LETTER TO MR. HAROLD J. BAILY, PRESIDENT FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

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• Publication Date: May 20, 1961
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PHI BETA KAPPA
ASSOCIATES
PRESIDENT
HAROLD J. BAILY
165 Broadway
New York 6, New York
VIC&PRESIDENTS
EDWIN H. BURGESS
3700 North Charles Street
Baltimore 18, Maryland
MRS. ALEXANDER M. HADDEN
1691 'th Avenue
New York 21, New York
CARROLL V. NEWSOM
New York University
Washington Square
New York 3, New York
SECRETARY
CHARLES A. TONSOR
13315 116th Street
Kew Gardens, New York
TREASURER
ROSWELL MAGILL
15 Broad Street
New York 5, New York
OTHER DIRECTORS
WILLIAM R. CANNON
Candler School of Theology
Emory University
Atlanta 22, Georgia
THOMAS C. DESMOND
94 Broadway
Newburgh, New York
JOSEPH L. ECKHOUSE
15 Central Park West
New York 23, New York
LAURENCE H. ELDREDGE
1500 Walnut Street
Philadelphia 2. Pennsylvania
STANLEY H. FULD
36 West 44th Street
New York 18, New York
NICHOLAS KELLEY
70 Broadway
New York 4, New York
CLOYD LAPORTE
40 Wall Street
New York 5, New York
LEONARD P. MOORE
2 Montague Terrace
Brooklyn 1, New York
GEORGE E. ROOSEVELT
48 Wall Street
New York 5, New York
1811 Q Street, N. W. rte, Washington 9, D. C.
165 Broadway
New York 6, New York
May 17, 1961
Dear Mr. Dulles:
I am enclosing a copy of my recent quarterly newsletter
to the Phi Beta Kappa Associates.
You may be interested to know that you are mentioned in
the third paragraph of the letter.
With all best wishes,
HJB:vp
Ehclosure
The Honorable Allen W. Dulles
Director, Central Intelligence Agency
2430 E Street
Washington, D. C.
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PHI BETA KAPPA
ASSOCIATES
1811 Q Street, N.W. 9 Washington 9, D. C.
Dear Associate:
165 Broadway
New York 6, New York
April 21, 1961
It is pleasant to write you again about the Associates and their work.
November 1961 Meeting
After raising the question with a number of members, it seems desirable to try holding
our annual dinner meeting on a Friday, since some interested members cannot come on a
Monday. This year it is proposed to meet for dinner at the Colony Club, 51 East 62nd
Street, New York, on Friday, November 10th, 1961. Please let me know if you prefer Mon-
day, November 13th. There is still time to arrange to hold our meeting on that date if
enough of our members prefer to have it then. I hope you will plan to come so please
note the time and place in your date book. We are eager to have a large attendance.
The latest book by our charter member, Murray Seasongood, former Mayor of Cincinnati,
will be awarded to the member who comes the longest distance. The author plans to be
present and to inscribe the volume for the winner.
New Respect for Phi Beta Kappa
We have all noticed with satisfaction the new respect paid to'men and women who have
devoted themselves to the cultivation of the intellect. President Kennedy has drawn
on the resources of Phi Beta Kappa to fill the ranks of his Administration. Thirty-
nine members of the Society are now serving
in key posts. They include: David E. Bell,
Director of the Bureau of the Budget; Jonathan
Brewster Bingham, U.S. Representative in the
Trusteeship Council with the rank of Minister;
David K.E. Bruce, Ambassador to Great Britain;
McGeorge Bundy, National-Security Adviser;
Mortimer M. Caplin, Commissioner, Internal
Revenue Service; William Lucius Cary, Chair-
man, Securities' Exchange Commission; Abram
Chaves, Legal Adviser to the State Department;
James Harlan Cleveland, Assistant Secretary
for International Organizations Affairs; Frank
M. Coffin, Director of the Development Loan
Fund; Philip H. Coombs, Assistant Secretary
of State for Education and Cultural Affairs.
