LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS

3 JOY STREET
BOSTON 8, MASSACHUSETTS

LAfayette 3-3545

November 4, 1957

Mr. Henry Kissinger
Center for International Studies
Harvard University
Cambridge 38, Mass.

Dear Mr. Kissinger,

We are very pleased to have
you as a morning speaker for this year's School
of International Relations, which will concern
itself with the problems of attaining security
through arms control. The School will be held in
the Kresge Auditorium at M.I.T. on Wednesday,
January 29, 1958. The two morning speeches will
be from 10:30 to 12:30, including time for
questions. The speakers fee is $250 plus expenses.

In the afternoon, four
panelists will participate in an open discussion
centering on the theses of the morning speeches
and on the most urgent questions contributing to
the difficulties of disarmament. Col. Richard
Leghorn and Mr. William Frye have already been
secured as members of this panel, and Prof. Jerome
B. Wiesner will be the moderator.

The afternoon program will be
much more effective and to-the-point if the
panelists have a chance to study the morning
speeches in advance. May we have a copy of your
speech by January 10, to be seen only by our
participants beforehand!

Mrs. J.B. Wiesner
61 Shattuck Road
Watertown, Mass.

December 10, 1957

MEMORANDUM FOR MR. KISSINGER

Subject: Speech to League of Women Voters
Atlantic City
April 24, 1958

Mrs. Ruebhausen called to ask on behalf of the above
organization if you would be willing to be their keynote speaker
at their convention in Atlantic City. Speech would be on
April 24th and I assume in the evening.

There would be approximately 2,000 in the audience.
The convention is meeting to discuss their program for the
next few years. (She wanted you to know that you wouldn't
be "trapped" like you were at the Church Peace Union or
whatever it was.) This is a top leadership group.

They pay expenses but no honorarian -- or however
you spell it.

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS
OF THE UNITED STATES

1026 17TH STREET, N. W.

WASHINGTON 6, D. C.

MRS. JOHN G. LEE
President

First Vice President
MRS. HAROLD D. DYKE
Syracuse, New York

Second Vice President
MRS. JOHN F. LATIMER
Washington, D. C.

Secretary
MRS. DONALD F. BISHOP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Treasurer
MRS. CARL MARCY
Arlington, Virginia

DIRECTORS

MRS. WERNER J. BLANCHARD
Dayton, Ohio

MRS. GEORGE A. DREYFOUS
New Orleans, Louisiana

MRS. ALF H. GUNDERSEN
LaCrosse, Wisconsin

MRS. C. WALKER HAYES
Albuquerque, New Mexico

MRS. TOR HYLBOM
Colorado Springs, Colorado

MRS. WALTER H. C. LAVES
Bloomington, Indiana

MRS. L. K. RICHARDS
Waco, Texas

MRS. OSCAR M. RUEBHAUSEN
New York, New York

MRS. ARTHUR E. WHITTEMORE
Hingham, Massachusetts

450 East 52 Street
New York, 22, N.Y.
December 11, 1957

Mr. Henry Kissinger
22 West 55 St.
New York, N.Y.

Dear Henry:

Just to be real official and follow up on
my telephone calls with Nancy I want you to know
how very, very much the League of Women Voters is
hoping that you can speak to our national convention
in Atlantic City the evening of April 24.

There will be almost 2,000 delegates there from
all over the country, and I don't think you would
everyfind a better group of leaders to talk to.

Furthermore, we in the League, in our own
small way, have been trying to do just what the
Special Studies Project did in terms of evaluating
where it is we want to be in the next twenty years.
Trying to be an organization which exerts leadership
by looking ahead is indeed complicated, and we need
all the help we can get. I know of no one who
thinks more clearly and projects his ideas better
than you, and so please come to speak to us if
you possibly can.

Best wishes while sitting with
my fingers crossed,

Mrs. Oscar M. Ruebhausen

1026 17TH STREET, N. W.

