ALBERT BURKE FINDING WASHINGTON AUDIENCE

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• Publication Date: May 27, 1961
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? READERS W
Dr. Carl Iliffnis
Gitmwo.:;d AriVe.JIYikttaville.
Mt, asks if he Can get
copies of the
Sunday night
, lectures of
Albert Burke
(8:30 P. an.,
WTTG). He
? adds: "To my
in i n d,
Burke's lee.
lulls are the
' best talks on
the air anri
I would yd.
much like4 have printed
copies for -reading."
The An 1r is that the
talks are being printed,
at the cut. However,
Mark Yftns, a vice presi-
dent o etropolitan Broad-
castin ?., is trying to pro-
Nide c ties.
rco . L. Maury* Jr. of
? 5511 ospect st., ''Chevy
Chile fltomcs a complaint
that ' titles of Burke's
kc ar:e not listed in the
Su television high-
The reason is that
w be been unable to get
f;- the matloh in time for
Pu WO.
? ,who lives in Con-
nd broadcasts in
CRY, is trying to
e ,time in Wash'-
,
goo, has promised
/that hill ithedule the sub-
jects of the programs in
time ? for publication.
Reeder Maury writes;
','The format of Oils program,
although in no War cont.
lex," irery deftly Utilizes
echnfOues? which can be
tiled by no other media.
tor;iiiits of a
kvi? discussing
ari-
ot the 'probleme
tise United
.
In his coalmen.
,Eggetle aptioNn OU
Some of hit Materiel Is,
troversiiii. However, ? all
what he has to say Is 1
portant. It is :Illiporfanf
the light of the
existence of this conn
a strong and tridtien
leader of the Free World,
A LETTER signed ,
"Zelda Goosebaum" (can
there be such g name?) OW.
tains this comment: "The
late flicks on TV that keep;
us awake nights are the
game ones that used to lint'
us to sleep 20 years ago."..
LOUIS JOHNSON of
Washington Akita: "Did you
notice Ole honerion a recent
'Have Gee. , 411 Travel'.
program. Celine 'Jane was
taking a bath: a modem,
tiled bathroont
I didirt seaT prograh
but. from all aunts' b.
reliable histo
gest boner,'
lantity*Jann" taking tvli
any sort of a ba
in any kind of wa
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the Annenberg
Communications a
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4sagreement .overlite
Soviet submarine .threitelba$
now developed into a disput,
Over whisky betliVien Reps.
Sam Stratton, New York' ,
Democrat, and Tom Curtis,
Missouri ? RepublIcau. F4C11.--
? claim's the other owes him ft "..
case of whisky.-
? . It all started when the Navy
offered a case of whisky to spy- ' -
one sighting a RussWn
marine in American wires,
tis promptly doubled
to anyone who cntad *amt. n?-, -
single- ? Soviet submarine ?:hash-'-'*-
- that was -free' t:f he the year.
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shipping ? gaider,etating
mansik was ice-.I.r.eep, end dem
? umphatrtly " ed
ed his -wiiiiia.43uatr Curtin
shipping .guide t iceb
? had --to be ? used - during-,
:winter montlIt. He claintdik
:erred aubmarines
narrow latee.''Hutking
easy. ? ? ? ? ? ?
? "Curtis Is making a mouidithr
? out of a mole hill," Stratton
grumbled privately. He fotind s
naval ?officer who had been sta-
tioned at *Mermansit
World War ant who e=
the base was oPerational
year long.' . ?
But Ctirtis claimed-- he Was
from Missouri and insisted that.
Ice blockage hampered eubsin-
rine ope tions ,out Of
? mansk. JNelLher -Congeesemen.,
would 'knowledge losinitti ?
bet, though both insisted r Ir
iiiierest in the whisky was see-%
' ;.)!Idary td. their concern over-
I fi ubmai ine- problem. -
Intir-Dem Splits ??
II( w deop the split la
.tly? Democratic and- ? 'liberal
tor,es wog - shown during the
i'i.Set Ho usi? conlerence
t.Ile bomb., A -Litnes
IPSO**. Interedit.
*I may As well- tell you noso
will Set sign afly report by
Is conference that tears the
ousing bill to pieces: In that
It *ill be my intention- to
kagoarttor.,report.", ?
"Eithastor, rtelther Is It our in-,
do bring out a bill pri-
designed to coincide with
President's views," counter-
we?or* ,rn ,
.41MM 'We a lotadairi
taw this session." argued Batas.
'Is that what yen mint? This ,
Nil isn't perfec(,-butIre a gold t. ?
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Democratic Rep. Wright Pat- ? .
of .Tesai.."Dowever, I think
baapt something he will'
agree that it is better
rather than hare ail the --
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out by a rto.7
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we not the Prod-
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by ratIc Sen. Joe
1st Pennalvakia. "Sim*
conference began there
a disposition not to
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Khrusheltev's Longer in the
By Stewart Alltop
SOraniiidEd IT ta =true-
\ive to compare the_ hopes of
\he past with thp realities of
he present. Last July 4,
-when Nikita Khrusbchev
urged his "Stalinist" col-
eaguee in the Kremlin, ?the
lew York Times accurately
. lescribed the mood of the
2apital as one of "gleeful
'peculation." The burden of
his gleeful speculation vow
? -hat Khrushehev had -"won a
mashing victory for his new
ook policies of eating ten-
sions at home and abroad."
