CONFERENCE BOARD OF ASSOCIATED RESEARCH COUNCILS
COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE OF PERSONS

2101 Constitution Avenue, Washington 25, D. C.

6 November 1950

Dear Professor Pearson:

Unfortunately, the process of reviewing applications for Fulbright
awards in the visiting lecturer and post-doctoral research categories
requires close observance of the time schedule which has been established,
and I have been requested to inform you, therefore, that it will not be
possible to accept an application from you for the year 1951-52.

The necessity to observe the deadline mailing date of October 15 will
mean disappointment to many, but it appears to be the only way in which
the applications of those who have applied within the specified time limit
can receive adequate attention.

Recently it has been decided to initiate a program with Austria for
the academic year 1951-52 and applications will be accepted between
December 15 and January 15. A general announcement concerning these
opportunities will be sent to you sometime in November.

The next general period for the receipt of applications for countries
whose academic years commence in the autumn of 1952 will be June 1951.

GTB:RGB
Brochure

Advisory Committee in American Studies

Meeting of February 8-9, 1963

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Advisory Committee Members Attending:

W. Rex Crawford, University of Pennsylvania (sociology)

Merrill Jensen, University of Wisconsin (history)

Aubrey C. Land, University of Maryland (history)

Russel B. Nye, Michigan State University (literature)

Ernest Samuels, Northwestern University (literature)

Max Savelle, University of Washington (history)

Guests:

Harry C. Allen, Commonwealth Professor of American History, University of London, and Member of Executive Committee, British Association of American Studies

John P. Netherton, Director, Office of U. S. Programs and Services, CU*,
Department of State

Consultants:

Charles E. Boewe, Executive Secretary, American Studies Association at
the University of Pennsylvania

Richard W. Downar, Director, American Studies Program of the American
Council of Learned Societies

Robert E. Spiller, Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania,
member of CIEP

Consultants (Ad Hoc):

Lewis M. Hammond, Professor of Philosophy, University of Virginia, and
formerly Acting Chairman, USEC/Germany, and Cultural Attaché,
USIS/Bonn (1960-62)

Leon Howard, Professor of English, University of California at Los Angeles

Norman H. Pearson, Chairman and Director of Graduate Studies, American
Studies Program, Yale University

Department of State:

Gilbert Anderson, Director, Division for University Activities, Office of
U. S. Programs and Services, CU*

Esther Hawkins, Assistant Chief, Division for University Activities, Office
of U. S. Programs and Services, CU*

* CU = Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

2.

Meeting of February 8-9, 1963

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS - continued

United States Information Agency:

Milton E. Welch, Deputy Chief, Cultural Operations Division, Information
Service

Graham Tucker, Chief, Cultural Services Branch, Cultural Operations
Division, Information Center Service

Department of English
University of Manchester
MANCHESTER, N.
ENGLAND
Telephone and office

JFK/FEM

24th January, 1963.

Dear Professor,

You may recall that there had been some correspondence
between your department and mine concerning the possibility
of a permanent exchange arrangement, and that we had agreed
in principle as to the benefits we might all derive from
such an agreement. I have kept in touch with Professor
Martz during his stay in England, and the cause of my delay
in pressing on with the arrangements is known to him. We had
been hoping here that we could benefit by the new Fulbright/
Hays Act, part of the provisions of which are intended to
facilitate exchanges of the kind proposed. We had hoped to
profit by the new Act in the matter of salaries. Indeed,
our salaries are so low compared with yours that it would
scarcely be reasonable to invite a distinguished young teacher
here without providing some supplementation of his salary.

We have had great difficulty in discovering exactly how
the Act will work, but an enquiry we sent to the State Depart-
ment has now been answered by the cultural attaché in London,
and it seems that until a new executive agreement between the
British and American Governments, we may not benefit at all by
the provisions of the new Act. It is suggested that the
arrangements may be working more smoothly in a couple of years'
time. Reluctant as we are to defer our plans, we feel here
that it would be better not to start what might be a permanent
programme of exchanges until all the means exist to make it
effective. I hope that you and your colleagues agree that
this is a wiser course; we shall certainly approach you again
when the Act becomes effective.

With all good wishes,

The Chairman,
English Department,
Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

22 April 1963

Mr. Trusten Russell, Executive Secretary
Conference Board of Associated Research Councils
2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington 25, D. C.

Dear Mr. Russell:

I am sorry that, despite all my assurances to you by phone, the publication of a pamphlet for Smith College and an address there on last Saturday has kept me from commenting on appropriate possibilities for the French scholars in American Studies. I am particularly sorry, because I so heartily approve your effort both to encourage the selection of scholars with special interests and also to find the right places for them. I am pretty well convinced we ought to pay at least as much attention to the introduction of American material into already established fields of study abroad as to a sometimes unrealistic effort to introduce an overall approximation of what would be an ideal American Studies Program in the States. After all, most American Studies Programs here work with what is already largely available in the university curriculum, and try to fill in the gaps later as the opportunity presents itself.

Here are my suggestions for what they may be worth.

*Beranger, Jean.* Because of his particular interest in Ward, the best spot would be Harvard under Professor Perry Miller, although Miller is frequently on leave. Next best would be Berkeley, with Professor Lazar Ziff who is now, next to Miller, the best man in colonial literature.

*Jaugeon, Andre.* I should recommend first Cornell, to work with Rossiter. Next would be the University of Pennsylvania with Professor Heller.

*Katchoura-Anfrol, Michel.* I should recommend the University of Pennsylvania first, with their School of Communications; and secondly, Brandeis University.

*Heleup, Yves.* The University of Chicago first, and Columbia second.

*Salem, Daniel.* Actually he would benefit most by traveling throughout the country to visit redevelopment agencies and possibly TVA. But for an academic connection, I should recommend M.I.T. first, and Harvard second.

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More detailed information about each scholar plus comments from the Embassy on each are attached.

In accordance with usual procedure, visiting scholar status will be requested for each scholar of a U. S. university. It will be noted that affiliation with specific institutions has been requested for several of these scholars; these may or may not be the most appropriate institutions. Decision on this matter will have to be made by the staff, hopefully with advice from members of the Committee. As a matter of fact, it is recognized that the disciplines represented by the five scholars do not all coincide with those of the members of the Committee and if it seems advisable to seek additional advice regarding placement for the research project from the members of the Advisory Committees in Economics, Political Science, et cetera, this can be done.

It seems that in addition to the most appropriate place to carry out the research program, there is an additional question raised by the papers of these candidates. It is planned by the Embassy/Commission that the scholar will be directly engaged through their own disciplines in the overall teaching of American Studies in France. It seems, therefore, to the staff, that a US program should be planned for each scholar which will provide maximum opportunity not only for carrying out the specific research program but also for becoming acquainted with US professors and contemporary trends in American Studies. If Committee members agree with this thought, advice as to how that part of the program might best be accomplished would be especially helpful to the staff. It may be that the Committee members may feel that attendance at the American Studies Seminar, described by Dr. Russell in the enclosure, will be sufficient as a start in this direction. If the Seminar is held in November, as currently planned, some of the French Scholars will be unable to attend.

The scholars will have resources consisting of the following: $15/00 per day for the period they spend; travel from France to the host institution(s); an additional sum, hopefully, of approximately $350.00 for programs costs in US, including travel, books et cetera.

In addition to biographic data and other materials for each of the scholars there is attached a sheet of excerpts from communications from France which will provide further background on its American Studies Program as related to its scholars coming to the U. S.

Your advice will be very much appreciated on the following points; any other comments will also be helpful:

(a) institution(s) with which scholars should be affiliated; if you feel other committees should be consulted, please include this;

(b) other activities which should be planned for the scholars, including professional meetings, visits with US scholars (please include names)

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TO: MEMBERS OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE IN AMERICAN STUDIES

FROM: Trusten W. Russell

SUBJECT: Additional Candidates in American Studies from France

**Roger Maurice Asselineau:** In accordance with his request, Mr. Asselineau has been affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, where he will be doing research in preparation for a critical study of Twain's **A Tramp Abroad**; he may also spend part of his time in consultation with U. S. colleagues on Walt Whitman, and for this purpose may wish to visit other universities. In view of his distinction and precise plan for study, Mr. Asselineau's papers were not submitted to you for suggestions. He plans to arrive in mid-June and to stay for three months.

**Michel Katchoura-Anfrol:** Mr. Katchoura-Anfrol's papers have just been received; copies are attached. Several suggestions of U. S. university affiliation were received from members of the Committee earlier: Michigan State University (Nye); Northwestern (Samuels); UCLA (Howard, re getting in touch with Walter Wilcox). Mr. Katchoura-Anfrol himself has suggested: Stanford University, UCLA, or Columbia University. Your suggestions as to university affiliation and to other persons and places whom he should visit will be very much appreciated. Since Mr. Katchoura-Anfrol states that he wishes to come for six months in either June, July or August and that he needs advance notice of two months, arrangements for his academic affiliation will have to be made rather quickly.

22 April 1963

Enclosure:
Data sheet # 3
Page 1

Full Name: Michel KATCHOURA-ANFROL

Place and date of birth: Paris, March 29, 1935.

Position: Journalist and Commentator (title: "Reporter"), Radio-
Télévision-Française.

Background:

Katchoura-Anfrol is an important young journalist who is highly recommended by authorities of the French national Radio-Télévision (RTF). He is already well known in France for his reporting and has been assigned a number of important missions, notably the coverage of the Togolese revolt in January. He became known to the Embassy and USEC/F last spring during the course of recording a number of radio broadcasts devoted to the Fulbright Program. Specialists in American affairs are few at the RTF; Maurice FERRO, who is one of them, has encouraged both Katchoura-Anfrol and the Embassy concerning this project. Further, Katchoura-Anfrol intends to publish a book based on his U.S. studies in collaboration with a publishing firm specialized in journalistic works.

Project:

"Mass Communications and Their Influence on American Public Opinion". The project can be divided in two parts: the theoretical teaching of journalism in American universities and its practical application, particularly in television broadcasting. The centers of study requested are: Stanford University, the University of Southern California at Los Angeles and Columbia University (Graduate School of Journalism). His work at those universities will be directed toward "Ethics and responsibility in mass communications; public opinion and propaganda; the influence of TV journalism among different levels of American society". On the practical side, Katchoura-Anfrol would like to observe and participate in the assembling and presentation of a news program on a major TV network. (The "journalistic process" is important; technical questions should not be included beyond basic necessity since he is already a qualified TV journalist.) He should be able to study reporting techniques which contrast most sharply with French practices; the Embassy suggests as examples the programs of Huntley-Brinkley and "Meet the Press". A particular matter of interest to him will be the function of independent American networks and the lack of governmental control as opposed to the French nationalized network. (It should be pointed out that the American system is most often misunderstood in France, even among TV specialists: Katchoura-Anfrol is among the better informed on the subject).

Dates:

Six months, to begin in August, 1963. If it would be preferable for Katchoura-Anfrol to do his work at a different time, he can make the necessary arrangements with two months' notice.

