## Baron Gotthard von Falkenhausen

Owner of the Banking House of Burkhardt, Essen; Vice President of the "Atlanik Bruecke." Formerly branch director of the Deutsche Bank in Essen. Arrested by Gestapo following July 20, 1944 attempt on Hitler's life. Resumed banking activities after end of war. Formerly City Councillor of Essen and Vice President of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce, as well as President of the Official German-French Chamber of Commerce in Paris.

## Dr. Johann Baptist Gradl

Member of the Bundestag since 1957. Formerly on the editorial staff of "Germania," and from 1931-45 on the managing board of the Deutscher Sparkassen und Giroverband. 1948, co-publisher of the West Berlin Daily "Der Tag." Active in the CDU in the Soviet Zone until it was dissolved by the Communists. Executive chairman of the exile CDU and member of the executive committee.

## Baron Karl Theodor von und zu Guttenberg

Member of the Bundestag since 1957; farmer. Local chairman of CDU, Stadtsteinach; and former head of county administration. Member of Bavarian Farmer's Association. Broadcast to Germany on British radio during the war. A leading spokesman for his party in recent foreign policy debates.

## Dr. Robert Haerdter

Editor-in-Chief of the *Stuttgarter Zeitung*, Stuttgart. Studied history and sociology at the Universities of Berlin, Vienna, and Heidelberg. Editor of the *Vossische Zeitung*, Berlin, 1933-34, and on the editorial board of the *Frankfurter Zeitung*, 1936-43. Co-founder and co-editor of the magazine "Die Gegenwart," 1945-58.

## Kai-Uwe von Hassel

Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein. Agricultural expert, formerly manager of commercial department of plantations in Tanganyika. Served in German army, 1940-45. Active in political life of Flensburg, and former Mayor of Gluecksburg. CDU member of the Schleswig-Holstein parliament; elected to Bundestag in 1953. Elected Minister President, 1954 and re-elected, 1958. President of the Bundesrat, 1955-56. One of the four deputy chairmen of CDU.

## Hellmut Jaesrich

Journalist and co-editor of "Der Monat," a Berlin monthly devoted to international politics and intellectual life.

Kurt-Georg Kiesinger

Minister President of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Private law practice in Berlin, and after the war in Tuebingen. Formerly state secretary of the CDU for Wuerttemberg-Hohenzollern. Elected to Bundestag in 1949; later became Chairman of its committee of foreign affairs, and member of the executive committee of the CDU. Formerly member of the Assembly of the West European Union and Vice President of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe. Elected Minister President of Baden-Wuerttemberg, 1958. Member of the Bundesrat.

Dr. Hermann Kopf

Member of the Bundestag since 1949. Formerly in private law practice in
Freiburg i. Br. and Vice President of the Lawyers' Association of Baden. Member
of the Consultative Committee of the European Coal and Steel Community.

Annedore Leber

Author, journalist, and publisher; active since the end of World War II in the political affairs and public life of her native Berlin. Her husband, Julius Leber, was a member of the Reichstag until 1933 and one of the outstanding members of the German resistant movement. He was executed following the July 20, 1944 attempt on Hitler's life. Member of the first postwar City Council of Berlin and co-licencee of the Berlin daily, "Der Telegraf." Founder of the publishing house, Mosaik-Verlag; author of books dealing with the German resistance movement. Active in the Social Democratic Party since 1927; member of the screening committee for the German Armed Forces, of the Committee on Cultural Policies of the German Foreign Office, of the German National Commission for UNESCO, and of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation.

Ernst Majonica

Member of the Bundestag since 1950. Lawyer; served in German army during war. Formerly Federal Chairman of the CDU youth organization and member of the executive committee of the Union of Young Christian Democrats of Europe.

Dr. Berthold Martin

Member of the Bundestag since 1953. Physician, Deputy Director of the Psychiatric Hospital, Giessen. Co-founder of CDU in Giessen; formerly member of City Council and Hesse state parliament.

