Mutual Security Appropriations for 1960, and Related Agencies: Hearings Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 8385, an Act Making Appropriations for Mutual Security for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1960, and for Other Purposes

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959 - 946 pages

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Page 753 - Until a more complete code of the laws of war has been issued, the High Contracting Parties deem it expedient to declare that, in cases not included in the Regulations adopted by them, the inhabitants and the belligerents remain under the protection and the rule of the principles of the law of nations, as they result from the usages established among civilized peoples, from the laws of humanity, and from the dictates of the public conscience.
Page 754 - An army of occupation can only take possession of cash, funds, and realizable securities which are strictly the property of the State, depots of arms, means of transport, stores and supplies, and, generally, all movable property belonging to the State which may be used for military operations.
Page 753 - The authority of the legitimate power having in fact passed into the hands of the occupant, the latter shall take all the measures in his power to restore, and ensure, as far as possible, public order and safety, while respecting, unless absolutely prevented, the laws in force in the country.
Page 753 - Territory is considered occupied when it is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army. The occupation extends only to the territory where such authority has been established and can be exercised.
Page 336 - April 3S, 1959. Hon. CARL HAYDEN, Chairman, Senate Appropriations Committee, US Senate, Washington, DC DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN...
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Page 292 - Religious liberty is the chief corner-stone of the American system of government, and provisions for its security are imbedded in the written charter and interwoven in the moral fabric of its laws.
Page 95 - The President shall, in the reports required by subsection (a) of this section, and in response to requests from Members of the Congress or inquiries from the public, make public all information concerning operations under this Act not deemed by him to be incompatible with the security of the United States.
Page 293 - ... one of the parties thereto is so construed as to discriminate between American citizens on the ground of race or religion ; that the Government of Russia has violated the treaty between the United States and Russia concluded at St.
Page 293 - The reasons advanced were such as could not be acquiesced in, without violation of my oath of office and the precepts of the Constitution, since they necessarily involved a limitation in favor of a foreign .government upon the right of selection by the Executive, and required such an application of a religious test as a qualification for office under the United States as would have resulted in the practical disfranchisement of a large class of our citizens and the abandonment of a vital principle...

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