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UNIVERSITY OF Minnesota
INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE
DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY, FISHERIES, AND WILDLIFE - ST. PAUL 1
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September 29, 1966

Mr. Robert Sheeks
National Research Council
2401 Virginia Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20009

Dear Mr. Sheeks:

While staying in Washington in August, I was quite fortunate having several occasions to explore the status of several Korean projects and also express some of my views concerning Korea's needs and important elements in Korea's scientific development with you, Mr. Patterson of the American Museum Association and Dr. Buechner of the Smithsonian Institution.  During my talk with you I was urged to place in a letter some of my views I expressed concerning Korea's needs and the contribution to them of an "Institute of Natural Resources" which I propose, along with the Institute of Science and Technology, the proposed National Science Museum Center, and also with Dr. Buechner's research project on ecosystem ecology in the Buffer Zone south of the Demilitarized Zone.  I proposed the creation of the "Institute of Natural Resources", believing that it would supply a most important element in the long range development of Korea that is missing from other Korean projects, without competing with them.  My thinking is summarized as follows:

The United States assistance programs are to accelerate economic and social progress, and to build strength of self-sufficient economy into underdeveloped or newly developing countries.  In the course of such assistance programs three phases or stages, which are interrelated, may be expected: 1. the short term crash programs for desperate problems with heavy reliance on introdction of "American know-how" and assistance of American specialists;

Transcription Notes:
introduction spelled as 'introdction' in original