COMMENTS OF PRINCETON CONSULTANTS ON PROPOSED FREEDOM ACADEMY AND PROPOSED ACADEMY OF NATIONAL POLICY

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• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 03386530
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2018
• Case Number: F-2013-02252
• Publication Date: June 1, 1959

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r 21- Iv- r session at Princetori to
utfit -OW LO:nnbeiltit on a prat:posed
cad trtAlt irold War specialists in
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�asatrol L-21 the Princeton Cone a, 4:he
commerAt or, thc ideas of estebliehing a F-reanknn
'Cold 'V &V eueciallate in Democracy arid: in Inter-
Airtiam, and r14ati�g an: -Academy of National Policy
SC. He attrlloure4i these proposals to Senator I-4 *miry
alia� rrienti.vt,p,.d amt they bed considerable e up 4> or t. axc
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Z It waa the general coneenatie ef the ansernblect cont,ultarits,
by Mesmer*. Kerman, -,traTer, millikan and Uncoil), that the idea
adchn Academy -wai be sically unsound. Mae- Milliken,
aWular felt that setting ve this kind of institution would be pre-
kisely the wrong way to attack thci 7:old War, which he chtiracteriaod
as a phase in the history '3.1 internationel relations which should be
studied in that context rather than as sotootbing that could be liquidated
by gimmicks lie indicated that the main tmints needing further basic
study were not the cold war and Corzunuitilern.ttr se but such questions
aa the best forms of governriaat for newly independent underdeveloped
otates. George r`,:eraten !smelled the propossal 'esstragetsiste. primarily
on the ground that such at. venture Ne-mid involve either reittiee the
uoiversities for the relatively few teachers skilled in thee* platters
or being content with ously na�sdiocre ones. Millikan., Hard Under,
and ethers expressed somas syr.uxathy for Cyril Black s suggestion
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to tk Nstionai btill17,C11 Your:dish
cial nem cos, ae a nteans of -mar skia.axug
and thus countering the intellectual In-
tl was likely to arise among government peop4e
* wholly classified beet*. However it wee test
of a purely governmentai institution wan wrong.
3. opposition to the idea of a-.
1 i,ktty attached to the NSC. as wet,
proposed reedo9 Aeadorny," on the ground that
oration of seven:km*1110.1 truk It/fry was undeSiranis
*elf a solution. fieurever, Kennon suggested that it
be desirable to set up a series oi brief lecture an die-
c' elan courses *long the lines of the new advanced coure at
the Foreign Service Inetttute or the National War College
curriculum but of shorter duration and with attendance volun-
tary - which key member* ut clistersee an a the 4xrelleiVill
Branch could attend together. This he believed, would Misit
a legitimate need espy eased by L;anstor Jackson. Suck courses,
Kietunaos concludeet, should be on a nominally claseified books.
but, of course, with anticipation et leaks on the data presented
and diecuseed.
KENT
tent Director
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