Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Historical Series). Vol. VII : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and Senate Committee on Armed Services and Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Eighty-Fourth Congress, first session.

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Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations.

Contributor:

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services.

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations--1953-1961.

United States.

International relations.

Physical Description:

x, 924 pages

Place of Publication:

Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1978.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

Contains transcripts of certain Senate Foreign Relations Committee executive session hearings and minutes of Senate Foreign Relations Committee executive sessions held from Jan. 18 through July 30, 1955. Transcribed hearings are. a. Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty (SEATO) ratification and briefings on French and German positions regarding the Western European Union Accords. Jan. 13, 21, Mar. 31, 1955. p. 1-24, 47-64, 419-422. Includes discussions of U.S. support for South Vietnamese Premier Ngo Dinh Diem and of presidential power to take military action. b. Korean aid program authorization and briefing on French political conditions. Jan. 19, 1955. p. 27-45. c. Resolution on Formosa Straits crisis. Jan. 24, 25, 26, 1955. p. 65-283. Includes discussion of U.S. military response to People's Republic of China attack on Formosa Strait Islands under Nationalist Chinese control. d. Mutual Defense Treaty with Taiwan Feb. 1, 7, 8, 1955. p. 285-380. e. Briefing on first SEATO Council meeting and Far and Southeast Asian affairs. Mar. 8, 1955. p. 387-413. f. Proposed State Dept release of Yalta Conference papers. Apr. 19, 1955. p. 423-485. Includes discussion of British objections to proposed release of documents. g. Briefing on European affairs. May 17, 1955. p. 493-512. Also includes discussions regarding Vietnam and India. h. Mutual Security Act of 1955. May 20, 26, 1955. p. 513-607. i. Resolution of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy urging inclusion of Eastern Europe and communist controlled parts of Asia on the Geneva Summit Conference agenda. June 21, 1955. p. 611-651. j. Resolutions relating to US participation in UN Nuclear Explosion Effects Study Commission and to congressional support for fostering increased civil liberties in communist satellite countries. July 12, 13, 1955. p. 653-705. Includes discussion of extension of diplomatic recognition to governments-in-exile. k. Panama Canal Treaty revisions, July 15, 1955. p. 707-713. l. Briefing on 1955 Geneva Summit Conference between President Dwight D. Eisenhower, British Prime Minister Anthony Eden, French Premier Edgar Faure, Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin, and Soviet Communist Party Secretary Nikita S. Khrushchev. July 25, 1955. Includes discussions of reunification of Germany, European security, disarmament, and improvement of East-West relations.

Considers (84) S.J. Res. 28, (84) H.J. Res. 159, (84) S. Res. 55, (84) S. 2090, (84) S. Res. 116, (84) S. Con. Res. 22, (84) S. Res. 126, (84) S. Res. 127, (84) H. Con. Res. 149.

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