(Katchoura-Anfrol's dossier will be forwarded as soon as possible)

## II. - UNIVERSITY, PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE

### 1. University degrees:

<table><thead><tr><th>Institutions</th><th>Degrees received</th><th>Dates</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Universita. Italiana (per<br>stranieri)</td><td>Laurea di studi superiore di<br>lingua, storia e letteratura</td><td>Sept. 1954</td></tr><tr><td>Faculté de Droit - Paris</td><td>Licence en droit (mention A.B.)</td><td>Oct. 16, 1956</td></tr><tr><td>Institut d'Etudes Politiques<br>Paris</td><td>Diplôme des Sciences Politiques</td><td>Nov. 15, 1958</td></tr></tbody></table>

2. Academic and professional positions. (List in chronological sequence positions held in France and abroad, including your present position).

<table><tbody><tr><td>Journalist: Radio. Europe. No. 1, 1957-58</td></tr><tr><td>Voici. Pourquoi. (weekly political review), 1958-60</td></tr><tr><td>RTF (Radio-Télévision-Française) since May 1960</td></tr></tbody></table>

3. List your principal scholarly and scientific publications, monographs, and important articles, together with the names of the publishers and the dates of publication.

<table><tbody><tr><td>Voici. pourquoi: "L'Italie démantelée" (May. 1959)</td><td>"Les Réalités Sahariennes" (Sept. 59)</td></tr><tr><td>"La Corse en colère" (Dec. 1959)</td><td>"L'Algérie sous le choc" (Feb. 1960)</td></tr><tr><td>le plus long à Washington" (June 1960)</td><td>"Le début le plus long à Washington" (June 1960)</td></tr><tr><td>Inter Press: "War in San Marino" (Oct. 1957)</td><td>"Kennedy ou Nixon" (Aug. 1960)</td></tr><tr><td>Le Monde et la Vie: "Ambassades pour états fantômes" (March 1961)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Courrier du Parlement: "Du nouveau aux Caraïbes" (Jan. 1961)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>R.T.F.: "Echanges culturels franco-américains" (May 1962)</td><td>"Ala découverte de Moscou" - "Impressions de Russie" (Aug. Sept. 1961)</td></tr><tr><td>"Douze mois de Mur de Berlin" (Aug. 1962)</td><td>"Les revendications économiques de la Corse" (Nov. 1961)</td></tr><tr><td>Crenesse sur ses 14 ans passés aux E.U." (April 1962)</td><td>"Entretiens avec Pierre Crenesse"</td></tr></tbody></table>

4. References. - List names, titles and addresses of the three persons from whom you have requested letters of reference. (Applicants with the rank of University professor or Maître de Conférences are not required to submit references).

Lucien RENAULT: Directeur adjoint des Journaux Parlés et Télévisés de la RTF. 23 rue de Berne, Paris 8e

Jacques MER : Maître de Conférences à la Faculté de Droit - Député de Paris, Assemblée Nationale, Paris 7e

Maurice FERRO : Rédacteur en chef du service diplomatique de la RTF - Ancien correspondant du "Monde" à Washington - 54, Bld. Suchet, Paris 16e

## III. - KNOWLEDGE OF ENGLISH

<table><thead><tr><th>Years of study</th><th>Degrees received</th><th></th><th>Read</th><th>Speak</th><th>Understand</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1944-50</td><td>Etudes Secondaires</td><td>Excellent</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>1950</td><td>Baccalauréat (Anglais: 15 1/2 / 20</td><td>Good</td><td>Good</td><td>Good</td><td>Good</td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td>Fair</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

## IV. PLANS FOR RESEARCH OR TEACHING IN THE U.S.A.

1. What is the title of your proposed research project? "Press, Radio & Television: their influence on American public opinion"

2. Give a brief description of the project I.would like to study. the different ways of information in the United States and their problems, as they are explained to American students: Ethics and responsibility in mass communications - Public opinion and propaganda - Cultural context of political behavior - Influence of written and spoken journalism among different classes of American society.
Practical work in a N.Y. studio to study working level - Huntley-Brinkley - Meet the Press
Also contrast in American system and French Government-controlled system.
Federal Communications Commission

3. What career do you plan to pursue on your return from the United States? Journalism.
At the same time, I intend to publish a book describing the different aspects of public opinion in America.

## V. STATEMENT OF DOLLAR SUPPORT DURING STAY IN THE U.S.A.

Answer only the paragraph(s) pertinent to your application.

1. Holders of full scholarships, fellowships or grants:

a) Source

b) Amount in U.S. dollars

c) Duration of support

2. Visiting Lecturers, Professors, or Instructors:

a) American institution

b) Number of teaching hours per week

c) Salary

d) Duration of contract

3. Applicants who have personal dollar resources:

a) Source

b) Where deposited

c) Amount in U.S. dollars

**NOTE:** Applicants must furnish the following supporting documents:

1. Letter of credit.

2. Authorization of the «Office des Changes» if the funds are in francs.

3. A signed statement declaring the applicant's intent to use the amount indicated in c) above for his stay in the United States.

["4. Holders of affidavits of support from friends or relatives in the U.S.A.\n(The special form «Affidavit of support» required for a non-immigrant must be certified by the guarantors or a notary public in the U.S.A.)", "a) Name(s) and address(es) of guarantor(s) ....................................

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15 February 1965

Dr. Trusten W. Russell
Committee on International Exchange of Persons
2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington 25, D. C.

Dear Trux,

Thank you for letting me see Bill Gibson's letter about the
proposed meeting for foreign students at the time of the concurrent
meetings of MLA and AHA in December 1966. His idea sounds like a very
good one.

One ought to check however to be sure that both societies will
actually begin their meetings on the same day. I am not sure that this
is always true, and I remember some occasions when I could go to AHA
sessions after MLA had closed up. One ought to check also with ASA to
be sure their own national executive committee meeting will not divert
attendance at the conference for foreign students. I suspect it will
not.

My only real uneasiness comes in respect to the expenses for
sponsors, which would include transportation as well as "reasonable"
entertainment. This can be a very expensive item indeed, one hard to
estimate in advance or to justify as *fait accompli*. Your committee will
certainly want to discuss this aspect at next February's meeting, and
it may end up as necessarily not much more than a letter to someone in
each institution where the foreign scholar resides urging that this
institution provide some kind of sponsorship.

Presumably the meeting for 1966 could not set an annual pattern,
so long as MLA's alternation is between Chicago and New York, and that
of AHA between New York and Washington. But one meeting would be worth
trying.

In reference to the CAAS and how we can help them, my inclina-
tion is to pass the buck to ASA and concentrate our efforts on overseas
problems.

NHP:d

ORGANIZED 1883

MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA

4 Washington Place, New York, N. Y. 10003 Tel. (212) 5 Spring 7-7100

343 Upper Mountain Avenue, Upper Montclair, New Jersey
7 February 1965

Dear Trux:

Here is the paragraph you asked for concerning a possible conference for foreign students in American studies in 1966, as the ASAC talked about it on Saturday.

**Time.** The MLA and the AHA are both meeting in New York City after Christmas in 1966. Trying to hold a session for all the participating foreigners on 30 December would be a mistake because everyone is too exhausted by then. Since, conversely, even the people from the west coast can get to New York by early afternoon on 26 December, I would therefore suggest a "program" for all foreign participants and their "sponsors" at 3 or 3:30 or 5:00 p. m. on the 26th.

**Program.** First business would be very brief greetings from MLA and AHA secretaries or presidents, and representatives of the sponsoring agencies. Second, we might have a 40 minute address by a distinguished person in the American field on some phase of American culture in its international aspects. He should be paid and paid well. Third, there might be some general briefing on the programs of the two meetings; but mostly individual conferences of each participant with his sponsor planning on papers-tobbe-heard, people to be met, attending the Am lit/ASA luncheon together etc. Fourth, we might have a cocktail party--to be paid for by a publisher or some other agency perhaps--and a dinner with brief speeches, if any. 3:30 to 9:30, then, on the 26th would be the only formal "program."

**Sponsors.** Former Fulbrighters if possible, but able and interested people primarily, the ASAC ought to match up sponsors and outlanders very early in the game. They would not be expected to be nurse-maids or guides; they would be asked to work out on that first afternoon a rough schedule of activity for the sponsored, with arrangements to meet a time or two each day, perhaps for a meal, so as to be available for advice and to make such contacts as the foreign participant might reasonably like to make. — These sponsors should not be paid; but they should understand that any proper expense incurred in taking care of their protegees would be taken care of by ASAC/CIEP/CUE. This of course would include transportation if the sponsor did not already have his way paid.

**Coverage.** Such a program may not take care of all the outlanders. Any visitors interested in a field other than history or literature ought to have the choice of going to a major meeting of scholars in his discipline, again with a "sponsor" in that discipline. I would hope that there would not be too many.

Long paragraph!

Skinnerely yours,

William M. Gibson

Dr. Trusten W. Russell
CIEP, CBARG, Washington 25, D. C.
Copy to Frank Freidel

Recd
CIEP FEB 9 1965

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12 February 1965

Mr. Thomas Schafer
853 Chalmers Place
Chicago, Illinois

Dear Tom:

I was sorry that there was so much hectic about the year
that you got away before I could see you again, but presumably you
will be coming back and I hope to be a little more orderly then.

What I am writing about is to ask if you would be willing
to read Norman Pettit's revised dissertation for us. It has been
submitted for the American Studies Series and we would pay you a
fee of $50. Professor Morgan has read it and liked it and so do I.
But David Horne agrees with us that we ought to have someone with
your professional knowledge look at it from a theological point of
view. The dissertation -- "The Image of the Heart in Early Puritanism:
the Emergence in England and America of the Concept of Preparation
for Grace" -- was directed by Sydney Ahlstrom but he is in France
and John Smith is in England.

I would certainly be immensely grateful if you could help
us and if you will let me know that you are willing to read it, I
will have the Press send the manuscript to you. Fortunately it is
only a few pages over two hundred.

NHP:d

23 December 1964

Mr. Trusten W. Russell
Conference Board of Associated Research Councils
2101 Constitution Avenue
Washington, D. C. 20418

Dear Trux:

I am writing to you a letter which you will have to forward
to the right person in Washington. I am sorry to trouble you but you
are my contact with the Department of State and the various organiza-
tions which have to do with the indoctrination of foreign students who
are intending to come to this country to study.

As you know when I made my unofficial visit to the East in
1963-64, I saw a good many USIS representatives and talked with them
about their situation and needs. One desire which was expressed in
several places, and a suggestion which was enthusiastically received
whenever I mentioned it, was the desirability of a film which would be
descriptive of graduate school life in the United States. There was a
similar film prepared for undergraduate college education, the scene
of which was laid at U.C.L.A. On the whole this was a great success
and attracted a great deal of interest on the part of prospective
students.

On the other hand, it did not represent the kind of life
which the average applicant was likely to encounter when he arrived
in the U.S. Such a film could well emphasize the importance of seminar
discussion, a form of education which the average non-American is
entirely unused to. Another stress might be on the important use of
libraries and the very heavy reading assignments which are expected
for graduate school work here. As you know, even with the help we
have given, library facilities are so limited in the Far East especi-
ally, that books cannot be used in the same way that we demand from
our graduate students here. Perhaps there ought to be an emphasis
also on the fact that in most graduate schools students do not spend
long periods of the day in coffee houses. The lack of a Bohemian life
is often unexpected by the foreign student.

