y that can influence private and public economic
policies and decisions ... can be effective ... only to the extent
that CED gets its ideas across to thinking people....

"During the year [1957], the Information Division [of CED]
distributed 42 pamphlets having a total circulation of 545,585;
issued 37 press releases and texts of statements; arranged 4 press
conferences, 10 radio and television appearances, 12 speeches for
Trustees, 3 magazine articles and the publication of 3 books.... In
assessing the year, we are reminded again of the great debt we owe
the nation's editors. Their regard for the objectivity and
non-partisanship of CED's work is reflected in the exceptional
attention they give to what CED has to say. The [CED] statement,
'Toward a Realistic Farm Policy,' for example not only received
extended news treatment but was the subject of 362 editorials. The
circulation represented in the editorials alone totaled
19,336,299."

Mr. Cowles was modest. He gave only a hint of the total extent to which
the mass-communication media have become a controlled propaganda network
for the Council on Foreign Relations and its inter-connecting agencies.

I doubt that anyone really knows the full extent. My research reveals a
few of the CFR members who have (or have had) controlling, or extremely
influential, positions in the publishing and broadcasting industries. My
list of _CFR members_ in this field is far from complete; and I have not
tried to compile a list of the thousands of people who are _not_ members
of the CFR, but who _are_ members of CED, FPA, or of some other CFR
affiliate--and who also control important channels of public
communications.

Hence, the following list--of Council on Foreign Relations members whom
I know to be influential in the communications industries--is intended
to be indicative, rather than comprehensive and informative:

Herbert Agar (former Editor, _Louisville Courier-Journal_)

Hanson W. Baldwin (Military Affairs Editor, _New York Times_)

Joseph Barnes (Editor-in-Chief, Simon & Schuster, Publishers)

Elliott V. Bell (Chairman of Executive Committee, McGraw-Hill
Publishing Co.; Publisher and Editor of _Business Week_)

John Mason Brown (Editor, _Saturday Review of Literature_, drama
critic, author)

Cass Canfield (Chairman of the Editorial Board of Harper &
Bro