9 OF 10 COUNTRIES AGREE USIA POLLS SHOW U. S. PRESTIGE DIP ABROAD SINCE LAUNCHING OF SPUTNIK

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 1999
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• Publication Date: October 20, 1960
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9 of 10 Countries Agree
USIA Polls Show - U. S. res ige
Abroad Since Launching of Sputnik
By Warren Unna in the current Presidential ! militarily 5 *or 10 years from
Staff Reporter [election campaign. no`(Y?
Public opinion polls asd re- Vice 'President Richard M.' ? Which country is going to
arch in. foreign c'wttries. Nixon, in his plea for the con-. be the leading country in the
.k h:ch the Administration it- ! world in this period?
tinuance of a Republican Ad-' In 8 of the 10 countries
self teas conducted over the ministration, has declared: polled, according to a source
past few years show conclu-,"At the p.escnt time, Commu-'familiar with the results, "the
s:iveiy that U. S. prestige has'nist prestige in the world is general rpicturc shows that
'en unquestionably on the at an all-time low and Amer. without any question whatso-
decl:.no ever since the Soviet -can prestige is at an all-time ever the peoples' confidence
nto orbit high" In the U S. as the wave of the
Lnio.c Sputnik went into-
in October, 1957. Sen. John F. Kennedy (I7-'future, as a dynamic, growing
t'. S. Information Activities
and Germany. The other cottn-
gests high school Language
courses in Arabic, Hindu
and Indonesian. Page Dl.
!Co. and, until 1958, Assistant . -
iSecretary of Defense for In- of being on the rise. NO longer
! ternational Security. do we give an - image of
The U. S. "image" abroad- ; vitaltty."
What other people think of Now It has been learned
us--has become a key issue I that, after Sputnik; the United
States Information Agency
began a series of polls in 10
countries, covering all regions
Hof the globe. USIA asked
i such questions as:
? Which country do you
-4 hank is more advanced scien-
tifically-the U. S. or Russia?
? Which country do you
think is going to be stronger
Itries were not -identified by
source.
Central Intelligence Agency
c h a r t s presented - to the
Sp ague Committee have,, ac,
cording to this source; "con'
firmed the blackest ariega?
tiops that the Democrats have
made."
A summatiy of the U.- S.
"image'.' abroad was prepared
by USIA six months ago, de-
tailing loss of confidence .in
the United States as a world
leader.
The summary , as well as
the other CIA data, have been
carefully studl6d by the
Sprague Committe is top meml
hers. They are' ''Allen Allen W.
Dulles, director, of - CIA;
See PRESTIGE,' , Col, tt`
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