Mutual Security Appropriations for 1960, and Related Agencies: Export-Import Bank, Administration, Ryukyu Islands, Mutual Security Program: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959 - 1781 pages

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