International Relations (April 1956)

Judgement on American and Soviet policies. The respondent´s image of
the USA. Attitude to selected countries.

Topics: most important problems of the country; attitude to England,
France, Sweden, the Netherlands, China, America, Germany and the Soviet
Union; desired East-West orientation of one´s own country; judgement on
Soviet foreign policy and the peace efforts of the great powers;
assessment of the danger of war; comparison of the successes of the
East with those of the West; attitude to American or Soviet aid for
other countries and to extension of trade with the East; judgement on
utilization of Soviet and American aid by the countries in Africa and
Asia; judgement on American economic and military relations with other
countries; expected result of the peaceful competition between the
great powers; expected effects of American trade policy on one´s own
country; attitude to unification of Europe and to peaceful use of
atomic energy; attitude to American as well as Soviet nuclear weapons
tests; preference for a European cooperation on peaceful use of nuclear
energy; atomic energy as curse or blessing; judgement on the
disarmament efforts; attitude to the conflicts of the earlier colonial
powers England, France and The Netherlands with their former
possessions; judgement on the American stand in these conflicts;
attitude to socialism and communism; attitude to capitalism (scale,
split); change of one´s own attitude to capitalism in the last few
years (only FRG); attitude to designation of the American economic
system as ´everyone´s capitalism´; desired agreement of the economic
system of one´s own country with that of the USA; attitude to selected
areas of American life; knowledge about race problems in the USA; party
preference; union membership (not in France).

Interviewer rating: social class and willingness of respondent to
cooperate (not in GB); number of contact attempts.

In the Federal Republic the following was additionally encoded:
identification of interviewer; age of interviewer and sex of
interviewer; city size.

In Great Britain the following additional questions were posed:
employment of household help; possession of a car; possession of a
radio; house ownership.

Additionally encoded were: length of interview; number of contact
attempts; presence of other persons during the interview; willingness
of respondent to cooperate; degree of difficulty of the interview.