But I am making only a few obvious suggestions. The visual
impact of such a film would be immense and the film itself should be
thoughtfully planned. In fact, of course, the prints of the film on
undergraduate life are now worn out and those too might well be done.
My suggestion, which was seconded by all those to whom I spoke, was

Telephone Executive 3-8100

Cable Address, COINEX, Washington, D. C.

COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE OF PERSONS
CONFERENCE BOARD OF ASSOCIATED RESEARCH COUNCILS

Mailing address: 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20418

Office address: 1785 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20036

MEMBER COUNCILS

AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION

AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES

*NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES—
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

*Administrative Agency for the Committee

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

M. H. TRYTTEN, Chairman

GEORGE S. LANE

JESSE W. BEAMS

JOHN F. LATIMER

R. TAYLOR COLE

JOHN A. LOGAN

RICHARD A. HUMPHREY

SAMUEL M. NABRIT

H. FIELD HAVILAND, JR.

JOHN W. NASON

AMOS H. HAWLEY

ROY HARVEY PEARCE

December 31, 1964

FRANCIS A. YOUNG

Executive Secretary

Prof. Norman H. Pearson,
Chairman
American Studies Program
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Dear Norman:

Thank you very much for your interesting and important letter
of December 23. I think that our Advisory Committee on American
Studies as well as the Conference Board Committee will wish to give
strong support to the film project which you have in mind.

By way of preliminary exploration we have sent a copy of your
letter to Gilbert Anderson of the Department of State's Office of
Programs and Services with the thought that he will wish to bring
together representatives of the USIS and the graduate student ex-
change division as well as of the professor exchange division of the
department for a discussion of the film idea. I believe he will
move speedily and that we can give you a kind of progress report
within the next week or ten days.

I should like to mention again our advisory committee meeting
on February 5 - 6 in the hope that you will be able to join us for
both days. As you know, the first day is given to general discussion
with representatives of various other Governmental and private agen-
cies, while the second day is a closed session of members and con-
sultants.

Sincerely yours,

6 January 1965

Mr. Trusten W. Russell
Executive Associate
Conf. Board of Associated Research Councils
2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington 25, D. C.

Dear Trux:

I am most grateful to you for taking action on my letter
of December 23. I am of course particularly pleased that the sug-
gestion meets with your approval. I very much hope that something
can be done along this line and would be glad to consult with the
proper authorities if I can be of any assistance. There are a good
many other matters relating to USIS Centers, especially in Japan,
that might be discussed.

I am planning to attend your advisory committee meeting on
February 5 and 6 and will plan to come down on the fourth, and stay
through for both days. If you could arrange for a room for me at
the DuPont Plaza, I should be most grateful.

NHF:d

7 April 1965

Mr. Francis A. Young, Executive Secretary
Conference Board of Associated Research Councils
2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20418

Dear Francis:

I am just back from three weeks in Greece and find your letter
of March 25th waiting for me. I had not known of the Yeats memorial
meeting in Japan when we were together in Washington. What occasioned
my letter to you was the letter to me from Professor Oura asking if I
could suggest ways in which Richard Ellerman's presence could be made
possible. Since as you know I am very much convinced that American
academic prestige in Japan depends upon our representation by others
than those who are strictly Americanists, it seemed to me that the
Yeats meeting might me an excellent moment for State Department sponsor-
ship. You and Trux are really the ones I depend upon for liaison,
since as you know I am a babe in the Washington woods. Do you think
there is anyone to whom I might write or any way in which I could gain
more information to use in my reply to Professor Oura?

With all best wishes, as always,

NHP:d

11 March 1965

Mr. Francis A. Young, Executive Secretary
Conference Board of Associated
Research Councils
2101 Constitution Avenue
Washington 25, D. C.

Dear Fran:

In today's mail I received two more
documents related to the Yeats memorial meet-
ing in Japan, copies of which are enclosed.

I hope it will not seem irrelevant
to urge an American representative as the
chief figure at a memorial for an Irishman,
but it is just this critical and academic
preeminence on the part of Americans that the
presence of someone like Ellman would emphasize.

NHP:d

8 March 1965

Dear Fran:

I am sorry to have delayed in returning to you the reply to
the request by the Board of Foreign Scholarships. Because of my adminis-
trative responsibilities as chairman of American Studies, I felt that I
ought to consult with the Provost about the University's attitude toward
such absences. I have now been told that occasional trips of this kind
would not be against Yale policy although of course particular urgencies
might make it impossible. I have filled out the form, therefore, on
somewhat vague terms. I have indicated the specific area in India and
the Pacific in general as an area of preference simply because at the
moment my knowledge is fresher for that part of the globe and because
it seems to me useful to continue to develop some of the contacts I
established.

In today's mail the enclosed letter came to me from Professor
Oura of the University of Kyoto, asking if it is possible to send
Richard Ellman to the Yeats celebration. It seems to me a worthwhile
effort if funds of some sort were available or if you had suggestions
of a foundation to which I might turn. I am a little dubious of the
likelihood of getting any funds from a private foundation and think that
the likeliest solution would be to send Ellman out on government funds.
Will you let me know what you and Trux think about this?

Sincerely,

MHP:d

Norman Holmes Pearson
Chairman

Telephone EXecutive 3-8100

MEMBER COUNCILS

AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

February 26, 1965

Professor Norman H. Pearson
Department of American Studies
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Dear Professor Pearson:

The Board of Foreign Scholarships has asked me to write to you concerning a limited number of Distinguished Scholar Awards which will be offered under the Fulbright-Hays Act to enable scholars of outstanding reputation to lecture abroad for short periods of time on an invitational basis.

There is a growing number of requests from foreign universities for American scholars to participate in international symposia, to conduct seminars, or to serve as consultants for periods as short as two or three weeks, and the Board hopes that these special lectureships will enable scholars who have been unavailable in the past for regular awards to bring new distinction and effectiveness to the Fulbright exchange program.

Several months ago the Committee on International Exchange of Persons, after reviewing names suggested by its own advisory screening committees and by the binational Fulbright commissions overseas, submitted to the Board lists of distinguished scholars in American history, literature, and political institutions whose participation in the program on a short-time basis would be especially valuable. So far the Board has requested me to write to ten selected scholars in each of these fields.

In the hope that you will be interested in this new development in the Fulbright program, I am enclosing a brief reply form. On the basis of this reply, the Committee will be able to bring to your attention specific invitations or requests from abroad and, if you find that you are in a position to consider getting away, will be able to complete arrangements without the necessity of application forms or long delays.

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Enclosure

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

M. H. TRYTEN, Chairman

JESSE W. BEAMS

R. TAYLOR COLE

RICHARD A. HUMPHREY

H. FIELD HAVILAND, JR.

AMOS H. HAWLEY

GEORGE S. LANE

JOHN F. LATIMER

JOHN A. LOGAN

SAMUEL M. NABRIT

JOHN W. NASON

ROY HARVEY PEARCE

FRANCIS A. YOUNG
Executive Secretary

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7 July 1965

Mr. Trusten W. Russell
2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D. C. 20418

Dear Trux:

I was very much interested indeed to receive your communica-
tion of July first with its enclosures. Any list of this sort is
valuable if for no other reason than to inform us of how poor the
available list is. In other words, we should do this for ourselves
rather than for the nations concerned. Otherwise we have no basis
for assessing our image in their mirror. I was interested also in
the list of books translated by USIS in condensed form for their low-
priced book program. Naturally I respect the local opinion which
lies behind the choice of titles. Viewed from a distance, however,
the rationale is hard to follow.

The question of whether Walter Johnson's suggestion implies
that the list should be compiled by the Conference Board's committee
or, whether he is asking only for our endorsement, is not clear to
me. It seems to me that such lists can only be prepared overseas in
the countries immediately concerned. I know that the Japanese USIS
office has in fact prepared such a list and I suspect that other
agencies in other countries have similarly proceeded. If our endorse-
ment is in question I am altogether in favor; if it is a question of
asking the members themselves to prepare the list I doubt that it
would be a success. In any event, I think a selective list in terms
of books in print is preferable to an inclusive list.

NHP:d

Recd
CWP:

JUN 17 1965

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Dear Dr. Russell:

An interesting request recently was directed to the staff of the U.S. Commission for UNESCO concerning the need for a bibliography of works on American history in the French language. The inquiry was from USIS-Ottawa. Follow-up inquiries were made without success to the Library of Congress, the U.S. Information Service in Paris, the American Council of Learned Societies, and several individual sources. There are bibliographies available in the USIA of their translations and these, of course, are helpful if not definitive. I should add that Professor Duroselle of the Fulbright Commission was also unable to provide information to us.

Dr. Walter Johnson of the Advisory Commission suggests that the preparation of a bibliography of this kind would be a useful service. He wondered if the Conference Board's Committee on American Studies would be interested in the compilation as a special project. It seems to me that if proper guidelines were developed progress could be made by utilizing the American Studies professors on Fulbright-Hays grants to France. A master plan, some over-all direction, and a source of duplicating and distributing the results would have to be developed. Perhaps on the latter, the ACLS might be willing to assist at the appropriate time.

I want to share the matter with you in this letter and ask for your reactions. As of background interest to you there are enclosed bibliographies prepared by the United States Information Agency.

Thank you for your consideration of this proposal.

Enclosures:

As stated.

Trusten W. Russell, Ph.D.,
Director, Advisory Committee on
American Studies,
Conference Board of Associated
Research Councils,
2101 Constitution Avenue, N. W.,
Washington, D. C. 20418.

