MEMO FOR THE PRESIDENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-511-3-12-7
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2010
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: May 15, 1970
• Content Type: MEMO

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/05/10: LOC-HAK-511-3-12-7
- (Signed) HENRY A. ]~F;ING?R
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May 15, 1.9 7 0
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM: Henry A. Kissinger
The following is the text of a letter received today from General Walters
in Paris. The underlined passage is of particular interest.
"While delivering the message to my friend, he was extremely cordial
and though I had delivered the message he insisted that I remain there
for tea which he had ordered. He asked me insistently whether I had
not been to the U. S. since I last saw hir'n and I said I had not. For some
reason he almost invariably asks me this question. The conversation
then got around to Japan. He said Japan was an example for the whole
East of what eastern people could do but that the Japanese were powerful
and it was to be hoped that their economic achievements did not take an
expansionist form. I commented that the Japanese were only one
hundred million and while this might seem like a lot in Europe, it was
not in Asia. He at no time made any mention of the Chinese satellite.
He shook hands cordially on my arrival as on my departure. He was
completely non-committal as to the message,saying he would deliver it
to the Minister. I saw him at the location where I usually see him. "
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