COPY

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger

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Dear Henry:

Attached is a copy of the letter with attachments
sent to our Representatives in Asia to solicit their interest
in the Harvard Seminar for 1957. You will note that I have
indicated that as soon as they become available we shall forward
copies of the official announcement and application form. I
should appreciate your sending me at least two dozen of these
announcements and forms.
sent 30 each-

Thank you for sending me a copy of your letter of
acceptance and the estimated expenses of the two Indian parti-
cipants with your letter of January 29. We may have some
comments later.

February 6, 1957

To: All Asia Foundation Representatives

Subject: Harvard International Seminar

During the past two years the Foundation has given substantial support to the International Seminar carried out under the auspices of the Harvard University Summer School of Arts and Sciences. This support has been applied to the costs of participation by Asian delegates and to administration expenses. While a grant of $2750 to the Seminar for administration purposes will be continued this year, we have made a major revision in our policy of support for travel and maintenance of Asian delegates.

In the past the Foundation's grant for delegates was transferred to Harvard in one lump sum and Harvard selected the recipients. Although several Foundation Representatives were among those invited to nominate candidates, in general the field's association with participants assisted out of the Foundation grant was not close. Only infrequently was there any relationship between an Asian delegate's participation in the Seminar and the program of The Asia Foundation in his country. Several Representatives suggested candidates but for various reasons just one delegate during each of the past two years was a Foundation nominee. The Representative in Japan served as a member of the Seminar selection committee in that country. Some Representatives refrained from submitting nominations. A few have criticized the selection procedures.

This year, after considerable negotiation with Dr. Henry Kissinger, Director of the Seminar, we have arrived at a new set of procedures which we believe may eliminate our past objections. The specific terms are listed in Attachment I to this letter. Their essence is that with the exception of a grant for two Indian delegates, no funds for maintenance and travel of any Asian participant will be granted to the Harvard Summer School without preliminary approval of the Foundation's Representative concerned.

The new procedures represent what we believe is the maximum adjustment the Harvard Summer School will make at the present time toward meeting our established principles governing aid to delegates to international meetings. If you wish to assist local delegates but feel that the situation in your area does not necessitate such a close personal participation by you in their selection and/or arrangements for travel, our agreement with Dr. Kissinger can be changed accordingly. On the other hand, if you feel that the procedures outlined still are inadequate to make the Seminar useful to your local program, we shall inform Dr. Kissinger that the Foundation can assist no delegates from your area.

In general, we believe that the Seminar offers a good opportunity for widening the horizons of young Asians who give promise of achieving eminence in their various fields of endeavor. The new procedures may enable you to broaden your relations with a leadership group of potentially great significance.

Copies of the official announcement of the Seminar and application forms will be sent to you as soon as they have been received from Harvard. The Seminar is briefly described in Attachment II. As in the past, Harvard will give preference to applicants who are already active in some field of endeavor, although exceptionally well qualified students may be considered. Applicants should be between the ages of 26 and 40 and have a good command of the English language. The official deadline for receipt of applications from Asia is March 24. However, Dr. Kissinger has indicated he is willing to extend this deadline, as he has in the past, upon your request. We believe the latest date on which applications would be acceptable is April 15.

Selection committees now exist in Japan, the Philippines, and Indonesia, and one reportedly is being established in Pakistan. They probably are already receiving applications. Other persons and groups solicited for nominations include past participants in the Seminar, Harvard alumni and faculty members, Asian educators and government officials and American educators in Asia.

In order to enable Dr. Kissinger to proceed with his plans, we need to know now whether or not you would like to assist delegates from your country and the number you would be willing to assist. We would suggest a maximum of two. Please cable your decision.

Margaret E. Pollard, Acting Director
Organization Relations Division

ATTACHMENT I

Procedural Agreement with Dr. Kissinger

1) Each Representative will be asked whether or not he wishes in general to assist delegates from his country. This information will enable the Harvard Summer School to arrange for an appropriate number of faculty and other facilities well in advance of the Seminar. Dr. Kissinger has sufficient resources to cover travel and maintenance of six delegates from countries in which the Foundation has Representatives, without additional support from the Foundation.

2) Representatives may nominate persons for scholarships before the close of nominations. If there is a local selection committee, such nominations should be made to that committee.

3) After nominations are closed, the names and brief descriptions of a number of preferred nominees will be forwarded by Dr. Kissinger to interested Representatives via the San Francisco office. The Representatives will then indicate through the San Francisco office which of these they would prefer to support. More than one name should be suggested for each Foundation scholarship. Dr. Kissinger is committed to selecting candidates from those approved by the Representatives.

4) Announcements of acceptance to the Seminar will be made by the Harvard Seminar in the form of a letter to all Seminar participants.

A second letter will be dispatched at the same time by Dr. Kissinger to each of those delegates receiving Foundation support. The Asia Foundation will be identified as the source of the travel and maintenance grant making the delegate's participation possible. The letter will ask the delegate to approach the Foundation's local Representative to consummate travel arrangements.

5) After being approached by an approved delegate, each Representative will inform the San Francisco office as to the date on which the delegate can depart and the preferred routing. San Francisco will inform Dr. Kissinger who will order tickets through a local travel agency in Cambridge. The tickets will be forwarded to the Representative via San Francisco for transmittal to the delegates.

(Admittedly, this last procedure is cumbersome. It is a reflection of Dr. Kissinger's desire that the process of making reservations and arranging itineraries be centralized in Cambridge and our belief that a delegate's acquisition of his travel ticket through the Foundation's Representative will help to assure a closer relationship with the Representative.)

## ATTACHMENT II

### The 1957 Seminar Program

The 1957 Seminar will be held from July 1 to August 21. The subject is "the nature of present-day problems." The American experience is to be taken as a point of departure. Special efforts will be made in a number of instances to secure participants who have previously been critical of the United States. The American speakers and resource people who are to be brought to the Seminar are recognized authorities in their fields. Among the speakers last year, for instance, were Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the NAACP; Gilbert Seldes, author and communications critic; James Burnham, author and Professor of Philosophy, New York University; Samuel Lubell, author and political analyst; Denis Brogan, author and Professor of Political Science, University of Cambridge; Philip Redd, Chairman of the Board, General Electric; Al Capp, cartoonist; and Caryl Haskins, President, Carnegie Institution.

