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THE FORD FOUNDATION 



-477 MADISON AVENUE 

 NEW YORK. NEW YORK 10022 



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JUL 1'/ 1S67 



OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAH 



SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA 



July 7, 1967 



Mr. Roger Revelle 



Center for Population Stvidies 



Harvard University 



9 Bow Street 



Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 



Dear Mr. Revelle: 



Joe Slater, vho is presently out at Aspen on a two months study 

 leave, asked our office of South and Southeast Asia affairs to look at the 

 very interesting proposal in your letter of June 12. We were able to give 

 this really first-hand consideration "because our field representatives 

 were in New York last week for a special meeting. We asked Hal Hanson and 

 Doug Ensminger, our representatives in Pakistan and India, to look person- 

 ally at the project. 



I think I might quote part of a memorandum Hal Hanson wrote, 

 the conclusions of which we are inclined to agree with: 



"This is one of the few subjects of joint interest and mutual 

 benefit to India and i^kistan with possibly enough economic 

 attraction to bring about joint action. 



"It has been ray own judgment that this could only be negoti- 

 ated: 



"(1) B^f an agency, such as the World Bank, which could offer 

 a consortium of givers who could finance the proposal, and 

 therefore the initial discussions would be more than an aca- 

 demic exercise . 



"(2) The timing must be at a period of lesser tensions be- 

 tween India and Pakistan. Such circumstances do not exist 

 at present. 



"(3) Even for preliminary inquiries, which Revelle is pro- 

 posing, the World Bank has demonstrated it has ample tech- 

 nical assistance funds for those developments in which it 

 is seriously interested. I doubt therefore that Ford Foun- 

 dation money is needed, or persuasive." 