CU/ECS/UA:GAnderson:efw:6/16/65

FY 1963

FRENCH (France)

| | Edition Size | Retail Sales Price |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **Draper, Theodore, CASTRO'S REVOLUTION: MYTHS AND REALITIES** | 4,500 | $1.79 |
| **Kennedy, John F., TO TURN THE TIDE, ed. by John W. Gardner** | 6,000 | 1.11 |
| **Nef, John U., A LA RECHERCHE DE LA CIVILISATION (locally written)** | 3,000 | 1.43 |
| **2 translated books** | 10,500 | |
| **1 locally written book** | 3,000 | |
| **TOTAL** | **3 volumes** | **13,500** |

**Low-Priced Books**

| | | |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **Anderson, Marian, MY LORD, WHAT A MORNING (condensation)** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Anderson, Raymond W., ROMPING THROUGH MATHEMATICS** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Antonacci, Robert J. and Barr, Jene, BASKETBALL FOR YOUNG CHAMPIONS** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Asimov, Isaac, BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE UNIVERSE (condensation)** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Bates, Marston, THE FOREST AND THE SEA (condensation)** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Becker, Beril, MECHANICAL MAN** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Benedict, Jeanne, ELECTRONICS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Burgess, Perry, WHO WALK ALONE (condensation)** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Burlingame, Roger, MACHINES THAT BUILT AMERICA** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Butcher, Margaret Just, THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN CULTURE (condensation)** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Campion, Nardi Reeder, PATRICK HENRY, FIREBRAND OF THE REVOLUTION** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Carroll, Gladys Hasty, AS THE EARTH TURNS (condensation)** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Carson, Rachel, THE SEA AROUND US** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Chase, Mary Ellen, A GOODLY FELLOWSHIP (condensation)** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Chauncey, Henry, ed., TALKS ON AMERICAN EDUCATION** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Clark, G. Glenwood, THOMAS ALVA EDISON** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Clark, Walter Van Tilburg, THE TRACK OF THE CAT (condensation)** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Clemens, Samuel L., THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Cooper, Elizabeth K., DISCOVERING CHEMISTRY** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Crane, Stephen, SHORT STORIES "The Blue Hotel;" "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky;" "The Little Regiment;" "A Grey Sleeve;" "Shame"** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Crouse, William H., UNDERSTANDING SCIENCE (condensation)** | 10,000 | .20 |

FY 1963

FRENCH (France) - 2

<table><thead><tr><th></th><th>Edition Size</th><th>Retail Sales Price</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Deal, Borden, DUNBAR'S COVE (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>$ .20</td></tr><tr><td>Debu-Bridel, Jacques, LA FAYETTE</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>de Kruif, Paul, MICROBE HUNTERS (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>de Tocqueville, Alexis, DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Donovan, Robert J., PT 109: JOHN F. KENNEDY IN WORLD WAR II</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Eaton, Jeanette, THE STORY OF ELEANOR ROOSEVELT</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Eberle, Irmengarde, MODERN MEDICAL DISCOVERIES</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Fanning, Leonard M., FATHERS OF INDUSTRIES (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Federalists, HAMILTON, MADISON, AND JAY ON THE CONSTITUTION; Selections from the Federalist Papers, ed. by Ralph H. Gabriel (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Franklin, Benjamin, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Galbraith, John Kenneth, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN PERSPECTIVE</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Gersh, Harry, WOMEN WHO MADE AMERICA GREAT (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Gibson, Althea, I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE SOMEBODY (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Gould, Jean, THAT DUNBAR BOY (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Gruber, Ruth, PUERTO RICO: ISLAND OF PROMISE</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Gruber, Ruth, SCIENCE AND THE NEW NATIONS (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Guthrie, Albert B., Jr., THE WAY WEST (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Haggerty, James J., Jr., SPACECRAFT</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Halacy, Dan S., Jr., FABULOUS FIREBALL</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Hammond, Winifred, RICE: FOOD FOR A HUNGRY WORLD</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Hughes, Langston, ed., AN AFRICAN TREASURY, Vol. I</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Hughes, Langston, ed., AN AFRICAN TREASURY, Vol. II</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Hughes, Langston, FAMOUS AMERICAN NEGROES</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Hughes, Langston, THE FIRST BOOK OF JAZZ</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Joy, Charles R., RACE BETWEEN FOOD AND PEOPLE</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>King, Martin Luther, Jr., STRIDE TOWARD FREEDOM (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Komroff, Manuel, BIG CITY, LITTLE BOY (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Lee, Bruce, BOY'S LIFE OF JOHN F. KENNEDY</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Lengyel, Cornel, FOUR DAYS IN JULY (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Lilienthal, David E., TVA: DEMOCRACY ON THE MARCH (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Mandelbaum, Arnold, ELECTRICITY: THE STORY OF POWER</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Mann, Martin, PEACETIME USES OF ATOMIC ENERGY</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Martin, Lealon E., CONQUEST OF DISEASE</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>McMillen, Wheeler, LAND OF PLENTY: THE AMERICAN FARM STORY</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr></tbody></table>

FY 1964

FRENCH (France)

| | Edition Size | Retail Sales Price |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Mooney, Booth, THE LYNDON JOHNSON STORY | 6,000 | $3.06 |
| Penniman, Howard R., THE AMERICAN POLITICAL PROCESS | 1,000 | 1.22 |
| Terre, Helene, L'ENSEIGNEMENT AUX ETATS-UNIS (locally written) | 5,000 | 1.53 |
| | | |
| 2 translated editions | 7,000 | |
| 1 locally written book | 5,000 | |
| | | |
| **TOTAL** | **3 volumes** | **12,000** |

Low-Priced Book Program

| | | |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Aldridge, Alfred O., MAN OF REASON, THE LIFE OF THOMAS PAINE (condensation) | 11,500 | .20 |
| Armbruster, Maxim E., THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES | 10,000 | .20 |
| Asimov, Isaac, BREAKTHROUGHS IN SCIENCE | 10,000 | .20 |
| Barr, George, YOUNG SCIENTIST LOOKS AT SKYSCRAPERS | 11,500 | .20 |
| Beaty, John Y., LUTHER BURBANK: PLANT MAGICIAN (condensation) | 10,000 | .20 |
| Billings, Henry, BRIDGES (condensation) | 10,000 | .20 |
| Brace, Gerald Warner, THE WORLD OF CARRICK'S COVE (condensation) | 10,000 | .20 |
| Bruckberger, R. L., LA REPUBLIQUE AMERICAINE (condensation) | 10,000 | .20 |
| Chase, Stuart, THE PROPER STUDY OF MANKIND (condensation) | 10,000 | .20 |
| Chase, Stuart, SOME THINGS WORTH KNOWING (condensation) | 11,500 | .20 |
| Coyle, David C., THE UNITED NATIONS AND HOW IT WORKS | 10,000 | .20 |
| Douglas, William O., MUIR OF THE MOUNTAINS | 10,000 | .20 |
| Dukert, Joseph M., ATOMPOWER (condensation) | 11,500 | .20 |
| Durant, John, HIGHLIGHTS OF THE OLYMPICS | 10,000 | .20 |
| Eaton, Jeanette, TRUMPETER'S TALE, THE STORY OF YOUNG LOUIS ARMSTRONG | 10,000 | .20 |
| Eichelberger, Clark M., THE UN TODAY | 11,500 | .20 |
| Epstein, Beryl and Sam, THE STORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS (condensation) | 10,000 | .20 |
| Escher, Franklin, Jr., A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES | 10,000 | .20 |
| Faber, Doris, THE MIRACLE OF VITAMINS | 10,000 | .20 |
| Faber, Doris, PRINTER'S DEVIL TO PUBLISHER, ADOLPH S. OCHS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES (condensation) | 11,500 | .20 |
| Flexner, Eleanor, CENTURY OF STRUGGLE: THE WOMAN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES (condensation) | 10,000 | .20 |
| Forbes, Esther, JOHNNY TREMAIN (condensation) | 10,000 | .20 |
| Forsee, Aylesa, FRANK LLOYD WEIGHT, REBEL IN CONCRETE (condensation) | 10,000 | .20 |
| Friedrich, Carl J. and McCloskey, Robert G., FROM THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE TO THE CONSTITUTION (condensation) | 10,000 | .20 |

FY 1964

FRENCH (France)

<table><thead><tr><th></th><th>Edition Size</th><th>Retail Sales Pr</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Galt, Tom, PETER ZENGER, FIGHTER FOR FREEDOM</td><td>10,000</td><td>$ .20</td></tr><tr><td>Gamow, George, A PLANET CALLED EARTH (condensation)</td><td>11,500</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Gamow, George, ONE, TWO, THREE, INFINITY...(condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Glasgow, Ellen, BARREN GROUND (condensation)</td><td>11,500</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Godwin, Francis W.; Goodwin, Richard N. and Hallad, William F., THE HIDDEN FORCE</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Griffith, Ernest S., THE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Hall-Quest, Olga W., GUARDIANS OF LIBERTY: SAM ADAMS AND JOHN HANCOCK</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Clyde, Margaret O., THIS CRODED PLANET (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Jaffe, Bernard, CHEMISTRY CREATES A NEW WORLD (condensation)</td><td>11,500</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Johnson, Lyndon B., A TIME FOR ACTION (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Lee, Harper, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Lehrman, Robert L., THE LONG ROAD TO MAN (condensation)</td><td>11,500</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Lindbergh, Charles A., THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Maritain, Jacques, REFLECTIONS ON AMERICA</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>McKee, Elmore M., THE PEOPLE ACT (Ladder edition)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>McLaughlin, Kathleen, WHAT'S THE U.N. DOING THERE?</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Means, Marianne, THE WOMAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Miller, Wilma K. and Akioye, Isaac A., PHYSICAL EDUCATION ACTIVITIES FOR THE PRIMARY SCHOOL</td><td>11,500</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Montagu, Ashley, MAN: HIS FIRST MILLION YEARS (condensation)</td><td>11,500</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Moody, Ralph, LITTLE BRITCHES (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Moody, Ralph, WELLS FARGO</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Mooney, Booth, THE LYNDON JOHNSON STORY (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Morison, Samuel Eliot, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, MARINER (condensation)</td><td>11,500</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Mortensen, Jesse P. and Cooper, John M., TRACK AND FIELD (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Noble, Iris, FIRST WOMAN AMBULANCE SURGEON, EMILY BARRINGER</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>North, Sterling, ABE LINCOLN: LOG CABIN TO WHITE HOUSE</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Nourse, Alan E., NINE PLANETS (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Orr, Clyde, Jr., BETWEEN EARTH AND SPACE (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Overstreet, Harry and Bonaro, WHAT WE MUST KNOW ABOUT COMMUNISM: ITS BEGINNINGS, ITS GROWTH, ITS PRESENT STATUS (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Peare, Catherine Owens, WOODROW WILSON STORY</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Ravielli, Anthony, AN ADVENTURE IN GEOMETRY</td><td>11,500</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Richter, Conrad, THE SEA OF GRASS</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr></tbody></table>

FY 1964

FRENCH (France) -3

| | Edition Size | Retail Sales Price |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **Schachner, Nathan, ALEXANDER HAMILTON (condensation)** | 11,500 | $ .20 |
| **Schechter, Betty, THE PEACEABLE REVOLUTION (condensation)** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Schneider, Herman, EVERYDAY WEATHER AND HOW IT WORKS (condensation)** | 11,500 | .20 |
| **Schoell, Franck, HISTORY OF THE NEGRO IN THE UNITED STATES** | 20,000 | .20 |
| **Shelton, William Roy, FLIGHTS OF THE ASTRONAUTS** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Shippen, Katherine B., I KNOW A CITY** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Shippen, Katherine B., MEN OF MEDICINE (condensation)** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Simak, Clifford D., THE SOLAR SYSTEM: OUR NEW FRONT** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **YARD (condensation)** | | |
| **Sloop, Mary T. Martin, MIRACLE IN THE HILLS (condensation)** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Various authors, Drinkwater, John, ABRAHAM LINCOLN** | 11,500 | .20 |
| **Van Doren, Mark, THE LAST DAYS OF LINCOLN** | | |
| **Various authors, FOURTH SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGY** | 11,500 | .20 |
| **Caldwell, Erskine, "Horse Thief"** | | |
| **Clark, Walter Van Tilburg, "The Wind and the Snow of Winter"** | | |
| **Horgan, Paul, "To the Mountains"** | | |
| **Marquand, John P., "Children's Page"** | | |
| **O. Henry, "The Ransom of Red Chief"** | | |
| **Thurber, James, "The Catbird Seat"** | | |
| **Williams, William Carlos, "The Use of Force"** | | |
| **Von Braun, Wernher, FIRST MEN TO THE MOON** | 11,500 | .20 |
| **Waite, Helen E., VALIANT COMPANIONS (condensation)** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Washington, Booker T., UP FROM SLAVERY (condensation)** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Wiedner, Donald L., A HISTORY OF AFRICA SOUTH OF THE** | 350 | |
| **SAHARA ( serialization in newspaper)** | | |
| **Wouk, Herman, THE CITY BOY (condensation)** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **71 translated editions** | 748,500 | |
| **1 serialization** | 350 | |
| **TOTAL** | **72** | **748,850** |

