International Relations (June 1962)

Questions on security policy. 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.

In France the following questions were also asked: income, employment
of household help; ownership of automobile, radio and real estate.

Interviewer rating: duration of interview (Great Britain only);
location of interview (Italy only); respondent´s willingness to
cooperate (FRG only).