Henry V. Kissingger

Sincerely yours,

VII good wishes.

Dear Mr. Ie Roy:

The Hague
I bleammed
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Mr. B. Ie Roy

July 32, 1965

Andrzej Leśniewski
Mickiewicza 18 b
Warszawa

January 16.1967

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
6 Divinity Avenue
Harvard University
Mass. USA

FEB 1 1967

Dear Professor Kissinger:

Thank you for your letter answering my comments on
your article in The Reporter.

I am sorry that my book: Western Frontier of Poland - Documents, Statements, Opinions has not reached you yet. Since it may be lost I send you another copy by separate post /registered/. The French translation is just coming out of print. It has been put up to date so that it includes President Johnson's statement of October 7 last year. I shall send you the French copy as soon as I get it.

I shall be very glad to read your comments you have
promised to write particularly what concerns the Introduc-
tion which is of my writing. With kindest regards

Otto F.J.Leuthold
Verlagsvertreter(Presse).

Hagen/Westf., am 9.2.1959.

Fleyerstraße 10.

Postschließfach 1011.

Telefon: 28932.

Herrn

Professor Henry A. Kissinger

Cambridge 38/ Mass.

====================
Haravrd College.

Sehr geehrter Herr Professor Kissinger,

angeregt durch Ihr "Spiégel-Gespräch" möchte ich mich heute an Sie mit der höflichen Anfrage wenden, ob Sie wohl mir oder meinem ältesten Sohn Claus W. Leuthold, der dort am Harvard College studiert, einen guten Rat geben können.

Ich darf Sie bitten, freundlichst entschuldigen zu wollen, daß ich diese meine Zeilen an Sie nicht in englischer Sprache richten kann. Ich habe auf der Schule nur lateinisch, griechisch, polnisch und französisch gelernt.

Mein Sohn hat nach seinem Abitur hier in einem engl. Unternehmen gearbeitet, war dann 5 Jahre freiwillig Soldat der US Army, zu- letzt im Range eines Serg.II. Seit 1957 studiert er dort Staatswissen- schaften. Er wollte ursprünglich in den Dienst der Diplomatie treten, doch steht diesem Vorhaben wohl ein btr. Gesetz der USA entgegen, da er erst 7 und nicht 10 Jahre in den USA lebt.

Wir Eltern machen uns nun einige Sorgen, welche Laufbahn unser Sohn einschlagen kann, zumal er nicht über die notwendige Ellbogen- freiheit verfügt. Wir können über ihn nur das allerbeste Zeugnis abge- ben, wie es auch seine Vorgesetzten in der US Army mir gegenüber mehrfach getan haben.

Wir sind eine Flüchtlingsfamilie aus Danzig-Zoppot und haben 5 Kinder. Auch mein 2. Sohn, der hier jetzt in die Unterprima ver- setzt wird, will nach seinem Abitur in die USA auswandern.

Ich selbst wurde 1933 aus politischen Gründen aus dem Staatsdienst der "Freien Stadt Danzig" (Staatsarchiv) entlassen und zwar deshalb, weil ich Gewerkschaftssekretär und Mitglied der SPD war. Eine Bescheinigung des damaligen Staatsarchivdirektors und Prof.Dr.W. Recke liegt mir vor. *)

Wäre es Ihnen wohl einmal möglich, mit meinem Sohn eine kurze Rücksprache zu nehmen oder aber mir einen Weg zu zeigen, welche Laufbahn meinem Sohn zu empfehlen wäre.

Für Ihre Mühewaltung darf ich mich schon heute verbind- lichst bedanken.

Mit vorzüglicher Hochachtung

Ihr sehr ergebener

*) Eine Abschrift darf ich Ihnen beifügen.

May 20, 1964

Mr. Arye Levavi
Deputy Director-General
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Jerusalem, Israel

Dear Mr. Levavi:

This is a note to tell you how
very much I enjoyed seeing you here and
also to apologize that I have had to
cancel my visit to the Defence College.
Unexpected developments in our political
situation prevent me from coming to Israel.
It is with real regret that I have to
cancel this visit.

I have suggested to General Narkiss
that I would be happy to come either next
January or the following May though I could,
of course, fully understand it if this
proved to be impossible from your point of
view.