Dr. Klaus Mehnert

Journalist. Trained in Russian and eastern European affairs. German correspondent in Moscow, 1934-36. Taught at Universities of California and Hawaii, 1937-46. Author, radio commentator (Stuttgart), and world traveler. Editor of "Osteuropa," and Secretary General of German Society for the study of Eastern Europe. Since 1928 has spent 14 years in Soviet Union, Asia, and the Pacific.

Dr. Erich Mende

Member of the Bundestag since 1949. Lecturer on public law and political science. One of the co-founders of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and since 1946, member of its executive committee for Northrhine Westphalia; also deputy state chairman and member of the Federal executive committee. Deputy party chairman since 1953.

Dr. W. Alexander Menne

Member of Board of Directors of Farbwerke Hoechst AG since 1952. Founder and president of chemical manufacturing firm in England, 1928-39; member of the board of Glasurit-Werke, Hamburg, 1940-51. Active in reconstruction of German chemical industry after the war and former President of the Association of the German Chemical Industry. Deputy Chairman of the Federation of German Industries and member of the Foreign Trade Advisory Board and the Atomic Energy Commission. President of the Steuben-Schurz Society.

Dr. Felix Messerschmidt

Director, "Akademie fuer Politische Bildung" (Academy for Political Education) in Tutzing. High school teacher during prewar years; service in German army. 1945, appointed to Commission for Education in French occupied zone of Wuerttemberg. Formerly director of Academy for Education and Instruction in Calw, and high school principal in Ulm. Assumed present position in 1958. Chairman of Association of German History Teachers; consultant to Federal Ministry of Defense; member of Governing Board of UNESCO Institute in Hamburg, and of the board of Scientific Advisors of the CDU.

Dr. Hans Moeller

Professor of International Economic Relations, University of Munich. During postwar years, active in bizonal administration; head of the economics department of the Laenderrat in the United States Zone; secretary to the Council of Ministers and personal assistant to head of the bizonal economic administration. Formerly a division chief in the Bank deutscher Laender; member of German delegation to OEEC and deputy member of Managing Board of EPU. Permanent advisor to the commission of the European Common Market; author of a number of books and articles on problems of national and international currency.

Dr. Carlo Schmid

Vice President of the Bundestag; and member since 1949. Founder of
Socialist German Students Organization. Formerly lecturer in international law,
University of Tuebingen. Drafted into military administration of France in 1940,
after having been prohibited from practicing law. Formerly Minister of Culture
and Justice and first head of government in Wuerttemberg-Hohenzollern. Member
of Parliamentary Council which drafted Basic Law. Member of Executive Board of
the SPD. Delegate to Council of Europe. Presidential member of German Red Cross.

Helmut Schmidt

Member of the Bundestag since 1953. Service in German army. Joined SPD in 1946; became member of Hamburg city government in 1949.

Wilhelm Wolfgang Schuetz

Executive Director, "Kuratorium Unteilbares Deutschland" (Committee for
Germany Indivisible). Formerly London correspondent of the Neue Zuericher
Zeitung. Political advisor to Jacob Kaiser, former German Federal Minister for
All-German Affairs, 1951-57. Has lectured widely in the United States and
throughout the world on the question of German reunification. Author of numerous
books on German affairs and international relations.

Axel Springer

Publisher of *Die Welt*, *Welt am Sonntag*, *Hamburger Abendblatt*, *Bild*, and other widely-read magazines. Pioneer in postwar newspaper and periodical publishing in the Federal Republic. *Abendblatt* in 1948, soon had largest circulation in Germany. *Bild-Zeitung* in 1952, now printed in Hamburg, Essen, Frankfurt, Munich, and Berlin. Purchased *Die Welt* from British authorities in 1953. Springer publications are politically independent.

Brigadier General Johannes Steinhoff

German Military Representative to Military Committee NATO in Washington, D.C.
and German Liaison Representative to SACLANT in Norfolk, Va. Prewar and wartime
service in German Air Force; wounded in 1945 and hospitalized until 1947. Assoc-
iated with advertising agency during postwar years. Joined forerunner of German
Defense Ministry in 1952. Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, German Air Force,
until present assignment.

