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    "ocrText": "HARVARD UNIVERSITY\nFACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES\nDEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT\nLITTAUER CENTER M-22\nCAMBRIDGE 38, MASSACHUSETTS\nJune 22, 1953\nMr. Dean G. Acheson\nUnion Trust Building\nWashington, D. C.\nDear Dean:\nThanks for your letter of June 17, which makes it look\nas if we had a pretty good line-up for July 2.\nI do not know what to say about Herbert Marks; I just\ndon't know him at all well. I think he would be fine if\nyou want to have him; he certainly has a first-rate repu-\ntation.\nMy own inclination with regard to the four others you\nmention would be to wait until the July 2 meeting. We\nhave seven certain and nine likely members at that gather-\ning, and I am not at all sure that we ought to get very\nmuch larger than that. It is part of my original feeling\nthat twelve might be a little too big, and if you disagree,\nthen I think I would consider Gene Rostow first, although\nI have to say that this is a guess, because I have not\nseen him for more than ten years.\nI have no bright ideas about the way to begin on July 2.\nI take it from your reference to April 1949 that you are\nthinking largely about North Atlantic Treaty and its con-\nsequences, and this seems to me the logical opening subject.\nI have a real interest myself in problems of transition, and\nthere must have been a really tricky one between yourself and\nLovett right at the beginning. My only real suggestion is\nthat it might be well to begin with January and not April.\nAs ever,\n$\nMar\nU.S. SERVICE RECORDSAND VISATRY\nMcGeorge Bundy\nGOVERNMENT\nMB:pc"
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