With kind regards.

Henry V. Klaasen

Sincerely yours,

With kind regards.

atrem.
proved to be inconsiderate from your point of
of course, fully understanding it if this
January or the following May through I confound
that I would be happy to come either next
I have suggested to General Markinz
cancel this visit.

It is with real regret that I have to
situation prevent me from coming to Israel.
Unexpected developments in our political
cancel my visit to the Defence College.
also to apologize that I have had to
very much I enjoyed seeing you here and
This is a note to tell you how
Dear Mr. Levavi:

Dear Mr. Levavi:

Jerusalem, Israel
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Deputy Director-General
Mr. Arye Levavi

May 30, 1964

Jeremy Carl Leven

requests the pleasure of your company

at the opening of

The Light Company Theater

on Tuesday evening, January the seventh

at seven thirty o'clock

719 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

R.S.V.P.
547-0550

Black Tie Optional

Elizabeth F. Levering
8360 St. Paul
Detroit 14

August 26, 1958

Dr. Henry Kissinger
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

I am delighted to see the moves toward implementing your suggestions which are implicit in the Defense Department reorganization and the Strategic Army Corps. I was also pleased to realize by your interview with Mike Wallace on July 12 that your ideas were coming to the attention of the general public as well.

Although I cannot but agree with practically everything you say in *Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy* and the Rockefeller Report, I find it difficult to believe that a thermo-nuclear weapons race, continued indefinitely, will fail of some disaster.

I endose a memorandum which describes a weapons system that would surely be new to our arsenal in theory if not in technology, and which seems to me to have as much diplomatic as military firepower. Perhaps it contains, though no final answers, a germ of fresh approach to the problem, and might interest you.

September 24, 1958

Miss Elizabeth F. Levering
8360 St. Paul
Detroit 14, Michigan

Dear Miss Levering:

Thank you very much for your
letter of August 26th and for sending
me a copy of "The Virtues of Passive
Retaliation." I appreciated having
an opportunity to read it and was
interested in its unique approach.

Your comments on my work
were most encouraging - it is reactions
such as yours that make our efforts
worth while.

Henry V. Krausner

Sincerely yours,

worth while.
and so yours that make our efforts
were most encouraging - it is reactions
Your comments on my work

interested in its unique approach.
an opportunity to read it and was
an appreciation of the way I appreciated having
me a copy of "The Virtues of Passive
letter of August 26th and for sending
Thank you very much for your

Dear Miss Levering:

Detroit 14, Michigan
8360 St. Paul
Miss Elisabeth F. Levering

September 24, 1958

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WALSH AND LEVINE

WILLIAM F. WALSH
ROBERT L. LEVINE
BEEKMAN 3-3360

253 BROADWAY
NEW YORK 7, N.Y.

September 14, 1959

Mr. Henry A. Kissinger, Director
Defense Studies Program
6 Divisnity Avenue
Cambridge 38, Mass.

Dear Professor Kissinger:

I wish to thank you for your letter of September 4th
with the enclosures.

I am sorry that I have not been able to come up to
see how the new group is getting along, but I shall
have a spy, keeping me fully informed on what is
happening; during this next year, my brother, who is in
his last year of Law School, is going to be taking the
seminar and I am sure, it will be a very worthwhile
experience for him.

My best wishes to Harry Ransom and Maury Feld and
best wishes for a successful year.

LWL/fd

July 17, 1961

Mr. Laurence W. Levine
64 Wall Street
New York 5, New York

Dear Mr. Levine:

Thank you for your letter of which
you inquire about possible positions in the
Defense Department. I am not in a position to
hear anything about them, but if I do, I will
certainly keep you in mind.

All good wishes.

LAW OFFICES
WALSH AND LEVINE

Dr. Henry Kissinger
Harvard Defense Studies Program
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

You may or may not remember me, but I was
a Teaching Fellow in the Defense Studies Program in 1955-
1956. I would be interested in finding out whether or
not there is anything that I might do on a part-time
basis either a couple of days a week or otherwise in the
Defense Department.

I spoke to Bob Berry yesterday and he is
now working for the Philco Corporation, but manages to
spend a couple of days every once in a while in the
Pentagon.

If you hear of anything, I would appreciate
hearing from you.

