Austria. This has become increasingly important since the March 6th elections which brought a conservative party to sole power. Moreover, Austrian youth begins to chafe under the heavy hand of bureaucracy and mismanagement. It is time to devlop the categories for action. At the "Institut für Zukunftsfragen" (Wien I, Goethegasse 1), founded by Robert Jungk, Ernst has continued to conduct scientific training of members in simulation, prognastication, game theory. Beginning 1967 we shall edit a weekly called p.p.p. With several student organizations in Vienna and Graz Ernst continues his weekly private research seminar into Austrian politics. The need and interest seems so great that lately close to a hundred students, workers and peasant youths have been in attendance. In fact, Ernst was also invited to lecture at Graz university on "Elections in different political systems". Unfortunately, university life stagnates. Intellectual awareness takes place outside ivy-covered halls. The most rewarding extracurricular activity, &rewarding also, because Ernst earned enough to continue the Michbüchl experiment), was teaching at Columbia University's summer session. Ernst Jr. and Johanna Jr accompanied their father to the US. It was again a grand experience being involved in a pulsing American academic community. There exists simply nothing like this in Europe. The experience of teaching on two continents is most rewarding.

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Greatest fun and sense of accomplishment has again been the successful continuation of our private academy at the castle. Figures tell the story of its rising popularity, as well as increasing work load it threw on the family.

<table><tr><td>1963</td><td>4 seminars with 86 participants, among them 31 Austrians</td></tr><tr><td>1964</td><td>7 284</td></tr><tr><td>1965</td><td>15 481</td></tr><tr><td>1966</td><td>18 521</td></tr></table>

Johanna does all the work for the houseguests without any help in the house. Here is the credit for success. We still finance 2/3 out of our own pocket (annual budget was $4,000). Outsiders think it foolish to dedicate one's life and spend so much time on youths from so many different lands. But there exists no other center for the study and practice of democratic ideas in Austria ! Nobody shall say that we as a family have not done our duty to help establish a better world.

Insiders heap lavish praise on a successful experiment in small group international education, so for example Bluhm, Gardner, Godfrey, Kissinger, May, Morgenstern, Rubinstein. Shenton, Actually, we are still far from the goal of educating the refined and competent international person. Actually, however, a number of American institutions have been interested in our venture and we hope that our single-handed pioneering and pumppriming will enter its second phase of consolidation 1967.

As can be expected, the children profit enormously from having house guests from many countries and international study-work seminars all year long. Our oldest (17 yrs) is now back again in the States, preparing for an engineering career. Florian (16) and Johanna Jr (14) live in Vienna at the Academy attending the American International School and profiting from the cultural scene. Notburg (12) and Hemma (11) attend the local girls school. Agatha (9) is in fourth grade of convent school and Severin (8) has discovered the adventures of reading and drawing, as well as bycycling. The four youngsters are inseperable, busy with music, art, gardening and animal raising. Kids attract kids and thus the house is often filled. The real center of this fruitful home enterprise is the housemother Johanna. Garden and organic farm operation have been very successful this year. Foreign students (John from California, Elizabeth and Sigi from Peking) helped with it and the animals.

We also had a wonderful skiing week with the Academy students in Obertauern and spent a late summer camping trip on the Dalmatian coast. Ernst drove with Notburg and Hemma on Halloween to Pope John's XXIII birthplace, getting almost stuck in flooded Italy. A private audience with Paul VI and a talk with Podgorny were highlights of the year, besides many lecture trips into 8 countries East and West.

Looking back, we are struck by the effects of this busy year: substance and energy practically ran out. The seeds planted, however, sprout forth. There seems to be serious interest now on the part of some American institutions to avail themselves of our experiences in international education and of utilizing our staffs and contacts. Nothing would make us happier, than to know that all the hard work of past years shall bear fruits. Any of you coming to Europe, don't fail to stop over at the Diplomatic Academy (Wien IV, Favoritenstr' 15, Tel.: 65 72 72) and Schloß Eichbühl (2801 Katzelsdorf/ Leitha, N.O., Tel.: 02622 33559). International contacts will help usher in a more stable and peaceful period for a world longing to solve the problems of population growth, hunger, waste of natural resources, education and poverty of spirit. The BBC is bringing December 3 a film about some of these hopeful spects in which I am involved, the Future Institute of Jungk and the Diplomatic Academy. The world can use many more places of sensitive concern with mankind's future !

