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ae NY 100-111180 sake WACHTEL again counseled that they should be sure > that RALPH BUNCHE (who was also invited to go to Moscow as a Peace Prize winners had definitely excluded himself from going and that KING should speak to the United Nations Ambassador ARTHUR GOLDBERG before making the trip. i WACHTEL and LEVISON also suggested that KING attempt to see Pope PAUL in Rome on his return from Moscow, As a result of this conference, ANDREW YOUNG agreed to talk to a DUNCAN WOOD in Geneva to discuss points brought up at the conference. Later that date, YOUNG contacted STANLEY LEVISOW and told him that the committee behind the Moscow trip was not the Nobel Prize committee but was a committee of private Norwegian citizens and Quakers chaired by a former Nobel Prize winner. ‘YOUNG said that several Nobel Prize winners had turned down the invitation and that only Father PIRI, DUNCAN WOOD and two Norwe@lans would be going with KING. LEVISON said that in view of this he felt differently about KING going to Moscow and he and YOUNG felt it would be better for KING to go to Moscow on his own at some later time. This information was furnished to the Bureau by airtel jand LHM dated 9/28/67, captioned "MARTIN LUTHER KING, Jr.,; SM - Cc". 10/9/67 Source advised that KING and STANLEY LEVISON discussed the mayoralty primary in Cleveland, Ohio, in which CARL STOKES, a Negro, was the winner. KING commented that STOKES won because of the help which he and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference gave to his campaign. KING said his presence in Cleveland helped keep the Negro community together. They discussed whether STOKES would admit publicly, KING's contribution. LEVISON and KING agreed that KING's role | in the Cleveland elections should be written for national consumption. - 2B e cf): S = 7 4