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Box 5067, Duke Station
Durham, North Carolina

October 4, 1961

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Defense Studies Program
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Gentlemen:

I am presently a senior at Duke University, and will graduate in June of 1962 Phi Beta Kappa and, hopefully, Magna Cum Laude. I am participating in the political science honors seminar, doing my paper on the Savannah River Project, with particular study on the effects of the Project on local government and political behavior. I have become extremely interested in entering the Defense Studies Program at Harvard as part of my graduate education. I am competing for a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and would wish to use it at Harvard if selected.

I should appreciate any relevant information you might send me concerning the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in general and the Defense Studies Program in particular--information about application, scholarships or fellowships, course of study, etc. I could come to Boston for an interview either during the Thanksgiving vacation or between semesters late in January. Too, I believe that Dr. Kissinger is scheduled to speak at Duke under the auspices of the Student Union later this academic year, and perhaps I might be able to speak with him then.

Thank you for any information you might send me.

January 27, 1955

Mr. Frank Levitch
Holiday Inn
5175 South 27th Street
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

My dear Frank:

Every year now for the past few years I have received your
Christmas card, but never any return address, so that I have never had a
chance to write to you. This does not mean that I have forgotten the strange
months we spent together in 1945 and '46. I look back on our various adven-
tures with a great deal of pleasure. It would be nice indeed if we could
meet some time and talk about what has happened since then.

I am now teaching at Harvard and also editing a review here, and I
have every prospect of turning into a pedant. I am going to Colorado for
a few weeks next September, and if I do I shall stop by in Milwaukee. Should
you come East, we would never forgive you if you did not look us up.

I went back to Germany in 1952 for the Department of the Army and
in 1953 for the review I am editing, and I also visited Bensheim. Things
have changed tremendously since you were there. Just as nobody had been
a Nazi, so nobody, but absolutely nobody has had anything to do with the
American. Lunspeer, incidentally turned out to be a Russian agent.

Kindest regards.

Sincerely yours,

On the basis of my undergraduate course of study, there
will probably be doubt as to why I should be capable of ful-
filling the requirements of the Harvard Graduate School. My
purpose, then, is to justify the reasons I feel confident of
my ability to pursue a graduate program in the field of poli-
tical science.

During my service career, I was able to accumulate forty-
eight semester hours of college credit through the University
of Maryland Overseas Program. I did not know at that time what
value these courses would have as transfer credits but, as
it worked out, I was well rewarded.

When I arrived at Boston University, three weeks before
the beginning of the semester in January, 1957, I had only
one goal in mind--I wanted to teach. I was not sure at what
academic level or how to prepare for this objective. Thus,
I was advised to register at the School of Education. It was
later that I realized the liberal arts college was a better
preparation for graduate school in a specific subject area.
The major drawback was the limited opportunity to take advanced
courses in government due to the required courses in education.

Though my work in government was only nine credit hours
up to September, 1958, I feel that my work in a graduate semi-
nar class during the current semester shows my potential for
success in graduate school. This "Seminar in International
Politics" conducted by Dr. William Newman (who has submitted
a letter of reference) required two extensive research papers
in which I received an A grade with an A for the course.

My work in the related fields of economics and sociology
have produced good results, and I feel that my grades in these
courses are an accurate index of my ability.

The foreign language area is one place in which I am
lacking. My first year of German was taken in 1954 with the
University of Maryland. I started the second year of this
language at Boston University in September, 1958. Though
the grades are not available at the time of this writing, I am
sure that this will be the only blot on my academic record.
I realize that this must be made up before I can receive my
Master of Arts degree.

My extra curricular activities have not only given me a
great deal of personal satisfaction, but have also contributed
to my knowledge of government affairs.

At Boston University, I am currently serving as president-
elect of a twelve hundred member religious organization. This
position also gives me a seat on the all-university Brother-
hood Council.

Off campus, I am serving as co-chairman of the Boston Number Two Chapter of the American Veterans Committee. The duties of this office, which require studying and testifying on various legislation at the State House, place me in direct contact with Massachusetts political and legislative affairs. During the past year, I served as the American Veterans Committee's representative to the Conant Conference on Education at the University of Massachusetts. Our organization was one of the sponsors of this conference.

