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Show f : </*-** June 1C,1S»^6. FTofessor Willis L.M.Reese, Director, Ifcrker School of Foreign and Comparative l*tw, .Columbia University, 421 W ll?th Street, New York 27, N.Y. Dear Professor Reese, I feel very grateful te you for your kind letter of May 22, l£5o* It ia very considerate of you to ask me to give you my Ideas a.0 to form or forme which auseful cooperation between Columbia and Cairo Universities might take, In his letter of May 19,19^6 frofeeaor Elliett £.Cheatham has suggested various possibilities to be studied with a View to secure such cooperation. They include such matters as 1) a conference in New York to which leading Egyptian professors would be invited to discuss in a comparative way some legal subjects of Interest and importance to our two countries, and a conference in E&ypt to which leading American professors would be invited to disouse similar though net the identical subject a ; £) visits by members of the:faculty of the University of Cairo to Columbia University as visiting scholars, and visits by American scholars to the University of Cairo j 2) mutual aid in building up the libraries of the two Universities, with perhaps visits by younger law librarians to the law libraries or university library schools in the United States, and cooperation in making available for each country books available in the ether country. I discussed these various possibilities with the Rector of the University of Cairo, Professor Said. The fceetor is desirous to puve the way for mutual and useful cooperation between our two Universities, and he shares my view that such cooperation is necessary in order to promote mutual understanding of our common difficulties and problems, ciuch understanding- will be of great benefit to the future generations of scholars in both countries. Needless to say that, even if points of view did not meet, at least they can properly be understood or tolerated, and tolerance is, in my view, and, I am sure in yours, a great virtue nowadays. Surely, professors* and scholars are the best suited ambassadors to realise such pacific aims. This is why I consider that the suggestions put forward by Professor Cheatham are the best possibilities one can think of as a trial for securi/^ cooperation and und erst and iiig. I can only add that we have to proceed carefully in order to secure the maximum of success to our common endeavour. • |