Allen Dulles -Director-of-the Central Intelli-
genc:e Agency, Hugh A. Dryden, Deputy Admire-
istrator, National Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration; Jefferson B. Fordham, Member
of the Commission on Ethical Issues; Orville
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Freeman, Secretary of Agriculture; Roswell L. "}"11' '~'"??~s,...w
Gilpatric, Deputy Defense Secretary; Kermit
Gordon, Member, Council of Economic Advisers; Neal J. Hardy, Commissioner, Federal Hous-
ng Administration; Walter W. Heller, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers; James M.
dis, Adviser for Federal Agencies; George Crews McGhee, Assistant Secretary of State
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for Policy Planning; Sterling McM?arrin,
Commissioner of Education; Robert S.
McNamara, Secretary of Defense; John W.
Macy, Jr., Chairman, Civil Service Com-
mission; Bayless Manning; Member of Com-
Edward R. Murrow, Director of the U. S.
Information Agency; Francis T. Plimpton,
Deputy Assistant to the United Nations;
Edwin 0. Reischauer, Ambassador to
Japan; Robert Roosa, Under Secretary of
the Treasury; Dean Rusk, Secretary of
State; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Special
Assistant to the President; Glenn T. Sea-
borg, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission;
Theodore C. Sorensen, Special Counsel to
the President; Elvis J. Stahr, Jr., Sec-
retary of the Army; James Tobin, Member,
Council of Economic Advisers; Janet Grame
Travell, White House Physician; James E.
Webb, Administrator,,National Aeronautics
and Space Administration; G. Mennen Wil-
1iams, Assistant Secretary of State; W.
Willard Wirtz, Under Secretary of Tabor;
and Byron White, Deputy Attorney General.
Apparently the country's regard for special human intelligence has been revived. The
President's appointments with few exceptions were based on a respect "for a real degree
of learning, for new ideas, for liveliness of mind and spirit." One New York newspaper
editor wrote last January:
Many men who served Eisenhower (and Truman) were conscientious and
well-intentioned. But one always had the sense that knowledge was
deemed a mark of suspicion in the Washington of their days. One
might glibly say the egghead has now returned to power, but that
would be also an oversimplification. Let us,simply say that Kennedy
has lifted the ban on men who are now or once were identified with
Phi Beta Kappa, and that the process of critical thought has been
officially reinstated.
As a country we are beginning to realize the great value of intellect in a democracy.
Last January in his address at the dinner of the American Nobel Committee, Admiral H.G.
Riekover is reported to have said:
My thesis is that hostility to superior intellect is a national
idiosyncracy rather than a necessary consequence of our devotion
to the democratic ideal. To alter our attitude toward men of high
intellect does not run counter to democratic principles; it would,
in fact, merely re-establish the respect for learning that existed
here when this nation came into being . . . .
Progress now depends on men of superior intellect. Democracies
cannot survive unless such men are properly fitted into the huge
organizations now dominating life, most particularly into the
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The two cartoons, drawn independently by talented artists, which I reproduce in this
letter by permission were printed within about a week of each other and help to es-
tablish the point I wish to make.
The American Scholar is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary this year. To commem-
orate the occasion, Hiram Haydn and Betsy Saunders have brought together in The
American Scholar Reader a representative selection of fifty of the significant arti-
cles that were first published in the magazine. Its authors include some of the in-
tellectual shapers and movers of our time - Reinhold Niebuhr, John Dewey, Paul Tillich,
Margaret Mead, Edmund Wilson, Lich Fromm, David Riesman, Jacques Barzun, Joseph Wood
Krutch, George Santayana and Mark Van Doren.
As, one reviewer said: "This is a book to nudge the mind, to nourish and activate it;
its very table of contents speaks eloquently to these purposes."
Copies of the Reader can be purchased from Atheneum Publishers, 162 Fast 38th Street,
New York 16, New York, for $7.95 each. Orders for five or more books can be filled
at a discount price through'the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, 1811 Q Street, N.W.,
Washington 9, D. C.
The Visiting Scholar Program
Phi Beta Kappa has announced the appointment of seven Visiting Scholars for 1961-62.