My vocational interest is still in the field of teaching, but now geared to the college level. The area, of course, would be government.

I plan to pursue the Master of Arts and Doctorate of Philosophy degrees in the field of political science in preparation for my role as a college teacher.

It is probably unusual for a person with a Bachelor of Science degree in education to apply for graduate work in the area of government at Harvard University. Unfortunately, I did not foresee the value of the liberal arts program beforehand. Though this is the case, I am confident that this will not hinder me in the pursuit and realization of my ultimate goal.

TÉL. SCHUYLER 4-6340

JEROME LEVY

575 WEST END AVENUE
NEW YORK 24, N. Y.

November 17, 1961.

Dr. Henry Kissinger, Associate Director
Harvard's Center for International Studies
Cambridge, Mass.

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

The enclosure "False Economic Assumptions That Are Obstacles To
Peace" offers an approach to improving our international relations
that I believe was not discussed on Open End, November 5th.
Your comments will be appreciated.

JL:df
encl.

November 1, 1960

Mr. Marion J. Levy, Jr.
Woodrow Wilson School
of Public and International Affairs
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey

Dear Mr. Levy:

Thank you very much for your
kind comments about my talk at Princeton.
Unhappily, my remarks were extemporaneous,
and there is no printed copy of them. I
would like you to know, however, that I
appreciate your interest very much.

WOODROW WILSON SCHOOL
OF PUBLIC AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
PRINCETON, N.J.

October 24, 1960

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Center of Industrial Studies
Tufts College
Medford, Massachusetts

Dear Professor Kissinger:

I was very much interested in your remarks made on Thursday afternoon at Princeton. I wonder if there is any mimeographed copy of this address which I might have to study more carefully? If such a copy exists, I would very much appreciate your sending me one.

MJL:lef

April 25, 1960

Mrs. Eve Lewis
Future Voters of America
Hampton High School
Hampton, Virginia

Dear Eve:

I have just returned from
a brief trip to find your letter of the
29th. It was good to hear about your
work, and I will see what I can do about
bringing it to the attention of some of
my colleagues. I must warn you, though,
that my schedule is very crowded right
now and that I am devoting every spare
moment to finishing a book which is
due at the publishers within the next
month.

With kind regards.

April 22, 1960

Mrs. Eva Lewis

Hampton High School
Future Voters of America

Dear Eva:

month.
due at the publishers within the next
moment to finishing a book which is
now and that I am devoting every spare
that my schedule is very crowded right
my colleagues. I must warn you, though,
bringing it to the attention of some of
work, and I will see what I can do about
23rd. It was good to hear about your
a brief trip to find your letter of the
I have just returned from.

With kind regards.

FOUNDED 1957

Future Voters of America

DR. EVE LEWIS

Sponsor

FRANK RUTH

PAT WATERS

Sponsor's Aides

PAT GREEN

President

LIZ HAMILTON

TOMMY PINKSTON

Assistants to President

HUGH BOYD

Vice President

SKIP SPAUGH

Vice President in charge of
National Affairs

VICKI LEDBETTER

Secretary of National Affairs

BUTCH BARTKIEWICZ

Vice President in charge of
State Affairs

BYRD HARRIS

Secretary of State Affairs

RUSSELL ANDERSON

Vice President in charge of
Local Affairs

LONNIE LASHLEY

Secretary of Local Affairs

VERNON RUMBLE

Vice President in charge of
International Affairs

TANNY KLEINMANN

Secretary of International Affairs

WARREN NEILSON

BILL BURNS

Treasurer

CAROLYN ARMSTRONG
Chaplain

PAT ROBINS

Recording Secretary

ILENE LAMBERT

Corresponding Secretary

BARBARA CRUTE

Historian

CAROLYN JAMISON

S.C.A. Representative

GRADY HATCHETT
Parliamentarian

DAVE PEREIRA
Sergeant-at-Arms

Founding Chapter ---

HAMPTON HIGH SCHOOL
Hampton -;- Virginia

March 29, 1960

Dear Henry:

Would you be kind enough to see that this
reaches the attention of those listed?

Many thanks.

We dined with Fritz and his family
and with Professor Elliot last time in Washington.
Your name always crops up in our conversations.