Baron Hans Christoph von Tucher

Director of the Bayrische Vereinsbank, with which he has been associated since 1933. Member of the Executive Committee of the German Private Banking Association and chairman of its European Common Market Committee, as well as chairman of the Association of Private Banks in Bavaria. Member of the Board of Directors of four other German banks and several German Industrial Firms. A frequent visitor to the United States, where both his sons live.

Dr. Hans Wilbrandt

Director of the Institute for Foreign Agriculture, Technical University of Berlin. Trained in agricultural economics and former editor of "Journal of Agricultural Market Research" (Blaetter fuer landwirtschaftliche Marktforschung). Left Germany in 1934 to serve in the Turkish Ministry of Economics until 1940. Returned to Germany in 1952; formerly agricultural advisor to the Afgan Government. 1960-61, lecturer at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt and at the Free University of Berlin.

Otto Wolff von Amerongen

Partner in firm Otto Wolff, Cologne. Board member of various German industrial firms; chairman of the Committee on Eastern Affairs of the German Economy, and deputy chairman of the German section of the International Chamber of Commerce, Frankfurt.

J. William Fulbright

Democratic Senator from Arkansas since 1944. A Rhodes Scholar and former President of the University of Arkansas; elected to the House of Representatives in 1942. Now in his third term in the Senate, and holds the important position of Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Also serves on the Banking and Currency, and Joint Economic Committees. One of his most distinguished accomplishments was his sponsorship of the student exchange program which is usually called "The Fulbright Scholarships."

Dr. Harry D. Gideonse

President of Brooklyn College of the City of New York since 1939. Taught economics at Columbia University for a number of years. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of, among other books, *Organized Scarcity and Public Policy* (1939); *The Economic Foreign Policy of the U.S.* (1953); and *On The Educational Statesmanship of a Free Society* (1959).

Hajo Holborn

Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, where he has taught since 1934. Born in Berlin, and later taught at the University of Heidelberg. Came to the United States in 1934 and became a citizen in 1940. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of *American Military Government* (1946); *The Political Collapse of Modern Europe* (1951); *A History of Modern Germany* (1959).

Henry M. Jackson

Democratic Senator from Washington since 1953. Elected to the House of Representatives in 1940, and served six terms. Member of Senate Armed Services, Government Operations, Interior and Insular Affairs Committees, of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, and the Select Committee on National Water Resources. Advocate of increased defense appropriations and, as Chairman of the Senate Sub-Committee on National Policy Machinery, helped focus attention on weaknesses both in U.S. policy-making machinery and in governmental organization. Most recently he was National Chairman of the Democratic National Committee during President Kennedy's election campaign.

Jacob K. Javits

Republican Senator from New York since 1956. Served four terms in the House of Representatives (1947-1954), and was elected Attorney General of the State of New York in 1954. Member of the Senate Committees on Banking and Currency, on Government Operations, on Labor and Public Welfare, and on Small Business. A lecturer and author on modern political philosophy, author of *Discrimination U.S.A.*, and a frequent contributor to magazines.

Thomas E. Morgan

Democratic Congressman from the 26th District of Pennsylvania. A doctor of medicine since 1934. Presently in his seventh term in the House. Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Norbert Muhlen

Author, foreign correspondent and syndicated columnist. Now a citizen of the United States, he was forced to flee his native Germany in 1933 because of his opposition to the Nazi regime. A frequent contributor to leading American magazines. Author of *Schacht, Hitler's Magician* (1935), *The Return of Germany* (1953) and *The Incredible Krupps* (1960). A director of the American Council on Germany.

Alfred C. Neal

Chairman of the Committee for Economic Development, a leading business research organization. Member of the wartime Office of Price Administration. Former first Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Author of *An Introduction to War Economics* (1942), and *Modern Economics* (with Arthur Burns and Donald Watson, 1951).

James P. O'Donnell

Journalist. Berlin correspondent of "Newsweek," 1946-1948, and from then to 1959, chief European correspondent for the "Saturday Evening Post."