This hopeful interpretation
of the Soviet purge seemed
vasonable enough. The main
tire
charge against "anti-party
group" wee that had "Op. ?
posed 'the Leninist policy Of
peaceful coexistence .'.- - re-
laxingtensions . *and'
iy relations."' 'Cirtain-
ly?the departure of' he stony-
/aced Molotov from the matt .
5f Soviet power seemed els
navvy of better time' to
come. Yet whathas happened.
since? ; ?
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What has happened Is that
soviet foreign policy has been
, tougher and more aggresebn
',hen at any time ftewit1P-`
inis death. 'Very shorn
site: Khrushehev's trim
the Soviets, used.' It. c
clear that they were no,
es, interested in negotiating
periosssly on disarmament.
Since then, the Soviet*
save talked and acted in a
-nanner worthy of Molotov at
, Its nastiest There have been,
:o name only a few examples,
he very tough note to the
kdenauer government, the
even tougher note to Turkey
h ,
e charge that the United
States was fomenting war in
the Middle East, the threat.
ening Gromyko interview, a
series of fist,-shaking Pravda
editorials, and the deliberate.
y menacing tone of the an-
nouncement of the Soviet .
Lest of a long range ballistic
missile. . ? - ---, -
The new tough line has not
been confined to talk,
over. The dispatch of Soviet ?
cruisers and submarines to
the Mediterranean wise clear.
ly meant to underline the
tough words. And in receht
weeks the number of United
States Navy contacts with So-
viet submarines in or near
American waters has also
sharply increased.
er use migntest aouot
Rhrudicher, Immediate-
after his tritsrisph, delib-
teLy decided to get tough
the West:
? sorts of 'possible rea-
are cited to explain this
ehev decide& from
newly powerful influence
Marshal Zhukov to the
d to disabuse the West of
notion that the Kremlin
rge was 6 symptom of So-
t weakness.
ut IlOgrushehey is now un-
btedly the supreme Asap-
of Seviet policy, and there-
& good pert of the cob:
ties surety lies in the char-
ref Khrushohev himself.
ens who baa had eon-
t with Uhrushebev has ta-
u* clear Wens-
be is a gambler, a
Pilling Sind even eager to
peat rbim.
One, of his most, striking
acteristics, moreover, Is a"
delighted pride .in
technical achievoments of
itelenie. .1055.
Stories first dis-
ed tit* lendrranp Pion
?hmjne at the nen Mr
? show, one of the
ropriemn sir mtsehft trained
ALTOGETHER, among
those who are paid to think'
about such things, there is no
Ins stand. He
ehev Jumping ep
with Joy,
ing the staid II
back. ?
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CONSIDKA HOW the Ireiei'.
scene must leek to thieMen.',1?,
especially now that
entists have given hinVitt '
ICBM, the shiniest indenost,2.,
murderous of new tOys.
He sees, the .W.64 led
the 'United Stats,'.
11 disarming. :With
bier's %Mind, and' hig
trhial'ainviation that the
Is doOtned-anywan?
gotintion and ?
Ibis tevst'.-
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Squaring the Soviet Circle
. By Marguerite Higgins
FO1A,b3a
'The beneficent actions of denounced trial by confession' ? efficiency and slavery in mod-
Pater the Great were accosts- and on April 23 a watchdog ern times, is what will happen
pl.shed with repelling violence. conunittee was setup to guard in an era when relaxation of
Ptblic reform was a struggle of against abuse Of police power. terror (even though modest by
despotism with the people, with The Soviet government has our standards)* is combined
sluggiahness. He hoped ordered important decentral- with Popular education. For
t/wough the threat of hie au- isstion of authority both In though Winona of Russian;
thorny to evoke initiative in a agriculture and industry so MIY be misinformed, their g"'
sieve society . . ar'd to as to promote efficiency by eminent in the PrOoess sea-
' Pon *deuces. one ed- what is best for their own has had t? at. the mama ?
tatradeee into ;toes the %gra- letting local authorities decide ing armed eal Indult:Jai Power
' uoation Wife necessary condi- communities. ? in the essentials of reading, .
thin of social Minato*. He de- writing, arithmetic. engineering.
In another rather stilted and
Wed that the slaw, teinanshig certainly limited step. tile 80. etc. They know how to think.
4 atm, ShOuld act cossodosat net press has been wring of Won't individuals who are
dotPotteta aged freedom. eft- discussiOn" and haa invited ?the cream cif the Soviet ip-
&Miring of ths,,elsolo?-the .rid- sto ben tearful and nruneed in a liberalised atmoePhere to
P g "' wondering &milt the logic of.
a system which by the admission
of the Communists themselves
Was twisted by one man into the
Instrument for "an era of
tragedy?''
and freely. The isderaction, of a greater need of "freedom of educated and lin" how t? think
tellectual crop?inevitably turn
cation and slavery: this is the such groups as trade unions to
? ' d '"
t kV.Peter the
Great and which is still un-
solved .. ? "?written at 'the turn
o ! the century' by the Soviet
historian Klutchevsky.