Low-Priced Book Program - 2nd Printings FY 1964

| | | |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **Cooper, Elizabeth K., DISCOVERING CHEMISTRY** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Crouse, William H., UNDERSTANDING SCIENCE (condensation)** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Eberle, Irmengarde, MODERN MEDICAL DISCOVERIES** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Graham, Shirley and Lipscomb, George D., DR. GEORGE** | 5,000 | .20 |
| **WASHINGTON CARVER, SCIENTIST (condensation)** | | |
| **Haggerty, James J., Jr., SPACECRAFT** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **Hughes, Langston, FAMOUS AMERICAN NEGROES** | 10,000 | .20 |
| **King, Martin L., Jr., STRIDE TOWARD FREEDOM (condensation)** | 10,000 | .20 |

FY 1964

FRENCH (France)-4

<table><thead><tr><th></th><th>Edition Size</th><th>Retail Sales Price</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Mandelbaum, Arnold, ELECTRICITY: THE STORY OF POWER</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Martin, Lealon E., CONQUEST OF DISEASE</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>McKay, Vernon, AFRICA IN WORLD POLITICS (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Quarles, Benjamin, LINCOLN AND THE NEGRO (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Ravielli, Anthony, WONDERS OF THE HUMAN BODY</td><td>20,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Schlesinger, Arthur M., PATHS TO THE PRESENT</td><td>5,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Soule, George, IDEAS OF THE GREAT ECONOMISTS (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Tor, Regina and Roosevelt, Eleanor, GROWING TOWARD PEACE</td><td>5,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Wiedner, Donald L., A HISTORY OF AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA, Part I</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>16 volumes</td><td>155,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">Published FY 1963, Received in Agency FY 1964</td></tr><tr><td>Barnes, Eric Wollencott, FREE MEN MUST STAND (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Chambers, Robert W. and Payne, Alma S., FROM CELL TO TEST TUBE (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Clarke, Arthur C., VOICE ACROSS THE SEA (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Copans, Sim, ed., ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN POETRY</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Crane, Stephen, THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Crossfield, A. Scott and Blair, Clay, Jr., ALWAYS ANOTHER DAWN (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Davis, Russell and Ashabranner, Brent, POINT FOUR ASSIGNMENT (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Denison, Merrill, THE POWER TO GO (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Douglas, William O., THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Haber, Heinz, STARS, MEN AND ATOMS (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Hansberry, Lorraine, A RAISIN IN THE SUN</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Johnson, Alvin, THE BATTLE OF THE WILD TURKEY AND OTHER TALES</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>McKay, Vernon, AFRICA IN WORLD POLITICS (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Padover, Saul K., GENIUS OF AMERICA (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Plimpton, Ruth, OPERATION CROSSROADS AFRICA (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Ross, Ishbel, ANGEL OF THE BATTLEFIELD (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Ruchlis, Hyman, THE WONDER OF LIGHT (condensation)</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Various authors, ANTHOLOGY OF SIX SHORT STORIES</td><td>10,000</td><td>.20</td></tr><tr><td>Canfield, Dorothy, "Flint and Fire"</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Cather, Willa, "Neighbour Rosicky"</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Ferber, Edna, "Farmer in the Dell"</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Hall, Lawrence, "The Hedge"</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, "A Mother in Mannville"</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Welty, Eudora, "Livvie is Back"</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>TOTAL</td><td>18 volumes</td><td>180,000</td></tr></tbody></table>

FY 1962

FRENCH (France)

| | Edition Size | Retail Sales Price |
| :--- | :---: | :---: |
| Arendt, Hannah, THE HUMAN CONDITION | 3,150 | $2.43 |
| d' Haucourt, Genevieve, THE AMERICAN FRONTIER: PIONEER LIFE IN INDIANA (locally written) | 2,500 | 4.06 |
| **TOTAL** | **2 volumes** | **5,650** |

P. L. 480 Textbook Program

| | | |
| :--- | :---: | :---: |
| Baur, John, NEW ART IN AMERICA: 20TH CENTURY PAINTING | 2,500 | 19.39 |
| Berger, Arthur, AARON COPLAND | 3,300 | 2.45 |
| Bowie, R. and C. J. Friedrich, STUDIES IN FEDERALISM, Vol. II | 1,000 | 9.18 |
| Brown, John, HEMINGWAY | 7,600 | 1.94 |
| Einaudi, Mario, THE ROOSEVELT REVOLUTION | 4,000 | 3.06 |
| Hoover, Kathleen and John Cage, VIRGIL THOMSON | 3,300 | 3.67 |
| Lerner, Max, AMERICA AS A CIVILIZATION | 4,000 | 7.14 |
| Rosenberg, Harold, THE TRADITION OF THE NEW | 3,000 | 3.06 |
| **TOTAL** | **8 volumes** | **28,700** |

Low-Priced Books

| | | |
| :--- | :---: | :---: |
| Graham, Shirley and Lipscomb, George D., DR. GEORGE<br>WASHINGTON CARVER, SCIENTIST (condensation) | 10,000 | |
| Kennedy, John F., PROFILES IN COURAGE (abridgment) | 10,000 | |
| Kousoulas, Dimitrios, KEY TO ECONOMIC PROGRESS<br>Lorant, Stephen, LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN<br>(Ladder edition) | 10,000<br>10,000 | .15<br>.15 |
| Morgan, Murray, DOCTORS TO THE WORLD (Ladder edition) | 10,000 | .15 |
| **TOTAL** | **5 volumes** | **50,000** |

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February 16, 1965

Professor Norman Holmes Pearson
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New Haven, Connecticut

Dear Professor Pearson:

I am grateful for your interest in and labors on behalf of our educational program. Your letter of recommendation and that of Professor Folsom suggest that Mr. Church is very much the kind of student to whom we wish to offer the opportunity of working and studying for a summer at the Smithsonian.

I have sent a copy of his application and the supporting letters to Mr. Malcolm Watkins, Head of the Division of Cultural History, with whom Mr. Church will work if he is selected. Mr. Watkins may wish to be in touch with Mr. Church to discuss projects planned for the summer.

The Smithsonian selection board will be evaluating applications and deciding on successful candidates early in the spring, and I will then notify Mr. Church of action taken on his application.

Many thanks for your assistance.

May 3, 1966

Mr. Trusten W. Russell, Executive Associate
Committee on International Exchange of Persons
2101 Constitution Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20418

Dear Trux:

Thank you for your letter of the 20th. Karl Deutsch's
letter had some excellent generalizations although not much that
was revolutionary.

I'm sorry about the conflict between the German spring-
summer term and our own at least at Yale. April 15th comes at the
worst time for us, preceding as it does the reading of dissertations,
final examinations, and other hideous but necessary finalities for
the year.

Bob Spiller is retiring from Pennsylvania in June 1967.
Perhaps he might like to go for one or another period in the year
following.

NHP/s

Department of Political Science

3.18.1966

Mr. Trusten W. Russell
Executive Associate
Committee on International Exchange of Persons
1200 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036

Dear Mr. Russell:

Here are the notes on some possible lines of
development for an American Studies program in the German Federal
Republic, which you requested in our telephone conversation. You
know, of course, that these can be only first reactions, made without
knowledge of many particular circumstances that might be relevant,
and I trust that you will treat them as exploratory.

If I understand you correctly, you are considering
a plan to send each year only about four leading scholars from the
United States to Germany, but to make an effort to attract men of
standing, who are actively engaged in significant research, and who
are apt to function effectively in a German university context.
These men are to be sent to Germany for one term of about three or
four months, and they are to be attached there to two German
universities in the case of each scholar. Each scholar then will
be expected to give a series of lectures at each institution, and
generally to engage in the research and seminar activities which are
going on in his field at these institutions.

This plan seems very promising to me. It assumes,
of course, that there are at least some interested faculty members
and some relevant on-going activities at the German host institutions.
The chances of this condition being met would be greatly enhanced
by identifying the program as one in "Comparative Studies," rather
than one of "American Studies" alone.

This point seems to me important. A special field of
American studies will be of interest only to a very few specialists
in the usual German university faculty - if indeed there are any
permanent chairs or lectureships in American studies at the particular
university in question - and they may interest very seriously only a
few students who may specialize in this area despite the present limited
career opportunities for such young specialists in Germany.

A broader application of the American experience,
however, to many of the problems in political science and international
relations, and presumably also in other social sciences and modern history,

Mr. Trusten W. Russell

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would interest a much larger number of the best and intellectually most active faculty members and students at the major West German universities. These men are genuinely interested in getting a better understanding of their own chosen fields and to enhance their knowledge of relevant facts and methods. If they can be helped to discover American studies and American social science methods and results as significant aids to their own work, their own interests would make them favorable and receptive to the program.

To make such a program fully credible and effective, it should include a visible mutual exchange of scholars of comparable competence between the two countries. Perhaps four leading scholars from the German Federal Republic could be invited each year to the United States, under arrangements similar to those envisaged for the four American scholars going to West Germany. Such men as Karl Dietrich Bracher of the University of Bonn, Ernst Fraenkel of the Free University of Berlin, Ralph Dahrendorf of the University of Tübingen, and Alexander Mitscherlich of the University of Heidelberg could make important contributions to the work of American universities in the study of democracy, comparative constitutional law, political sociology and social psychiatry, respectively. (I have no doubt that each of these men would be more than welcome here at Yale).

In addition, however, the program might well include also a number of research and training grants for younger faculty members from both countries, so as to give them an opportunity to broaden their existing research interests and competence by becoming familiar with relevant facts or methods that are available more fully in the other country.

In any case, the program should stress on both sides of the Atlantic the gains to be realized from bringing together some of our human and intellectual resources for the common advancement of knowledge in both countries.

I hope that these notes may be of some use to you, and that you will forgive the crudities of the draft and of my typing.

Yours sincerely,

Karl W. Deutsch
Professor of Political Science

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June 12, 1972

Professor Norman Pearson
Department of American Studies
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut 06520

Dear Professor Pearson:

In accordance with our telephone conversation regarding the program of Professor Bo Hyung LEE, I am enclosing a copy of his application for your review. As I mentioned, Professor Lee has been nominated by the United States Educational Commission in Korea for an award under the 1972-73 Fulbright-Hays program. The provisions of the grant include international travel and a maintenance allowance for five months, beginning September 1972.

We would appreciate your advice as to whether Yale would be the appropriate institution for his research on the abolition movement, particularly with reference to William Lloyd Garrison, and whether there would be any faculty member interested in his research proposal. In addition to resource materials which may be available in the library, the Committee feels that it is important that he have the opportunity to consult with an American scholar in his field of research.