Frank Pace, Jr.

Chairman of the Board of the General Dynamics Corporation. Director of the Bureau of the Budget, 1949-1950, and Secretary of the Army from 1950 to 1953.

Claiborne Pell

Democratic Senator from Rhode Island, elected in 1960. As a member of the State Department he attended the San Francisco U.N. Conference in 1945, and remained in the State Department until 1952, serving in posts in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. He has served as Vice President and is a director of the International Rescue Committee.

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## OPENING SESSION

Thursday, February 16, 1961 2:30 P.M.

Congressional Room

Address of Welcome

Dr. George N. Shuster,

President of the American Council on Germany, Inc.

Dr. Arnold Bergstraesser,

Chairman of the Atlantik-Bruecke

The Honorable Dean Rusk

Secretary of State of the United States of America

His Excellency Heinrich von Brentano

Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany

Dr. Carlo Schmid

## INTERMISSION

Subjects to be discussed by the panels:

Dr. Arnold Wolfers

Chairman, Political Panel

Dr. Arnold Bergstraesser

Chairman, Education Panel

Erik Blumenfeld

Chairman, Economic Panel

## CLOSING SESSION

Sunday, February 19, 1961 1:30 P.M.

South American Room

Chairman — The Honorable Dean Acheson

Reports on the Panel Discussions:

Klaus Mehnert

Rapporteur for the Political Panel

Dr. Harry D. Gideonse

Rapporteur for the Education Panel

William E. Diebold

Rapporteur for the Economic Panel

## GENERAL DISCUSSION

Simultaneous translation will be provided

## EROEFFNUNGSSITZUNG

Donnerstag, den 16. Februar 1961, 14.30

Congressional Room

Begruessungsansprachen

Dr. George N. Shuster

Praesident des American Council on Germany

Dr. Arnold Bergstraesser

Vorsitzender der Atlantik-Bruecke

Honorable Dean Rusk

Aussenminister der Vereinigten Staaten

Seine Exzellenz Heinrich von Brentano

Aussenminister der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Dr. Carlo Schmid

Vizepräsident des deutschen Bundestages

## PAUSE

Festsetzung der Themen in den Ausschüssen

Dr. Arnold Wolfers

Vorsitzender des politischen Ausschusses

Dr. Arnold Bergstraesser

Vorsitzender des Ausschusses fuer Erziehungswesen

Erik Blumenfeld

Vorsitzender des Wirtschaftsausschusses

## SCHLUSS-SITZUNG

Sonntag, den 19. Februar 1961, 13.30

South American Room

Vorsitzender

Honorable Dean Acheson

Berichte ueber die Ausschuss-Sitzungen

Klaus Mehnert

Berichterstatter des politischen Ausschusses

Dr. Harry D. Gideonse

Berichterstatter des Ausschusses fuer Erziehungswesen

William E. Diebold

Berichterstatter des Wirtschaftsausschusses

## GEMEINSAME SITZUNG DER AUSSCHUESSE

Simultan-Uebersetzungsanlagen werden zur Verfuegung stehen.

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American Delegates

The Hon. Dean Acheson

Frank Altschul

Hamilton Fish Armstrong

Jacob Blaustein

Leo Cherne

Dr. James B. Conant

Senator John Sherman Cooper

E. Whitney Debevoise

William Diebold, Jr.

Senator Thomas J. Dodd

Christopher Emmet

Irving M. Engel

Benjamin Epstein

Dr. Carl J. Friedrich

Senator J. William Fulbright

Dr. Harry D. Gideonse

Dr. Hajo Holborn

Senator Jacob K. Javits

John K. Jessup

Joseph Kaskell

Senator Kenneth B. Keating

James Ervin King, Jr.

Dr. Hans Kohn

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger

Louis P. Lochner

Senator Eugene J. McCarthy

Governor Robert B. Meyner

Senator A. S. Mike Monroney

Congressman Thomas E. Morgan

Norbert Muhlen

Alfred C. Neal

James P. O'Donnell

Senator Claiborne Pell

The Hon. Frank Pace, Jr.