We will be glad to see that your people
get additional information on Future Voters as seems
appropriate.

Very truly yours,

Eve Lewis

FOUNDED 1957

Future Voters of America

DR. EVE LEWIS
Sponsor

FRANK RUTH
PAT WATERS

Sponsor's Aides

PAT GREEN
President

LIZ HAMILTON

HUGH BOYD

Vice President
SKIP SPAUGH

PAT ROBINS

Recording Secretary

ILENE LAMBERT

Corresponding Secretary

BARBARA CRUTE
Historian

CAROLYN JAMISON
S.C.A. Representative

DAVE PEREIRA
Sergeant-at-Arms

Founding Chapter ---

HAMPTON HIGH SCHOOL
Hampton :- Virginia

March 28, 1960

Regarding: The Great Challenge(program Sunday
What Education Can Do. March 27, CBS)

Attention: Governor Nelson Rockefeller
Mr. Tom Finletter
Mr. Marquis Childs
Mr. Victor Butterfield
Mr. Howard K. Smith (CES)

Dear Henry Kissinger:

Coming down the steps from the mezzanine of the Statler (American Political Science Association annual meeting), after Fritz Kraemer had introduced us, and we had discussed various challenges and problems, you said, "Yes, that makes sense. If you care to send me a memorandum about it, I will see that it is circulated." (And you did mean in the right and thinking circles).

Many congratulations on your meteoric career (so well-founded upon intellectual acumen and integrity, as is Fritz's) since then.

I am writing you now, because, after shuddering away from Mr. Smith's question "What can secondary education do?" -- with regard to this inculcation of a sense of political responsibility, the discussants indicated something of a blank or vacuum. Future Voters of America, as a tested organizational formula for high schools, fills this vacuum. Future Voters, in being a status-affirmation transcends the study of government at this level, and opens the flood-gates for student initiative, creativity, political participation and understanding.

Moreover, it enlists acting politicians, in education at the secondary level, in a most charming and mutually complimentary way.

In addition, Henry, I have found that this formula -- of Future Voters, offers a possibility of an orderly, quiet, and effective way of establishing a two-party system in the South: (to be non-partisan, of course, both parties must be studied, investigated, mock conventions for both parties held, etc. Thus the stigma of "Republican" being a naughty word one doesn't use South of the Mason Dixon line is removed at the most impressionable age. I am not a Republican, Henry. I am a Texan. So you can see that the "Two party possibility" is not my invention, simply a corollary of Future Voter activity.)

Articles on Future Voters have appeared in

The Virginia Journal of Education, February, 1960, and World Week, March 24, 1960. We are just peeking over the horizon, coming on to the national scene -- origin, most appropriately Hampton, now celebrating its 350th anniversary as the oldest continuous, English-speaking community in the USA.

Very truly yours,
Eve Lewis

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April 2, 1960

his return on April 13th.
will bring it to his attention upon
at present out of the office, but I
letter of the 29th. Mr. Klaasen is
This is to acknowledge your

Dear Miss Lewis:

Hampton, Virginia
Hampton High School
Future Voters of America
Miss Eve Lewis

Secretary
Eliza Morris

Sincerely yours,

1167 45th Street,
Brooklyn 19, New York,

August 30, 1963

Dr. Henry Kissinger
c/o Doubleday and Co. Publishers
575 Madison Ave.,
New York 22, N.Y.

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

I hope you will excuse this form-letter, but the project I shall
describe is an ambitious one with limited resources. For the academic
year 1963-1964, I shall be directing the Committee for Social Action at
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The Committee
is a college-sponsored and college-supported group. One of the
Committee's goals for this year is the establishment of an extra-
curricular reading program to consider in diversity the prevailing
attitudes on Disarmament.

Committee members, all interested college students and Faculty
(enrollment is 1,200) and townspeople (population is close to 100,000)
will purchase and read suggested books on Disarmament and the authors of
the books will speak on their opinions and answer questions. In this
connection, I would like to use your book *Nuclear Weapons and
Foreign Policy*
for the program.

