LETTER TO PRESIDENT EMERITUS CHARLES SEYMOUR FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 7, 2003
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 26, 1959
• Content Type: LETTER

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sident ?,meritus Cha:tlas Seymour!
Yale University
New Have::, Connecticut
46 December 1
Just over forty years ago in 1919, we were working together
at rue Paris Peace Conference. As a young officer in the Diplo-
rnatic ;service, you generously gave me an opportunity to share
in the ,Fork which you, Isaiah Bowman and the other distinguished
members of the Inquiry were doing. In this preparatory work
for Lite Conference, rarely have negotiators been so well heel"-.-
with the hard facts as in the studies which you and your co-
workers laid before them.
In particular I remember seer work together as the two-M:
American members of the Czechoslovak Boundary Commision.
1, ybe in the banana..shapod state which resulted from this tv-7ork
we did not do as artistic a job as we might. However, we were
not alone and possibly some of the issues we fought for then
should have been realized. Anyway the state has survived with
some amputation, it is true, but still much as it was drawn then.
; ome day it will again be free.
This experience with you in 1919 - carried on all too
sparsely to my regret in later years - left a real impression on
mile and had its effect in guidi.;y me in the work in which I am now
engaged.
The zeal you then 3howsd in getting at the facts and in fear
lessly backing the conclusions they dictated has always been an
inspiration to me.
{ ith all bstt i iss-r ypmtr 75th Anniversary.
Faithfully yours,
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 26 December 19
Dr. Howard B. Gotlieb
Yale University Library
New Haven, Connecticut
Somewhere, somehow, your letter of August 18
became buried and as kwas cleaning my desk today for a
few days vacation in the 'South, I came across it.
Probably too late but still a day or two before
the deadline, I send you my letter in honor of Charlie
Seymour, my respected friend.
Faithfully yours,
Allen W. Dulles
Director
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