WASHINGTON 6, D. C.

MRS. JOHN G. LEE
President

First Vice President

MRS. HAROLD D. DYKE

Syracuse, New York

Second Vice President

MRS. JOHN F. LATIMER

Washington, D. C.

Secretary

MRS. DONALD F. BISHOP

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Treasurer

MRS. CARL MARCY

Arlington, Virginia

DIRECTORS

MRS. WERNER J. BLANCHARD

Dayton, Ohio

MRS. GEORGE A. DREYFOUS

New Orleans, Louisiana

MRS. ALF H. GUNDERSEN

LaCrosse, Wisconsin

MRS. C. WALKER HAYES

Albuquerque, New Mexico

MRS. TOR HYLBOM

Colorado Springs, Colorado

MRS. WALTER H. C. LAVES

Bloomington, Indiana

MRS. L. K. RICHARDS

Waco, Texas

MRS. OSCAR M. RUEBHAUSEN

New York, New York

MRS. ARTHUR E. WHITTEMORE

Hingham, Massachusetts

January 6, 1957

Dear Henry:

I am thrilled on two counts. One that you confirmed the date for the League's national convention in Atlantic City on April 24, and two, that the Special Studies Report burst with such a bang and such laudatory comments.

You should be proud and pleased and I hope
its success makes up for some of the agony and
sleepless nights.

Either I or someone from the National office
in Washington will communicate with you later
about details of April 24, but I know that the
Board will be meeting this Sunday for a week in
Washington, and will be delighted to hear that
Henry A. Kissinger is to be our keynote speaker.
Many, many thanks to you.

With best wishes,

Mrs. Oscar M. Ruebhausen

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

LQ

February 19, 1958

Mrs. H. E. McKinistry, President
League of Women Voters of Massachusetts
3 Joy Street
Boston 8, Massachusetts

Dear Mrs. McKinstry:

Thank you for your nice note of
February 10.

It was a pleasure to speak before
the League of Women Voters, and I enjoyed
myself greatly.

I hope to see you soon.

Thermo to HAK in Cambridge

1026 17TH STREET, N. W.

WASHINGTON 6, D. C.

MRS. JOHN G. LEE
President

May 9, 1958

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

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

May I express to you our very real and sincere appreciation for your keynote speech to the League in Convention at Atlantic City on April 24, 1958. In thanking you I am speaking not only for all members of the national Board, especially Mrs. Lee, Mrs. Laves, Mrs. Ruebhausen and myself, but also for the League leaders who had the privilege of listening to you and having their questions answered by you.

What you presented substantively in a masterly fashion will stimulate our thinking during the years that lie ahead as we study and act on U.S. foreign policy. I particularly would like to commend you for the "encores" you so willingly gave us as you answered one question after another during the discussion period following your speech. You may be interested to know that we are mimeographing your speech with questions and answers and including both among our suggested readings for leaders and members.

Again, our many thanks.

DIRECTORS

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1026 17TH STREET, N. W.

WASHINGTON 6, D. C.

MRS. JOHN G. LEE
President

Secretary
MR. DONALD F. BISHOP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Treasurer
MRS. CARL MARCY
Columbus, Virginia

May 9, 1958

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

May I express to you our very real and sincere appreciation for your keynote speech to the League in Convention at Atlantic City on April 24, 1958. In thanking you I am speaking not only for all members of the national Board, especially Mrs. Lee, but also for the League leaders who had the privilege of listening to you and having their questions answered by you.

Again, our many thanks.

MRS. OSCAR M. RUEHHAUSEN
New York, New York

1026 17TH STREET, N. W.

WASHINGTON 6, D. C.

MRS. JOHN G. LEE
President

May 23, 1958

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Director, Special Studies
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
22 West 55th Street
New York 19, New York

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

As requested in your letter to Mrs. Phillips, we are
attaching in duplicate a copy of your speech made to
our national Convention in Atlantic City, together
with the questions and answers. This copy was made from
the verbatim minutes and has not been edited.