Despite initial emphasis on American civilization, Seminar sub-groups will be concerned with an exchange in which experiences in all the countries represented are considered and compared. Asian delegates should be able to broaden their knowledge of the world scene and, in particular, of countries of Asia with which they have had little contact.

It may be expected that exchanges of ideas will continue after the Seminar through the magazine, Confluence, published by the Harvard Summer School, and through correspondence. An International Seminar Association, a loose organization of Seminar alumni, has already been established.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
CONFLUENCE
AN INTERNATIONAL FORUM

10 WELD HALL
CAMBRIDGE 38, MASSACHUSETTS

HENRY A. KISSINGER, Editor

PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE
HARVARD SUMMER SCHOOL
OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AND OF EDUCATION

WILLIAM Y. ELLIOTT, Director

February 8, 1957

Mr. Henry A. Kissinger
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
22 West 55th Street
New York, New York

Dear Henry:

A brief note to let you know that I have dictated to Corinne a very rough copy of the letter that I hope we can send out in connection with our new plan for "foreign correspondents." When it is reworked I shall send you a copy for your own comments. I think as you do that it is very important to make this letter as forceful as possible (and also as brief as possible). The more I think about this plan the more I think it may do a great deal to raise the level of interest.

There are two things that I would like your opinion about. Do you think that we ought to mention any sum of money which we would be prepared to pay for such letters? In fact, was it your intention to pay anything for them? Also, do you think that we should send such letters to as many as 15 or 20 people in certain countries? For example, in France I know that I could write to at least 15 people on this proposal (Weil, Domenach, Aron, De Jouvenel, Brice Parain, Touchard - of the Scipol - Mauriac, Malraux, Camus, Thierry-Maulnier, Bourdet, Piovene, Moch, Emmanuel). Once we agree about the text of the letter, we ought to get up a list of people in all the various countries. I am most anxious that this should be done if at all possible in the next two weeks.

I hope very much that you are taking care of your health in these last pre-natal moments. There is much to talk about here and I hope that we shall see each other soon.

Please give my love to Ann.

HENRY A. KISSINGER, Editor

WILLIAM Y. ELLIOTT, Director

February 11, 1957

Mr. Henry A. Kissinger
22 West 55th Street
New York 17, New York

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

Enclosed are copies of letters from Riesman and Schlesinger, and a letter about a review. Bill Deakins wrote and said he could not contribute because of a book coming out in May - should we extend the deadline? Calvin Hoover cannot write. Morton White called and said he regretted very much having to say no to coming to the Seminar.

Robbie called to get Craveri's address, and S. G. has since received a letter from her saying that their address is Nord E Sud, Redazione Romana, Via Mario dei Fiori 96, or, at home, Via Tre Madonne 16. In it she also sent her love to you.

Enclosed also is a copy of the projected letter to "correspondents," for you to go over. I hate to be stupid - and this is - but is it right that these are to go out under your signature and are to be sent for you to sign and send out?

I (you) sent out the McCabe letter. Miss White said Elliott might wonder about writing a supporting letter. Do you want me to either encourage or discourage it?

We filed Joe Johnson's letter under Syria, as requested. Or was it Lebanon.... Is there anything Ginny or I can do for you at this point?

P.S. Robbie: I sent off some stationery.

BOX 6090, MONTREAL
CANADA

7 February, 1957.

Dear Henry A.,

It seems that our meetings in New York never seem to work out, which, of course, leave the old fashioned solution of a letter. Some time when you can wiggle the time from your secretary, drop me a note and tell me what you are doing and how the special projects are coming along. I have now ear-marked two good Canadians for the International Seminar next year, one of them a Professor of International Relations who is relatively young but quite bright, and the other an Artistic expert who is the director of production of a large part of electronic equipment for the northern defence. The third man, the Deputy Director of Information for the Department of External Affairs has said that he would be delighted to go provided we can get it O.K'd by all the intervening satraps, and this is, therefore, not yet firm.

I would be glad, therefore, if you could let me know as soon as possible the dates of the Seminar and provide me with whatever literature and supplementary information you may have acquired.

You will be please to hear that your friend Bose turned up in Montreal in late November and paid us a visit. He seemed to me a much changed person with a far more reasonable and understanding attitude and a vastly increased insight into the West and mores of the West. The other two, Das and Rajadhyaksha were, as you know, able to accept our invitation to visit the Saguenay. Kuppuswamy I have not seen yet. We put in a good report on the whole operation to Mr. Bartholemew and he seemed content.

With best wishes for the New Year and warmest personal regards, I am,

DRV:sc

Henry A. Kissinger Esq.,
Director of Special Studies,
Rockefeller Brothers Fund,
30 Rockefeller Plaza,
New York 20, N.Y.

WILLIAM Y. ELLIOTT, Director

HENRY A. KISSINGER, Editor
STEPHEN R. GRAUBARD, Assistant Editor

February 14, 1957

Mr. Henry A. Kissinger
225 East 73rd Street
New York, New York

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

At the last minute I can never decide where to send these letters so that you will be bound to see them.

I am enclosing a copy of the letter from the Asia Foundation.

Thinking about the articles, the final date for copy is the 22nd. Perhaps if you don't get to the Rothe and the Malalasekera before then you could send them back and do them in galley form, too. (And I shouldn't think you would have time to do them.)

February 25, 1957

Miss Wobbina J.M. Kwast
Nederland-Amerika Instituut
Museumplein 4,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Dear Miss Kwast:

This is just a note to tell
you that it will in no way inconvenience
us if the applications for the Inter-
national Seminar do not arrive until
March 8th. Our deadline is flexible to
some degree.

I. am looking forward to seeing
the applications, and am delighted to
hear that you think this to be a good
group.

PROGRAM BULLETIN

MARCH • 1957

# The ASIA FOUNDATION

## Centenary of Indian Universities

Modern university education in India is usually dated from the document known as Sir Charles Wood's Despatch of 1854. Among other things, this historic document recommended to the Government of India the creation of a separate department of education and of universities in the three Presidency Towns of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras.