We wish everyone of you a very happy Christmas and the ability to make a contribution to a better world in 1967.

Henry A. Klauder

Beat redraa'

touch with you on my next visit to Germany.
to the United States again', or I will get in
Please let me know when you come

called pack'.

once to ask that you were coming but never
could arrange an appointment. He did call
to hear from Walter Clemens so that we
know exactly what happened, but I expected
you when you were in Cambridge. I don't
I was terribly sorry to have missed

Dear Ernst:

Vienna IV, Anatsir
Favoritenstrasse 16
Diplomatic Academy
Director
Professor Ernst F. Winter

March 30, 1967

HAK:cp

Henry A. Kisseinger

Sincerely yours,

With warm regards,
to talk.
the United States this summer. We need
Do let me know when you are in
dated things npl

Our mutual friend Clemens resently

Dear Ernst,

Vienna, Anatsir
Teresiaum, Favoritenstr. 15
1040 Wien, V.

Diplomatische Akademie
Fur Anwaraftige Angedecken
Bundesministerium
Director,

Prot. Dr. Ernst Florian Winter

April 11, 1967

Columbia University in the City of New York |

New York, N.Y. 10027

OFFICE OF UNIVERSITY PLACEMENT and CAREER PLANNING

Dodge

To Henry A. Kissinger

(Name of Reference)

6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Mass.

(Address of Reference)

Dr. Ernst Winter

(Candidate's Name)

has requested the assistance of this office in

locating a position as _______________ and has given your name as a reference.

May we ask you for a statement concerning this candidate which will include, if possible, information about training, experience, and personal qualifications which you are willing to have quoted. Your statement will be held in strict confidence insofar as the candidate is concerned, and will be used only for the information of prospective employers.

If the candidate has been employed by you, will you please give the reason for termination of employment.

Mrs F. A. Brand

Since references are duplicated by machine, please type or write in heavy pencil.

CONFIDENTIAL Statement Regarding Dr. Ernst Winter

Date April 18, 1968

Reminder: The New York State Commission Against Discrimination prohibits the disclosure of the following information regarding a candidate for a position: race, creed, color, national origin or age.

I have known Ernst Winter primarily from giving a course of lectures at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, which he then headed. I think very highly of his diplomatic work at the Academy which he turned into a first-rate educational institute. I also had a number of talks with him about his efforts to start a series of seminars at an estate near Vienna, which failed because of lack of financial support. He certainly was a breath of fresh air on the Austrian scene.

Name Professor Henry A. Kissinger Official Position Professor of Government

(Type of Print)

Signature Institution Harvard University

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INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES
VIENNA

Prof. Dr. Ernst Florian WINTER
Director

Date June 15, 1968
Stumpergasse 56
A-1060 Vienna
Tel. 56 36 01, Telegrams: TRANSACADEMIA

Prof. Samuel Huntington
Department of Government
Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass.

Dear Sam :

From the Newsletter of the Peace Research Society International which I just received, I noticed that you spoke June 3 on "Patterns of Possible Accomodations in South Vietnam". Probably at the same time my last letter must have arrived at your office. Perhaps, you had little time to attend to it. Therefore I am sending another one, enclosing this time a curriculum vitae.

As I mentioned in my previous letter, I would be very interested in writing up the analysis of my experiences during the past seven years and thus digest the immense material I have gathered. I have just returned from lectures in Czechoslovakia, Finland and East Germany. Impressions and materials accumulate, but I am here a "bureaucrat" and administrator, unable to find the time and concentration to analyze and write. Columbia would like me to teach once a week. Thus I could imagine a profitable relationship between teaching-research-writing, Boston and New York, Columbia and Harvard. The question is only, whether you and your colleagues are at all interested in me as a research associate in international affairs. Drop me a brief line, if you find the time.

Otherwise, write to c/o Summer Session at Columbia, where I shall begin teaching July 1st. Needless to say, I'll surely come up to Harvard to see you and your colleagues. That would be very kind of you.

