November 26,1967, —
Gommittee on Fellowship Awards
Ameriean Agsootation of Untw reity Women
1634 Bye StaNsWe
Washington, @,Dids
Dear Madamt
Profeagsoy Phoebe Morrison of Barnard College has
agked me te give you my views on the project she has prow
posed to your coumi theo, f
T have mown Professor Morison since 1943 when
we yrengé together in 088, From the outset I have been
abpuck her profesalonal abllities and her unusual gift
to communioate her vast knowledge effectively tie others,
My own teaching experience during the last three
re has brought home to me the problem how diffleult it
@ $6 teach all the ramifications of comatiinilonal law and
administration of justies to a an audience without speclalized
legal training. None of the material available at pregenb
quite fulfills the purpose, T,therefore, think, that vofessor
Morrison's projecb, of whtch i nave been privileged 8 peruse
both outline and Initial ehapter, will be a definite and wel«
some contribution Sax to the teaching In the constitubional
and polivical flela.
Tt. sincerely hope your organization will be able
to sponsor this most promising project.
Sincerely yours,
ProtedSbyok FEEROLRET sotence.
tee
Dear Phoebe,
Thanks for your note,i just came back from Eurdpe showing the family
around. I wrecked my brain but my memory for ames is not very good
and my grade lists are at the office,there is nothing at the New School
but there are some good studeths at the Russian Institute.as you are
naturally im a hurry and as| will probably uot be in NY before registra~
tion ,I wili clipd the first partof your letter and send it to Dallin
at the Russian Institute and ask him to contact you directly or ask
the student whomhe wants to recommend to contact you.If that does nhot
, meees
work for one reason or another we can still search for the muiams of
the A studekts on my lists who specialise in the Russian field on
Sept 23.
another prob.em: do you gtili have a copy of the age old OSS
study on German criminal procedure’ I promised to write 60 pages
on the Spiegel affair until Jan 1, and the Stuay would help me
to got the right procedural terms,remember you spent consiiderabe
vdme and effort to transcribe the Ge man terms into correspon-
ding American notions.I can t find the paper anymore.
Hope to see you soo and talk to you atl
lenght
00 West Listh St.
flow York 27,N.Y,
1L April 1960
My dear Otbos
This Letter has been on my sonsotence for some time,but
has remained unwritten for the usual variety of reasons. Tonight,however,
ny colleague has te go to a meeting so that we are starting for bhe country
later than usual,and hence -~-.
Mr, Peardon tells me that you are to come to Columbia to
lecture vice Lindsay Rogers the second semester. Itm pleased that "they"
have at last waked up to the state of the nation,and done the right thing.
Now that you have the foot in the door,....? Although I cannot imagine that
Columbia. would be as free with leaves as the New School, And I'm not sure
how I'd like Dave Truman for a boss,and 14 looks very much as if he were
keeping a firm hand on the reins. ;
You will be ameued to learn that for a variety of ressona
Barnard produced my full professorship this spring ~ at the usual tine of
announcing promotions. I was told pretty plainly that Yale came through
with the appropriate remarks as to my epacities ~ tha Law School,I gather.
Yor myself, this does nob sweeten tho administrative cup which ia mine. And
all I can say is that Ihave put my mind to it andthe department is beginning
to pull as a unit ~ but God, what a messy porsonnel: situation,which remains to
be cured, 8
My mterials from last year worked quite well, I know pretty
much the week spots,the spots which must be expansded,ete, Now I have to drive
wyeelf so thet I can taach at least the first semester out of the mimeoed
materials next year. This will be a considerable chore because the temptation
is to play when in the country on the woekend and 1t will be worge this
SUIMOT «
Let me thank you alse for the reprint - which 1 had already
read in the regular issue. Otto,! must say that for the first time I was
digappointed ~ always before I've never had the feeling that IT could call
you short on materials - e.g.,the Swiss report on their asylum policy would,
have been better damation than the German documents, Perhaps 1 was too
interested and too ready to expect you to do for me what you did on the
Bast German thing (which incidentally my students lapped up ~ going to the
Law School toe read it), Or perhaps Itm just getting peculiar in my old age.
What are your plans for the summer? I expect to be down in
Washington about the second week in Jno ond would love to have » session with
you, After that,back to Connecticut and the stint in the Yale Law Library,
ALL the best to you and Ann.
Our household is now complete for two spinisters*we have a minature dachs-—
hund,who vibrates betveen NYO and Connecticut with us. Four months and a bit
now with all the problems that age implies.
PHOEBE MORRISON
Goose Hill Road
Chester, Connecticut
16. September 1963
Dear Otto:
Thank you for your prompt reaction to my appeal
for personnel. Perhaps now Dallin will come across (I had
approached him,too). There is an element of University politics
in this too,as we had let Henry Kpiseh out. He had been teaching
some Russian stuff,the seminar and another course for us,while
writing his dissertation. Miss Park ¥ pushing us to get rid of ~“
people who do not finish their disseyations promptly - so we
had in effect tb let both Mrs. Emerson who should have gone under L
University rules and Henry go. I should have kept Henry another ‘
year (I think that he would not have finished the dissertation
even then) but I was outvoted. As far as Henry is concerned, this
jar may make him finish off now - but we are behind the eight
ball with some people on that side of the road.
I'm sorry that I camot help you out with that
OSS job - I never had a copy. Have you thought of looking at
LG - and even at Butler for it? I think that it my have been
declassified. i
My teaching assistant who is in the process of
hunting a dissertation topic,is being attracted by the idea of
doing something on the prosecutor. I hope she can stack it up,
as she ls a competent researcher and is not afraid to stend up
and be counted. Furthermore,she can write. Itve been intrigued
by the chain of command between the AG and the local prosecutor,
the relation between the prosecutor and the police (administra-
tive) and his wide discretion - and she has been infected,I hope.
One of my students did a competent undergraduate job for our
undergraduate Journal on ethics and the prosecutor - which
encoureged me to egg Marian (the teaching assistant) onto the
topic. When the outline comes up for departmental approval of
topic ,I hope that it will merit your epproval. God knows that
Spee ie little or nothing on the topict So that is one hurdle
cleared.
You will probably have Barnard undergraduates
when you take over Joe Rothschild's course;perhaps even some
of my advisees. It will be amusing to hear what you think of
them. And you certainly are going to have Barnard products in
your graduate course ,because I'm telling all History and Gov
majors interested in Buropean affairs that it is a must.
See you soon - afd thanks again,
Yaa
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