These three oldest of India's thirty-one modern universities thereby came into existence in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras in the eventful year of 1857, all within a few months of each other. Early in 1957, under quite different circumstances and in an independent India, educators and scholars from educational institutions throughout the world joined with these three Indian universities in their celebrations marking 100 years of growth and development. Now with dozens of affiliated colleges and tens of thousands of students, each of these Indian institutions had an opportunity to consult with delegates from some 42 foreign universities on the role of higher education in other societies, and to appraise their own development and present problems in the light of experience in other countries.

Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the President of India, formally opened the series of events in Calcutta, January 20. A week of special academic assemblies, lectures, exhibitions and other cultural activities at Calcutta was followed by a similar celebration at Madras, and a third week at Bombay. Gifts, greetings and special grants to mark the occasion were received by all three universities from both Indian and foreign sources. Throughout the series of events, most attention was given to the basic tasks of education, to the role of the university in a newly

independent country and its responsibility to prepare the individual as a mature human being.

"However much we may organize and mechanize ourselves," said Dr. John Matthai, Vice Chancellor of Bombay University, in addressing the centenary inauguration ceremony at Bombay, "ultimately the decisive factor is the human element." He said greater attention must be given to training and preparing that human element, and it is here that universities can make their most important contribution.

In order to ascertain appropriate ways in which American educational leaders might associate with these important anniversaries in India, The Asia Foundation, beginning last spring, conferred with scholars of India in this country and discussed arrangements with the Indian vice chancellors in charge of the forthcoming centenary programs. As an outgrowth of these preliminary discussions, the Foundation consulted also with the American Council on Education in Washington, D. C., and it was agreed to send jointly an American delegation of leading educational figures to these events: Dr.

## Also in this Issue:

<table><tr><td>Ceylon Women's Organization</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Lahore Book Exhibition</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>The Asian Student</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>Recent Grants</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td>U. S. Institutes on Asian Studies</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td>'Books for Asian Students'</td><td>8</td></tr></table>

Oliver C. Carmichael,
former President of
the University of Ala-
bama; Dr. Robert F.
Goheen, President-elect
of Princeton Univer-
sity; Dr. Walter H. C.
Laves, Chairman of the

Department of Government of Indiana University; and Dr. Francis J. Brown, Staff Associate and Director of the Leaders' Program of the American Council on Education.

This delegation, as well as a number of other American individuals who represented their own universities, received a cordial reception at all three centenary celebrations. At Madras, Dr. Goheen was awarded an honorary degree along with one other American—Dr. W. Norman Brown of the University of Pennsylvania—a Canadian, a British and seven Indian leaders. Dr. Goheen, the son of medical missionaries who worked in India for many years, addressed the convocation in Madras on "The Function of Religion in Education."

University
of Madras

University
of Calcutta

University
of Bombay

As a further mark of American interest in these educational events in India, The Asia Foundation made a grant to the University of Calcutta through Vice Chancellor N. K. Sidhanta of

$15,000 in order to endow five subsistence fellowships for Indian students. The University of Bombay received from the Foundation a grant of $10,000. These funds will be used to provide amenities in a student club which the University plans to construct in conjunction with its centenary. Dr. S. R. Dongerkery, Rector, in a February letter to President Robert Blum of The Asia Foundation, said he is forwarding a complimentary copy of the History of the University and added that the recent visit to India of the American educators "has helped the American and Indian educators to know each other better and has thus paved the way for greater cooperation between the universities in the USA and those of India."

—Photo Emporium, Madras

AMERICAN EDUCATORS: Among those representing American higher education at the three celebrations were (l. to r.) Dr. Walter H. C. Laves, Dr. Robert F. Goheen, Dr. Francis J. Brown, and Dr. Oliver C. Carmichael.

—Photo Emporium, Madras

MADRAS PROCESSION: Participating were the Governor of Mysore (in dark glasses); Sir L. Mudaliar, Vice Chancellor, University of Madras (in turban); Dr. Goheen; Dr. D. E. Hall of Western Ontario.

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## Lanka Mahila Samiti

Lanka Mahila Samiti is Sinhalese for "Ceylon Organization of Women." It is the name of one of the most extensively organized and influential voluntary organizations in Ceylon, with chapters of village women in more than 1,000 of the country's 20,000 villages. At democratically-conducted meetings, women gather to discuss sanitation, health, child care, home industry, and village problems. Volunteer organizers in each district and from the headquarters in Colombo visit village chapters regularly at their own expense to assist in the work. Handicraft products are collected by the organizers and sold from a central retail outlet at the Samiti headquarters in Colombo.

A grant from The Asia Foundation has enabled the Lanka Mahila Samiti to purchase a Volkswagen van equipped as a multi-purpose unit for cooking demonstrations, mobile library, transportation of handicraft articles and film presentations. The van travels about 2,000 miles a month. The Foundation's assistance is also being extended to Lanka Mahila Samiti to meet part of the cost of establishing 50 rural demonstration centers throughout the nine provinces of Ceylon. Each center will include a community hall, model kitchen, nursery school, library and playground and will serve all villages within a twenty-mile radius. Use of local cooperative labor and donated materials keeps construction costs low. Equipment for the centers is being donated by the Associated Countrywomen of the World. In the group of centers already in operation, much of the work is conducted by trainees from the Kaduwela Training Center, construction of which was made possible by a grant from The Asia Foundation.

**MOBILE HEADQUARTERS:** This mobile demonstration van, donated by The Asia Foundation, is the nerve center of Ceylon's largest women's organization comprising 75,000 rural women members in 1,038 chapters.

**HANDICRAFT CLASS:** Trainees at the rural work training center at Kaduwela learn advanced handicrafts which they will teach upon returning to the village.

**CHILD CARE CENTER:** Village children receive UNICEF milk, a good meal, a day of fun and education and return to their working mothers in the evening.

**MODEL HOUSE:** Made of low cost materials, this model house is used in the training of rural girls. Each trainee lives in this house for two weeks, and learns the standard that rural housing can reasonably achieve.

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Book Exhibition in Lahore

"Printers, publishers and booksellers have an im-
portant role in shaping the mental growth of our
young nation. The conservers of old and creators
of fresh values, moral and social, depend upon them
for the transmission of their message. The state,
likewise, cannot adequately discharge its increasing
responsibilities effectively without their active good
will and wholehearted cooperation."

Mian Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani, the Governor of West Pakistan who is also Chancellor of the University of the Punjab, expressed these views in opening the third annual Book Exhibition in Lahore, Pakistan, on January 2. The exhibition continued for six days thereafter in University Hall. It was sponsored by the Pakistan Publishers and Booksellers Association and featured a wide collection of books in Urdu and English, displayed in 30 stalls.