We would like to mimeograph the text, with questions and answers, for distribution to our local and state Leagues in connection with the foreign policy program item adopted by the Convention. If you will make such changes as you wish and return one copy to us as early as you conveniently can, we would greatly appreciate it. We have already received a sizeable number of orders for it.

DD:hsh

DIRECTORS

HAK Speech

April 24, 1958

Draft #1

SPEECH BY HENRY A. KISSINGER TO
THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS

APRIL 24, 1958

A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE -- U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

The Situation

Deeper problem than simply policy issues. Affects our attitude
toward foreign policy.

We are living through a revolutionary period -- in technology, in
the rapidity of communicating ideas, in human aspirations, in the emergence
of new states, in the hostility of the Soviet Union.

Any one of these changes occurring by itself in the past would have
been enough to upset the international equilibrium.

A revolution is not only state of fact but also state of mind.

However dramatic they may appear in retrospect, they seem to contempring
as confusing and contradictory.

They will be torn between their desire for stability and the fact
that the period is revolutionary precisely because conditions have come
to seem oppressive to a great proportion of humanity.

They will seek to integrate the new into what has come to seem
familiar and thereby accentuate the tensions within the tenseness of the situation.

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They will tend to confuse appearance and reality because a stable order must be able to *twist* appearances.

And if there exists a power consciously striving to use these preconceptions, it may be able to use the *best* qualities of our society or of any society to encompass its downfall.

"Marxism-Leninism," wrote Mao, "does not allow concessions to be regarded as something purely negative ... Our concession, withdrawal, turning to the defensive or suspending action, *whether in dealing with allies or enemies*, should always be regarded as part of the entire revolutionary policy, as an indispensable link in the general revolutionary line..."

Thus the U.S. has been torn between its desire for stability and its nostalgia for total solutions. Oscillated between excessive intransigence and excessive conciliation. Sometimes acted as if all problems were soluble immediately; at others as if we could resign from international affairs. Been vulnerable to abstractions such as peaceful coexistence, disengagement, etc.

A revolutionary period requires above all a sense of purpose.

Only this will enable us to assign meaningful priorities.

Only in this manner will we be able to disentangle our desires and our necessities, our preference and our duty.

Many of the arguments which most appeal to us may most confuse the issue.

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What is the characteristic of this revolution?

Soviet threat -- not only problem we face -- many of our problems
would exist without it.

Soviet view of "objective factors"

Belief that the structure of capitalist states inevitably produces
showdowns.

(Khrushchev quote -- 20th Party Congress -- Minsk speech)

"Our enemies like to detest us Leninists and advocates of violence always and everywhere. True, we recognize the need for the revolutionary transformation of capitalist society into socialist society. It is this that distinguishes the revolutionary Marxists from the reformists, the opportunists. There is no doubt that in a number of capitalist countries violent overthrow of the dictatorship of thebourgeoisie ... (is) inevitable. But the forms of social revolution vary ... The greater or lesser intensity which the struggle may assume, the use of non-use of violence in the transition to socialism depends on the resistance of the exploiters...."

Need to fill vacuums -- unthinkable that Soviets would not penetrate
Egypt or Syria or Yemen lest it provoke us -- (see some U.S. arguments re
satellites)

Geneva I

Geneva II

Egyptian arms deal is not a change of course possible.

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Every Soviet offer raises debate about intentions

-- But negotiations <u>patticularly important if intentions have not</u>
chagged.

What about Soviet intentions:

Certainly there have been changes

Now bureaucracy -- legalism

New educated class

Technocracy

Countervailing Forces

Great successes -- Nationalism

No apparatus of protest

Industrialists don't lead revolutions

Talented people are integrated into the system -- Authoritarian

systems permitted oppositions

German example

Therefore poised at dividing line.

Must encourage the forces which are <u>new</u> evolutionary and democratic.

