Prospects of Mankind with Eleanor Roosevelt

Program Guests: Walter Reuther, President of the United Automobile Workers and President of the CIO Division of the AFL-CIO; Eric A. Johnston, President of the Motion Picture Association, former Chairman of the International Development Board, Special Representative of President Eisenhower to the Middle East, and President of the United States Chamber of Commerce from 1942-1946; Paul A. Samuelson, Professor of Economics at M.I.T. and economic advisor to candidate and President-elect John F. Kennedy; Robert McKenzie, well-known television moderator and a political sociologist at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Erwin D. Canham, Editor of the Christian Science Monitor, moderates the conversation (substituting for Eleanor Roosevelt). The guests discuss whether America's economic system is one of free enterprise or of mixed economy. They also analyze the need for more comprehensive planning to strengthen the United States' domestic economy and to enable the U.S. to compete successfully in world markets.

Program opens with a ten minute interview conducted by Eleanor Roosevelt with Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Remainder of program is typical discussion format with program guests: Max Freedman, Washington correspondent for Britain's Manchester Guardian newspaper; Henry Kissinger, Director of Defense Studies at Harvard University; James Reston, Chief of the Washington, D.C. Bureau of the New York Times; Paul Tillich, renowned German-born theologian and philosopher; Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State.

Program Guests: Harlan Cleveland, Assistant Secretary of State, in charge of United Nations Affairs, and Editor and Publisher of The Reporter magazine; C.S. Jha, Indian Ambassador to the United Nations; Stanley Hoffman, Professor of Government at Harvard University; William Frye, United Nations correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor.

Program Guests: Jacob Javits, Republican senator from New York, member of the Senate Banking and Currency, Government Operations, and Labor and Public Welfare Committees; Vu Van Thai, Director General of the budget of the Ngo Dinh Diem government of South Vietnam for six years before his recent resignation, currently lecturing in the U. S.; Peggy Durdin, longtime Far East freelance correspondent for the New York Times; Leo Cherne, Chairman of the International Rescue Committee and Executive Director of the Research Institute of America who has spent much time in Vietnam. The program addresses the present situation in Vietnam, the need for reforms in the Ngo Dinh Diem government, the extent of U.S. military support, the consequences for the West of the new neutralism of Laos, and the importance of the entire area to the free world.

Program Guests: Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (who introduces the program in a special ten minute sequence with Eleanor Roosevelt); Roberto Campos, Brazilian Ambassador to the United Nations; Theodore Draper, specialist in international Communism and author of Castro's Cuba and Cuba and U.S. Policy; Ted Szulc, Latin American correspondent for the New York Times. The program explores the possibility of a censure of Cuba at the forthcoming meeting of the Organization of American States, and the reasons why a number of Latin American countries are reluctant to take such a step. The guests also analyze Castro's Cuba as a staging area for propaganda and military intervention in other Latin American countries, and the Kennedy Alliance for Progress as a counter measure to the Cuban Youth. Opening segment with Adlai Stevenson was recorded at the United Nations in New York.

Program Guests: Allen Dulles, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; Reinhold Niebuhr, renowned Protestant theologian and Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard University; Lord Lindsay of Birker, Professor and Chairman of the Far Eastern Program of the School of International Service at the American University in Washington, D.C.; Seymour Friedin, recently appointed Executive Foreign Editor of the New York Herald Tribune; Marshall Shulman, Associate Director of the Russian Research Center at Harvard University. The program explores the causes of the present Russia-China rift and the likelihood of its developing into a complete break. The guests discuss specific U.S. foreign policy moves that might be made to take advantage of the dispute as well as the directions that Soviet foreign policy might take as a result of the rift.

Program Guests: Raymond Aron, political writer for Le Figaro, France's leading newspaper, and holder of the the Sociology Chair at the Sorbonne; Maurice Shumann, President of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the French National Assembly; Stephen Hessel, career diplomat, presently Director for International Cultural Exchange at the Ministry of National Education in Paris; Alfred Grosser, Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Political Sciences and Visiting Professor at the Johns Hopkins University Center in Bologna. This program was produced at the facilities of the Radiodiffusion Television Francaise and with the assistance of the staff of Pierre Lazareff's "Cinq Collones a la Une," often cited as the leading example of television journalism in Europe.

Program Guests: George Ball, Undersecretary of State (postlude only); Robert Marjolin, Vice President of the Commission of the European Economic Community; Kenneth Younger, Director General of Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London); Albert Kervyn (Baron Albert Kervyn de Lettenhove), Director of Belgium's National Planning Office; Edwin Dale, European economic correspondent for the New York Times. The program examines the prospects of Great Britain's joining the European Common Market (official name: European Economic Community) and what such a move would mean to the United States. It further explores the differences between the Common Market idea and Atlantic partnership, as well as the relation between President Kennedy's tariff bill and the Common Market. The major portion of this program was recorded at Radiodiffusion Television Francaise in Paris. A postlude with Undersecretary of State George Ball was recorded in Washington, D.C.

Program Guests: Newton Minow, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission; John F. White, President of the National Educational Television and Radio Center; Irving Gitlin, Executive Producer, Creative Projects, NBC News; Marya Mannes, well-known critic and writer, on staff of The Reporter magazine.

The program opens with a ten minute segment in which President Kennedy is interviewed one- on-one by Eleanor Roosevelt at the White House in Washington, D.C. The remainder of the program follows the usual discussion format, with Eleanor Roosevelt as moderator. Program Guests: Arthur Goldberg, United States Secretary of Labor; Agda Rossel, Swedish Ambassador to the United Nations; Thomas Mendenhall, President of Smith College; Mirra Komarovsky, Head of the Department of Sociology at Barnard College, author of Women in the Modern World: Their Education and Their Dilemmas.