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CABLE ADDRESS: "LADYCOURT,” NEW YORK

SULLIVAN & CROMWELL

48 Wall Street, New York

December 5, 1941

Dr. Karl Polanyi<br />
Bennington College,<br />
Bennington, Vermont.

My dear Dr. Polanyi:

I am Chairman of a Commission set up by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Council_of_Churches Federal Council of Churches] to study the problems of the future peace. Among such problems which loom large is the relationship of government to business. There is a very general feeling, particularly among church people, that it is necessary to find a system under which employment and production can continue without as close dependence upon the profit factor as has heretofore been the case. There is a strong tendency, as evidenced by the [https://www.amazon.com/Malvern-1941-Proceedings-Archbishop-Conference/dp/B0006D959S Malvern Conference]<ref>Where one can find William Temple.</ref>, toward the Marxian viewpoint.

At a meeting of the Rockefeller Trustees at Williamsburg, from which I have just returned, I discussed this problem with Mr. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_W._Stewart Walter Stewart], and he suggested that this was a matter upon which you were peculiarly qualified to throw some constructive light.

If you have written anything on this topic, I would appreciate very much being directed to it, and possibly at some future time we could arrange to talk together.

I am,

Very truly yours,
(signed)
John Foster Dulles

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