Rapaport and Chuon are presently staying with me, helping r
is coming for a few days next week. I am driving him down to Brussels to
open some contacts for him there.

I hope all is well with you.

Sincere yours,

Ernst Florian Winter

Curriculum Vitae

## Addresses

Schloss Eichbüchl, 2801 Katzelsdorf/Leitha, N.Ö., Austria
(Tel.: 02622-33 55 96)

20 André Hill, Tappan, New York, U.S.A.

## Personal

Born Vienna, Austria, Dec. 16, 1923.

(Father, Ernst Karl Winter (1895-1959), sociologist, historian, and philosopher, emigrated to the United States with eight children in 1938 after having opposed authoritarianism while serving as vice-mayor of Vienna.)

Naturalized American citizen in 1943.

Served in the United States Army in the European and Pacific theaters of war.

Married 1948 Johanna von Trapp of the Trapp Family Singers who had also come to the United States in 1938.

Has 7 children.

## Education

Lower Gymnasium, Vienna (to age 14)

Tenafly High School, New Jersey, college preparatory course; graduated 1941

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Japanese Language and Area Studies ASTP-ROTC, certificate 1944

Columbia College, B.A. 1946

Columbia University, Public Law and Government, M.A. 1951, Ph.D. 1959.

## Professional Experience

1950-1961 Iona College, New Rochelle, N.Y., Department of History and Political Science

1956-1961 Chairman of Department; Associate Professor

1961-1963 Chairman, Ost-Institut, Internationales Forschungszentrum für Grundfragen der Wissenschaften, Salzburg

1963-1965 Research Associate and Fellow in Political Science, Ford Foundation's Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna

1964-1967 Director and Professor of Political Science, Diplomatic Academy of Austria

1965-1967 Visiting Professor of Political Science, University of Graz, Austria

1966, 1967, 1968 Visiting Professor of Diplomatic History, Columbia University, Summer Session

1967 Visiting Fellow in Public Law, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

1967-1968 Director, Institute for Advanced Studies

2

Other teaching and lecturing at the universities of Budapest (Karl Marx), Chicago, Georgetown, Hamburg, Innsbruck (visiting professor for one semester), Massachusetts (Amherst), Northwestern, Oxford (Nuffield), Portland, Santa Barbara, Strasbourg, Warsaw and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Medford).

## Other Experiences

United States Army, 1943-46 (ski troops, OSS and Army Intelligence); organizer, lecturer, and conductor of specialized academic programs in the United States and Europe - e.g., UN model General Assembly session at UN, moderator of NFCCS, "Education Abroad" consultant to the Institute of European Studies (Chicago); Eich-büchl Seminars, efforts to establish study of political science in Austria and Central Europe; participant in Double Discovery Program, Columbia 1967; member of professional societies (APSA, IPSA); consultant to Board of Education, Clarkstown, New York; consultant to UNIDO, UNITAR; founder and co-chairman of Institut für Zukunftsfragen, Vienna; commentator on public affairs, German language television.

## Fields of Interest

Comparative political systems (political reform and modernization, political inventiveness, nation-building, new democracies)

### Political Economy

International Politics (Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Soviet Union, Far East, theories of international politics, peace research, conflict resolution, models of neutrality, diplomacy, game theory, simulation)

History (cultural collision, history of ideas, modern Europe)

Ecology (environmental studies, systems analysis, organic agriculture, technological forecasting, social inventiveness, planning)

Education (experimentation, pedagogy, learning theory, international and intercultural communication).

## Languages

Latin, Greek; English, French, German, Russian, Spanish; Japanese; Fortran; presently studying Chinese.

## Travel

Europe, North America, Soviet Union, Far East

## Publications and Scholarly Works

Articles, *Commonweal*, America, *Integrity* and others.

Co-founder (1950) and first co-editor of *Cross Currents*: a quarterly journal to investigate the implications of Christianity for our times; contributor of articles.

Erasmus-Luther: Discourse on Free Will (New York: Ungar, 1961)

Contributor to *Socialist Humanism*, ed. Erich Fromm (New York: Doubleday, 1965).

"Austrian Neutrality: Origin, Content, Outlook", manuscript, American Philosophical Society, 1961.

