Correspondence Between Dean Acheson and Svend-Erik Poulsen

Copenhagen, 18.11.70 Mr. Dean Acheson, ex-secretary of state S. 2805 P Street ARCHATIONAL Washington D.C. U.S SERVICES SEALURDS AND United States of America Dear Sir, I am an unlucky danish student, who for the moment is studying the Truman Doctrine and its placing in the foreign policy of the United States 1947-50. Unlucky because a study of this cha- racter unquestionably would be much easier to do in your country. The study is going to be a part of my danish examination for the M.A. degree in history, which - in so far as I know - correspond to the doctor's degree in history in the anglo-saxon countries. In connection with my study I naturally observed the pu- blishing of your memoirs in the fall 1969. I procured them immedia- tely and read them with great benefit. Surely they are not alone very informative but also very amusing. Especially I find your connections with the Congress instructive. But I do have a problem. In your foreword it is said, that you participated in a series of seminars in 1953-54 with among others former officials from your turn as secretary of state " to record (your) recollections of how the major foreign policies of President Truman's Administration came into being and (your) appraisals of the considerations that affected them and (you) Unfortunately I don't realize what this formulation con- ceal. As far as I know the seminars haven't brought about any publi- - cation, which is officially accessible. I hope I am wrong and in that case ask you to give me the title of the publication. Should the seminars not have been published I would be much obliged to you if it was possible for you to send me some information about the results of the seminars. Invariably the words "These seminars added to the account of those times the essential factors of causation that the bare official record so rarely reveals" must attract the attention of any scholar, who studies the foreign policy of the Truman Admini- stration. Yours sincerely Wend-reut - Poissure Svend-Erik Poulsen Godsbanegade 19, 1 1722 Copenhagen V.