--
BUT will Soviet Russia's pres-
ent leadership succeed at last
in squaring the circle?in
t kiting initiative In a slave so-
ciety?
It is certainly true that the
development of individual 'nails-
nye (within Communist rules)
has become a prime target of
Russia's top leadership. This is
certainly not because of AM
love of freedom in the Western
sense of the world but because
the Russians are making, gigan-
tic efforts to change their pres-
ent society?which amounts to
nefficient state capitalism?to
efftcient state capitalism. Only
11 taking the waste, bureauc-
racy; abject fear, over-centrill-
I cation out of the system can the In providing materialist in-
their goal of "overtaking and
society, the Russian leadership
\ RUSIdAtig come anywhere uellx centives for its modern slave
surpassing.. the ? united states has already had to make an
of America and other leading ur
siim leaders know it. enormous bow to human nate
capitalist powers. And the p,.. (which,
Communists have changed)
? ?
(which, it turned out, not even
us
and adopt methods long ago
prevalent in soacalled bourgeois
The very practical matter of
u..?,,...,,,.., inAhAA...1 4,,ti.,,v. societies. But the COinnYunisis,
u?c,;;;;.6.-c-iozrwas"?.an"'"ris: of course, would never admit to
portant ?but generally over- In touring the Kharkhov tree-
' over-
looked?part el tie Communist tor plant in the Soviet Ukraine,
to debate issues in public with
the management of Soviet en-
terprise.
Again on a small scale. So-
viet tourists are beim; permit-
Jed to travel around Europe
with 1,700 schoduled to go
abroad on Soviet cruise ships
this summer.
Turning from the isolation-
ism under Stalin. the Soviet
government has strewed the
need to learn in scientific and
other fields from Western
achievements and has encour-
aged Soviet scientists to speak
with increasing franknessto
Western visitors.
? ? ? ?
Not basically significant?
Still the average Russian today
is less personally afraid than at
any time in the last twenty years,
as any informed traveler can
report.
this.
a ?
Instead of promoting individ-
ual initiaUver wouldn't .in
relaxation of tension bring
qu'estioning, even eventually de-
mand for a change?
Like Peter the Great before
them, Russia's dictators may in-
deed find how difficult it is to ?
'square the circle; to persuade
slaves, who must remain &Urea.
'to act consciously and freely,"
especially now that for the'first
time in histOry the slaves have
the weapon of, education and
thought. And by their conces-
sions of the' past few years the
Russian leadership has already,
given ah initial tribute to the
stubborn opposition Of the"
masses whose answer to despot-
ism has been sluititiellnese and
apathy.
Peril boa Nikita 8. Khrush-
choir's argument against Stalinist for instance, this correspondent
terror in his ? famous "secret once asked about a blazing an-
speech"
on the factory bul-
sPeeell" to th? Twentieth letin board. It concerned an
Congress. award given an engineer for
"We should not forget, inventing way of re-drilling
gehrushcher said, "that duel*. a metal part so as to use the
the erre* of party. Soviet WAS same piece take.
eeddedde leaders' many war"?' His reward: ten per cent of
began t*"riehn their /elm tin- hich
certainly, showed over-cautious-
the factory's nct savings for
' nem, feared all
the next fiscal year (fifty thou-
'W was new,
feared their own shadows and smut rubies).
began to she, less initaltive in "Thet sounds very capitalis-
? their work." ?
tic to me." I remarked at ths
Urn..
However eager ofIlcial Amen- I _ac
can circles way be to insist that -Oh. no. gala the .t?orr
director. "that Mimes= tae
no Russian has really
chonod 9014r is undoubted)." 2?C,I?Pt.,
t sttuttret
oZieTrioolittiCort=nris ?
portsmt -.
'within eh.' SOW Union of the ?
past few months designed to Prov
mote ?whit the Russian historian
?-'deierfthd lout iso u "soda
ipitisUre.ft ;
Certainly the essentials . of
'dictatorship that made Stalin's
terror possible hive not been
? abbilehed turicroni theo-i;
rtrei could be put back on.
atlltn in a dictatorship there
.gilatters, Of degree
=henothers. ?
are .1t110re
t Of View of
?
the Russian Russia.' there
hate% been some dlstinct
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The widely hated MHO law
But the sad reminder is that
In two huneVed years of trying
to square Cie. circle, Russia's
despots have always in i.show-
down chosen to revert to a
slave society with all its ineffi-
ciency than to read to freedom
with Its threat to %their poger:
And there will have to be many
more concessions. may more ,
Adaptations to historic demands
of human nature, before the'
present Soviet regime could
be-
viewed wisp exception. For as
the Communist mt.?' boas Kivu-
shchev himself irettarked.. hie
regime has the oblertir to "ter`,
ror when necessary' and the
neeessity, ? by his ' ?
would arise out. of any real
threat to his regime& dictator-
&hip.
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