Could you visit our campus anytime from mid-October to late May and
discuss your views on this vital issue? The college is about three hours
from New York City by Pennsylvania Railroad. I could offer you little
financial remuneration, but you may expect an enthusiastic and informed
audience, the great majority of which has read your work. After Sept-
ember 15, I can be reached as:

Robert Lewy
c/o Franklin and Marshall College
Lancaster, Pa.

Thank you for your consideration.

May 20, 1960

Mrs. Ruth Ley
222 Prospect Street
Belmont 78, Massachusetts

Dear Mrs. Ley:

I am enclosing a copy of
a letter I have recently received from
Mr. Dana Creel of the Rockefeller Brothers
Fund, whom I wrote about the possibility
of obtaining support for your project. I
am very sorry that this hasn't worked out,
and I do wish you the best of luck.

With kind regards.

May 20, 1960

Dear Mrs. Ley:

Belmont 78, Massachusetts
222 Prospect Street
Mrs. Ruth Ley

and I do wish you the best of luck.
am very sorry that this hasn't worked out,
of obtaining support for your project. I
Fund, however I wrote about the possibility
Mr. Dan Creel of the Rocketsteller Brothers
a letter I have recently received from
I am enclosing a copy of

With kind regards.

Comments

"Thank you for the splendid entertainment that you put on for the Ladies in attendance at our Annual Convention in Swampscott. It was certainly a beautiful and interesting show and the Ladies were delighted with the whole program."

Massachusetts Bankers Association, Inc.

"Both the Freshman and the Senior groups enjoyed their European travel with you greatly."

The Garland School, Boston, Massachusetts

"Many said they hated for her to stop and could have listened another hour. Mrs. Ley herself is a delightful person and a dynamic personality."

Woman's Club Of Roland Park
Baltimore, Maryland

"We want to tell you again how much we enjoyed your lecture and motion pictures last evening. It isn't every day one meets a person with such complete knowledge of the subject. You certainly make one want to see Nantucket and know more about this fascinating place."

Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance Co.
Springfield, Massachusetts

RUTH LEY

Presents ...

Her Talks with

Colorful Movies-

The UNUSUAL About

People and Places

"NANTUCKET'S AMBASSADOR TO BRUSSELS"

RUTH LEY represented Massachusetts at the Brussels World's Fair with her films "Nantucket — Island Of The Whalers" and some of her Massachusetts celebrities. Mrs. Ley is a celebrity in her own right — radio, television, newspapers, films and lecturing. Her vibrant personality will entertain any group on any of her subjects.

222 PROSPECT STREET • BELMONT 78. MASSACHUSETTS • I Vanhoe 4-2658

## COUNTRIES WITH CASTLES

This colorful film was shot in fabulous Europe — taking you through France, Holland, Germany and Austria and into the castles of these storybook countries. One even glimpses a bit of the great Brussels World's Fair.

## CELEBRITY CLOSE-UPS

How do celebrities live when they are not before the spotlight? Ruth Ley takes you behind the scenes to show them at work, at home, at play.

See: SEC. OF STATE CHRISTIAN A. HERTER

See: ARTHUR FIEDLER

See: ATTY. JOSEPH N. WELCH

See: ADMIRAL DONALD B. MACMILLAN

See: NORMAN ROCKWELL

See: ROLAND WELLS ROBBINS ("Pick and Shovel Historian"), DR. JAMES R. KILLIAN, AL CAPP and OTHERS

## NANTUCKET ISLAND OF THE WHALERS

was shown over color TV in the U.S. Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair and also on French TV. Capturing the life of this island in her film, Ruth Ley traces its fabulous history from the old to the new. In her film and talk she presents an entirely different, personal, human interest story.

## TO THE WEST OF WONDERS AND INDIANS

Travel to our fascinating last frontier — spouting Yellowstone National Park, the grandeur of the Grand Tetons, charming San Francisco, Disneyland and the Grand Canyon. For a climax, journey into Monument Valley and the mysteries of the Navajo Indian country.

## ADVENTURES UNDER YOUR NOSE

There are interesting, exciting adventures that anyone can find for nothing — or next to nothing — right in their own backyard. Boston's waterfront is an adventure in itself

with tea ships sailing in from Ceylon, the longshoremen's "pick-up" and the fish exchange bustling with business in the early morning hours. But perhaps you prefer a bit of Paris in the heart of Cambridge. This is a film to take the young and old adventuring.