Can do only by helping bring about gap between expectation and
reality.

By demonstrating risk of intransigeance through our resolution.

By giving "peace party" in Kremlin -- if it exists -- something
to work with.

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Must therefore constantly make concrete proposals.

Overcome lawyer's distaste for making proposal which he knows
will not be accepted.

Must make responsible proposals which we want to see accepted.

Otherwise will feed Soviet intransigence -- their belief that can
always settle disputes by general assertions of good will.

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II

The Look Ahead

No easy answers.

Greater sense of purpose. We must know not only what we
oppose but what we affirm.

We must know it in a manner that is more than just fleeing
from harsh realities.

First step is to realize what things matter, that we cannot be
neutral in our values, even if we do not propose to spread them by
force.

What we stand for is expressed in our bearing and not only
in our policy.

Whole free world is facing a moral crisis.

Tends to identify is hopes with its possibilities.

Hides behind a moral perfectionism which
paralyzes action as surely as excessive concern
with day-to-day problems.

We must not confuse coexistence with moral equivalence.

We also must not be so aware of our imperfections that we
paralyze ourselves.

barrelize ourselves.

We also must not be so swayed by our imperfections that we

with day-to-day problems.

barrelize action as surely as excessive concern

Tends to identify itself with its possibilities.

in our policy.

What we stand for is expressed in our bearing and not only
force.

neutral in our values, even if we do not propose to abrade them by

but step it to realize what things matter, that we cannot be
from harsh realities.

We must know it in a manner that is more than just feeling
obese but what we allium.

No easy answers.

The look ahead

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Although we will not fight to impose our beliefs this does not mean that we do not wish them to prevail.

Has always been problem of foreign policy that one had to act on imperfect knowledge and with some awareness of one's inadequacies.

We are in curious position that we oscillate between a purely technical and a purely moralistic approach.-- Kennan.

We can't simply declare ourselves out.

Require both greater precision and greater vision.

Without great goals, it is impossible to master contemporary affairs.

But between a great conception and great execution there must be an interval of hard application. To be too absolutist is as sterile as to be too unconcerned with day-to-day problems.

## U.S. Military Strength

Rare flexibility.

Have to get strategic doctrine which does not stake our survival in the threat of suicide.

At the same time should be one with which our allies can live.

Otherwise will see gradual erosion of our allied relations.

Otherwise will see gradual erosion of our silled relations.

At the same time should be one with which our allies can live, survival in the threat of suicide.

Have to get strategic doctrine which does not stake our fate flexibility.

U.S. Military Strength

be too specialist as a sterile as to be too

contemporarily similar.

Without great dosage, it is impossible to master

reguire both greater braciation and greater vision.

technical and a purely moralistic atmosphere.-- Kennedy.

We are in curious position that we oscillate between a purely
on imperfect knowledge and with some awareness of one's inadequacy.

Has always been problem of foreign policy that one had to act
mean that we do not wish them to prevail.

While we will not fight to impose our policies that does not

Draft #1
April 24, 1968
HAK Sheehan

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April 24, 1958

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Need to support also the reorganization of our Defense Department.

But military establishment is not the end of policy. It is rather its beginning.

Time is neutral -- What we do with it is essential question.

## Role of Negotiations

Must realize that in revolutionary period the struggle is importantly for the minds of men. Cannot rely on mere technical negotiating skill. The symbolic aspect of foreign policy is important and even crucial.

We have not been too successful in dramatizing our position.

Have replied pedantically -- but world is not moved by legalistic phrases at least in a revolutionary period.

On the other hand those who advocate negotiating are often no more helpful. They say in effect, "Because we have not been able to settle anything let us try to settle everything."

Are under no obligation to make proposals Soviets _will_ accept.

Would make responsible proposals which take this legitimate interest into account -- otherwise Soviets can drive us back step by step.

Shouldn't push Soviets against closed doors but at the same time, they should not be permitted to define which door is closed.

