Gordon C. Wong,
SENIOR ADVISER TO THE YEAR
OF THE CHILD,P.O. Box 1236,
Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada, V6C 2T1,
April 20, 1989.Gordon C. Wong,
SENIOR ADVISER TO THE YEAR
OF THE CHILD,
P.O. Box 1236,
Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada, V6C 2T1,
April 20, 1989.
The contents of this statement presume i'll be able to speak with you at least briefly tonight at the Robson Centre, in order to explain the contents of the submission.
Beyond providing you with the document copies i began to submit to all the "Vancouver Centennial Peace Festival" participants at the time of the event, i'm enclosing some other things that should put those submissions in context as i foresaw it when i formulated the plan just before the event.
I hope, if we spoke, that i convinced you to accept the
entirety of the contents i want you to now have because even at
this you won't see evidence of every consideration and publicity
about my "International Diplomatic
Work...on a direct basis" seems certain before the end of
the year.
Frankly, sir, as we've never before really met and spoken
together face to face, i can't be sure how much prior awareness
you have of my work. I do appreciate that you didn't retire
from active service in the U.S. Navy until 1980, and thus you
may have some knowledge of it--as your fellow "Vancouver Centennial Peace
Festival" participant, SALT II Treaty negotiator Paul Warnke,
would as one who did work for the Carter Administration
during the time key aspects of my work were done. But i recall
making a statement to him in 1978 (as i'm sure he'll recall),
and i know i didn't contact you then.
But, assuming we spoke, you realize i have Ms. Pat Carney's November 12, 1987
letter to me addressed on the basis of both the SPECIAL
DIPLOMATIC ADVISER TO THE U.S. PRESIDENT and SENIOR ADVISER TO
THE YEAR OF THE CHILD authorities, and SOUTH AFRICA DIRECTOR-GENERAL: FOREIGN
AFFAIRS C.M. Lloyd's 22 February 1988 statement
addressed to me on the basis of the authority invested in my
name since 1978 by President Carter to show--as well as
the letters from BRITISH COLUMBIA
PREMIER William N. Vander Zalm and Mrs. Alan Paton (on behalf of
her now late husband, Alan Paton) urging me to prepare a
book about my work.
I think if you read the Christmas,
1987 statement to P.W. Botha and/or the September, 1988
statements to Peter Jennings of ABC News, you and
the "Center For Defense Information" would want not only these
copies, but access to the others to which they refer.
Accordingly, i am providing a phone number for you to call in
future.
I hate to leave you dangling, but i'd like to keep this statement short.
I'm now preparing to make submissions to U.S. SENATOR Edward Kennedy, CANADIAN MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT Dave Barrett, and UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL Javier Perez de Cuellar that i intend to send about a week after completion by the Bush Administration of its "review" of U.S. foreign policy. I was in touch with Teddy Kennedy and Dave Barrett during my 1978 work (and since). As i'm sure there's going to be publicity about what happened then soon, i think i should caution them and give them documentation so they have a basic understanding of what's involved...as i should advise you.
I have a copy of the proceedings from the 1986 peace festival, sir, and i reread last night what you said during your speech.
I agree with you about S.D.I., and included a copy of my August, 1986 statement to Mr. Gorbachev in part because of its closing remark about this.
But while i also agree with you that "we must slow, stop and
reverse the march to nuclear war," like Dr. Sakharov told
his friend Dr. Sidney Drell (see the AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION"
draft included as term of reference 6) of the contents of my December 16, 1987
submission to Pieter W. Botha), i'm not sure that
arms reductions as the "priority" are going to produce real and
durable "peace, security, and justice."