Congressman Henry S. Reuss

Congresswoman Katharine St. George

Brigadier General David Sarnoff

Dr. George N. Shuster

Shepard Stone

Dr. Robert Strausz-Hupé

General Maxwell D. Taylor

Eric Warburg

Henry Wallich

Dr. Arnold Wolfers

German Delegates

Hellmut Becker

Dr. Arnold Bergstraesser

Dr. Kurt Birrenbach

Erik Blumenfeld

Dr. Hans Karl von Borries

Max Brauer

Dr. Alfons Dalma

Dr. Heinrich Deist

Countess Marion Doenhoff

Fritz Erler

Dr. Johann Baptist Gradl

Baron Karl-Theodor von Guttenberg

Dr. Robert Haerdter

Kai Uwe von Hassel

Hellmuth Jaesrich

Kurt-Georg Kiesinger

Dr. Hermann Kopf

Annedore Leber

Ernst Majonica

Dr. Berthold Martin

Dr. Klaus Mehnert

Dr. Erich Mende

Dr. W. Alexander Menne

Dr. Felix Messerschmid

Dr. Hans Moeller

Dr. Hans Reimers

Vice Admiral Friedrich Oskar Ruge

Dr. Gerd Ruge

Walter Scheel

Dr. Karl Schiller

Dr. Carlo Schmid

Helmut Schmidt

Dr. Wilhelm Wolfgang Schuetz

Axel Springer

Dr. Hans Wilbrandt

Otto Wolf von Amerongen

AMERICAN-GERMAN CONFERENCE

February 16-19, 1961

Washington, D.C.

AMERICAN DELEGATION -- PANELS

Political Panel

Dean Acheson, Former Secretary of State

Frank Altschul, Vice President and Secretary, Council on Foreign Relations

Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Editor, Foreign Affairs

Senator John Sherman Cooper (R., Ky.)

Senator Thomas J. Dodd (D., Conn.)

Christopher Emmet, Executive Vice President, American Council on Germany

John K. Jessup, Chief Editorial Writer, Life Magazine

Senator Henry Jackson, Chairman, Democratic National Committee, 1960

Senator Kenneth B. Keating (R., N.Y.)

James E. King, Jr., Associate Director of Research, Institute for Defense Analyses

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Assistant Director, Harvard Center for International Affairs

Louis P. Lochner, Former AP Bureau Chief, Berlin

James P. O'Donnell, Foreign Correspondent

Senator Eugene J. McCarthy (D., Minn.)

Senator Claiborne Pell (D., R.I.)

Representative Katharine St. George (R., N.Y.)

Brigadier General David Sarnoff, President, Radio Corporation of America (RCA)

Dr. Robert Strausz-Hupe, Director, Foreign Policy Research Institute,
University of Pennsylvania

Chairman: Dr. Arnold Wolfers, Director Washington Center for Foreign Policy

Rapporteur: Dr. Klaus Mehnert, German Authority on Soviet Russia /Research

Economic Panel

Jacob Blaustein, Director, Standard Oil Co. (Indiana)

Leo Cherne, Executive Director, Research Institute of America, Inc.

E. Whitney Debevoise, Former Deputy Acting High Commissioner for Germany

Dr. Carl J. Friedrich, Littauer Center for Public Administration, Harvard Univ.

Senator Jacob K. Javits (R., N.Y.)

Joseph Kaskell, Counsel, American Council on Germany

Stacy May, Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Governor Robert B. Meyner, New Jersey

Senator A. S. Mike Monroney (D., Okla.)

Representative Henry S. Reuss (D., Wis.)

Eric Warburg, President, E.M. Warburg & Co.; Treasurer, American Council on Germany

Dr. Henry Wallich, Professor of Political Economy, Yale University

Chairman: Erik Blumenfeld, Vice President and Treasurer, Atlantik-Bruecke

Rapporteur: William E. Diebold, Director of Economic Studies,
Council on Foreign Relations

AMERICAN-GERMAN CONFERENCE

Washington, D. C.