In his opening address, the Governor placed
particular emphasis on the need for producing good-
quality reading material in volume and at inex-
pensive rates. "We suffer from a great scarcity of
essential reading material in our country and I agree
that the Government as well as the book trade
should, in cooperation with each other, take appro-
priate measures to overcome this deficiency in order
to promote intellectual advancement and a healthy
cultural development."

Progress in Book Production

"A book exhibition," the Governor continued, "such as the one your Association has organized with the generous help of the British Council and The Asia Foundation, is of very great value, indeed. It brings within the orbit of the general reader an awareness of large areas of stimulating new knowledge and it gives a visual demonstration of the progress in contemporary book production. Going through the exhibition thoughtfully should be a source of inspiration and valuable knowledge. It should make us realize that we so sadly lack in the world of books and at the same time animate us to step up our efforts with a view to attaining a higher standard both in quality and quantity of the books produced in our country."

To attract more people to this year's third annual
exhibition, book prizes were announced for every
100th and 1,000th visitor. Approximately 4,800

persons visited the exhibit during the six afternoons
it was open, and forty-eight such prizes were distrib-
uted. Special days were set aside to feature children's
books, women's, scientific and technical books and
"literature for the masses." Each of these days was
inaugurated by a state dignitary or an eminent
educationist and was attended by specially-invited
groups. Certificates of merit were awarded during
the exhibit to the publishers of best-produced books
in 1956 by a) litho, b) photo offset and c) letter-
press processes.

An interesting side feature was a symposium in
English on "Reading for Pleasure and for Profit,"
presided over by the University of the Punjab Vice
Chancellor, Mian Afzal Hussain. In addition, a
seminar in Urdu provided a lively discussion on
"Books From Our Viewpoint," in which leading
publishers, writers and lay readers gave the view-
points of their respective groups. Chaudhary Nazir
Ahmad Khan, a prominent lawyer of Lahore, pre-
sided over these discussions.

'Box Library' Display

One of this year's Book Exhibition features which
caused considerable comment was the display of the
Portable Box Library, presented by The Asia
Foundation. This kit, nucleus of a forthcoming
experiment which will attempt to increase literacy
in the villages in a joint effort with educational
organizations in Pakistan, consists of a wooden box
measuring 18 inches x 24 inches x 6 inches and
weighing 45 pounds. The box contains space for 101
books in the Urdu language on eleven subjects of
rural interest. These Portable Box Libraries will be
carried around villages throughout West Pakistan by
teachers and village workers during the coming
months.

The original Portable Box Library grew out of a
Mosque School project in Bahawalpur. The assist-
ance of The Asia Foundation was requested in order
to provide sets of supplementary readers for the
students in the Mosque Schools, some of the village
primary schools in Pakistan. As a result, fifteen of
these libraries were made available to the Mosque
school authorities in the state as an experiment
in the cause of mass education in the villages.

It was found that these experimental Box Librari-
ies were of interest to semi-literate villagers in

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addition to the students and the Imams, who are
the village religious leaders. The Box Library was
placed in the charge of the instructor, who carried
it around the villages and issued and collected
books every week.

Books in Urdu Language

These books, all in Urdu, cover such subjects as
Islamic and other history, biography, fiction, poetry,
education, agriculture, general science, civics, health
and hygiene. An attempt is made to include only
the most attractive and readable books available in
Urdu in these various categories.

Sample boxes presented by The Asia Foundation on a trial basis to the directors of education in the Lahore and Peshawar regions, the directors of Village AID (Village Agricultural and Industrial Development) in the Lahore and Bahawalpur regions, and the UNESCO expert on adult literacy also met with favorable reactions and comments. Requests for additional libraries in order to permit trial on a more extensive scale were received from these and other organizations, and 85 various centers located throughout West Pakistan are now scheduled to take part in this experiment in the coming months.

Visitors to the Book Exhibition at Lahore ex-
pressed their interest in the novelty of the Box

Library idea and in its practical approach to a matter
of national importance. Pakistani specialists in the
fields of education and publishing pointed out that
the forthcoming cooperative effort to extend the
benefits of book-borrowing to more villages will also
make it possible to collect data on reading aptitudes
and needs.

Modifications Introduced

In this connection, the Book Exhibition display noted that various modifications in the new Box Library are being made as a result of experience. A printed register of 104 pages is now included, to serve as an issuing register, as well as a manual of instructions for the guidance of the person in charge and an alphabetical listing of books. In addition, a number of publishers' catalogs are provided as guides to further reading.

The record of entries in the register will provide
information on the age, sex, profession and educa-
tional level of the readers which should prove
useful to Pakistani educators and specialists in de-
termining the reading habits, preferences and needs
of the rural population. In time, such data should
also prove of considerable value to experts in Pak-
istan working in related fields of socio-economic
development.

BOOK EXHIBITION OPENING CEREMONY:
Mian Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani, Governor of West
Pakistan, opens the third annual Book Exhibition at La-
hore, Pakistan, January 2, 1957. Just behind him is Mr.
Hamid Mahmud, the 1957 President of the Pakistan
Publishers and Booksellers Association, and to the right
is Dr. A. Waheed, retiring President of the Association.

INFORMATION ON BOX LIBRARY: Begum G. A. Khan, West Pakistan Deputy Minister of Social Welfare and Local Government, consults an information sheet while Mr. A. M. Durrani (second from left) of The Asia Foundation explains the purpose and achievements of the Box Library. Dr. A. Waheed, retiring President of the Publishers and Booksellers Association, third from left.

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the
# Asian Student

Published weekly during the academic year, *The Asian Student* attempts to keep Asians studying in the United States better informed about Asian affairs as well as about the activities of Asian students themselves in the various American colleges and universities. This eight-page weekly newspaper is now in its fifth year of publication by The Asia Foundation, and contributes in a number of ways toward closer relations among the several thousand Asian students and between them and American students.

Most attention is given to educational and cultural developments affecting Asia. A complete page, however, is devoted to a comprehensive weekly roundup of Asian political news, accompanied by an analysis of a significant Asian news development in the "Behind the Headlines" feature.

