A FREEDOM ACADEMY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00357R000100190036-2
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: January 1, 1960
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/11/19: CIA-RDP61-00357R000100190036-2
w CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ? APPENDIX
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A Fr dom Academy
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR.
OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES -
Wednesday, March 16, 1960
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, under
leave to revise and extend my remarks, I
should like to insert in the Appendix of
the RECORD a letter to the New York
Times written by my good friend, Arthur
G. McDowell, executive secretary and
treasurer of the Council Against Com-
munist Aggression.
Mr. McDowell is referring to my bill to
set up a Freedom Academy to train men
and women in the free world in counter-
action to the Communist conspiracy:
The letter follows;
MARCH 2, 1960.
The EDITOR,
The New York Times,
New York, N.Y.
DEAR SIR: Permit me to take a slight
caveat to the complaisance of your edi-
torial of February 28 on Moscow's new uni-
versity.
In your comment you beam with pleasure
to announce that at last you have found
something in the ideological field in which
we are ahead of the Russians, namely, for-
eign students already drawn here for tech-
nical, professional and general education
in our colleges and universities. Because
this invaluable influx of foreign students
Is so impressive in size, you fail to dip be-
low the surface to inquire what the results
of this attendance is upon these students
who have grown to such a great stream, al-
most in a fit of absentmindedness on the
part of America. I would suspect that
whatever absentmindedness may have con-
tributed to the building of the British
Empire, it has contributed very little to the
political success of these United States as
world leader in the struggle for men's minds
with the Soviet.
How many of these students, left to their
own devices with no appreciation of their
importance and impact on their return to
their homelands have gone back to turn
the tools we have given them and sharpened
them to attack the free order of society?
I submit that in no country of the world did
the United States expend as much idealistic
endeavor, religious, educational, medical,
etc., as in the Republic of China. There
was probably no country, outside of the
English speaking world, where as many
Americans made the effort to learn the lan-
guage and do all those things, minus of
course any political purpose, which we did
in China before 1949. Nevertheless, it was
the Russian Soviet politically trained Chi-
nese personnel wro staffed the Communist
movement which today rules mainland
China in the name of anti-Americanism and
communism.
We can look at this vast undifferentiated,
undirected army of 50,000 foreign students
and take all the complaisant pride which
your editorial talks about being ahead of the
Russians "on this particular front." But
for nearly 40 years and up to and including
this moment the Rusisans have been train-
ing foreign personnel for every continent
in political training schools, of which the
United Stated and all its free world allies
have not one comparable or matching insti-
tution. Last year Congressmen JUDD and
HERLONG introduced in the House and PAUL
DOUGLAS of 111haois and KARL MUNDT of South
Dakota introduced in the Senate a bill for
a freedom academy, which would for the
first time start training private citizens in
all levels of activity to for the first time
begin to match the hundreds and thousands
of students that have been pouring out of
the Soviet training schools for the last gen-
"eration and a half with such fantastic suc-
cess in political conquest, from China to
Cuba.
It would seem to me that the Times would
serve its thoughtful audience better, not by
complaisance over the 50,000 foreign stu-
dents who may have not only little or no
effect in the balance of the political decision
of their countries, but may indeed for vari-
ous reasons cast their balance on the wrong
side because they were neglected and mis-
understood. When Senators as wide rang-
ing in the political spectrum as Senators
MUNDT and DOUGLAS join in a piece of legis-
lation, when witnesses appear ranging all
the 'way from a conservative public leader
such as General Sarnoff to the AFL-CIO to
support that 'legislation before the Senate
Judiciary Subcommittee on Internal Secur-
ity, it would seem to me to be great news.
But checking last June's newspapers when it
happened, it seems that the Times did not
consider it fit to print, while the fact that
Moscow opens a new foreign conventional
university gets both front page space and
editorial notice, although, as .1 note above,
that editorial notice only lulls those already
less than vigilant readers into a deeper sleep
of complaisance, while the Russian tortoise
makes for the finish line, not in overall
quantity of televisions but in such selec-
tive things as missiles, space exploration and
the training of political cadres of students
and not just the exposure of multiple
thousands to Moscow's skyline and show
places.
us truly,
ARTHUR G. MACDOWELL,
Executive Secretary-Treasurer.
Success in Latin America Means
Folio wup
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. ALEXANDER WILEY
OF WISCONSIN
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
Wednesday, March 1-6, 1960
Mr. WILEY. Mr. President, in a
world of fast changing events, we recog-
nize that, as a Nation, we face chal-
lenges in maintaining up-to-date policies
to deal with the widely differing prob-
lems in areas of the world.
As we know, President Eisenhower
just recently completed a successful mis-
sion to Latin America.
The big question now is: Just what
kind of followup program, should be
undertaken to further cement relations
with our Latin Ameican neighbors.
Despite the overwhelming favorable
impact of the President's trip, its long-
range success can be assured only if
,practical steps are taken to imProve
trade, social, and cultural interchanges,
greater political cooperation, and gen-
erally expanding efforts to find bene-
ficial solutions to problems confronting
US.
Recently, the La Crosse (Wis.) Trib-
une published a constructive editorial
entitled "Success in Latin America
Means Followup."
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Reflecting the need for an effective
action program to deal effectively with
some of the real problems in the West-
ern Hemisphere?if United States-Latin
American relations are really to be im-
proved and the security of the Amer-
icas strengthened?I ask unanimous con-
sent to have the editorial printed in the
Appendix of the RECORD.
There being no objection, the edi-
torial was ordered to be printed in the
RECORD, as follows:
SUCCESS IN LATIN AMERICA MEANS FOLLOWUP
President Eisenhower has had a consider-
able success in his effort to show Latin Amer-
icans that the United States is just as in-
terested in them as in other underdeveloped
peoples, but the final evaluation of his visit
will depend heavily on how quickly some-
thing is done.
It is a developing situation, in which some
of the development?such as organization of
the Inter-American Development Fund?be-
gan before the President planned his trip.
Discussion of the operation of this fund
went on at lower levels while the President
conferred with chiefs of government. The
President therefore continues to speak in
generalities.
These generalities already have led to pre-
dictions in the United States that there will
be no real followthrough. They undoubt-
edly will produce an undercurrent of dis-
appointment in Latin America until there
is a factual display of action.
One feature of the situation calculated to
contribute to uncertainty in Latin America
during the period of gestation is the con-
crete planning of aid for the rest of the
world which began Wednesday in Washing-
ton.
At that conference nine of the wealthier
nations hope to work out a coordinated pro-
gram for the have-note, primarily in Asia,
the Middle East, and Africa. This is in
answer to the demand from the United States
last year that aid be increased at the same
time the load is better shared.
Such a conference is bound to keep alive
Latin America's feeling of being left out
until something happens in that sphere.
One of the most important products of the
President's trip has been the kindling in
the United States of a greater awareness of
the problems of the southern continent.
The Cuban situation is a strong lesson
in what can happen through lack of interest
and inert policies.
These they set before the apostles, and
they prayed and laid their hands upon
them.?Acts 6: 6.
Southerners' Decisions Saved United
States From Hitler
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. L. MENDEL RIVERS
OF SOUTH CAROLINA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, March 16, 1960
Mr. RIVERS of South Carolina. Mr.
Speaker, under leave to extend my re-
marks in the Appendix of the RECORD,
I include therewith an excellent article
by 0. L. Warr who is a resident of a
farming community in my State of South
Carolina, called Quietude.
I believe Mr. Warr's article, entitled
"Southerners' Decisions Saved United
States From Hitler," is most timely for
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