Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West (East-West Center): Hearings Before the Subcommittee on State Department Organizations and Foreign Operations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress. December 13, 14, 1961, January 8, 1962

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962 - 364 pages
Examines programs of the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West established in 1960 at the University of Hawaii with a State Dept grant-in-aid. Includes memo on East-West Center team visit during Oct.-Dec. 1960 to 19 countries in Asia and the Pacific to help plan programs, William Wachter et al. (p. 249-309). Dec. 13-14 hearings were held in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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