Since it was established in December 1952, *The Asian Student* has sought to keep its news presentation forthright and objective. At the same time, it provides as much space as possible for Asian students to express their opinions on various problems. Through its "Reader's Forum," the paper presents a regular outlet for expression by Asian students themselves. The students have welcomed this opportunity for expression, an opportunity which at times has stirred considerable controversy.

## Essay Contest

In addition, *The Asian Student* annual essay contest invites Asian students to submit 1500-word essays on specified topics which are selected because of their direct and vital bearing on Asia and on the students' own lives. Prizes of $100, $75 and $50 are awarded to the three top winners and certificates of merit to the first ten winners. The three essays judged the

best by a panel of outstanding Asians and American leaders are published and distributed in a Special Edition. Last year's essay contest on "Change Versus Tradition in Asia: Is Compromise Possible?" brought entries from Asian students representing 15 nations and 51 universities in the United States and two in Canada. The essay contest this spring will be on the subject "The Role of Religion in Modern Asia."

## Orientation Edition

One of *The Asian Student* services directed primarily to newcomers to this country and foreign student advisers in the universities is a special summer edition dealing with the orientation of new students, which contains articles written by experienced Asian students and by faculty members familiar with their problems. This edition is sent to colleges and universities throughout the country for distribution to newly arriving Asian students at the beginning of the Fall term.

*The Asian Student* book page calls attention to nationally published books on Asia or ones of special interest to Asians. Most of the reviews are contributed by Asian students or scholars of Asia.

## Special Features

A "Newsletter from Asia" written by former Asian students who have returned to their home countries, and a sports column dealing mainly with sports in Asia are also regular features. A page is given over each issue to excerpts from editorials appearing in leading Asian newspapers, and as often as space permits, picture pages are devoted to such series as "Universities of Asia" and "Crossroads of Asia." A recent "Crossroads of Asia" page on Bangkok brought a request for 10,000

C. Y. Hsu
Editor

reprints from the Royal Thai Embassy in Washington.

The Editorial staff of *The Asian Student* is headed by C. Y. Hsu, a Chinese newsman of many years' experience in China and abroad. The Associate Editor, Irfan Husain, is on leave from Radio Pakistan. Special Features Editor Frank B. Huggins is an American news and radioman with many years of experience in Japan, and Walter Robb, the Book Review Editor, spent 35 years in the Philippines as a teacher, editor, and foreign correspondent

## Campus Correspondents

Asian students serve as campus correspondents at various U. S. colleges and universities, and some who have completed their studies in the United States and have returned to their home countries serve as overseas correspondents.

The present circulation of the paper is 11,500 copies, most of which are distributed to Asian students studying in this country. Some go to libraries, colleges and universities and other organizations in the United States and abroad interested in the work of Asian students. Several seminars, classes and American students of Asian studies use the paper as reference. Reader response from the beginning has been very encouraging and there is evidence that *The Asian Student* is widely appreciated by the visiting students.

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Social Work in Pakistan

In Dacca, East Pakistan, a six-day Conference of Social Work was held last December. In his speech at the opening session December 6, Dr. S. A. Husain, President of the Pakistan Conference of Social Work, said:

"I consider it my duty to acknowledge and appreciate the great work being done and the assistance given by certain foreign agencies in Pakistan. Great encouragement is being given to social work by the well known organization—The Asia Foundation. A number of scholarships have been awarded by the Social Work Department of the University of the Punjab from a grant made by The Asia Foundation. These scholarships enable students of social work from East Pakistan and other parts of West Pakistan, outside Lahore, to study for the M. A. Degree. It has also made a grant to the University to enable the Department of Social Work to employ a full-time community development specialist. A project of the East Pakistan All Pakistan Women's Association is also financed by a grant from The Asia Foundation which enables ladies of the APWA Organization from outside Dacca to come for a specific period to study social work methods and techniques under a trained worker in an actual development area. We are greatly beholden to these and other friendly and sincere organizations for extending a helping hand in the amelioration of social conditions of the people of Pakistan."

Grants Recently Approved

AFGHANISTAN—*Public Library*

To provide equipment and children's books in Persian for the first Kabul Public Library.

BURMA—*Cultural Society*

To help establish a headquarters for the Society which brings together all Burmese Pwe troupes, which are the traditional itinerant groups of actors, singers and dancers.

CAMBODIA—*Education Bulletin*

To permit publication of the first Khmer-language booklet on fundamental education for distribution to teachers.

HONG KONG—*Teacher Travel*

To provide travel assistance to Hong Kong teachers appointed to teaching positions in Chinese schools in Southeast Asia.

INDONESIA—*Cooperative Center*

To assist construction in Malang of a training center for the East Java branch of the National Cooperative Association.

JAPAN—*Yahata Crafts Center*

To help construct an arts and crafts training center in Yahata City, an important Japanese industrial center in northern Kyushu.

KOREA—*YWCA Training*

To aid a program to train leaders for nine YWCA associations, eight of them in rural communities.

PHILIPPINES—*Human Relations*

To support the Institute for Human Relations project of teaching human relations in Philippine secondary schools.

TAIWAN—*Ethnology Survey*

To enable ethnologists to survey Lan Yu Island, which is located about 40 miles off the southern tip of Taiwan and inhabited by 14,000 aboriginal tribesmen.

VIETNAM—*Cultural Association*

To support the Popular Cultural Association which is attempting to stimulate public interest in educational and cultural affairs.

Foundation Officers

Robert Blum

Robert Blum returned to San Francisco, the city of his birth, to become President of The Asia Foundation in August 1953. Since that time, the Foundation has developed its activities in Asia and the United States so that it now has country programs and representatives in 14 Asian nations.

Dr. Blum lived in Japan for several years as a child, and then attended Lowell High School in San Francisco, and the University of California, receiving his Ph.D. in international relations in 1936. For five years thereafter he was on the faculty of Yale University.

Following several years work during the war in Washington, London and Paris, for which he was awarded the French Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre and the United States Medal for Freedom, Dr. Blum served as assistant to the late Secretary of Defense James Forrestal in 1947-1949. He then become Chief of the Overseas Territories Division of the ECA Mission to France, and from 1950 until 1952 he was Chief of the ECA Mission to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

In addition to semi-annual visits to Asia, Dr. Blum has taken a leading role in several national and international conferences in the past few years dealing with educational and cultural affairs.