February 16 - 19, 1961

Notes for the American Delegation

Staff Members:
Dr. Ruth Berenson, Executive Secretary of the American Council on Germany, Inc.
Miss Carol Lipis
Miss Terry Hart
Mr. Woodruff Price
Miss Angele de T. Gingras

Dr. Walter Stahl, Executive Director of the Atlantik Bruecke e.V.
Frau Trudel Stahl
Mr. Frederick Haupt, III
Frau Beatrix von Helmolt

From Wednesday through Sunday the Conference offices will be located in the Silver Room on the second floor of the Statler-Hilton Hotel. Staff members will be on duty during the time of the conference to assist the delegates and members of the press. This office may be reached by telephone by calling the Statler-Hilton, EX 3-1000, and asking for "Headquarters, American Council on Germany." Should you receive any calls, the conference staff will notify you at once.

In addition to the secretariat office, a staff member will always be available at a table in the corridor outside the rooms where the plenary sessions are to be held.

Plenary Sessions and Panel Meetings

Room assignments for plenary sessions and panel meetings will be found in the schedule on page 2 of the printed program.

Social Events

Wednesday, February 15, 8:30 P.M. The German delegates only are invited to a reception by H.E. the German Ambassador at the German Embassy, 1900 Foxhall Road.

Thursday, February 16, 5:30 P.M. A reception by the Secretary of State, Blair House. Invitations are contained in the kits.

Thursday, February 16, 7:30 P.M. A dinner for delegates, observers, and guests, given by the American Council on Germany, Statler-Hilton Hotel.

Friday, February 17, evening: Friends of the American Council on Germany are giving buffet suppers for the delegates and observers. Invitations will be found in the kits. Please notify the secretariat immediately, if you are unable to attend.

Saturday, February 18, 8:00 P.M. H.E. the German Ambassador has invited the German and American delegates and observers to a buffet supper, German Embassy, 1900 Foxhall Road.

Expenses of the Delegates

Delegates' rooms have been paid for through the morning of February 19. In addition, delegates will find a check enclosed to cover breakfast and lunch expenses during their attendance at the conference. Any other charges incurred will be billed directly to the delegate by the hotel.

AMERICAN-GERMAN CONFERENCE

February 16-19, 1961

Washington, D. C.

GERMAN DELEGATION -- PANELS

Political Panel

Dr. Max Brauer, Former Mayor of Hamburg

Dr. Alfons Dalma, Assistant Editor-in-Chief, Muenchener Merkur

Dr. Johann Baptist Gradl, Member of Bundestag, CDU

Karl Theodor Frhr. zu Guttenberg, Member of Bundestag, CDU

Dr. Robert Haerdter, Editor-in-Chief, Stuttgarter Zeitung

Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Minister President of Baden Wuerttemberg, CDU

Dr. Hermann Kopf, Member of Bundestag, CDU

Dr. Erich Mende, Member of Bundestag, FDP

Admiral Friedrich Otto Ruge, German Armed Forces

Dr. Carlo Schmid, Vice President of the Bundestag, SPD

Helmut Schmidt, Member of Bundestag, SPD

Dr. Wilhelm Wolfgang Schuetz, Executive Director, National Committee for

Axel Springer, Publisher /Indivisible Germany

Brig. General Johannes Steinhoff, Standing Group of NATO, Washington, D.C.

Chairman: Dr. Arnold Wolfers, Director, Washington Center, Foreign Policy Research

Economic Panel

Otto Wolff von Amerongen, Partner, Firm Otto Wolff, Cologne

Dr. Kurt Birrenbach, Member of Bundestag, CDU

Dr. Hans Karl von Borries, retired General Director, Ruhrstickstoff AG, Switzerland

Dr. Heinrich Deist, Member of Bundestag, SPD

Dr. Marion Graefin Doenhoff, Editor, Die Zeit

Fritz Erler, Member of Bundestag, SPD

Dr. Gotthard Frhr. von Falkenhausen, Vice President, Atlantik-Bruecke

Kai Uwe von Hassel, Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein, CDU

Ernst Majonica, Member of Bundestag, CDU

Dr. W. Alexander Menne, Member of the Board, Farbwerke Hoechst AG, Frankfurt/Main

