Prospects of Mankind with Eleanor Roosevelt

Program Guests: V.K. Krishna Menon, India's Defense Minister and the head of the Indian Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly; Robert R. Bowie, Director of the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and former Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning; Harrison Salisbury, New York Times international expert.

Program Guests: Jules Moch, France's leading disarmament expert and representative to the United Nations General Assembly; Trevor Gardner, former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force and President of the Highcon[?] Manufacturing Company, producer of guided missile components; Saville Davis, Managing Editor of The Christian Science Monitor.

Program Guests: Madame Vijay Lakshmi Pandit, India's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and sister of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (NOTE: Madame Pandit withdrew from the program and was replaced by Rajendra "Raju" Coomaraswamy, Delegate from Ceylon to the United Nations and former President of the Colombo Plan Council); John Kenneth Galbraith, Professor of Economics at Harvard University and author of The Affluent Society; Dr. Arthur Lewis, Deputy Director of the United Nations Special Fund, former President of the University College of the British West Indies and advisor to Prime Minister Nkrumah of Ghana.

Program Guests: Senator John F. Kennedy, member of the United States Senate's Foreign Relations Committee; Erwin D. Canham, Editor of The Christian Science Monitor and President of the United States Chamber of Commerce; Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, Professor of Economics at the Center for International Studies, M.I.T. Issues discussed on the program include: the two rival trade groups and the consequences for the U.S. economy, the chances for resolving the differences among the allies of Berlin, NATO's precarious military situation, and the prospects for a joint European- American aid program to the world's underdeveloped areas. NOTE: Senator John F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for the U.S. presidency before flying to Boston to record this program later the same day (January 2, 1960).

Program Guests: Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York; Luis Munoz-Marin, Governor of Puerto Rico; Benjamin Cohen, former Chilean Ambassador to the United Nations and former Undersecretary of the United Nations; Saville Davis, Managing Editor of The Christian Science Monitor. The program addresses political developments in Cuba and Panama, economic problems in Venezuela, the vitalization of social and financial progress in Puerto Rico ("Operation Bootstrap") and the future of the Central and South American republics.

Program Guests: Julius Nyerere, founder of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU), Chief Minister of British-ruled Tanganyika, later the first Prime Minister of Tanganyika (now Tanzania); Barbara Ward, resident of Ghana, distinguished economist, writer and lecturer at Harvard University; Ralph Bunche, Nobel Peace Prize winner and United Nations Undersecretary for Special Political Affairs; Saville Davis, Managing Editor of The Christian Science Monitor.

Program Guests: Denis W. Brogan, Professor of Political Science at Cambridge University, England; Harlan Cleveland, Dean of the Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, and senior author of The Overseas Americans; Santha Rama Rau, Indian author; Saville Davis, Managing Editor of The Christian Science Monitor. The program examines the reasons why America is disliked in some parts of the world, and what can be done about it. Discussions focus on American tourists, diplomats, and businessmen in overseas activities, as well as the role American movies play in shaping the country's image abroad.

Program Guests: Charles O. Porter, Representative (D-Ore.) and advocate of change in the United States' policy toward China; Blair Fraser, Canada's leading political journalist and Editor of Maclean's Magazine; Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, member of the Harvard University Government Department and an Associate of the Russian Research Center and the Center for International Affairs at Harvard; Saville Davis, Managing Editor of The Christian Science Monitor. The program examines the inclusion of China in disarmament talks, the future of Chinese- Soviet relations, and possible changes in the United States foreign policy on China.

Program Guests: Adlai Stevenson, former Governor of Illinois and twice Democratic candidate for the U.S. Presidency; Dr. Mohammed Hatta, former Prime Minister and former Vice President of Indonesia; Henry Kissinger, Associate Director of Harvard University's Center for International Affairs and author of the bestseller, Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy; Saville Davis, Managing Editor of The Christian Science Monitor. The program examines factors that assail the long-term spread and survival of democracy in the West and the underdeveloped countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America, and their implications for U.S. policy. The program marks one of Adlai Stevenson's rare appearances on television to that point.