To Promote the Foreign Policy of the United States by Fostering International Travel and the Exchange of Persons...: Hearings..., on H.J. Res. 350...1954 - 301 pages |
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Page 93 - It was agreed that the United States and Canada should reduce obstacles to the entry of goods and services from debtor countries, in order to provide as wide an opportunity as possible for those countries to earn dollars through the export of goods and the provision of services, including tourism.
Page 270 - Federal legislative enactments; in an extended service in certain executive departments, State, Treasury, and Commerce in particular; in the annual conferences of the National Foreign Trade Council, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, the Southern Commercial Congress, and other organizations; in the appointment of foreign trade and foreign relations committees of many commercial bodies; and in the general quickening of academic curiosity. One must not judge, however, the correlation of...
Page 166 - Then the Internal Security Act of 1950 and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 converted him into a super-security officer.
Page 64 - Entire Agreement. This Agreement contains the entire Agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and merges and supersedes nil prior discussions and writings with respect thereto.
Page 255 - It has been my pleasure to serve as a member of the Advisory Committee to the...
Page 106 - It is not what separates the United States from the Soviet Union that should frighten us, but what they have in common . . . those two technocracies that think themselves antagonists, are dragging humanity in the same direction of de-humanization . . . man is treated as a means and no longer as an end — this is the indispensable condition of the two cultures that face each other.
Page vi - Commission after selecting an executive vice chairman from among its members may employ a director and a secretary and such other assistants as may be needed to organize and perform the necessary technical and clerical work connected with the Commission's duties, and may also engage the services of expert advisers without regard to civil service laws and the Classification Act of 1923.
Page 123 - ON FOREIGN ECONOMIC POLICY, Washington, DC The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, in executive session in the Foreign Affairs Committee room, United States Capitol, at 10 am, Hon. Jacob K. Javits (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Mr. JAVITS. The subcommittee will be in order. This is Mr. Harold Linder, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, who has come this morning to enlighten us on State Department economic policy. Mr. Linder, will you proceed in your own way ? STATEMENT OF...
Page 12 - THORSTEN V. KALIJARVI, DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF STATE Mr.
Page 121 - Senate, 82d Cong.). At that time Senator McCarran spoke of "teeming travel" and suggested that "the Government Travel Department in Commerce be eliminated entirely for a year and find out if travel were reduced any." The result of that hearing was as stated, the discontinuation of the Travel Branch of the Office of International Trade in the Department of Commerce. Since that date, May 1952, travel has continued to increase all over the world, apparently without United States Government assistance....