ECONOMIC AIDE CHOSEN FOR DISARMAMENT SHIFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100060012-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: February 3, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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Economic Aide Chosen
For Disarmament Shift
By Edward T. Folliard' in c arge of its Econpmic Bu- war, the problem of shifting
Staff Reporter re new 20,000-a year post to a different kind of economy
President Kennedy yester- in the New Frontier. obviously would be a formid-
day moved to 'prepare tale Alexander's job would he to able one.
United States for dealing with conccptrate on "tf, is The consensus among those.
any economic upheaval that { Stcial impacts of disarm- who have studied the problem
might result from' complete ament.' is that the United States could
disarmament: Tien it is considered that make the transition without a
He announced his intention the United States spends close depression or even a; serius.
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agency: Alexander would he ! guns, and other weapons of that capitalism thrived only
on profits of war or -prepar
rations ,for war. This doctrine
went under a cipud, of doubt
after Soviet Premier. Nikita
S. Khrushchev visited they
United States in 1059., , . 11
Said Khrushchev on Jan.,14,
1960, about his tour of :.this
country:
"I had occasion, to t41l, With
many represeptatives of Amer-11
lean .business: circles wh'p
are confident that it is fully
within the capacity of Amer-
lean industry to cope witli' the
task of the changeover of the
entire economy to the produc-
tion of civilian goods." (, "
A group of Western and
Eastern economists, in a sur-
vey for the* United Nations,
said that there "should- be no
',doubt that the , diversion to
:peaceful purposes of the re-
sources now in military, use
could be 'aeeomplished to the.
benefit of all countries and
lead to the 'improvement of
world- economic and :social
conditions."
Alexander, the in a n Mrs,
Kennedy has ' chosen to pre-
pare the United States for the
retary from 1950 to 1952.
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In the Army in the Meditdr-
ranean and. European theaters
of war in 1942-45, he became a
member of the Foreign Service
Selection Board of the. State
Department in 1947. He was
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Alexander, a big, strapping
fellow, was born in New York
ment comes, is not a new- I City on Oct. 28, 1906: He got
comer in Washington. Fainrl-' his A,B... from Princeton in,
iarly known 'as "Archie," ` he 1928 and his LL.B. from Har-
held a number or posts here'! vard in 1931. Admitted to the
in the Truman Administration liar iii 1932, he .was a member,
After kervinc ns an nffiror 1, and `? ultimately a partner, in
a
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er, Ledy-
ard and Milburn:
Now a resident of Bernards-
ville, N. J., Alexander has held
a number of civil and govern-
mental. posts in the Garden,,