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C sac: MEM O NY 100-9406R 0: "ADMINISTRATIVE PAGE (CONT'D "But please examine the substance of your ergunent in your last letter, If 1t is difficult to understand what your political opinions ere, how can I be sure about your scientific views? There are systems of. political ideas, just es there are systems of scientific idees, To make ~ sense they have to .operate—and, if necessary, develop-integratedly in. . a way which can be anorehended, checked, and argued in an orderly fashion, For some time, I have felt that your system of values, scientific as well. ° /*- as political, is not an integrated one, In the past you have made fine acholarly contributions, and I shall never hesitate to acknowledges then; but, in view of your lac« of certeinty reg-rding your present iceas, collaboration between us hed better wait until they have recrystellized, I am looking forwerd to tha day when I can again talk with you cbout opinions which you do rot o"lv seem to hold, but which you reelly hold," "Pebruary 20, 1947 “Your letter of Februcry 18 bears out, I am siraid, the opiniva woich I expressed in my last letter to you - that your ideas and feelings on politicel matters are more extreme than mine ara more veLemently expressed, For exanmles of trying to convert ne from opinions woich I do not hold, I connot imagine how you could have got the idea that I believe that ‘Korea might edvantageously be taken over by the "conservative" forces of Suviet Russia’, As for the removal of the Fikado, I have rover ursued that America snould rerave him: my peaition has ni#eye Qcen thet American policy should not be committed to suvport of the mikodo, certicuierly if there ehould arise a strong Japanese domand for bis reocvel. “In view of thena aigunderetinding it is obvious that when wa meet we sie-ll Ret on beat if we confine the conversation to thuse eub- fects deerdc’. loarn evyereise my resnect for your enormous and in some weys unrivalled knowledge," "March 19, 1947 "Your Letter of February oth shewed me erain how rar fpart we ere, not only in our recollection of the svoken word, but iu our tnterpretaticon of the printed fect, rl 139