Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Historical Series). Vol. X : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on American Republics, Eighty-Fifth Congress, second session.

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Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on American Republics Affairs.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

United States.

International relations.

Physical Description:

vi, 877 pages

Place of Publication:

Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1980.

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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. 13 through Sept. 17, 1958. Transcribed hearings are. a. Briefing on foreign political developments and U.S. foreign policy. Jan. 9, 1958. p. 1-57. Includes discussion of progress on disarmament issues. b. U.S. defense policies. Feb. 3, 1958. p. 63-74. Restores deletions made to published "Review of Foreign Policy, 1958" hearings. c. Briefing on Soviet Union political, military, and economic conditions. Feb. 7, 1958. p. 77-124. Includes discussions of Soviet space programs, of Soviet relations with the People's Republic of China, and of Soviet foreign policies and programs. Classified material has been deleted. d. Nomination of John M. Allison to be Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. Mar. 11, 1958. p. 133-141. Focuses on his previous performance as Ambassador to Indonesia. e. Mutual Security Act of 1958. Mar. 21, 26, 28, May 21, 22, 23, 1958. p. 147-154, 157-199, 285-454. Restores deletions made to published 1958 hearings. Includes discussion of NATO and committee mark-up sessions. f. Establishment of a subcommittee to review U.S. Latin American policies. May 16, 20, 1958. p. 201-216, 257-283. Committee action is in response to anti-American violence encountered on Vice President Nixon's tour of the region. g. Briefing on Nixon Latin American Tour anti-American demonstrations. May 19, 1958. p. 217-255. Includes discussion of communist activities in Latin America. h. Authorization of a study on U.S. foreign policy. June 26, July 1, 1958. p. 461-488. Includes discussion of foreign policy issues in Middle East. i. Nomination of Charles W. Yost to be Ambassador to Morocco and review of Lebanon crises and U.S. troop deployment. July 15, 1958. p. 491-517. j. Briefings on Lebanon crises. July 16, 23-25, 28-31, Aug. 1, 4, 6, 8, 13, 1958. p. 519-748, 755-763. Classified material has been deleted. k. Authorization of U.S. Information Agency sale of radio transmitter to Radio Liberation, a covert CIA effort directed toward the Soviet Union, Aug. 12, 1958. p. 749-754. l. Briefing on Cuban revolution. Dec. 31, 1958. Includes discussion of possible U.S. military intervention in Cuba for protection of U.S. assets and citizens.

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