Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1597

Carbon of a letter to A. J. Solterer, Department of Economics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

December 3, 1956

Dear Dr. Solterer:

     We wish to compliment you on your remarks at the closing session of the Spiritual Mobilization Confer­ence in Chicago last Friday.

     We are particularly impressed with your view that society, like other organisms, has very great powers of adjustment within itself and in response to external conditions. Understanding of this kind seems highly essential as the only possible means of any adequate coming to grips with adverse circumstances and condi­tions. Our own little organization is far less concerned with particular remedies or policies than with a rational understanding of the social organization with which man­kind is becoming increasingly endowed, and especially with reference to the interfunctioning of the units of which it is composed. We feel great sympathy with your point of view along these lines.

     With regard to a specific application of the general principle involved, we are giving some publicity to a proposal for a solution of the Suez Canal problem along strictly non-political, free-enterprise lines.

     We should be very glad to have any comment that may occur to you concerning this proposal. In any case, if you think well of it, please pass it along to those persons most interested, with or without any credit to us.

     We enjoyed the Conference in many ways, for itself and for the inspiring contacts that it made possible for us all.

Sincerely yours,