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SHIKIYA MEMORIAL Library of the University of the Ryukyus, in Naha, Okinawa, has the only large book collection in the Ryukyu Islands. Dr. Robert B. Hall, The Asia Foundation's Representative for Japan reports the Library's two reading rooms, one of which is shown above, are constantly packed. "I have looked in on both of them several times to find not only that all seats are filled, but that students are standing before the open stacks reading and that others are walking up and down in the halls outside, either waiting their turn or reading as they walk. One gets the impression that no student body anywhere could be more eager for learning."

The Asia Foundation, through its
BOOKS FOR ASIAN STUDENTS program,
has assembled and shipped to the Uni-

versity of the Ryukyus, to some 280 universities, colleges and institutes in Japan, and to approximately 350 universities in 15 other countries of Asia a total of more than 400,000 books and 70,000 journals. Most of these books and journals are donated by American publishers and college student groups. The Asia Foundation pays transport costs from the donors to San Francisco and then to Asian universities which have requested such books.

University and college level books in good condition, published after 1945, are needed for this program, as well as works by standard authors (Dickens, Hawthorne, Hemingway, etc.) published before 1945. Additional information may be obtained by writing BOOKS FOR ASIAN STUDENTS, 21 Drumm Street, San Francisco 11, California.

## American Institutes On Asian Studies

In both public and private school systems in the United States there has been relatively little treatment of Asian history and culture in social science and humanities courses. In recent years, however, there has been a growing awareness of the need to correct this deficiency.

As one contribution in this regard, The Asia Foundation cooperated with the Japan Society of New York to assist American universities to carry on two summer institutes on Asian studies in 1955 and five institutes in 1956. This year The Asia Foundation, again in cooperation with the Japan Society, will assist ten United States universities to hold such summer institutes on Asian studies. The Foundation's grants will be used principally for scholarships for secondary school teachers.

Arrangements for this program are being coordinated by the Japan Society of New York, and the following universities will participate: Kansas, Duke, Syracuse and Ohio State Universities; New Paltz (N. Y.) State Teachers College; Universities of California, Michigan, Washington, Florida and Brooklyn College.

It is hoped that this summer's program will encourage more extensive efforts by universities, foundations and educators to increase and deepen the treatment of Asian histories, cultures and values in American schools.

## The Asia Foundation

A Private Non-Profit
Organization

105 Market Street
San Francisco 5, Calif.

New York Office:
345 East 46th Street
New York 17, New York

Program Bulletin No. 2

**Board of Trustees:** Brayton Wilbur, Chairman; Raymond B. Allen, J. B. Atherton, Barry Bingham, Robert Blum, Arthur H. Dean, Thomas K. Finletter, A. Crawford Greene, R. Allen Griffin, Paul G. Hoffman, Eric A. Johnston, Grayson L. Kirk, Roger D. Lapham, Turner H. McBaine, Walter H. Mallory, James A. Michener, Robbins Milbank, Mrs. Maurice T. Moore, T. S. Petersen, Mrs. Henry P. Russell, Paul C. Smith, Russell G. Smith, J. E. Wallace Sterling.

**Administration:** Robert Blum, President; John B. Routh, Director of Administration; James L. Stewart, Director of Programs; John F. Sullivan, Director of Review and Development; Lyman Hoover, New York Representative.

**Representatives in Asia:** AFGHANISTAN, Harold L. Amoss, Jr.; BURMA, John H. Tallman; CAMBODIA, Leonard C. Overton; CEYLON, William T. Fleming; HONG KONG, James T. Ivy; INDONESIA, Raymond V. Johnson (acting); JAPAN, Robert B. Hall; KOREA, Laurence G. Thompson; PAKISTAN, Richard J. Miller; PHILIPPINES, L. Albert Wilson; SINGAPORE/MALAYA, Patrick Judge; TAIWAN, Earl Swisher; THAILAND, Noel F. Busch; VIETNAM, Edgar N. Pike.

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March 5, 1957

Signora Elena Craveri
Via Tre Madonna 16
Rome, Italy

Dear Signora Craveri:

I am delighted that you have had the opportunity
to see my good friends Eleanor and Kenneth Murdock. Their own
reports of their Italian Journey make me feel very much the
need for another visit.

We have received the application of your brother-in-law, Gustaw Herling, and will of course give it the most serious attention. The great difficulty, as you perhaps know, is that the Seminar is run on a principle analogous to that of a medieval university. That is, it is a community of men and women representing nations. We have often had extremely good applications from persons in situations like that of your brother-in-law, but to date we have never accepted such an applicant. The reason quite obviously is that an exile would have to come under the quota of the country in which he is presently residing, and that has posed difficulties. Please do not assume from this that the chances of your brother-in-law are poor. We must see all applications from all countries before we decide. However, I did want to explain the sort of problem that his application poses for us. Incidentally, this is the first year that we have had applications from intellectuals in Poland itself and we are most anxious to take one of these if we can.

I wanted to get this letter off to you in answer
to yours, but I expect to write again on the Confluence matter
to which I alluded last time.

Please give my very best regards to the Murdocks
if you see them again.

March 7, 1957

Mr. Juergen C. Weichert
Germanenstrasse 60
Bad Codesberg, Germany

Dear Juergen:

Thank you very much for your letter, to which I did not reply immediately for two reasons. One, I had a book to get off to the printer and two, the financial situation at the time looked very bleak. Both problems are more or less solved now. I think we could find about $2000, which is all I understand you need for the conference in Berlin. Unfortunately, June is a terrible time for me, and while I would break my back to get there for a few days, I would much prefer it if it could be scheduled for the end of September.

It is practically certain that I will not be able to accept the invitation from your Foreign Office for June. Incidentally, I have not yet received it.

I met Kiesinger at a conference here in the United States and I was very favorably impressed with him. I also met Erler and I liked him less well.

Don't keep me waiting as long for a reply as I did you.

Best regards.

March 11, 1957

Mr. G. P. Palomar
R-511 Shurdut Building
Walled City
Manila, Philippines

Dear Mr. Palomar:

This is just a brief note
to tell you that the Philippines
applications arrived here safely.
I would like to thank you and the
committee for the excellent job you
have once again done.

I will write to you later
telling you of our final decision.

Best regards.

P.S. We will certainly acknowledge
all the applications.

