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Merton's Correspondence with:

Robert D. Crane; Robert Crane; Bob Crane; Bob D. Crane; Crane, Bob D.

Crane, Robert D.  printer

 
 

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Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1962-1967, 1973
Volume: 21 item(s); 31 pg(s)

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Biography

Dr. Robert Crane was a Research Associate with the Center for Strategic Studies and was later with the Hudson Institute for National Security and International Order in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. He was involved in Republican Party functions and conservative-leaning think-tanks on national and international security and outer space security.

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1. 1962/08/01 TAL[c] to Merton Thank you very much for writing your latest book "Disputed Questions" to help people, like me, [handwritten note specifies that the letter was sent in October - Crane sends his articles "Law and Strategy in Space" and "Soviet Attitude Toward International Space Law"] «detailed view»
2. 1962/10/26 TLS from Merton Thanks for your kindness in sending the interesting offprints of your articles on "Law and Strategy international law, the United Nations, and the role of the Soviets or the US in trying to impose its own policies as international law / Cuban nuclear missile crisis «detailed view»
3. 1963/07/05 TAL[x] to Merton Thank you for your wise words of comment on the two articles I sent you last year on Soviet [sends his article from Orbis, entitled "Moral Guidelines for the American Strategy Debate"] differing viewpoint to participants in Breakthrough to Peace - spiritual orientation of Pacem in Terris «detailed view»
4. 1964/05/02 TL[c] to Merton As an amateur strategist and would-be specialist in the moral-theological framework of strategic sending "40 page analysis of Soviet-U.S. negotiations in the U.N. disarmament and space committees" and speech entitled "Moral Guidelines for the American Strategy Debate" / recommending Merton for the Conway Testimonial Committee (Father Edward A. Conway, S.J.) «detailed view»
5. 1964/05/21 (#01) TALS from Merton Many thanks for your letter and for the enclosed documents, the very interesting material morality of total war - incompatibility with Catholic idea of just war / Soviet political and military strategy / thinks Crane's institute is too narrowly centered on strategy to be free to propose meaningful moral principles in keeping to pragmatic responses to Soviet strategy / Pacem in Terris and international law «detailed view»
6. 1964/05/21 (#02) TAL[c] from Merton Many thanks for your letter and for the enclosed documents, the very interesting material morality of total war - incompatibility with Catholic idea of just war / Soviet political and military strategy / thinks Crane's institute is too narrowly centered on strategy to be free to propose meaningful moral principles in keeping to pragmatic responses to Soviet strategy / Pacem in Terris and international law «detailed view»
7. 1964/11/09 TALS to Merton In response to your last letter, which I do not presently have at hand, I would like to emphasize Crane's plans to write a book, entitled The Management and Resolution of Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of Competing Strategies «detailed view»
8. 1964/12/14 (#01) TLS from Merton Your letter of November 9th and the two articles reached me safely. If I have not replied sooner, responses to Crane's book in light of modern nuclear missile technology and the Second Vatican Council's Schema 13 «detailed view»
9. 1964/12/14 (#02) TL[c] from Merton Your letter of November 9th and the two articles reached me safely. If I have not replied sooner, responses to Crane's book in light of modern nuclear missile technology and the Second Vatican Council's Schema 13 «detailed view»
10. 1965/01/28 TAL[x] to Merton Thank you very much for the copy of your book and your paper for the chapter meeting. Dean Rusk and the "new isolationism" - Communist successes causing retreat into "fortress America" «detailed view»
11. 1965/03/01 HLS to Merton After reading the rest of your book, the Seeds of Destruction, I see that you have already answered Seeds of Destruction / Crane's days in a Communist prison and his conversion to Catholicism «detailed view»
12. 1965/03/03 TL[x] to Merton Just a note to follow-up my last letter. Enclosed is a copy of an article by Eric Voegelin [sending his memorandum to Admiral Burke advocating a war of liberation in Vietnam and his article on "The Gnostic Mass Movements of Our Time"] Professor Voegelin «detailed view»
13. 1965/03/09 (#01) TALS from Merton Thanks for your letter and the two most interesting enclosures. I will pass over the Voegelin Vietnam War - opposition on ethical principles and the oversimplification of the situation on the part of US policy makers / support for Pope's position in advocating negotiation - thinks Vietnam could be "one of the bloodiest, dirtiest, filthiest pieces of savagery man has yet perpetrated" «detailed view»
14. 1965/03/09 (#02) TL[c] from Merton Thanks for your letter and the two most interesting enclosures. I will pass over the Voegelin Vietnam War - opposition on ethical principles and the oversimplification of the situation on the part of US policy makers / support for Pope's position in advocating negotiation - thinks Vietnam could be "one of the bloodiest, dirtiest, filthiest pieces of savagery man has yet perpetrated" «detailed view»
15. 1965/03/24 TL[c] to Merton Your great concern about my proposal for a national liberation war in Vietnam I think may have thinks Merton misunderstood "proposal for a national liberation war in Vietnam" - advocates a strictly guerrilla war / encloses talk delivered to Republican Party in Northern Virginia - parts on Civil Rights might be misinterpreted because he tries not to offend segregationalists in the party «detailed view»
16. 1967/09/01 TLS to Merton Two and a half years ago I sent you a memo of mine condemning the American military approach admits that Merton was right about Vietnam War / similar situation in Nagaland with the Nagas of India «detailed view»
17. 1967/10/03 (#01) TLS from Merton It was good to hear from you again and I hope you forgive my delay in replying. You can imagine how the Nagas people - connection to American Baptists / political activity and prayer / involvement in Asia - Vietnam «detailed view»
18. 1967/10/03 (#02) TL[c] from Merton It was good to hear from you again and I hope you forgive my delay in replying. You can imagine how the Nagas people - connection to American Baptists / political activity and prayer / involvement in Asia - Vietnam «detailed view»
19. 1973/05/23 TALS  from Crane, Robert / to Flavian Burns Some time ago the compiler of Thomas Merton's memorabilia asked me to send him the letters that «detailed view»
20. 1973/10/16 TL[c] from Center to Crane, Robert Let me introduce myself to you as one of the three Trustees of the Merton Legacy Trust, and the one «detailed view»
21. 1973/12/30 TLS to Center from Crane, Robert Again your letter concerning Thomas Merton's estate ended up at the bottom of my in-box, «detailed view»

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