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First lines: "Sorry, bad news. My higher superiors have judged that it is not quite fitting for a Cistercian monk"... Contents index: nuclear war censorship of Merton's writings - obligation for obedience despite book already at Macmillan [«Peace in a Post-Christian Era»] / Merton must take back article sent to Barry on nuclear war / Cassian / article on Adam of Perseigne would not sit well with the "Black Benedictines" / Dutch mystic Hadewijch.

First lines: "The Abbot General has asked me to inform you and Father Paul of Holy Ghost Abbey that he appoints"... Contents index: claims Merton and Fr. Paul of Holy Ghost Abbey are to be censors for all Trappist and Trappistine literature in the U.S. (proves to be a misunderstanding, see "Fox, James" file) / submitting a sister's poems to be used in Christmas Carols for censorship.

First lines: "A hasty note to apologize for having caused something in the nature of a minor catastrophe."... Contents index: acknowledges that claim of Merton censoring all American Trappist works is not correct and that he is only to censor the poems of a nun of Mother Angela's community at Wrentham / asking leniency in this endeavor.

First lines: "I deeply feel with you all the emotions that have shaken you, on meeting the prisoners returning"... Contents index: [Cold War Letters #93].