We hope that if appropriate arrangements can be made for Professor Lee's program at Yale, you will be able to confirm the official arrangements for his affiliation through the Office of the Graduate Dean, in accordance with our usual procedure. Forms are enclosed for this purpose.

I would appreciate your advice at your earliest convenience so that the Committee can complete the review of Professor Lee's application and make an appropriate recommendation to the Board of Foreign Scholarships. In the meantime, we will clarify with Ed Wright in Korea, Professor Lee's plans for the summer months prior to his arrival at Yale.

With kindest regards, I am

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April 18, 1966

Dr. Trusten W. Russell, Executive Associate
Conference Board of Associated Research Councils
1200 Seventeenth Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20036

Dear Trux:

Your letter of the 4th was written just as I returned
from a twenty-day quickie on business and pleasure to England
and Switzerland, so I apologize for my delay in answering it.
I had left on the 16th of March and so did not know that Holborn
had been in Washington with you.

He will be an excellent representative. There can be
none better. It would be an honor to try to follow in his foot-
steps, but for the next year or two (probably until the Fall of
1968) I really won't be available for anything much more than
the two-week conference type of travel. So long as I am Chairman,
I can't get away for a term, and in 1967-68 when I shall have
stopped being one I shall have to finish some long delayed com-
mitments of scholarship. A scholar-in-residence arrangement
would take me too far away from my Hawthorne materials.

I imagine spring must be in full flower with you in
Washington. Here it is just beginning.

NHP/s

20 February 1968

Trusten W. Russell, Exec. Assoc.
Committee on International Exchange of Persons
2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C., 20418

Dear Trux,

I did receive an invitation last November from Dean Sadaichi Oyama, of the Faculty of Letters at Kyodai, to come for their Spring Term in 1970 and stay on for the Kyoto Summer Session. I wrote him on the 22nd of November saying that I would be happy to go, provided of course that arrangements could be made with the Fulbright funds for financing it. I have not heard anything since, and indeed I imagine it will be many months more before the matter officially reaches your office. If indeed it ever does, what with the tightening of funds as well as the fact that my vetting hasn't been renewed, like my smallpox inoculations, for many year. In any event Japan seems to take it for granted that I will come, for I receive many letters from there expressing their pleasure.

Do by all means assure Mr Nishimura that I still hope to come, and give him my greetings when you do so.

I apologize for my delay in answering your letter of the 6th. It came while I was on a quick trip abroad from which I returned only on the night of the 14th. I flew over on the 29th at night to Frankfurt, thanks to the University there which paid my passage and a fat fee to give a public lecture and hold a weekend seminar (with Prof. James Young, now Fulbright in Vienna) in the Taunus. Then since the ticket permitted it, I had a week in Copenhagen to confer with the National Museum about the restoration of Brattahlid in Greenland, and afterwards for a couple of days to Oslo where I gave another public lecture and had the chance to go over the dissertation being done by one of their staff for a Yale degree under my direction. Lots of snow in Oslo, and ptarmigan as a seasonable luncheon.

Sincerely,

3730 39th Street N W
Washington, D.C. 20016

December 29, 1968

Professor Norman Holmes Pearson
Department of English
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut 06520

Dear Norman,

I did appreciate very much your sending a generous message on the
occasion of my retirement from the staff of the Fulbright committee.

It has been a great privilege to be permitted to work closely with
the Advisory Committee on American Studies over the past decade. It
has been a particular honor and satisfaction to have been able to do
so in cooperation with leading scholars like yourself who have such
deep loyalty and devotion to the important task of lecturing abroad
about America and receiving scholars from abroad who have decided to
specialize in American Studies.

I can't help believing that some time before long an organization like
Education and World Affairs will want to call a meeting to discuss the
formation of an advisory council on American Studies abroad. There is
no such meeting proposed, much less called. It's just that it seems
time to think of coordinating some of the American Studies abroad
functions of outfits like the ASA, the ACLS American Studies
Program, and the Fulbright Advisory Committee.

I regret being slow in thanking for your message of November 13.
First there were many little Fulbright tasks to complete. Then, just
when I was breaking free, the flu caught me and held on.

With kindest regards and best wishes for 1969,

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Washington, D.C. 20520

In reply refer to
CU/EA

June 12, 1969

Professor Norman H. Pearson
39 Goodrich Street
Hamden, Connecticut

Dear Professor Pearson:

Thank you for sending the acceptance of your grant
to lecture in Japan.

The supplemental dollar grant will be paid to you
after your return to your home. We shall appreciate
it if you will let us know when you arrive back in
the States.

American Studies: An International Newsletter

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2101 CONSTITUTION AVENUE • WASHINGTON, D. C. 20418
Executive Secretary, John L. Landgraf

Editor, Brian J. Svikhart
Consulting Editor, Robert H. Walker

17 December 1971

Professor Norman Holmes Pearson
2731 Hall of Graduate Studies
Yale University
New Haven CT 06520

Dear Professor Pearson:

I hope the past month, since last we corresponded, has seen you
on less familiar terms with the hospital and that you are back in good
spirits and health.

I appreciate the good words in your letter of 15 November. Let
there remain some hope for an essay from your fine pen, even if demands
from many quarters make realistic consideration on your part a thing of
the unforeseeable future.

Perhaps an upcoming issue of AS:AIN could include an essay such as we have discussed authored by a Japanese scholar; it would become a "companion piece" should we later be able to feature your own words.
My reading has led me to Katsuhiro Jinzaki again--he did a "Letter" for us early in 1971--as a possible Japanese author for us. I would most sincerely appreciate your thoughts on this, and particularly your recommendations of other possibilities. I had thought perhaps in our choice to avoid the old guard.

With warmest regards and good wishes for a Merry Christmas season,

BJS/ck

November 15, 1971

Mr. Brian J. Svikhart, Ed.
American Studies Newsletter
Committee on International Exchange of Persons
2101 Constitution Avenue
Washington, D. C. 20418

Dear Mr. Svikhart:

I cannot feel anything but flattered by the suggestion from you and Bob Walker that I try to draft some kind of article out of what I had to say at the ASA session. The fact however that I am not yet back in my office officially, or even unofficially, and am not likely to be allowed to do so for more than a few hours each afternoon leads me to beg off. Actually it was fatigue more than anything else which led to my muscle spasms, and it was only last mid-week that I was sent home from the hospital. I shall have to cut down my commitments and had better concentrate on the many which still remain before I try to take on anything else.

Actually there was very little new that I had to say, thinking that I ought to concentrate on specifics rather than otherwise. I had hoped to be able, for example, to find out precisely how many USIS libraries were still open, how many Fulbright professors had been sent to Japan as from the beginning and even more data of this sort. This proved impossible to trace down nor is it likely to prove so without more time than I can give to it. You are being actually modest in inviting me for the Newsletter has published excellent summaries of what goes on in Japan. The Australian and New Zealand Newsletter had an excellent article on the same subject recently. I could only become a plagiarist from both.

Sincerely,

NHP/wh

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Dear Professor Pearson,

We hope very much that arrangements will soon materialize for you to spend the fall semester in Japan and we want to forward a memo within the next week or so to the Embassy containing information concerning your itinerary and indicating the limits to which you would be willing to be called upon for consulting on such matters as the American Studies Foundation and for occasional lecturing.

I think you will be interested in all of the enclosed material which consists of comments about recommendations formulated by participants in the June 1 meeting. Also included is a copy of the statement which Kenichi Nakaya typed out himself for me while he was a guest of Merrill Jensen in Madison just prior to the meeting of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, which both he and Jensen attended. In sending me the statement Merrill commented that it should be treated as confidential, but I'm sure he would approve of my sending you a copy.

We are trying to get out a third issue of the *American Studies News*, with a deadline for copy set for July 17, and at the same time we are trying to summarize the recommendations of the May 31-June 1 meeting in the form of a report to the participants and also for inclusion in the Conference Board Committee's annual report for learned councils of which, as you know, it is a kind of sub-committee.

I intend to be on Cape Cod for three weeks beginning July 20 and will be out of the office until approximately August 15. About July 22 or thereabouts Miss Mary Simoneau of our staff will send you a xeroxed copy of the entire Schwantes-Nakaya report on "Ten Years of Cultural and Educational Interchange between Japan and America 1952-1961" excepting, of course, Section 5 which is Nakaya's own account of the progress of American studies in Japan, a copy of which was sent to you with the working papers for the May 31-June 1 meeting.

February 24, 1965

Mr. Theodore Wertime
International Broadcasting Service, USIA
Tempo R, Room 2061
Washington 25, D. C.

Dear Mr. Wertime:

Many thanks for your interesting talk on the Forum Lectures at the February 5 meeting of the Advisory Committee on American Studies. The following day, during the closed session, the members of the committee approved the following resolution:

The Advisory Committee on American Studies of the Committee on International Exchange of Parsons warmly congratulates the Voice of America for its excellent Forum Lectures. It wishes to endorse the purpose of the Forum Lectures and to urge all possible extension of their utilization in print and on tape, in English and in translation.

We believe that many Fulbright-Hays lecturers would like to use some of the Forum Lectures for classroom study or reading, particularly in the lesser-developed countries. Would copies and/or tapes be available for this purpose through the U.S. Embassy or Consulate? Enclosed is a list of Fulbright lecturers in American studies nominated for 1964-65. If a considerable number of them had requested classroom copies of some of the Forum Lectures well in advance of the beginning of the academic year, could VOA have supplied them?

Also enclosed is a copy of the agenda for the February 5 advisory committee meeting. I thought you might wish a list of committee members.

TWR:ml
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February 5 - 6, 1965

AGENDA ITEM NO.

USIA - VOICE OF AMERICA, FOREIGN LECTURE SERIES ON "THE ARTS AND SCIENCES IN MID-CENTURY AMERICA"

Attached is one of VOA's half-hour Forum Lectures. There are some 400 other lectures which have been broadcast short-wave to a worldwide audience since the series was begun in January 1959. In pamphlet form or on tapes the lectures are available on application to the embassy or consulate in almost every foreign country. A partial list of lecture subjects is attached. Members of the advisory committee will recognize many of their colleagues in the list of authors.

Theodore A. Wertime, Editor of the Forum Lectures, will participate in the February 5 meeting and will be glad to supplement the information provided below. Mr. Wertime who has a B.A. from Haverford College has done graduate work in history at Johns Hopkins University. His special field of academic interest is the history of science and he is the author of *The Coming Of The Age Of Steel*, University of Chicago Press, 1962. He has written a literary article for the December 4 issue of the AAAS Journal, *Science Magazine*, on "Man's First Encounter with Metallurgy."

Forum Lectures have been broadcast by the Voice of America twice weekly (replayed five times to reach a maximum audience) since January 1959 through some 11 relay stations. Many of the relay stations place the broadcasts on local stations as well. Each program consists of a half hour lecture on trends and developments in selected fields of cultural and scientific interest, written and recorded by leading American scholars, scientists and artists. In general, lectures are directed at college-trained audiences and aim for the median American college level. Judging by mail and polls, the Forum audience consists mainly of university personnel, professional men and students.

