LIBERTARIAN PRESS EDison 3-0031 366 EAST 166th STREET LD South Holland, Illinois, U.S.A. April 6, 1964 Dr. Ludwig von Mises 777 West End Avenue New York 25, New York Mr. Henry Hazlitt Contributing Editor, NEWSWEEK Newsweek Building 444 Madison Avenue New York 22, New York Gentlemen: I have a letter from Ir. H. I. Keus under date of March 8 in which he asks me to convey to you for him his regards and best wishes. In addition, him the longhand letter which in a few instances I cannot read because Dutch calligraphy is slightly different from the American, I cannot convey exactly what Mr. Keus has written. But in substance it is as follows. Mr. Keus is no longer the dominant personage behind BURGERRECHT, although he will continue to exercise as much influence as he can behind the scenes. Page 2 of BURGERRECHT had previously always been reserved for him. First, his contributions were transferred to page 7. Presently, as I see BURGERRECHT, there are issues without any article by Mr. Keus. The magazine is now being published less frequently; it is a monthly. The publication has an Advisory Council to which Mr. Keus believes that certain decisions should be referred before action was taken. As I understand it, the staff was not author- ized to make certain decisions without Advisory Council approval. But apparently, in the issue of September 7, 1963, someone under- took to make decisions superseding the functions of the Advisory Council. Instead of Mr. Keus, a Mr. W (who may be Mr. Kalff, chairman of the BURGERRECHT committee, or else a man named De Young-Stellenberg) made changes which altered the situation for Mr. Keus. Under date of October 22, 1963 he addressed a letter to Mr. Kalff in which he resigned effective at once from the plenocomite (Plenipotentiary Committee). I reckon that Mr. Keus does not look upon the trend of developments with pleasure or confidence. Nor do I either, who has learned to know Mr. Keus as one of the few people who is not only a successful businessman, but a good