ign policy, (b) access to the Council's
specialized library on international affairs, including its unique
collection of magazine and press clippings, (c) copies of all
Council publications and six subscriptions to _Foreign Affairs_ for
officers of the company or its library, (d) an off-the-record
dinner, held annually for chairmen and presidents of subscribing
companies at which a prominent speaker discusses some outstanding
issue of United States foreign policy, and (e) two annual series of
Seminars for business executives appointed by their companies.
These Seminars are led by widely experienced Americans who discuss
various problems of American political or economic foreign policy."
_All_ speakers at the Council's dinner meetings and seminars for
business executives are leading advocates of internationalism and the
total state. Many of them, in fact, are important officials in
government. The ego-appeal is enormous to businessmen, who get special
off-the-record briefings from Cabinet officers and other officials close
to the President of the United States.
The briefings and the seminar lectures are consistently designed to
elicit the support of businessmen for major features of Administration
policy.
For example, during 1960 and 1961, the three issues of major importance
to both Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy were Disarmament, the
declining value of the American dollar, and the tariff-and-trade
problem. The Eisenhower and Kennedy positions on these three issues were
virtually identical; and the solutions they urged meshed with the
internationalist program of pushing America into a one-world socialist
system.
The business executives who attended CFR briefings and seminars in the
1960-61 fiscal year received expert indoctrination in the
internationalist position on the three major issues of that year. From
"Seminars For Business Executives," Pages 43-44 of the 1960-61 Annual
Report of the Council on Foreign Relations:
"The Fall 1960 Seminar ... was brought to a close with an appraisal
of disarmament negotiations, past and present, by Edmund A.
Gullion, then Acting Deputy Director, United States Disarmament
Administration....
"'The International Position of the Dollar' was the theme of the
Spring 1961 Seminar series. Robert Triffin, Professor of Economics
at Yale University, spoke on the present balance of payments
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