LETTER TO ALLEN DULLES FROM WILLIAM BENTON

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 16, 2002
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 20, 1961
• Content Type: LETTER

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342 MADISON AVENUE
SUITE 702
NEW YORK 17, N.Y.
WILLIAM BENTON
PUBLISHER 8 CHAIRMAN
March 20, 1961
Last February and March, when Governor Stevenson and I were
on a nine-week tour of Latin America,I did not realize how
conspicuously Latin America would be in the news only a
year later.
My 60,000-word article based on this trip is to be featured
in the 1961 Britannica Book of the Year which will be off
the press in the next week or two and which I am sending
you. Later, the article will be brought out by another
publisher as a book carrying the same title as the Yearbook
piece, "The Voice of Latin America". This title is in-
spired by my article of five years ago growing out of my
visit to the U.S.S.R., "The Voice of the Kremlin", which
title in turn grew from my responsibilities after the war
for organizing (and naming!) our Voice of America overseas
broadcasting.
Britannica's Yearbook records the major events and develop-
ments of each year - in some 1,000 articles and 1,000,000
words. An annual supplement to the Britannica, it reports
on key and current developments - for example, the 1961
edition reports on the election of President Kennedy, the.
U-2 incident, the Paris conference, Mr. Khrushchev at the
General Assembly of the U.N., the Congo, Algeria. I hope
you may have many an occasion to refer to it. (The 1961
printing of Encyclopaedia Britannica itself, incidentally,
has 41,016 articles and nearly 40,000,000 words, of which
8,479,207 words were changed from the 1960 printing - a
tremendous editorial output which continues to grow each
year, stimulated by the accelerating pace of contemporary
life.)
The Honorable Allen Dulles
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C.
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