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looked at the whole picture. But he felt that was about all that the developing countries at that moment could absorb.

I want to give you a copy of this pamphlet. (Jane, I have stated the differential and the amount of money needed as estimated by Mr. Hoffman, and would you check these to see that the figures are correct.)

In 1962 we published a pamphlet called “Does Over-Population Mean Poverty?” which is really a broad explanation of the position of various people and groups on the needs for birth control and the need for the distribution of contraceptives. Mr. Jones was extremely anxious not to affend the Catholics and he was unwilling to put in information as to where anyone could get any information about practical birth control methods, something that annoyed me very, very much. However, it was an extremely good exposition of various attitudes on the subject, and I insisted that it be sent, with a personal letter, to heads of state, of all major countries and even some not so major...

This went out over your signature?

No, it went out over David Lloyd's signature, I think, or Bo Jones. It was sent first class, air mail to about 60 or 80 countries.

Believe it or not Khrushchev evidently read the letter and the pamphlet and sent the Second Secretary of the Russian Embassy to the office that had issued the pamphlet--we'd issued it under the name of the Committee for Economic Growth, which