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:'.F~. .~-< ~' *", ~~;{J 002~8~ "",'-':" :~:~:.:~{1 W ATERRE'SQURCE . ,DEVElLOPMENT PROGRAMS 3 eyewitnessing the four great-nation river-development programs, is qualified unchallengeably to have an opinion as to "the relative size, scope, and velocity of these programs in actual. results." 'While for obvious reasons this distinguished engineer is not avail- able to this United States Senate committee as a witness, his opinion has been solicited, and in personal conversation he endorses the broad .generalizations set down herein, and further courteously provided the voluminous texts of his reports to his Government on hIS Russian and Chinese travels. These frequently directly, if incidentally, answer .the committee's inquiries, and will be incorporated in the committee files for the convenience of Senators as are interested. . There is in the committee's instruction, an implicit desire (expressed by reference to "logical projections of the trends registered") as to information regarding where these relative river and other water pro- grams may lead. While the larger and more populous Communist nations are currently all out and accelerating their river and water programs, similar work in the United States has been and is being cut back. However, answer to this future question invades the area of prophecy and violates the request to "report factually on what and how much is being done in this :field; where and just how it is done," and not what will or may happen. RUSSIAN LEADER'S PREDICTION Nikita S. Khrushchev, Chief of the S~viet Communist Party, gave a direct answer to this question very recently when he publicly pro- claimed: The Soviet Union can in the next 15 years not only catch up with the United States in the production 0:( basic items but also outstrip it. The context of Mr. Khrushchev's forecast establishes that he eer- I tainly considers hydroelectric energy, irrigated food, water, trans- port, and flood control as "basic items" of Soviet production. And obviously his prophecy, to be factual, presupJ?oses a prerequisite knowledge of not only what the Soviets will do III the next 15 years, but also what river development will be undertaken in the United States in the same period, which in the final analysis appears more within the jurisdiction of the Congress than within the authority of the Soviet spokesman. In any event, this reporter is not forecasting in the absence of positive knowledge as to what either the Soviets or the U. S. A. will do in the next 15 years. Khrushchev is positive. We declare war on the United States in peaceful production- he recently told William Randolph Hearst, Jr., an American reporter at the Kremlin. We declare that war. We will win over the United States. The threat to the . United States is not the intercontinental missile. We are relentless in this. AMERICAN SOURCES OF INFORMATION The foregoing summary report is supplemented by the following pertinent specifics and details, as well as citation of sources that the chairman directed this reporter- to collect and assemble from any sources easily available to this committee or yourself, and then set down in the form of a report to the committee.