BR congratulates Kennedy for signing the Atmospheric Nuclear Test Ban Treaty but adds that "... no lasting peace is possible without understanding with China and no disarmament agreements are tenable unless China is a signatory to them."

BR also makes reference to the Soviet disarmament proposals of 1961 and writes that "... some accommodation should be reached enabling disarmament to occur and the dangerous Cold War to be liquidated."

Also present are two copies of the letter, TL(CAR).

BR encloses (not present) a letter he has "circulated widely" on China and remembers "with gratitude" Kennedy's senatorial speech urging reconsideration of American China policy.