## Non-Illustrated Lecture

## PEOPLE ARE FUN

Stories with a chuckle about people Ruth Ley has met along life's way — the great and the small.

RUTH LEY

222 PROSPECT STREET
BELMONT 78, MASSACHUSETTS
IVANHOE 4-2658

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts.

March 13, 1960.

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

Thank you for the opportunity of speaking with
you last week and your kind offer to send my proposal and pertinent
letters to New York.

This is my idea: to go wherever needed for a few
weeks from time to time with my film "A Day In The Life Of An American
Housewife" (that's me and an actual day in the life of the Ley family)
and, possibly my film of our family trip to the west with our two children,
"To The West Of Wonders And Indians". These are not sound films
and I believe that my presenting films of my family in person would
have a much greater impact on foreign audiences than any canned film.
This kind of personal approach I believe would do much to promote understanding of our way of life here.

I have contacted our Embassy in Paris and the U.S.I.A.
in The Hague relative to this proposal and both seem to feel that it
would be a feasible and worthwhile project. As you will see from the
letters, a day in the life of an American housewife has particular and
important interest. I enclose copies of letters from each. The State
Department also seems to feel it a valuable project but apparently has
no available funds in its budget.

The amount of financing required is very little --
only minimum expenses for transportation and raw film costs, a total of
less than $2,000. I am glad to contribute my time in making the film
and showing it abroad, but feel that I should have some tangible evidence
that others think this project worthwhile before spending too much time
and money myself.

I enclose another one of my lecture flyers. Thank you
again for your interest. I appreciate it.

THE FOREIGN SERVICE
OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

November 13, 1959

Dear Jim:

Taking time by the forelock, I immediately acted on your suggestion and have written to the Department of State telling them about Mrs. Ley, enclosing the circular you sent me and suggesting that they inquire into the possibility of sending her to Europe as an "American Specialist" to show her films and give her talks on American life as it is. Of course we are attempting to do much the same thing with the tremendous library of documentary films that we offer to people wherever there is a RIS, but I have no doubt that hers gives a personal and convincing touch that might be very special. The only way such a trip could be arranged is on an official basis because the individual posts have no funds by which they can manage international travel. But we (and, I think, most European posts) would be able to arrange evenings in various towns without difficulty. If the Department is impressed with the suggestion they will probably get into touch with Mrs. Ley asking for more information, see what she has to offer, and if they approve write to European posts and ask for an expression of interest. If the posts come through and say they would like it the Department will probably go ahead and arrange for the trip.

I can't possibly thank you enough for the things you told me about Henny. I can see in my mind's eye so clearly that scene with her and the doctor, which must be unprecedented in medical history. And of course I agree entirely that no good friend could wish her to go on in such a dreadful condition. It was a shock to me, because the last I had heard she had been visiting in New York and seeing her old friends with undiminished zest.

I have long intended to write to you to tell you my pleasure and my surprise when I got your little book on the University of Minnesota published by Putnam's. One of my old friends there sent it to me and I read it avidly. You made a wonderfully inclusive and graceful job of it, but I wrote sharply to Putnam's about a few bad typographical errors their editors let pass.

How I envy your Captive! Please give my best to anyone there who remembers me. My best to you both.

Mr. James Gray
Captiva, Florida
U.S.A.

American Embassy - Paris

July 2, 1959

Dear Mrs. Ley,

Captain Hugh Robinson has sent us your letter to him of May 31, 1959 in which you express a desire to lecture in Europe. The suggested subject for lectures seems to us to be a most interesting one, and one which would surely interest Frenchwomen. On this score, however, it would be most necessary for you to be really fluent in French. Despite the contrary impression in the United States, the average French person speaks and understands very little English. Therefore, to be successful, lectures in French must be given in good French and the lecturer must be able to answer questions easily in that language.

The Cultural Section of this Embassy would be very pleased, if you come to France with Department of State auspices to arrange several lectures for you under the USIS program if (a) assurance were given that your ability in the French language was excellent, and (b) your visit were to be at a time of year, suitable for lecture appearances in France (this means not June, July, August, early September, Christmas and Easter time).

Mrs. Ruth Ley
222 Prospect Street
Belmont 76, Massachusetts