Dr. Hans Moeller, Professor of Economics, University of Munich

Dr. Karl Schiller, Professor of Economics, University of Hamburg

Dr. Hans Christoph Frhr. von Tucher, Chairman of the Board, Bayerische Vereinsbank

Dr. Hans Wilbrandt, Professor of Agronomy, Free University of Berlin

Walter Scheel, Member of Bundestag, SPD

Rapporteur: William E. Diebold, Director, Economic Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

RHinelander 4-2816

AMERICAN COUNCIL ON GERMANY, Inc.

SUITE 1901 • 8 WEST 40TH STREET

NEW YORK 18, NEW YORK

* DR. GEORGE N. SHUSTER
President

* MRS. JOHN J. McCLOY
Vice President

* CHRISTOPHER EMMET
Executive Vice President

* ERIC M. WARBURG
Treasurer

* JOSEPH KASKELL
Counsel

DR. RUTH BERENSON
Secretary

RUSSELL BOURNE

PROF. KARL BRANDT

E. WHITNEY DEBEVOISE

KLAUS DOHRN

CHARLES H. DUELL

PROF. CARL J. FRIEDRICH

DANNIE N. HEINEMANN

PROF. FERDINAND A. HERMEN

PROF. FELIX E. HIRSCH

BRIC. GEN. FRANK L. HOWLEY

MRS. J. RAMSAY HUNT

MRS. H. V. KALTENBORN

PROF. HANS KOHN

REV. JOHN LA FARGE, S.J.

PROF. CARL LANDAUER

* LOUIS P. LOCHNER

* NORBERT MUHLEN

GEORGE NEBOLSINE

LUDWIG OBERNDORF

FRITZ E. OPPENHEIMER

LITHCOW OSBORNE

HENRY M. PACHTER

FREDERICK A. PRAEGER

MRS. HENRY REGNERY

ROBERT R. RICHARDSON

VICTOR F. RIDDER

GERHART SEGER

BENJAMIN R. SHUTE

DR. HANS STAUDINGER

HANS WALLENBERG

HANS E. WIRING

PROF. ARNOLD WOLFERS

MARCIA L. KAHN

European Representative

(*Director)

STATEMENT OF AIMS AND PROGRAM

The American Council on Germany, Inc. was formed in 1951 to further better understanding between the American and German peoples. Now that Germany has become a full partner in the Western alliance, we believe that a strengthening of this understanding is essential if the relatively inexperienced German democracy is to develop, if NATO is to survive, and if Germany is to play the part which she must in a united Europe, in a free world. Soviet policy from Stalin to Khrushchev has placed special emphasis on detaching Germany from her allies and preventing her integration with the West. Hence, the United States should attach an equal priority to the achievement of that integration.

Misunderstanding or misinformation in America about events in Germany plays into the hands of the German Communist, nationalist and neo-Nazi elements which are trying to sabotage the development of German parliamentary democracy. To meet this problem, the American Council on Germany organizes educational conferences, and collects reliable facts, statistics and background information on important political and economic developments in Germany. So far as our limited resources permit, we make this information available to individuals and organizations interested in German problems. From time to time we also supply interpretations of controversial political or economic trends and events. These are as objective as possible in a field where honest judgments may vary widely. (One effort along these lines was our 1955 survey by Hans Wallenberg, Report on Democratic Institutions in Germany; a more recent work is The Vanishing Swastika, by Christopher Emmet and Norbert Muhlen, published by Henry Regnery & Co., February, 1961).

In collecting and disseminating such information, the Council seeks the cooperation of American and German organizations, such as the Atlantik-Bruecke, whose aims are in harmony with its own.