Forum tapes and pamphlets have been particularly widely used in India and Japan. In India, Forum lectures have been broadcast by All India Radio, Indian lecturers have been provided with tapes and pamphlets, special radio "debates" on Forum topics have been programmed on AIR, and pamphlets have been distributed to the major universities and to Indian scholars. In Japan, several thousand copies of each series in English have been distributed through the bi-national centers and libraries. Forum series have also been translated into Japanese for placement in universities and schools.

You may wish to make certain suggestions which might be useful to Mr. Wertime in planning future series and you may also wish to discuss the possible uses of the series as supplementary material for Fulbright - Hays lectures in American studies fields at foreign universities.

November 9, 1965

Mr. T. W. Russell,
Executive Associate
Committee on International Exchange of Persons
2101 Constitution Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20418

Dear Trux:

I am indeed grateful to you for sending me the Newsletter from
the Centre at Hyderabad. I am delighted at the good order which seems to
have been established there. We obviously have a very good man in charge.
I was pleased to learn that Homer Babbidge has become Chairman of the
Advisory Commission. It is nice to know that the American Studies Program
here can have its influence, even as though from the past.

NHP/s

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AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

M. H. TRYTEN, Chairman
JESSE W. BEAMS
ELLEN S. HARING
RICHARD A. HUMPHREY
H. FIELD HAVILAND, JR.
AMOS H. HAWLEY

JOHN F. LATIMER
JOHN A. LOGAN, JR.
SAMUEL M. NABRIT
JOHN W. NASON
ROY HARVEY PEARCE
JOHN USEEM

January 19, 1966

Professor Norman Holmes Pearson
231 H G S
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Dear Norman:

Thanks for returning the postcard. We have guaranteed reservations, so arrival any time February 3 is all right.

Enclosed is a copy of Leon's report and a copy of an informal letter from Irvin which represents the response which has come from Germany. The project, much as Irvin describes it, has been accepted by USEC/Bonn. Could you possibly consider a one-semester award in Germany in 1966-67? CIEP should suggest names for consideration by the Fulbright Commission without delay and would, I am sure, be pleased to forward word at once that you might be able to get away either for the fall or spring.

Fortunately Hajo Holborn is willing to try to get away to initiate the new American studies program this spring, and the Department of State has forwarded this word to Bonn. USEC quickly affirmed its interest and is now exploring possible affiliation arrangements. We have asked Professor Holborn to participate in the February 4-5 meeting.

Please let me know what you think about lecturing in Germany.

Also enclosed is a set of the reports from Fulbright lecturers who were overseas in 1964-65. An agenda and other papers will follow.

TWR:ml
Enclosures

Telephone, EXecutive 3-8100

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AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

November 18, 1963

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

M. H. TRYTTEN, Chairman

JESSE W. BEAMS

R. TAYLOR COLE

THEODOSIUS DOBZHANSKY

ARTHUR A. HAUCK

H. FIELD HAVILAND, JR.

AMOS H. HAWLEY

WENDELL P. JONES

GEORGE S. LANE

JOHN F. LATIMER

JOHN A. LOGAN

ROBERT E. SPILLER

Dear Norman,

Under separate cover I am sending by air mail first class four
mimeographed sections of the working papers for the Second U.S.-Japan
Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange.

One section is entitled "Japanese Studies in the U.S." It is
the report to the Conference submitted by a preparatory committee
which met at Ann Arbor on September 26. The participants are listed
on page 13. The five page document entitled "Area Studies" and also
dated September 26 was prepared by the same Ann Arbor committee and
appeared in the working papers as a kind of preface to the above
section on "Japanese Studies in the U.S." It emphasizes that American
studies is not a new super-discipline but an association among esta-
blished disciplines. This approach was stressed again orally at the
Conference by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. but as far as I recall, the
Japanese did not comment.

A third mimeographed section is entitled "Report and Recommendations on American Studies." It is the preparatory report prepared by a committee of seven in Tokyo under the chairmanship of the admirable Hideo Kishimoto, Director of the Library and Professor of Comparative Religion, University of Tokyo. Pages 24-27 of this section describe the proposed _American Studies Research Institute_.

The fourth mimeographed section is the "Final Communique" which
was drafted for the final session of the Conference by a committee
headed by Charles B. Fahs. Part IV of the communique deals with
recommendations related to area studies and includes a reference to
the proposal to establish an _American Studies Institute_.

A list of the U. S. and Japanese delegates is included in the
packet.

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November 18, 1963

There was no discussion at the Conference sessions open to the public of ways to fund the proposed American Studies Research Center. It can be assumed, I believe, that the American Studies Foundation would wish to support such a Center in every way it could. Enclosed is a list of the board of directors of the American Studies Foundation. I understand that the U. S. Government has signed a funding agreement with the Foundation by which $240,000 in yen received for U. S. agricultural products will be released as matching Japanese contributions are deposited. A critical factor affecting Japanese support was a decision by the Diet that Japanese contributions would be tax-exempt.

We are delighted, of course, at your reception in Japan and at your decision to visit Korea.

The next meeting of the American studies advisory committee is set for Friday and Saturday, February 7-8. We hope very much that you can be with us.

I hope very much you will meet Dr. Kishimoto. He's wonderful.

With best wishes.

TWR/s
Enclosure

Professor Norman Holmes Pearson
c/o Kyoto Hotel
Kyoto, Japan

Telephone Executive 3-8100

Mailing address: 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D. C., 20418

Office Address: 1785 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D. C.

MEMBER COUNCILS

AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

M. H. TRYTKEN, Chairman

JESSE W. BEAMS

R. TAYLOR COLE

RICHARD A. HUMPHREY

H. FIELD HAVILAND, JR.

AMOS H. HAWLEY

GEORGE S. LANE

JOHN F. LATIMER

JOHN A. LOGAN

SAMUEL M. NABRIT

JOHN W. NASON

ROY HARVEY PEARCE

March 26, 1964

Professor Norman Holmes Pearson
Head, American Studies Program
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Dear Norman:

I was without a secretary for a little more than a month and am now trying to catch up not only in correspondence but in other things, such as the preparation of minutes for the February 7-8 meeting of the advisory committee in American studies. Professor Cary was most helpful and I think you will be interested in some of his comments which we will include in our report.

It would be most useful to talk with you, especially in view of the confused reports which we have received from Japan. If you could come down, there are State Department people who would like to talk with you, too.

We are not planning a general meeting of the advisory committee in June, but do expect to bring together small groups to discuss special projects or problems. I am sure that the subcommittee on India, which is now drawing up priority lists of titles for the library of the American Studies Research Center in Hyderabad, will have occasion to discuss this project, since it is developing rapidly. I probably have sent you a copy of the enclosed report, or something very similar to it, but am sending it anyway for fear that I haven't. I think the Department of State is a little concerned lest, once the ASRC is established with American funds, there proves to be insufficient Indian interest to maintain it with Indian funds. To build a suitable building and stock it with 25,000 titles would certainly represent an expenditure of at least a million dollars. Ultimately, there should be an Indian director and the Center should be maintained by the University Grants Commission, or perhaps the Ministry of Education.

As you probably know, Merrill Jensen will go on from the augural ceremonies scheduled for April 2-4 in Hyderabad to mark the establishment of the ASRC to Japan, where he will visit a number of Japanese universities. It occurs to me that if he returns with the news

Professor Norman Holmes Pearson, March 26, 1964

that an institute of American studies which has been proposed in Japan
has been definitely organized, we might call together a group of the
advisory committee to discuss what assistance could be given to this
project.

Pola Carroll has just handed me the enclosed draft of an item
on your trip for the April issue of the *American Studies News*. Could you
find time to make any necessary changes and additions so that we can
include it in the material we send to the printer about April 10?

TWR:pc
enclosures

AIRGRAM, American Embassy, Seoul, Korea

December 9, 1963

NORMAN HOLMES PEARSON'S
visit to Korea

1. Dr. Norman Holmes Pearson, Fulbright lecturer in American Studies from Japan, visited Seoul from November 4 to 15 for consultations and lectures under FY1964 Inter-Country Lecturer Program of USEC/K.

2. As the head of Yale University's American Studies Program and a well-known authority in this field, Dr. Pearson was well suited to foster USEC/K's program. In addition to being a professor of English Dr. Pearson has a broad background in economics and history that fits him to converse authoritatively in the various disciplines represented in American studies.

3. Since many of his former students are now teaching in Korea, the principal problem in arranging Dr. Pearson's schedule was to keep him from being too busy. During his stay in Seoul he consulted with the Presidents, Deans, and interested faculties of four universities. Informal discussions with the faculties of other universities resulted from his meetings with the Yale alumni and from his formal lectures. The Fulbright staff also took advantage of his visit to confer with him regarding the American Studies Project of the Commission.

4. Because of his recognized standing in American Studies, both as scholar and administrator, Dr. Pearson's advice was eagerly sought by Korean intellectuals, those engaged in teaching as well as those who are creative writers. In his dealings with these individuals Dr. Pearson was instructive without being didactic. He demonstrated an amazing ability to enter empathetically into the discussion of the various topics raised. In his public lectures Dr. Pearson, seemingly without effort, adjusted his approach and his delivery to the appropriate level of each of his audiences.

5. Many of the administrative and faculty personnel who met with Dr. Pearson have expressed their appreciation for his consideration of their problems, plans and programs. Short though his visit was, it is expected that it will have a definite influence on the development of American Studies Programs in Korean colleges and universities in the future.

6. USEC/K was pleased to be able to sponsor Dr. Pearson, whom we feel has made an outstanding contribution to its program in Korea.

For the Ambassador:

William Phinns
Acting Public Affairs Officer

Some of Professor Pearson's
scheduled appointments

Meeting with President CHOI Wan-bok,
Hankook University for Foreign Studies, Bando Hotel

Consultation with Sogang Faculty,
Sogang Jesuit College

Lecture on "The American Writer and the Feeling for
Community: Hawthorne and Faulkner", USIS Seoul Center

Lecture on "American Studies at Yale", Rotary Club
Luncheon Meeting, Bando Hotel

Informal consultation with members of Pen Club and
English Literary Society of Korea, Pen Center

Reception and Dinner with Yale University Alumni,
at the home of Dr. Paul K. Ryu, Dean of Law College,
Seoul National University

Informal consultations with Chung-Ang University
Faculty, Chung-Ang University

Informal consultations with Yonsei University
Faculty, Yonsei University

Lecture on "American Studies at Yale", Sungkyunkwan
University

Committee on International Exchange of Persons
Conference Board of Associated Research Councils

Quarterly Meeting, March 6, 1964

PROGRESS REPORT BY CIEP'S ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON AMERICAN STUDIES
ON ESTABLISHMENT OF AN AMERICAN STUDIES RESEARCH CENTER AT HYDERABAD

At its May 31 - June 1 meeting, CIEP's advisory committee on American studies was impressed with the potential significance of the recently founded American Studies Research Center at Hyderabad, India, and appointed Frank B. Freidel (history, Harvard) and Wm. M. Gibson (literature, New York University) as a subcommittee to review existing plans for the Center and the manner in which assistance might be given. Both Mr. Freidel and Mr. Gibson lectured in India in 1962.

