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acai e he eit oe ea ee ct A - J. *, UNITED STATES @ ~~ aENT ee | re Memoranium = Evons . To > Mr. petoach & Date: $-6-61 — towns . Ti SUBJECT: “THE GREAT CHALLENGE" . | : b- iy : WTOP-TV, 4P.M., MARCH 5, 1961 OR: - The above-captioned television program was monitored by the Crime Research Section. The topic of discussion was “International Communism." Participants were: Henry Cabot Lodge; James Burnham (an editor of "National Review" magazine); Robert Strausz-Hupe of the University of Pennsylvania's Foreign Policy Research Institute; and Attorney General Robert F?Kennedy. CBS Commentator Howard K. Smith * served as moderator. . OBSERVATION e | Most of the discussion concerned problems arising outside the United Sta an [Ebr was me in Africa, Very little was said about communism in the United States. Th FBI was mentioned only by the Attorney General and that in a passing manner, "BRIEF SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION | of OL Un 4S 93 ——s Commentator Smith opened the discussion by saying that communism EE . ! represented a great challenge today, that it had conquered one third of the world's popu- ae lation and still had the initiative. Mr. Lodge countered by saying that communism had ae - been halted in Berlin and the United Nations. In places where communism has succeeded ei” it is because it has had a long-range view in international conflict. If America would do 7 i [what we are capable of doing, communism.-would wither away. Mr. Strausz-Hupe +, ; emphasized that communism is essentially a “conflict doctrine;" that if Mr. Khrushchev embraced the cause of peace he would put himself out of a job. Mr, Burnham stated that the communists really mean it when they say they are going to conquer the world. He added that our anticommunism has been too’soft." Soft anticommunism means surrender by stages, He felt that we have been losing the war with Russia and are losing it now, as : _ \ reflected in Cuba, Laos, etc. " 71. SI3890— g 3 aA 7 , S:NOT REGORDED ..] ATTORNEY GENERAL KENNEDY ig EAR 10 108 F=. 4 Mr. Smith addressed a special question to. Mr. Kennedy in tRese wo "J would like to ask you an entirely different question. You are in charge of dealing ith ‘communism jin the United States. Ihave heard it said there is a communist men. ; f ar