In the interest of expanding American-German understanding on non-governmental levels, the American Council on Germany, in cooperation with the Atlantik-Bruecke, sponsored the first American-German Conference which was held in Bad Godesberg in October 1959. Among the American delegates to the conference were Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson; John J. McCloy, Former High Commissioner to Germany; James B. Conant, Former Ambassador to West Germany; Senators Dodd, Keating and Monroney; and a number of distinguished private citizens, businessmen and educators. The German delegation was equally outstanding. The success of this effort has encouraged us

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to sponsor the Second American-German Conference in Washington, D.C.,
February 16 - 19, 1961.

The Council has also cooperated with the United States Government
Exchange Program in arranging for visits by citizens of the two countries.
Among prominent Germans who have been recently entertained by the Council
are Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Willy Brandt, Mayor of West Berlin, and
Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss. We have also arranged conferences,
lectures, television and radio appearances for other German visitors.

The American Council on Germany is non-partisan and non-sectarian, both in its American activities and in its attitude toward German groups. Our aim is to promote American-German unity in the cause of freedom. Our hope is to see a free, peaceful and reunited Germany in a United Europe.

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ATLANTIK-BRUECKE, e.V.

(Atlantic-Bridge, Inc.)

15 Sanderskoppel, Hamburg-Wellingsbuettel, Germany

Executive Director: Walter Stahl

**Purposes:** To further better understanding between the United States and Germany.

**Founded:** In the fall of 1951.

**Organization:** Incorporated body governed by a board of three directors. President, Dr. Arnold Bergstraesser; Vice-President, Dr. Gotthard Freiherr von Falkenhausen; Vice-President and Treasurer, Erik Blumenfeld. The Atlantik-Bruecke is a non-partisan and non-profit organization of private German citizens.

**Finance:** Income from membership fees, contributions, and sale of publications.

**Members:** 39 Members (32 businessmen, five professors, two journalists; see attached list of members).

**Membership:** By invitation only, limited to German citizens and in number to 60.

**Membership Fees:** DM 3,000.00 to 5,000.00 (approx. $750.00 to $1,250.00).

**Staff:** Executive Director; Administrative Secretary (Trudel Stahl); Editor, "The Bridge" (Irmgard Burmeister).

**Activities:** The aims of the Atlantik-Bruecke are to further by objective information a better understanding in the United States of Germany's past and present political, economic and social problems. This is achieved by:

(1) American-German Conferences with leading citizens of both countries;

(2) Meetings on both sides of the Atlantic with distinguished American and German guests as speakers;

(3) Advice and assistance to visiting American scholars, newspapermen, students, civic leaders interested in German affairs;

(4) Establishment and cultivation of contacts with American agencies, organizations and individuals in the United States and in Germany;

(5) Publications.

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Publications:

A. Periodicals

Meet Germany (annually) a survey of the major political, economic and social problems with which Germany is confronted. A considerable part of the booklet is devoted to education, the churches and cultural life.

"The Bridge" (monthly an insert for the unit newspapers of the American Forces stationed in Germany (circ. 66,000).

"Newsletter" (once or twice a month) sent to Americans interested in German affairs.

B. Books and Pamphlets

German Social Science Digest (1955). A survey of the social and political sciences in postwar Germany.

Germany in American Eyes - A Study of Public Opinion, by Norbert Muhlen, 1959, Published in English and in German.

East-West Tensions - The Present Status: Future Developments. Report on the first American-German Conference in Bad Godesberg, October, 1959. Co-published with the American Council on Germany, 1960.

Education for Democracy in West Germany -- Achievements, Shortcomings, Prospects. Especially prepared for the Second American-German Conference in Washington, D. C., February, 1961. The book will be published in America by Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., New York.

In Preparation

Anti-democratic Currents in West Germany - Their Strength and Prospects. A study of anti-semitism, right- and left-wing radicalism, influence of former Nazis and of Communists in the German Federal Republic. This book will cover all aspects of democratic development -- positive and negative -- in postwar Germany. It will supplement Education for Democracy in West Germany, and will be published in the fall of 1961.

East-West Tensions, 1961. A report on the second American-German Conference. It will be co-published with the American Council on Germany in the spring of 1961.