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CONFIDENT IAL
and anchive
858
213
July 25, 1951
MEMORANDUM OF TELEPHONE CONVERSATION
WITH SENATOR BENTON
The Senator called Secretary Acheson and said
that he was drifting farther and farther away from actual
knowledge of foreign affairs, because of his deepening
emersion in the affairs of the Banking and Currency
Committee. At the same time the demands on him to appear
on radio and television debates with opponents of our
foreign policy (often Senators or Congressmen who had
the advantage of close contact through Committee hearings
and investigations and through recent trips to Europe)
were growing heavier and more insistent. He mentioned
that Mrs. Roosevelt had called on him more than once,
and that the Democratic National Committee had asked him
to debate Earle Cocke, and when the Senator got to the
radio station, he found Senator Kane had been substituted
for Cocke.
The Senator said that it would be very helpful
to him if he could be givén an assignment which could
take him to Europe in some useful capacity. He wondered
whether it would be possible to make an exception to the
established policy of taking Senators on the General
Assembly delegations on even years and Congressmen on
odd years. When Secretary Acheson explained that this
was a carefully worked out arrangement with Congress,
the Senator accepted the situation.
Senator Benton said he had talked with Mr. Thorp
about the possibility of a trip in connection with his
(the Senator's) introducing a bill into the Senate
on the guaranteeing of American Investments. Mr. Thorp
had not seemed to think this was a good idea, and, again,
the Senator seemed disposed to drop that suggestion. But
he emphasized that his constituents were more interested
in foreign policy matters than in any other issues, and
he needed the personal contact with these issues, which
he was not getting. He said the Congress hoped to djourn
October 1, which would mean he would have three months free.
The Secretary said he would look into the question
and call the Senator back if any constructive suggestion
was turned up.
DECLASSIFIED
B. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and S(D) or (E)
5-62-76
Dept. of State letter, Aug. 1973
CONFIDENTIAL
S:B.Evans
By NLT- HC , NARS Date 6.25.76