## Background

The advisory committee acted in the conviction that the development of American studies in India has reached a stage which makes it imperative that research facilities in American studies be provided for: a) doctoral candidates in English at Indian universities who wish to write their dissertations in American studies; b) Indian Fulbright-Hays scholars who have returned after advanced study in the U.S. with or without the doctorate, who wish to continue their research in American studies; and c) teachers at Indian universities and affiliated colleges, many of whom are inadequately equipped to teach American studies.

Whereas eight years ago three Indian universities offered courses in American history, and none offered a course in American literature, in 1963 28 universities are offering courses in American literature and 27 are offering courses in American history. Moreover, a chair in American literature has been established at the University of Osmania, a chair in American institutions at the University of Bombay, and a chair in American history at Jadavpur University. Under the Fulbright-Hays program 20 Indian teachers in American history and 39 in American literature have been able to study during the past decade at universities in the U.S.A., and 17 American lecturers in American history and 25 in American literature have served as visiting professors at Indian universities during the same period. The 50 universities and 1,000 affiliated colleges in India all have autonomous libraries and many of the English departments have their own separate libraries. Although library funds to supplement the limited budgets of the universities and colleges are provided by the central government's University Grants Commission, the money is disbursed too widely for any single library to build concentrated holdings, particularly in American literature and history, which are new subjects. There is no prospect that any one library can develop book holdings

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adequate for advanced research in American studies, nor is there any way an Indian scholar can determine the holdings of the various libraries except through personal investigation. U.S. Information Service libraries in Delhi and in four or five provincial cities serve the English-reading public but are not designed for, and can not accommodate scholars. The development of any systematic study of the U.S., its history, literature, social and political institutions is consequently blocked.

## The Library Proposal

The idea of an American Studies Research Center originated with the Indian professors themselves at the Fulbright Workshop for Teachers of American History and American Literature, held at Mussoorie in June 1962, and was formulated in project form by two leading Indian historians, Professors Nagarajian and Narasimhaiah. The Fulbright binational Foundation appointed an organizing committee and the U.S. Information Service gave a small working grant out of P.L. 480 funds. The organizing committee agreed on a constitution, registered the Center as an Indian society and appointed an executive committee. Osmania University was chosen as the site because of its central location, superior climate, existing library and interest in American studies. Osmania University reacted favorably, offering a wing of the existing library building with a capacity of approximately 25,000 books as temporary quarters and land for a permanent ASRC building.

On November 23, 1963, the subcommittee on India met in New York with a group which included two former Fulbright grantees to India, two librarians recently returned from India, one of whom had drawn the plans and supervised the construction of the library of the Institute of Management at Ahmedabad, and the newly-selected Fulbright grantee who will serve as the first Director of the ASRC, Professor Joseph H. Schiffman, Dickinson College. At this meeting it was recognized that two separate operations were required for the development of the ASRC: a) construction, staffing and equipping of the library at Hyderabad and b) selection and acquisition of books in the U.S.A., an operation which must be planned carefully and staffed on a three to five year basis. The first operation can probably be funded in rupees, but books must be acquired with dollars. The discussion centered largely upon the American task of acquiring books and equipment. Some attention, however, was given to the task which must be undertaken in India which the Committee saw, first, as the acquisition of a clear title to the several acres of land offered by Osmania university and, second, the funding, planning and building of the new library. The cost of housing 25,000 books was estimated at approximately $100,000. Adequate floor space for reading and conference rooms, administration offices, and an apartment for the director would quadruple that figure. It was estimated that three years would be necessary to complete the ASRC building upon receipt of funds. The cost of the building, it was hoped, could be met from rupees which have accrued to the credit of the U.S. under P.L. 480. Since the constitution of the ASRC provides for the

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Center to be autonomous, it was assumed that the relationship between it
and Osmania would resemble that between the Institute of Advanced Studies
and Princeton or between the Center for Behavioral Studies and Stanford
University.

On the American side in regard to the establishment of priority lists
of books on several levels and of locating and purchasing the books, the
following points were agreed upon:

a) While it was agreed that emphasis would be placed on American history and literature, the principal disciplines in American studies now taught at Indian universities, it was recognized that all major aspects of the growth of American civilization should be represented.

b) The first list of titles should number approximately 10,000 (about 12,000 volumes); additional lists should carry the total holdings to 25,000 titles.

c) While the ideal way to build up the collection would be to determine the specific fields to be covered and obtain the services of scholars in each of the fields to recommend titles, the support for this type of program is not available. Therefore it was suggested that the *Guide to the study of the United States of America*, published by the Library of Congress in 1961, which lists 6,200 titles in all fields, should be used as the basic selection tool. Professor Gibson and his associates might then want to draw up a supplementary literature list bringing the *Guide* up-to-date and expanding its coverage. The third edition of *A Guide to American literature and its backgrounds* since 1890 by Howard Mumford Jones and Richard M. Ludwig is to be published this May by the Harvard University Press. This plus Clarence Gohdes' *Bibliographical guide to the study of the literature of the U.S.A.*, 2nd edition, revised and enlarged, 1963 and Richard M. Ludwig's bibliographical supplement to Robert E. Spiller's *Literary history of the United States* could provide most of the supplementary literary titles.

The history segment could be rounded out with the use of the American Historical Association's *Guide to historical literature* and the Harvard *Guide to American history*. The books in American history selected for a new History Departmental Library at Harvard might also be of some value for this project.

d) American architects have probably had unparalleled experience in recent years in dealing with problems of library planning and building. While it might be advisable to have an Indian architect, American advice should be expert and strong.

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e) American experience for the library staff might be desirable and, if so, the time factor ought to be kept in mind.

## Progress to date

The Asia Foundation has made a gift of 3,000 titles which, as they arrive in India, are checked against the Library of Congress Guide to the study of the U.S.A. and are reported by number to Professors Freidel and Gibson.

The State Department has allocated a sum of $25,000 from interest on the Wheat Loan Fund to the advisory subcommittee for the purchase of books. This has been done on the recommendation of the Embassy in New Delhi.

The ACLS has expressed in general its interest in the ASRC project and its willingness to join in sponsoring it in this country.

Professors Freidel and Gibson have had an explorative talk with representatives of the Ford Foundation in New York and found them willing to talk further.

The subcommittee has given vigorous and successful support to the inaugural convention (April 2 - 4) and to an Indo-American Congress in American Studies (April 6 - 18) at Hyderabad, events which have been planned to mark the establishment of the ASRC. In this effort Professors Freidel and Gibson have been joined by Professor Jensen of Wisconsin, also a member of CIEP's advisory committee in American studies. The following American scholars were secured to participate:

* Arthur Bestor, University of Washington (constitutional history)

* Richard D. Current, University of Wisconsin (Civil War, 19th Century)

* Merle Curti, University of Wisconsin (intellectual and social history)

* Merrill Jensen, University of Wisconsin (Colonial history)

* Everett Carter, University of California, Berkeley (19th Century literature)

* Napier Wilt, Visiting Professor, UCLA, (American theatre)

The travel expenses of Professors Current and Jensen have been met from a special grant made by the University of Wisconsin, the others will receive Fulbright-Hays grants. Other participants in the inaugural convention will be Ambassador Bowles, Minister of Education M. C. Chagla, and John Hope Franklin, Professor of History, Brooklyn College, representing the Board of Foreign Scholarships.

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The experience gained in assisting the establishment of an American Studies Research Center in Hyderabad will be useful to Japanese scholars in establishing a similar research center in Tokyo. At the second U.S. - Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange, held in Washington in October

"The most pressing need for Japan was felt to be the establishment of an independent American Studies Research Center with an adequate research library, a director trained in American studies, and a small staff of librarians and clerical help. Through the Center, fellowships would be made available to qualified scholars who have attained the master's level and American scholars would be invited to cooperate in joint research projects."

Word has just come from Japan that the Institute of American Studies had its organizational meeting on February 21.

American Studies Foundation

Relationship to Embassy and USIS

Relationship to all of Japan

vagueness of grants to country at large; usefulness of topics

question of central library

no invitations to Embassy or visiting Fulbrighters; all talks in Japanese.

financing

control by Todai clique.

American Literature Society of Japan

desire for independence

all speeches but mine in Japanese

myself only American

Anxiety of Embassy to keep hands off, but difficulty of knowing what happens

Fahs anxiety to have many men but little money for hq's or libraries

Kyoto-centered seminars

Kyodai vs Doshisha (in sponsorship of seminar, and in libraries

Kyoto vs Tokyo, (and American Studies Foundation)

Relationship of Embassy and USIS to seminars

Inefficiency of planning locally by universities (problem of embassy)

Problem of financing

Visiting Fulbright Professors

Problem of analagous dignity of visiting professor (not just publications but status of university)

Inadvisability of touring teams except as spectacles

Difficulty of really working into curriculum, even within so-called disciplines.

Problems in Sendai and elsewhere of housing., high costs, no automobiles etc.

Smith Mundt Grants to US

no justification for 50 year old limit. Continuance after "retirement"

usefulness for variety of spans of visit to USA

2 years probably best, with terminal MA., not PhD. Varies with local situation.

Usefulness of repeating grants after intervals

Grants chiefly to those established on ladder

Spread of grants to take weight off literature and extend to history, sociology, political science etc.

Spread of grants to cover country, because of small internal academic migration.

Recognition that U.S. universities are prestigeful in all subjects not simply those with American subject matter.

No central training point in U.S.A. to which (as Jensen suggested) Japanese should be sent.

American Studies Programs as a Concept and/or Practice.

THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN

MADISON 6, WISCONSIN

June 6, 1963

187 Bascom Hall

Department of History

ON AMERICAN STUDIES IN JAPAN

1. <u>Japanese university pattern</u>

First thing to remember is that Japan is not an "underdeveloped
area." Japan is an old and sophisticated society with an
established pattern in its University life that, underneath
the surface, goes on pretty much as it did before the post-
1945 reforms.

University appointments are largely controlled in the old
way; that is, by professors who are in essence "feudal lords."
This is carried so far in many instances that sons succeed fathers
in positions without regard to actual merit.

(It is particularly important to keep this in mind in select-
ing Japanese to study in the United States, and to by-pass this
situation when necessary. At the same time, we should recognize
that the "system" exists and that we must work with it).

2. <u>Definition of American Studies in Japan</u>

American studies consist entirely of courses in separate
disciplines (see the University of Tokyo curriculum). The basis
of all "American Studies" work is American history with a lesser
emphasis on American literature, and with courses in geography,
American government and the like.

The concern of the Japanese in American Studies is not with
political science or economics as a general discipline, but with
the American aspects of such discipline.

It is idle to talk of a cross-disciplinary approach at the present time. There simply are not enough well-trained Japanese scholars to work out such programs. That may come in the future after enough scholars have been trained in the United States.

THE FULBRIGHT PROGRAM IN JAPAN

1. <u>American Fulbright professors must be men of at least some standing in the United States.</u>

In Japan, a professor ranks above businessmen and political
leaders in the social scale, and Japanese professors and the
public at large are well aware of their high position.