The objective would also include assurances to the various peoples of the world that America stood ready to help them throw off the burden of communism. It naturally follows that if we were to have such a program. we would want to employ personnel completely familiar with the characteristics peculiar to each nation to which we were addressing ourselves. It is selfevident that you do not approach the mind of a Frenchman in the same manner in which you approach the mind of a Mongolian. The directing officials of such a program would of necessity have to be brilliant. resourceful. imaginative people with a complete understanding of the Communist conspiracy and possessing the mental courage and knowhow to fight it by propaganda and psychological warfare. In addition. the program would have to be closely coordinated with the other operations of our Government at the policymaking level. including the military and the diplomatic branches.
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Generalization about how to approach the mind of a Frenchman versus a Mongolian.