From John Foster Dulles (5 December 1941)

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CABLE ADDRESS: "LADYCOURT,” NEW YORK

SULLIVAN & CROMWELL

48 Wall Street, New York

December 5, 1941

Dr. Karl Polanyi
Bennington College,
Bennington, Vermont.

My dear Dr. Polanyi:

I am Chairman of a Commission set up by the 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 Malvern Conference, 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. 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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Reference:
KPA: 47/11, 36