SOME POINTS MADE BY JUSTICE DOUGLAS

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 12, 2003
• Sequence Number: 73
• Publication Date: November 18, 1955
• Content Type: BRIEF

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. Justice Douglas deeply
INDENT1AL
vember 1955
ICS DOUGLAS
erned about ispact USU having and
y have on people from under-developed countries.
A. He said: "Given ten years of peace Asia will be lost
to the USSR."
11. Visits to the VSSa by Asians ar
great effect on these visitors.
Douglas concerned Soviet actions these areas and by USSR's
pushing its Point Four program hard.
f, se feels that Soviet industrial plant
mind, has been under-estimated.
In ten years he thinks Soviet industrial
even overshadow that of Rurope.
He said: "All our ideas of cost se
in that (Communist) system."
glas travelled widely August and September
Soviet Central Asia.
plea
A.
in
ight
g go by the boards
Denied travel to Leninabad (Tedsh k SSR).
1. Told by Soviet personnel uranium discovered and being
developed in Fergana Valley. Leninabad stands at
mouth this valley.
Denied travel to Karaganda.
1. According Soviet announcement 15 October, stee
being built Karaganda will have ingot capacity 1.5
times that of Magnitogorsk, currently largest Soviet
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2 ? On heels these figures, new pisat will produce
6,750,000 netric tons of steel a year 00,000 more
than Gary Works of .6. Steal now world's largest
plant.
. First blast furnace to operate
production in 198.5.
C. Douglas believad his Journey napery
by IldVD
11. Justice's party travel extesaively in
around Barnsul. He called area booming frontier."
Soviet officials said that with a yiald of only 5 bushels
per acre, this program would pay off.
R. Douglas noted talk about "dust bowl problems and that soil
in area prasents chemical problem.
I. Irrigation being worked on.
Large volume of rail traffic, particularly of farm iacbiuor
D. Douglas said: Russia is crawling with agricultural
scientists. was told by Sesediktov, Minister of State
Farms, that 235,000 graduates of five-year agricultural
colleges were available.
1. Described by Douglas an evangslical.
TV. Douglas looked into nationalities problem in Soviet central Asia
A. Said that in Republic capitals about half populationis
Russian.
B. Russians get natives; they get
he apartments; inter-marriage is rare.
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Schools are aegraatod. All ualvers ties and hi
educations I
exasination
Conversations with Soviet citizens revealed U
A. Sig complaint was shortage of consumer go
Iii. Contacts asked question about life is the
have grandiose notions about power of Comma
Miscellaneous observations.
it. Douglas saw many soldiers engaged in civilian c
work, such as apartment buildings.
Nis plane put down at Semipelatiusk for:Qfl boa
around *ad of August. Numerous jst medium bow
airfield. No unusual air sightings before or
run in Russian with a stiff entrance
D.
ad seaned to
Party la 411A.
or so
s sees at
or Senipalat tusk.
25X1
? sees at sk. Trois leads of Chinese going
t Petropavlovsk. At Solsboi theater on might
ended, three-fourths audience Chinese.
4: There is no rationing in Soviet Central Asia."
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