January 31, 1957

Mr. Ghulam Farooq, Chairman
Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation
Karachi, Pakistan

Dear Mr. Farooq:

I am writing to you at the suggestion of Mr. Latif Sherwani to
inquire into the possibility of your writing an article for Confluence, a
quarterly designed to give European, Asian and American intellectuals an
opportunity to exchange views on contemporary problems in politics, philo-
sophy and the humanities. In present times it has seemed to us particularly
important to have a review which comprises as many different approaches and
points of view as possible without editorializing. Each issue is therefore
in the form of a symposium on which our contributors are asked to express
themselves. I am enclosing a copy of a recent issue.

The topic which we are currently planning and on which we would
very much like to have an article from you deals with a comparison of the
impressions of various people from different countries who have visited the
Soviet bloc in the recent past, including the USSR, the satellites and China.
We would be interested in their reactions to the developments they see
there, the differences between the various countries, and what all this
would indicate about future relations between the Soviet bloc and the rest
of the world. Since you have so recently been in China, we would be parti-
cularly interested in your reactions to the developments you saw there and
the implications of those developments for international relations. You
would, of course, be free to approach this from any point of view you
wish.

We would need to have an article of between three and four
thousand words in length, and would like to have it by April 15th. We
would be in a position to pay you $100 for your effort.

I will look forward to hearing from you.