VIENNA

May 30, 1968
Date
Stumpergasse 56
A-1060 Vienna
Tel. 56 36 01, Telegrams: TRANSACADEMIA

Prof. Sam Huntington
Center for International Studies
Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass.

Dear Sam :

You may recall the very pleasant evening we spent
in Geneva some years ago during the IPSA Congress.

An idea has just come to mind on which I would like
to have your advice and, if possible, help. You know that in late
1961 I was asked by the Austrian government to come and help
establish political science. Thus after 23 years absence from
Austria, I returned with my family of seven children. It was
quite a risky venture. As it turned out, political science has
not really gotten established yet, but I had many, many interesting
experiences. At Salzburg at the Internationales Forschungs-
zentrum I headed the Ost-Institut, was subsequently asked by
the Ford Foundation to join above Institute at its inception.
In 1964, however, I got the surprising call by the then Austrian
coalition government to head the reformed Diplomatic Academy
which I built up as an international post-graduate institution.
And a few months ago I was asked to take over this Institute,
because of difficulties here etc. All this has lead to much
manegerial and administrative work and experience, a little
teaching and vast collection of material. My family and I, however,
feel that a change is called for. While I have been teaching
each summer at Columbia University and shall do so again this
year, this has, I feel, not been sufficient contact with the
scholarly world. While I have had enormous contacts in East
and West and collected much material on decision making, on
neutrality, on voting procedure, on government and opposition
and so forth, I simply do not have any longer all the analytical
tools and categories to make orderly sense of the material.

In short, I long for a year of research and writing,
with possibly a little teaching thrown in. I long for a kind
of sabbatical year. I have now been working in academia without
a summer off, not to mention sabbatical leaves, since 1948.
I am wondering whether it would be advisable to apply with you
or the proper authority for a year's research associate status
or the like which would allow living and publishing some of my
findings. I think my experiences and materials are unique, but
as long as administrative duties devour me, no scholarly pre-
sentation can be forthcoming.

What do you suggest? I could, of course, also ask
Columbia. On the other hand, they will most likely want me to
be more involved on campus. In Boston I would be more isolated.
Moreover, I do not know Boston well yet. It would be a good

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government

6 DIVINITY AVENUE
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 02138

June 21, 1968

JUN 24 1968

Professor Henry Kissinger
Center for International Affairs

Dear Henry:

Here is an additional note from Ernst Winter, plus a curriculum vita. He apparently will be teaching at Columbia starting July 1st. Consequently I suggest you write him there.

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Columbia University in the City of New York | New York, N. Y. 10027

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Summer Session

Fayerweather Hall

August 8, 1968

Prof. Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
6 Divinity Ave
Cambridge, Mass. 02138

Dear Henry :

When in June Sam Huntington wrote me that he had passed my letter to him onto you, I meant to write you; even better see you. But summer session this year was especially hot and strenuous at Columbia. I did get to Boston for one weekend, but did not find you in, which is understandable. When talking to Prof. Friedrich about my future plans and asking him for advice, he again mentioned you and the Center. Well, but today I must send this letter, because I have just heard that you were so kind as to deposit in my file here at Columbia a good letter on my behalf. Thank you !

And now briefly to developments. I am longing for some research-writing-teaching, away from administration and solving insoluble problems inside non-decision making politics. The Ford Foundation had, fortunately, fullest understanding for this---I have never had a summer off, nor a sebbatical year. This is my 20th year of continuous academic work. I received a very fine grant to do some research and writing. I showed the outlines to Prof. Friedrich. He was very much in favor of all three topics. I shall, however, do only the *coalition policy* and *diplomatic decision* topics. The former I have experienced, the latter I have now taught for three summers in a row at Columbia. Friedrich was most interested, however, in my third manuscript on "peasant politics" in Western, Central and possible Eastern Europe, connected with unification politics. He suggested that I write you this. Perhaps the Center might be interested beginning 1969 academic year to have me work on that problem there.

This is all very brief. If you are interested, I shall send you pieces of my work, as they take shape for comment and for your information.

With best wishes to you and your work !

Since I am flying back in two days, mail will reach me again in Europe.