They are Sean O'Faolain, Irish critic and writer; Lewis Hanke, professor of Latin
American Studies at Columbia University; J. Seeyle Bixler, philosopher and former
president of Colby College; Marshall Clagett, director of the Institute for Research
in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin; George B. Cressey, geographer at
Syracuse University, John Turkevich, professor of chemistry at Princeton University;
and H. Stuart Hughes, historian at Harvard University.
The purpose of the program is to give the chapters of Phi Beta Kappa across the coun-
try the opportunity to invite the Scholar of their choice to visit their college for
two or three days and to participate fully in the academic life of the community. The
Scholar usually gives a public lecture, leads classroom discussions and meets informally
with students and faculty members.
The Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program was established in 1956. It enables col-
leges all over the country to have leading scholars participate in campus activities.
The first year twenty-nine institutions took part in the program. It has increased in
popularity each year, and during 1960-61 more than eighty colleges and universities
are participating.
Among Our Members
After fifteen years' service, EDWARD L. BACHER, has retired as Executive Director of
the Republican National Finance Committee. Mr. Bacher, a native of Gilbertville,
Massachusetts, who now lives in Washington (4523 Hawthorne Street,?N.W.), joined the
Finance Committee in 1944 after a long career with the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States and related organizations. He specialized in foreign trade matters and
is the author of a number of books, periodicals and training courses on that subject.
Mr. Bacher lectured on foreign trade at Georgetown University from 1923 to 1927. He
was manager ~~ip~edlfF6r.R~1'20?2ICPB?HQ~II615ida8~OQ~fB~ to 1945. and
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served as manager of its War Service Division from 1941 to 1945. Mr. Bacher was grad-
uated from Williams College in 1911.
HERMON BELL, who was our treasurer and director for so long, has been seriously ill
for the past few months. All of us hope that he will recover soon and have a pleasant
spring and summer.
Dr. CLARENCE R. DECKER, Vice-President of Fairleigh Dickinson University, is editor of
Fairleigh Dickinson's The Literary Review. Its recent quarterly issues are collectors'
items. The entire Summer, 19605, number is devoted to the belles lettres of the Philip-
pines. The Winter, 1960-1961, issue is a notable one featuring contemporary Turkish
writing, including fiction, poetry and art.
Senator THOMAS C. DESMOND, who served the Associates so well as president, and his
wife are on a cruise around the world and sent us a deeply appreciated message from
India.
IRVING DILLIARD was elected a trustee of the University of Illinois last November.
There were 2,356,777 votes cast for him; he had a safe margin of 200,000 votes. He
has been most helpful in suggesting the names of prospective members and has been de-
livering Associates' lectures to Phi Beta Kappa groups. He is hoping to attend one
of our annual dinners before long. A member of the Phi Beta Kappa Senate, Mr. Dilliard
holds five honorary degrees and lectures on government, history and other subjects.
One of our newest directors, LAURENCE H. ELDREDGE, who served as Special Deputy Attorney-
General of Pennsylvania in 1948 and 1949, addressed the 86th annual meeting of the Penn
Club at The Union League of Philadelphia last January on the topic Some Reflections on
the Idea "A Government of Laws and Not of Men." It was a thrilling, thought-provoking
speech. ". . . it is not the words of law which give us protection and determine the
course government will take, but it is the conduct of men in positions of power and
authority," said Mr. Eldredge. He pointed out that "the primary responsibility of
good government is upon each one of us as individual private citizens," and that "in
the long run the safety of our form of government, the preservation of the rights of
individual citizens, and the maintenance of good government on a local level ..... is
dependent ..... upon the men who constitute our private citizenry."
President Kennedy asked Professor PAUL FREUND of the Harvard Law School, a former St.
Louisian and one of the great scholars of the law, to become Solicitor General. Our
fellow member felt compelled to decline because among his many obligations he is di-
recting the work of an eight-volume history, of the Supreme Court. In March Professor
Freund, who is now Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard, delivered the annual
Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Lecture to the New York County Lawyers Association. His
subject was Perspectives on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Dr. ERWIN N. GRISWOLD, dean of the Harvard Law School, took part in a forum in New
York last January devoted to the theme The Challenge to American Education.