March 12, 1957

Dr. Siegfried Unseld
Eschersheimer Landstrasse 94
Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Dear Unseld:

Thank you for your letters of February 14th and March 5th. I think that Høllerer has an excellent chance, but he will have to go through the usual procedure. One of last year's members, Michael Davis, is going to do the interviewing this year.

I am hoping very much to be able to get to Europe this year, but I have become a high-grade bureaucrat these last few years. A few years ago I couldn't afford to go to Europe and now that I can afford it, I do not have the time. But I am counting on seeing you this year.

Thank you for sending me Walser's address. I have still another problem in connection with Confluence that I would like your advice on. Specifically, we would like to publish letters of from 600 to 1000 words from a select number of "correspondents" in all parts of the world, dealing with developments (political, social, economic, intellectual, artistic) in their own countries. These "letters," dealing with events seldom reported outside the individual countries but which have more than just local importance and interest, would provide our readers with opinion and information often otherwise unavailable, while our contributors would be afforded the opportunity to write on those things about which they are most particularly concerned. If, in a given issue of Confluence, five or six such letters could be published, this would in itself constitute something of a forum on important developments today. I would very much like to have your suggestions as to possible "correspondents."

Best personal regards.

March 12, 1957

Mr. Juergen C. Weichert
Germanestrasse 60
Bad Godesberg, Germany

Dear Juergen:

This is just a very brief
note to tell you that Mr. Michael Davis
of England is doing our German inter-
views this year. He was a member of
last year's Seminar. I have suggested
to him that he get in touch with you
and that you might be willing to help
him in arranging interviews, and in
advising him in general.

I hope you will not mind
my suggesting this to him. I would be
grateful for anything you could do for
him

Kind regards.

March 13, 1957

Mr. C.G. Tollet
Tavastv. 68 A 15
Helsingfors, Finland

Dear Mr. Tollet:

It was very nice indeed to receive
your long and interesting letter. I am
always surprised at the number of past
Seminar members who do manage to come back
to the United States, and I am always
delighted to see them.

Thank you for recommending Messrs.
von Bonsdorff, Nummi and Paalanen. You
can be sure that we will take your recom-
mendation of them most seriously.

Best regards.

March 13, 1957

Mr. Syed Hasan
35/6 Jehangir Road
East Karachi, West Pakistan

Dear Mr. Hasan:

This year all applications from Pakistan went through the Ministry of Education in Karachi for preliminary screening. Unfortunately, their deadline for receiving applications has long since passed, and we are unable to forward yours to them for consideration.

If you are still interested in applying for the Seminar next year, please write to us in January indicating that you wish to. We will then bring forward your application and send it through the proper channels.

March 13, 1957

Mrs. Rasheeda Patel
13 B Queens Road
Karachi, Pakistan

Dear Mrs. Patel:

CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE

UNITED NATIONS PLAZA AT 46TH STREET
NEW YORK 17. NEW YORK
CABLE ADDRESS INTERPAX

14 March 1957

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Dear Shri Bose:

I have postponed acknowledging your two good letters of 14 and 27 November with the enclosures for an unconscionably long time. The reason is that I wanted to read all your reports on the United States before I wrote you. Unfortunately, it is now clear to me that I should not have done that any time soon, but I have read most of your fascinating long accounts. I find them absolutely captivating. The amount that you did in this country, the number of people whom you saw, and your keenness of observation would put any good journalist to shame. I have a feeling after reading your reports that you gained while in this country an understanding of the United States and of the American people - both of our strengths and our weaknesses - that is most unusual. I am glad for my country's sake that this has happened. To have one who is in a position such as yours dealing with the youth of India so well informed about this country is, I am sure, an excellent thing for the future of the relations of our peoples. In saying this, I do not mean to say that I think you uncritical, or would expect you to be so. After all, one of the things that you learned while here, if you had not already known it, was that there are many Americans who are capable of being critical of their own country and also many, though not quite as many, who welcome intelligent and informed comment on us and who know that such intelligent and informed comment can not honestly be always favorable.

I very much enjoyed our brief meeting at the Harvard summer seminar and am particularly grateful that that encounter led you to send me copies of your letters. I hope that our paths may cross again either here or in India and I assure you that when I get to India again, as I hope some day to do, I shall make a point of getting in touch with you.

With best regards,

Shri Hiralal Bose
All India Congress Committee
7, Jantar Mantar Road
New Delhi 1, India

cc: Dr. Kissinger

cc: Dr. Klainger

New Delhi 1, India
7, Jantar Manzar Road
VII India Congress Committee
Suri Hirakal Bose

Joseph E. Johnson

Sincerely yours,

With best regards,

Getting in touch with you.

You that when I get to India again, as I have some day to do, I shall make a point of letters. I hope that our bath may cross again either here or in India and I assure you am particularly grateful that that encounter led you to send me copies of your I very much enjoyed our joint meeting at the Harvard summer seminar.

Can not honestly be always favorable.

Formed comment on us and who know that such intelligent and informed comment country and also many, though not quite as many, who welcome intelligent and in- was that there are many Americans who are capable of being critical of their own all, one of the things that you learned while here, if you had not already known it, I do not mean to say that I think you uncritical, or would expect you to be so. After an excellent thing for the future of the relations of our peoples. In saying this, dealing with the youth of India so well informed about this country is, I am sure, sake that this has happened. To have one who is in a position such as yours strengths and our weaknesses - that is meat unmask. I am glad for my country, a sound understanding of the United States and of the American people - both of us I have a feeling after reading your reports that you gained while in this country you saw, and your keeness of observation would but any good journalist to approve. captivating. The amount that you did in this country, the number of people whom I have read most of your fascinating long articles. I find them splendidly Unfortunately, it is now clear to me that I should not have done that any time soon, that I wanted to read all your reports on the United States before I wrote you. November with the enclosures for an unconditionally long time. The reason is I have booted acknowledging your two good letters of 14 and 27

Dear Suri Bose:

14 March 1927

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CARNegie ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE

March 15, 1957

Mr. Moses Hirschtritt
I.E.S. State Department
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Hirschtritt:

In line with our conversation this afternoon, I am enclosing a number of announcements and applications for the Seminar. I am also enclosing the text of the report of the 1956 Seminar, thinking that it would supply any information you might like to have. Perhaps I should say again that the deadline for applications has passed, that they will be underconsideration in the next several weeks, and we cannot guarantee that any new applications would arrive in time to be considered this year.