Shouldn't push Soviets against closed doors but at the same time, into account -- otherwise Soviets can drive us back step by step.

Would make reasonable proposals which take this legitimate interest

are under no obligation to make proposals Soviets will accept.

no more helpful. They say in effect, "Because we have not been able
On the other hand those who advocate negotiating are often
buses at least in a revolutionary period.

Have replied pedantically -- but world is not moved by intellectual
and even critical.

negotiating skill. The symbolic aspect of foreign policy is important
importantly for the minds of men. Cannot rely on mere technical

Must realize that in revolutionary period the struggle is
Role of Negotiations

its beginning.

But military establishment is not the end of policy. It is rather
Need to support size the recognition of our Defense Department.

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What then should we negotiate about.

## Disarmament

Our goal must be a world from which the threat of war has been removed.

But if in the process of striving for it we create a weakness that would encourage aggression, we would have brought on what we fear most.

Issue has concentrated on Bomb-Testing.

Hard to make up one's mind.

## Argument for it.

- Health hazard.

- Fourth power problem.

- Must begin somewhere.

- First step toward a more basic settlement.

At the same time the question arises, first step toward what?

- Will lend color to ban the bomb propaganda.

- May lead to further erosion of NATO.

- May handicap our weapons development more than that of Soviets.

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Because the problem is so complicated we must be careful. But
cannot simply hide behind technical complexities and negativism. Would
therefore make serious set of proposals.

Will address ourselves immediately to reducing health hazard.

1. Create UN committee to establish minimum safe doses.

2. Register tests which have fall-out.

3. No more testing than safe quota.

4. Conduct all other tests which involve radioactive fall-out
underground.

Then, if this works, can move into other fields. Can bring our
policies with respect to atomic information into line with respect to our
allies.

Other disarmament schemes which are possible:

UN force to seal off Middle East and establish arms embargo.

UN inspection teams between Rhine and the Bug as insurance against
attack.

Establishment of some relation of forces between Rhine and Elbe
and Elbe and Bug.

UN police force to deal with minor problems.

But should not rest in relations with Russians on things to avoid.
Should also concentrate on things to do.

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1. Exchange of persons.

2. Joint studies on the model of the IGY like meteorology, oceanography.

3. Cultural exchange.

Other issues in Europe -- German unification.

The symbol here is freedom and we must be much more flexible
in making proposals for German unification.

Free elections.

Economic assistance.

Have had tendency to consider it panacea.

Have often considered it a substitute for other measures.

Either military defense or economic program.

Those who advocate it have tended to believe that there is something
automatic about economic development risked by experience of Marshall plan.

Stable political structure whose major challenge was economic.

Framework of spontaneous US action.

Problem of political framework.

Economic development schemes put forth when we are under pressure
may seem merely way to buy ourselves out of tough situation.

If advanced creatively *before* there is a crisis can become symbol
of US values.

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Moreover, economic development must pay attention to the
domestic institutions of recipient country.

To the extent that it is successful it will have a politically
unsettling effect because (1) it destroys existing institutions and (2)
it creates new leadership groups.

Thus great attention must be paid to the institutional and leadership
problem.

We have neglected this.

Soviet challenge of technicians -- language tug getting down to
village level, concentrating their effort; appears spontaneous.

Our total assistance has been greater. But it has been dispersed.

Too many technical considerations.

Too bureaucratic.

Our personnel not as well trained, particularly in local language
and culture.

Therefore, the U.S. should reassess its program.

1. Should make our motivation clear. We are not engaging in
   economic assistance to combat communism, but to achieve our own positive
   goals. A world of dignity and respect for the individual.

Pernicious notion of aid without strings -- creates on the one side
thexx impression of a right to assistance without responsibility; on the

the mass impression of a right to assistance without responsibility on the
pernicious notion of aid without strings -- creates on the one side
a world of dignity and respect for the individual.

economic assistance to combat communism, but to achieve our own positive
1. Should make our motivation clear. We are not engaging in
Therefore, the U.S. should reassess its program.

and culture.

