24 SENATORS GO BACK TO SCHOOL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600120010-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Content Type: NSPR

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-I ,Senators Go CPYRGHT x
sou sa is y We craving to --u i e-
Bach to School d and of many who are puzzled by the
ow?hot.blow'cold of Soviet policy.
CPY G T M Kobtrta Speeches by Government officials, as
aliners general rule, do not help much in
TWENTY-FOUR Democratic Senalam! nveying hard Information to the
gathered for dinner one night last wblie on-which to base judgments. But
'in the old Supreme Court chambeexception was Allen Dulles' talk in
the Capitol. Senatorial dinners w ? Orleans last Wednesday. Some
nothing new but this eople think he shopld stick to his job
one was new: the ,. x head of the Central Intelligence
Senators were going : gency and leave the speech-making to ,
Henry M. Kissinger ?oak and dagger outfit and it is not
on some of the tunda. nbuay In that respect. But It has some :?,~
West ?c o n f I i e t cen- oN~ed!One of them la to gather. std
tered on the Berlin ft facts and figures about the Sovie c.
crisis. Conservatives, dnomy and td compare them with the-'.
liberals- ecican economy.
all agreed it.was stimulating for-men'
who all too often don't even have the. e~+ '
time to read a book. Of the presidential on n a and mWnfom mi inform ti much rp Iant
_-_ ,~:,:?,-- -_. -_ _-- _ ation-and plea
The "school, though he Is wary at.. is faculty `someone who can preen
that word, is the brainchild of one of' he evfdencecand the trends. For Sen
the Senate's' bright young men,.Albertt rs,1and all 'other AmericanL- ba
Gore of Tennessee. This week's ditcher tier be aware of the facts and tb
guest - will be Raymond L. Garthoff, kely consequences.
Gore is delighted at the response. H. oviet industry in particular is growth
hopes to keep school going for several. aster than As the case in the Uni
? more weeks.. After the two foreign , fates- Dulles ' compared tadustri
policy experts he is turning to eco- owth in Russia 1952.5$ inclusiv
nomics with' Gardner Means the next" Ittt 'growth !here in 1951.37 Inclusive ~-
faculty member. he annual's ovlet rate, he found; wa
e+a ?', per -cent compared to 3.6 per ce
THIS SORT of senatorial craving to or ? , be ? U. S. And as he' noted, h
know and to understand today's critical voided recession 1938 in the U. S. o
problems is one of.the heartening signs he comparison would have been "eve
of the times. The new-crop of Senators ess favorable.".
includes a lot of eggheads and there Relative growth alone is. Importan
are a goodly. number, too, among the tut more Important is an understandi
new House members. A new day for if what each nation does with tha
the intellectual in America began with rowth. Doubtless because he is a mem
Sputnik I and the Gore school is a er of the Eisenhower team, Dulles wa
reflection of just that. ?estrained in his comments on th
The need to know is not confined to 'secret of Soviet success." He said Dni
those who work behind security wraps. hat, it "lies in the fact that the Kremli
It is as wide as America, for democracy enders direct a far higher proportio
can operate effectively only when Gov- f total resources to national polio
e ent has a popular base of consent. urposes than does the United States.
And consent requires familiarity and Subject for a Gore School dinner: ca
understanding of what is Involved even - democracy, find a way, without alte
though details may be obscure. ng the nature of democracy, to direc
The Overstreets' What We Need to necessarily higher proportion of i
Know About Conwiunisan is &. good esoutces to national policy purposes
example of the kind of book which can
fill gaps in the background of millions
of Americans. It is not easy,to explain
Communist dogma and to relate ii to
Soviet policy. But the Overstreets have
done a flrst?ratc writing job ,which
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