NATI NAL COMMITTEE THURMAN ARNOLD BISHOP JAMES CHAMBERLAIN BAKER FRANCIS BIDDLE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION PROF. EDWIN M. BORCHARD VAN WYCK BROOKS 170 Fifth Avenue, New York 10, New York DR. HENRY SEIDEL CANBY DR. ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN ORegon 5-5990 # MORRIS L. COOKE PROF. GEORGE S. COUNTS ELMER DAVIS OFFICERS JOHN DOS PASSOS PROF. EDWARD ALSWORTH ROSS PEARL S. BUCK B. W. HUEBSCH ARTHUR GARFIELD HAYS MELVYN DOUGLAS Chairman, National Committee LLOYD K. GARRISON Treasurer MORRIS L. ERNST SHERWOOD EDDY ROGER N. BALDWIN Counsel THOMAS H. ELIOT REV. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES DR. FRANK P. GRAHAM Director MRS. DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER Chairman, Board of Directors RT. REV. EDWARD L. PARSONS GEORGE E. RUNDQUIST HERBERT M. LEVY WALTER T. FISHER Vice-Chairmen, National Committee Assistant Director Staff Counsel REV. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK DEAN CHRISTIAN GAUSS DEAN CHARLES W. GILKEY EARL G. HARRISON MARVIN C. HARRISON QUINCY HOWE DR. ROBERT M. HUTCHINS January 27, I960* DR. CHARLES S. JOHNSON DR. MORDECAI W. JOHNSON SABURO KIDO BENJAMIN H. KIZER DR. JOHN A. LAPP Dear Mr. Edelsteint PROF. HAROLD D. LASSWELL MRS. AGNES BROWN LEACH MAX LERNER Thanks for your letter of the 25th^ followed by your PROF. ROBERT MORSS LOVETT PROF. ROBERT S. LYND letter of the 26th which I have received this morning. Please PROF. ARCHIBALD MACLEISH give the Senator my thanks for his personal letter, and ray- JOHN P. MARQUAND PROF. &RTLEY F. MATHER greetings in anticipation of the Roger Baldwin dinner on the WILLIAM MAULDIN BISHOP FRANCIS J. MCCONNELL 22nd next. DR. ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN DR. CHARLES CLAYTON MORRISON A. J. MUSTE We have at last completed our program with an array DR. J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER BISHOP G. BROMLEY OXNAM of speakers who will well occupy the time at our disposal at JAMES G. PATTON the dinner. We have various speakers representing the Union PROF. MAX RADIN A. PHILIP RANDOLPH and other analagous interests identified with Roger Baldwin's WILL ROGERS, JR. ELMO ROPER activities, and two leading speakers, the Senator and Profes- JOHN NEVIN SAYRE RT. REV. WILLIAM SCARLETT sor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., of Harvard University. In the ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR. interests of time and of the closing of the meeting, not later JOSEPH SCHLOSSBERG ODELL SHEPARD than 11 o'clock, we are asking our representative speakers to ROBERT E. SHERWOOD RABBI ABBA HILLEL SILVER confine their remarks to five minutes each.. We are assigning LILLIAN E. SMITH to our two leading speakers fifteen minutes for their addresses, EDWARD J. SPARLING RAYMOND SWING or not longer than twenty minutes. I am sure that these ar- MRS. DOROTHY TILLY OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD rangements will meet with your approval., WILLIAM L. WHITE AUBREY WILLIAMS L. HOLLINGSWORTH WOOD I am glad that the material which you have received DR. WILLIAM LINDSAY YOUNG gives the 8enator the information he desired in the prepara- BOARD OF DIRECTORS tion of his address. I hope that he will find it agreeable to ERNEST ANGELL MRS. KATRINA MCCORMICK BARNES focus his remarks on the international phases of civil liberty JONATHAN B. BINGHAM PROF. PAUL F. BRISSENDEN these days to which Roger Baldwin is now to devote his full MRS. DOROTHY DUNBAR BROMLEY time since his retirement as our Executive Director. Senator RICHARD S. CHILDS NORMAN COUSINS Lehman has had experience in the international field, and knows EDWARD J. ENNIS MORRIS L. ERNST therefore the situation. Roger Baldwin learned much in his re- JOHN F. FINERTY cent visits to Japan and Germany where he went at the invitation JAMES LAWRENCE FLY OSMOND K. FRAENKEL of General MacArthur and General Clay respectively. Whatever WALTER FRANK VARIAN FRY the Senator can tell us about conditions in Europe and in the PROF. WALTER GELLHORN world at large from the civil liberties point of view will be ARTHUR GARFIELD HAYS B. W. HUEBSCH the feature of the occasion. I may add that I am asking Profes- DOROTHY KENYON CORLISS LAMONT sor Schlesinger to devote himself to the domestic interests of PROF. EDUARD C. LINDEMAN BENJAMIN F. MACLAURIN the civil liberties cause at this dangerous hour. MERLE MILIER DR. HERBERT R. NORTHRUP MERLYN S. PITZELE Acceptances already received indicate that we shall ELMER RICE FREDERICK E. ROBIN have a great company meeting in the ballroom of the Waldorf WHITNEY NORTH SEYMOUR Astoria and thus a notable event.- NORMAN THOMAS C. DICKERMAN WILLIAMS RAYMOND L. WISE 181 Very sincerely yours, lairman* Board of Directors Mr. Julius C. C. T^delstein Senate Building, Washington, D.C. ,i.