Our beteen not as well trained, particularly in local languages
Too bureaucratic.

Our total assistance has been greater. But it has been diabolized.
Village level, concentrating their efforts; aspects abominable.

Soviet challenge of technicians -- language lagging down to
We have neglected this.

Problem.

Thus great attention must be paid to the institutional and leadership
it creates new leadership groups.

unsettling effect because (1) it destroys existing institutions and (2)
To the extent that it is successful it will have a politically
domestic institutions of recipient country.

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other hand a notion of a program without purpose.

We do not want alliances in return.

We do want democratic institutions, peaceful international relations and an international order based on respect for human and national dignity and we need not apologize for that.

2. Should concentrate not only on crisis points but on areas where we can still be creative like Latin America and Africa.

3. Should work out institutions -- until there is government with sufficient authority to aid and plan long-range projected assistance will be dissipated.

There must be great emphasis (1) in exchange of persons -- see training programs, (2) on anything that helps develpp institutions, (3) on sending our best people abroad, (4) on expending ingenuity in devising cooperative farms. Fact of cooperation may be as important as any results to be achieved.

4. Should use economic assistance as means to help encourage one of key problems of our period which is to integrate the national state into larger and more viable units.

a. Create regional development bodies in the formulation of whose plans we assist.

5. Should consider not only long-range development but immediate dramatic programs to help stabilize and legitimize government.

6. Get better U.S. personnel.

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H.A.K. Speech

April 24, 1958

Deepest U.S. problem.

Absence of trained body of men

Absence of real understanding

Our society stands in danger of becoming too soft and to mechanical

Not enough to do familiar things well but find new frontiers to
conquer.

This is where a group like the League may make its profoundest
contribution.

Too much of an image of the American as a consumer and not as a
participant.

Passive role - self gratifying.

barterbant.

Too much of an image of the American as a consumer and not as a
contribution.

This is where a group like the League may make its barterbant
condition.

Not enough to do similar things well but find new frontiers to
Our society stands in danger of becoming too soft and to mechanical
Appearance of real understanding

Appearance of stated body of new

Deepest U.S. problem.

April 24, 1928
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April 24, 1958

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We would certainly not wish to have businessmen who cared nothing for the wishes of the consumer, nor representatives who cared nothing for the advantage of their constituents. The only point to be made is that the images of citizen-as-consumer and citizen-as-constituent may have led us to think of the man in the street as guided only by his self-gratifying impulses. We may have fallen into the habit of thinking that the citizen's resources of devotion are slight indeed, and that to seek to tap these resources would be, if not indecent, then politically dangerous, or at the very least futile. The result may be a national habit -- shared by political leaders, teachers, social and cultural leaders -- of underrating the capacity of the American people for devotion to anything but the more and more luxurious furnishing of their private worlds.

This cult of easiness is a wholly inadequate guide to understanding the springs of human action. What most people want is not merely security or comfort or luxury -- although they are glad enough to have these. They want meaning in their lives. If their era and their culture and their leaders do not or cannot offer them great meanings, great objectives, great convictions, then they will settle for shallow and trivial meanings. "Our chief want in life," said Emerson, "is someone who will make us do what we can." People who live aimlessly, who allow the search for meaning in their lives to be satisfied by shoddy and meretricious experiences have simply not been stirred by any alternative meanings, -- religious meanings, ethical values, ideals

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April 24, 1958

Must get a greater sense of concern

Must realize that there are no easy answers.

Elevate whole tone of our lives with meaning into our lives.

We have great responsibility.

We are wealthy in a world striving for development.

We have stable institutions in a world seeking to formulate some
sense of direction.

If we do not generate vision and dynamism many things will not be
done at all.

UN is hope of humanity but it will be strong if we do not ask too
much of it.

