Box 56

(Diary 25. Orange-red hardcover.) Continuation of China trip from diaries in folders 7-8, Box 55.

(Diary 26. Black hardcover, red border.) This contains a report on the details of the Sister Cities International program and its implementation along with Burks's doubts about this program as he considered the quality of the Japanese language program at Rutgers tenuous.

(Diary 27. Black hardcover, red border.) This is a continuation of the Japan trip from the previous journal and discussion continues along the same lines.

(Diary 28. Black hardcover, red hardcover.) This journal includes details of a pleasure trip to London, Vienna, Athens, Istanbul, and the Greek islands. He has extensively researched the history of all destinations and offers his view of the political situation of each.

(Diary 29. Black hardcover, red border.) Travel diary from Mexico where Professor Burks taught a seminar. From Mexico Burks flew to Hawaii and writes of Edward R. Beauchamp, biographer of William Griffis. Burks discusses his revision for his book entitled: Westview Japan: Profile of a Post Industrial Power.

(Diary 30. Red hardcover.) Burks travels to Hungary and Russia. Included are descriptions about museums, landscapes, and people.

(Diary 31. Black hardcover, red border.) Burks writes from Mexico.

(Diary 32. Brown softcover.) This diary contains several news clippings regarding student protests. Burks visits several cities in Japan and includes a description of the memorial and peace garden in Nagasaki. He writes that the atom bomb killed more than 70,000 and injured another 73,000 yet it is noteworthy that there is no mention that it was his own intelligence work in the Navy that enabled the plan to successfully end the war.