International Relations (June 1962)

Attitude to the Common Market. East-West comparison and preferred economic system.

Topics: Attitude to selected countries; preferred political position of one´s own country; judgement on American and Soviet foreign policy; agreement in principle of the interests of one´s own country with the interests of the USA and the USSR; confidence in the ability of the USA to solve international problems; judgement on the peace efforts of the USA and the USSR; alliance loyalty of the USA to Western Europe; attitude to nuclear tests and to a test-ban treaty even without a surveillance system; judgement on one´s own standard of living in the past, at present, and in future; country with the highest standard of living; superiority of the communist or anti-communist countries in military, economic and scientific areas as well as in the area of space flight; attitude to use of nuclear weapons in case of attack on one´s own country; judgement on the American peace corps program; attitude to a possible peace corps program of one´s own country, to a united Western Europe and to the membership of one´s own country in the Common Market; assumed effect of the Common Market on the standard of living, on the political unification of Western Europe and on the influence of the USA on European affairs; approval for a change of American influence on Europe; judgement on American trade policy; supposed attitude of the USA and the USSR to the Common Market and effect of the Common Market on US imports; attitude to socialism, communism and capitalism as well as to a nationalization of industrial establishments; outstanding characteristics of a social, capitalist or communist economic system; preferred economic system; classification of the economic systems of selected countries as more socialist or capitalist and attitude to the economic systems of these countries; judgement on American capitalism (scale); TV viewing; attitude to American television programs and films; judgement on American films, books, newspapers, music and television programs as agent of American life-style; trips to the movies; film preferences relative to individual countries; frequency of viewing American films; judgement on American, British, French and Italian films as an image of life in these countries; impression of different aspects of American life mediated by American films.