There is no substitute for our own sense of purpose.

Consider this period not only a problem but an adventure.

We live in a time in which we can help to build a new world.

Sense of humility and tragedy.

Will find answers not in solutions somebody sends us, but only
within ourselves.

This will test not only our ability to survival but above all our
worthiness to survive.

worthiness to survive.

This will test not only our ability to survival but above all our
within ourselves.

Will find answers not in solutions somebody sends us, but only
sense of immortality and tragedy.

We live in a time in which we can help to build a new world.
Consider this period not only a problem but an adventure.

There is no attribute for our own sense of purpose.

Much of it.

UN is hope of humanity but it will be strong if we do not ask too
done at all.

If we do not generate vision and dynamism many things will not be
sense of direction.

We have stable institutions in a world seeking to formulate some
We are wearily in a world arriving for development.

We have great reasonability.

Must realise that there are no easy answers.

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May 28, 1958

Dear Miss Drake:

Thank you for your letter of the twenty-third, enclosing copies of my speech with the questions and answers. My schedule is so full that I cannot say definitely when I shall be able to return the copy to you with my changes. However, I shall do my best.

All good wishes,

Miss Dixie Drake
Executive Secretary
League of Women Voters
1026 17th Street, N. W.
Washington 6, D. C.

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cc: Corinne Lyman

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS

OF THE UNITED STATES

1026 SEVENTEENTH ST., N.W., WASHINGTON 6, D.C.

Mrs. Robert J. Phillips, President

July 25, 1958

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Harvard University
Center for International Affairs
Littauer Center
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

On yesterday we mailed you twelve copies of the trans-
cript of your speech given at the National Convention.
If you need others please let us know.

DD/acr

P.S.

I am looking forward to seeing you on the Mike Wallace
show and on Face the Nation this week end.

D.D.

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF BELMONT
BELMONT, MASSACHUSETTS

AFFILIATED WITH THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS
AND THE
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE UNITED STATES

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
104 Fletcher Road
Belmont
Massachusetts

May 10, 1961

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

The Belmont League of Women Voters is delighted to hear that you will once again be one of our "Distinguished Belmont Neighbors" lecturers. We hope that you will be able to give the second lecture in the series, and subject to your approval, we have reserved the evening of October 26th (Thursday) for your talk. In the past we have had our evening speaker begin at 8:00 or 8:15 P.M. and have requested a question period. Since your lecture will doubtless be the one most related to League program we anticipate a lively set of questions which we hope you will be good enough to allow.

We will need to know the title of your lecture sometime soon, in order to make up our printed program-flyer and to prepare for later publicity. We still have your brief biographical sketch as published in the Belmont Citizen two years ago, but would like to have any more current and pertinent information which you might care to give us.

If you could notify me as soon as possible whether this date will probably be convenient, and send along the title of your lecture and new biographical information, I would be most appreciative. Having heard your previous talk I, as well as many others, am anticipating hearing you again.

Mrs. F.H. Westheimer
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Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

We are very pleased that you will be able to
join Dean Wiesner and Dr. Kaysen on the panel
program scheduled to be televised next week.
This will confirm the arrangements I have made
with Miss Blanchard by telephone.

The program, entitled "How, When and Where:
The Prospects for Disarmament?" will be pre-
recorded and filmed at the Channel 5 studios,
located on Morrissey Boulevard. Each of the
panelists are requested to be at the studio
no later than 1:45 on Friday, December 10.
Those who know at the studio tell me you will
be finished by 3:00. The actual program is
only one-half hour long but the extra time is
to allow you to become acquainted with Leo
Egan, the Channel 5 staff interviewer.

The regular program will be shown on Sunday, December 12 from 12:00 to 12:30 pm, "Channel 5 Reports," and will be repeated on radio the following night at 7:00 pm.

I look forward to meeting you on the tenth
and wish to thank you again for your cooperation.

November 30, 1965

DEC 1 - 1965