Please let me know if you need any additional information.

March 15, 1957

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

We have received further cabled responses regarding
support for delegates to this summer's Seminar. Unfortunately,
our Representatives in Afghanistan, Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon
and Thailand cannot support delegates, but our Representative
in Vietnam has indicated his willingness to support one delegate.
As I told you on the telephone a week ago, our Representative
in Taiwan will support one delegate.

We have now received replies from all of our
Representatives, and I am glad a good number of them will
support Seminar delegates. I shall look forward to receiving
the lists of proposed delegates from you at your convenience,
so that we may ask our Representatives to indicate those
individuals whom they wish to support.

March 20, 1957

Mr. Henry A. Kissinger
22 West 55th Street
New York, New York

Dear Henry:

Corinne has asked me to look at the Chinese and the Indonesian applications and I have done so. On the Island of Formosa there are at least eight possible people upon whom we both agreed and I have suggested that they be forwarded to the Asia Foundation. I am not equally impressed by the applicants from Hong Kong. They are all friends of Mr. Hsu and come to our attention through him alone. No one of them is terribly impressive - at least on paper.

In Indonesia the problem is more serious. There are only about 15 applications, of which the best by far is a man named Tooy who applied last year. We did not take him at that time, but Corinne has written to him asking whether he would like to reapply. So far he has not replied. Could we do anything to get anyone in Indonesia to look into the question since he is clearly the man most suited for the Seminar? The second person in my view is a journalist who has been here twice - once as recently as 1955. I frankly cannot see the sense of bringing him again. Many of the others have either been here or do not strike me as being terribly promising. Those who have not been here are in some instances poor and in others simply not suited to this sort of Seminar. For example, one of the women, an archaeologist, sounds good; but what in Heaven's name do you provide for such a person at Harvard in the summer?

Corinne tells me that the Japanese and Philippine applications can be sent as they are to the Asia Foundation. Also, she remarks that the Viet Namese applicants are both in France, and that the better of the two has not yet replied to the question whether he would be able to stay here all summer if he were chosen. We have only two applications from Korea, both from people who have already been here. Neither of them strikes Corinne as being extraordinary. From Malaya we have only one, but the Asia Foundation has already said that he is extremely good.

The question quite obviously is what do we do in the case of countries like Hong Kong and Korea. Do we say that when we get to applications from a country, neither of them good and both from people who have already been here, that we will forget all

March 21, 1957

Mr. Teruo Hachiya
The America-Japan Society
370 Marunouchi Building
2-chome, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo, Japan

Dear Mr. Hachiya:

Your two letters of March 16th,
with the Japanese applications and other
enclosures, have arrived here safely.
The candidates look excellent, and I will
look forward to having the comments of
the Committee members on them.

I would like to thank you very
much for all the assistance you have
given us on this. We are extremely
grateful.

March 22, 1957

Mr. Mikiso Mizuki
101 E. Stadium Avenue
W. Lafayette, Indiana

Dear Mr. Mizuki:

Thank you for your letter of
March 9th.

As you know, I am spending a
fair amount of time in New York at the
moment, and I am not likely to hear of
jobs at the Comp. Lab. If you do write
to them about a position, however, I
would be glad to put in a word for
you.

Kind regards.

March 22, 1957

Mr. Latif A. Sherwani
Pakistan Institute of International Affairs
Junction of Strachan & Havelock Roads
Karachi 1, Pakistan

Dear Mr. Sherwani:

Thank you very much for sending me Mr. Khuhro's address and for giving me Mr. Ahmad's name for the second topic. Also, I appreciate having your recommendation of Mr. Chaudhri. You can be sure I will take it very seriously.

We sent off to you yesterday by book post the copies of *Confluence* that you are lacking.

Again, many thanks for your kind assistance.

Best regards.

P.S. I have become a "doctor," but certainly do not insist on having it used.

March 25, 1957

Dear Dean:

You may recall that a few weeks ago I spoke to you
about the projects which I am running at Harvard. The fact
of the matter is that, because of a number of grants which
are on a sliding scale, we will be running a deficit of about
fifteen thousand dollars this year and unless somebody bails
us out, we will be in bad shape by July.

I do not know whether there is anything you can do
and I do not want to make a formal submission, but I thought
you might be interested in seeing copies of letters written by
Seminar participants and readers of Confluence which tell as
much about our project as anything that I could write. I am
sorry to inflict this on you and I fully understand the Founda-
tion's problems in connection with it.

With kind regards,

Mr. Dean Rusk
President, Rockefeller
Foundation
49 West 49th Street
New York 20, New York

March 25, 1957

Mr. Frederick T. Merrill, Director
East-West Contacts Staff
Department of State
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Merrill:

Thank you very much for your
letter of March 20th.

I would like to inform you
that we have already accepted Mr.
Jacek Wozniakowski for the 1957
International Seminar, and that I
will assume the responsibility of
being his faculty advisor. We would
appreciate anything you can do to
facilitate the issuance of a visa
to Mr. Wozniakowski. Perhaps I
should add that the Seminar does
not have a rigid quota system for
accepting candidates, and the fact that
we have accepted Mr. Wozniakowski does
not necessarily mean that we will reject
all other applicants.

March 28, 1957

Mr. Takashi Komatsu
The America-Japan Society
Marunouchi Bldg, Room No. 370
Tokyo, Japan

Dear Mr. Komatsu:

Thank you for your letter of March
19th and for sending me the comments of the
Committee members. They will be extremely
helpful.

Your assistance and the assistance
of the Committee is invaluable, and I am
most grateful to you for the time and the
thought you put in on this. The candidates
look excellent, and I will certainly let
you know as soon as the final decision on
them is made.

Kindest personal regards.

F.S. I appreciate, too, having the photographs
of the Committee at work.

March 28, 1957

Mr. Chih Meng, Director
China Institute in America
125 East 65th Street
New York 21, New York

Dear Mr. Meng:

Thank you very much for your
letter of March 26th. I am enclosing
an announcement of the International
Seminar which explains our program in
some detail.

Mr. Hong Chuh Wang has already
sent us his application, and we are
considering it in relation to the others
we have received.

Please let me know if there is
any further information I can give you.