Part 24 (1/2)

Ogden Reid (former Chairman of the Board, _New York Herald Tribune_)

Whitelaw Reid (former Editor-in-Chief, _New York Herald Tribune_)

James B. Reston (Editorial writer, _New York Times_)

Elmo Roper (public opinion a.n.a.lyst, Roper Poll)

David Sarnoff (Chairman of the Board, Radio Corporation of America--NBC, RCA Victor, etc.)

Harry Scherman (founder and Chairman of the Board, Book-of-the-Month Club)

William L. s.h.i.+rer (author, news commentator)

Paul C. Smith (President and Editor-in-Chief, Crowell-Collier Publis.h.i.+ng Company)

Leland Stone (head of News Reporting for Radio Free Europe, _Chicago Daily News_ foreign correspondent)

Robert Kenneth Straus (former research director for F. D.

Roosevelt's Council of Economic Advisers; owner and publisher of the San Fernando, California, _Sun_; largest stockholder and member of Board of Orange Coast Publis.h.i.+ng Company, which publishes the _Daily Globe-Herald_ of Costa Mesa, the _Pilot_ and other small newspapers in California; member of group which owns and publishes _American Heritage_ and _Horizon_ magazines; Treasurer and Director of Industrial Publis.h.i.+ng Company of Cleveland, which publishes trade magazines)

Arthur Hayes Sulzberger (Chairman of the Board, _New York Times_)

C. L. Sulzberger (Editorial writer, _New York Times_)

I do not mean to imply that all of these people are controlled by the Council on Foreign Relations, or that they uniformly support the total program of international socialism which the Council wants. The Council does not _own_ its members: it merely has varying degrees of influence on each.

For example, former President Herbert Hoover, a member of the Council, has fought eloquently against many basic policies which the Council supports. Spruille Braden is another.

Mr. Braden formerly held several important amba.s.sadorial posts and at one time was a.s.sistant Secretary of State in charge of American Republic Affairs. In recent years, Mr. Braden has given leaders.h.i.+p to many patriotic organizations and efforts, such as For America and The John Birch Society; and, in testimony before various committees of Congress, he has given much valuable information about communist influences in the State Department.

Mr. Braden joined the Council on Foreign Relations in the late 1920's or early 30's, when members.h.i.+p in the Council was a fas.h.i.+onable badge of respectability, helpful to the careers of young men in the foreign service, in the same way that members.h.i.+p in expensive country clubs and similar organizations is considered helpful to the careers of young business executives.

Men who know Braden well say that he stayed in the Council after he came to realize its responsibility for the policies of disaster which our nation has followed in the postwar era--hoping to exert some pro-American influence inside the Council.

It apparently was a frustrated hope. There is a story in well-informed New York circles about the last time the Council on Foreign Relations ever called on Spruille Braden to partic.i.p.ate in an important activity.

Braden was asked to preside over a Council on Foreign Relations meeting when the featured speaker was Herbert Matthews (member of the _New York Times_ editorial board) whose support of communist Castro in Cuba is notorious. It is said that the anti-communist viewpoint which Braden tried to inject into this meeting will rather well guarantee against his ever being asked to officiate at another CFR affair.

Generally, however, the degree of influence which the CFR exerts upon its own members is very high indeed.

Apart from an occasional article or editorial which criticizes some aspect of, or some leader in, the socialist revolution in America; and despite much rhetoric in praise of ”free enterprise” and ”the American way,” such publications as _Time_, _Life_, _Fortune_, _New York Times_, _New York Post_, _Louisville Courier-Journal_, _Was.h.i.+ngton Post and Times Herald_, _Sat.u.r.day Review of Literature_, the _Denver Post_, _The Christian Science Monitor_ and _Look_ (I name only those, in the list above, which I, personally, have read a great deal.) have not one time in the past 15 years spoken editorially against any fundamentally important aspect of the over-all governmental policies which are dragging this nation into socialism and world government--at least, not to my knowledge.

On the contrary, these publications heartily support those policies, criticizing them, if at all, only about some detail--or for being too timid, small and slow!

In contrast, David Lawrence, of _U. S. News & World Report_, publishes fine, objective news-reporting, often featuring articles which factually expose the costly fallacies of governmental policy. This is especially true of _U. S. News & World Report_ in connection with domestic issues.