Our talented MRS. ALEXANDER M. HADDEN is president of the Institute of World Affairs.
In January, February and March she presided over the meetings of the Palm Beach Round
Table which were held at the Orange Gardens of the Everglades Club.
For many years Dr. STANLEY K. HORNBECK was the State Department's expert on Far Eastern
Affairs. At its :mid-winter gathering on February 6, 1961, the Holland Society of New
York conferred on Dr. Hornbeck a Citation of Merit "for his outstanding contributions,
achievements and services to his Country in times of war and peace." The Holland Soci-
ety of New York is an organization composed of descendants in the direct male line of
residents of the Dutch colonies in America prior to 1675 and Dr. Hornbeck is president
of its Potomac Branch.
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I have just received a persuasive letter from our director NICHOLAS KELLEY. He serves
the Henry Street Settlement in New York, is on its Board and has been its distinguished
chairman for years. The neighborly work of this settlement has been inspiring.
Our treasurer ROSWELL MAGILL has made helpful suggestions about a speaker for our an-
nual meeting.
Some of our members who are college presidents, for instance, President CARROLL V.
NEWSOM of New York University, are likely to attend Dr. John R. Everett's inauguration
on April 24th as Chancellor of City University of New York. Dr. Everett hails the new
institution as the largest university in the world and expects that within ten years
it will be the richest. See the New York Times and Herald-Tribune for April 12, 1961.
NELSON A. ROCKI ELLER holds the most important elective office of any of our members.
He is governor of. the Empire State. He has just signed the Welfare Bill which may
end a long standing dispute. He also signed a Job Development Authority act intended
to attract new industry to New York if the voters approve next November. He has ap-
proved the bill creating a Lake George Park Commission, which will help preserve the
natural beauty of that famous Adirondack Mountain Resort area. The Governor vetoed
a bill that would have increased to seventy-five per cent the state's share of the
cost of buying land for arterial highway projects within cities. In his veto message
Governor Rockefeller declared, "This bill would impose an unworkable burden on the
state's fiscal resources and defer $65,000,000 in vital highway construction." These
are only a few of the many bills that the Governor is acting upon since the Legislature
adjourned.
Our secretary Dr. CHARLES A. TONSOR has also given thought to the selection of an out-
standing American to address us next November.
Completed Careers
Since my December, 1960, letter, we have lost one member by death: Theodore Burgess,
chairman of the boards of the Beneficial Finance Company and the Continental Motor
Coach Lines, died in Tampa, Florida, on April 14th. Mr. Burgess was counsel to the
Brooklyn,'New York, Chamber of Commerce in 1929-30, and he was in the legal department
of the Erie Railroad for several years.
Transfers to Life Membership
Six persons have transferred to life membership since I last wrote to you. They are
Leo Wolman, Vermont C. Royster, Arnold J. Zurcher, Albert G. H. Dietz, Otelia Cromwell,
and Grace Lucile Beede.
Several candidates for membership have expressed their desire to become Associates.
Before long the directors will vote on these new members.
As the preparation of this letter drew to a close on April 12th, the announcement
came that Russia has put the first man into space. Around the earth he went at 17,000
miles an hour. 180 ralles-out beyyond the surface of our globe. It may be a victory for
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From Verne's Around the World in 80 Days we have come to Gagarin's trip of 89 minutes.
Ambassador Stevenson's comment was, "Now that the Soviet scientists have put a man in-
to space and brought him back alive I also hope they will help to bring the United
Nations back alive." This achievement is of vast importance to both peace and war.
It will help Mr. Khrushchev handle internal affairs in Russia and he will be more bold.,
tough and confident in dealing with us. We face a larger and more dangerous competition
with Russia. It is evident that the United States needs men and women of character and
trained intellect. It is well that we are banded together in support of Phi Beta Kappa.
I hope that you are well and that all your affairs are prospering.
With warmest best wishes,
Most cordially,
President
Harold J.t kily
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