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amoral attitude seems to imply that a known chicken thief cannot
be considered a threat to turkey growers, unless he has actually been
caught stealing turkeys.
Senate debates on the confirmation of Holmes as Ambassador to Iran

are printed in the Congressional Record: pp. 6385-86, April 27, 1961;
pp. 6668-69, May 3, 1961; and pp. 6982-95, May 8, 1961.
The vote was taken on May 8. After the history of Julius C. Holmes
had been thoroughly exposed, the Senate confirmed Holmes'
nomination 75 to 21, with 4 Senators taking no stand. Julius C. Holmes
was sworn in as United States Ambassador to Iran on May 15, 1961.
The real reason why Holmes was nominated for an important
ambassadorship by two Presidents and finally confirmed by the Senate
is obvious--and was, indeed, inadvertently revealed by Senator Prescott
Bush: Holmes, a Council on Foreign Relations member, is a darling of
the leftwing internationalists who are determined to drag America into
a socialist one-world system.
During the Senate debate about Holmes' nomination Senator Bush said:
"I believe that one of the most telling witnesses with whom I have ever
talked regarding Mr. Holmes is Mr. Henry Wriston, formerly president
of Brown University, now chairman of the Council on Foreign
Relations, in New York, and chairman of the American Assembly. Mr.
Wriston not only holds these distinguished offices, but he has also
made a special study of the State Department and the career service in
the State Department.
"He is credited with having 'Wristonized' the Foreign Service of the
United States. He told me a few years ago ... [that] 'Julius Holmes is the
ablest man in the Foreign Service Corps of the United States.'"
Dr. Wriston was (in 1961) President (not Chairman, as Senator Bush
called him) of the Council on Foreign Relations. But Senator Bush was
not exaggerating or erring when he said that the State Department has
been Wristonized--if we acknowledge that the State Department has
been converted into an agency of Dr. Wriston's Council on Foreign
Relations. Indeed, the Senator could have said that the United States
government has been Wristonized.
Here, for example, are some of the members of the Council on Foreign

Relations who, in 1961, held positions in the United States Government:
John F. Kennedy, President; Dean Rusk, Secretary of State; Douglas
Dillon, Secretary of the Treasury; Adlai Stevenson, United Nations
Ambassador; Allen W. Dulles, Director of the Central Intelligence
Agency; Chester Bowles, Under Secretary of State; W. Averell
Harriman, Ambassador-at-large; John J. McCloy, Disarmament
Administrator; General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff; John Kenneth Galbraith, Ambassador to India; Edward
R. Murrow, Head of United States Information Agency; G. Frederick
Reinhardt, Ambassador to Italy; David K. E. Bruce, Ambassador to
United Kingdom; Livingston T. Merchant, Ambassador to Canada; Lt.
Gen. James M. Gavin, Ambassador to France; George F. Kennan,
Ambassador to Yugoslavia; Julius C. Holmes, Ambassador to Iran;
Arthur H. Dean, head of the United States Delegation to Geneva
Disarmament Conference; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Special White
House Assistant; Edwin O. Reischauer, Ambassador to Japan; Thomas
K. Finletter, Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for
Economic Co-operation and Development; George C. McGhee,
Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning; Henry R. Labouisse,
Director of International Cooperation Administration; George W. Ball,
Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs; McGeorge Bundy,
Special Assistant for National Security; Paul H. Nitze, Assistant
Secretary of Defense; Adolf A. Berle, Chairman, Inter-Departmental
Committee on Latin America; Charles E. Bohlen, Assistant Secretary
of State.
The names listed do not, by any means, constitute a complete roster of
all Council members who are in the Congress or hold important
positions in the Administration.
In the 1960-61 Annual Report of the Council on Foreign Relations,
there is an item of information which reveals a great deal about the
close relationship between the Council and the executive branch of the
federal government.
On Page 37, The Report explains why there had been an unusually
large recent increase in the number of non-resident members (CFR

members who do not reside within 50 miles of New York City Hall):
"The rather large increase in the non-resident academic category is
largely explained by the fact that many academic members have left
New York to join the new administration."
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Concerning President Kennedy's membership in the CFR, there is an
interesting story. On June 7, 1960, Mr. Kennedy, then a United States
Senator, wrote a letter answering a question about his membership in
the Council. Mr. Kennedy said:
"I am a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City.
As a long-time subscriber to the quarterly, Foreign Affairs, and as a
member of the Senate, I was invited to become a member."
On August 23, 1961, Mr. George S. Franklin, Jr., Executive