AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR AID TO KATANGA FREEDOM FIGHTERS SUITE 909 79 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK 16, N. Y. MURRAY HILL 5-0190 CHAIRMAN December 29, 1961 Dr. Max Yergan EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE L. Brent Bozell Wm. F. Buckley, Jr. Dear Friend: James Burnham Eugene Lyons Frank S. Meyer William A. Rusher Before going into the subject of this letter, I should like to apologize for George S. Schuyler not addressing you personally. We use this mimeograph form for the sake of COUNSEL speed and economy. I trust you will understand when you take the importance C. Dickerman Williams of our mission into account. SPONSORS (Partial List) The American Committee For Aid To Katanga Freedom Fighters was publicly launched with a full-page advertisement in THE NEW YORK TIMES on Thursday, Holmas Alexander C. D. Batchelor December 14th. We called on the American people to join with the initial sponsors Dr. Phillip Bard Prof. Anihony T. Bouscaren of our Committee in helping support Katanga's fight against what we firmly believe Hon. Spruille Braden Gen. Lewis H. Brereton to be an arbitrary and dangerous precedent-making action by the United Nations Roy M. Brewer Miss Taylor Caldwell against a people who seek only to exercise their right of peaceful and orderly John Chamberlain Prof. Edward P. Cieson self-determination which is guaranteed under the United Nations Charter. Further, Prof. Lev E. Dobriansky John Dos Passos we called on Americans to take all appropriate action to indicate their opposition Sen. James O. Eastland Max Eastman to United States logistical, political and financial support of the U.N action Hon. Charles Edison Julius Epstein against Katanga. M. Stanton Evans Lawrence Fertig John M. Fisher Prof. William Fleming The announcement of the formation of our Committee received tremendous Clifford Forster Prof. Mark Graubard response from all sections of the country. Upwards of $25,000 was raised within Prof. Ernest van den Haag Prof. Bernard C. Heyl the first two weeks from some 3,000 individuals. Our advertisement was reprinted Prof. Russell Kirk Prof. Willmoore Kendall in at least eleven newspapers throughout the country and paid for through locally- Prof. Jerzy Hauptmann raised funds. Our office has been flooded with thousands of letters from Americans Herbert V. Kohler Proi. Anthony Kubek William Loeb who indicated their support and informed US that they were writing their represent- Dr. Charles W. Lowry Arthur G. McDowell atives in Washington protesting the U.N. action in the Congo and American Prof. William M. McGovern Clarence E. Manion support of such action. We believe that the publication of our Committee's Prof. Ralph S. Marsh J. B. Matthews statement opened the door to frank and open discussion of United States policy in Prof. Ruth S. Maynard Adolph Menjou the Congo. You have most likely read public statements on this question from E. Victor Millione American leaders representing all walks of life: Herbert Hoover; Senator Thomas Admiral Ben Moreell Prof. Thomas Molnar J. Dodd; Senator Thruston B. Morton; Richard Nixon and many others. Hun. Robert Morris Prof. Gerhart Niemeyer Peter O'Donnell, Jr. Prof. Ben Edwin Perry My colleagues and myself are gratified that we have achieved our primary Prof. Francis Randall Prof. David N. Rowe objectives: to enlist initial support for the brave men and women of Katanga who Morrie Ryskind Henry Salvatori have stood up to the U.N. force as an indication of American sympathy and moral Prof. O. Glenn Saxon Prof. Hans F. Sennholz support; to alert the American people to the problem and stimulate public action. Stephen C. Shadegg Prof. William S. Stokes Ralph de Toledano Prof. Eliseo Vivas We have already transmitted funds to various American missionary medical Prof. Walter H. Voskuil Prof. Richard M. Weaver groups working in Elizabethville. These funds are earmarked for immediate use to General A. C. Wedemeyer General William H. Wilbur Prof. Francis G. Wilson Prof. Karl A. Wittfogel