Institute on Inter-American Affairs: Hearings..., on H.R. 2957..., July 5, 6, 11, 19491949 - 95 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Accounting Office activities addition administrative agencies agricultural program ALLEN Ambassador American countries American Republics areas Assistant Secretary audit auditors authority basic agreement basis BATTLE Board of Directors Bolivia Brazil CARNAHAN carried Chairman Chile CHIPERFIELD Congress construction continue contribution cooperating republic cooperative programs Costa Rica demonstration diseases Ecuador education program effective El Salvador ELLIS expenditures experience extension farmers field party fiscal year 1950 Foreign Affairs foreign policy Government corporation gram Guatemala Guatemala City Haiti health and sanitation health centers hemisphere Honduras hospitals host republic IIAA improvement Institute of Inter-American Inter-American Affairs Act JACKSON July 11 Latin America legislation malaria MAUCK ment MIKE MANSFIELD Ministry MYER Nelson Rockefeller normal school nurses operation Paraguay percent personnel Peru planning President project funds proposed public health rural schools sanitation program Servicio staff statement STICA subcommittee supervision teachers technical technicians tion United Uruguay Venezuela
Popular passages
Page 4 - Our aim should be to help the free peoples of the world, through their own efforts, to produce more food, more clothing, more materials for housing, and more mechanical power to lighten their burdens.
Page 87 - Board") of not less than five in number, each of whom shall be appointed by the Secretary of State from among the officials and employees of the Department of State...
Page 4 - Only by helping the least fortunate of its members to help themselves can the human family achieve the decent, satisfying life that is the right of all people. Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human oppressors, but also against their ancient enemies — hunger, misery, and despair.
Page 26 - The purposes of this corporation are to further the general welfare of, and to strengthen friendship and understanding among, the peoples of the American Republics through collaboration with other governments and governmental agencies of the American Republics in planning, initiating, assisting, financing, administering, and executing technical programs and projects, especially in the fields of public health, sanitation, agriculture, and education.
Page 74 - The board of directors of the corporation shall determine and prescribe the manner in which its obligations shall be incurred and its expenses allowed and paid.
Page 86 - Sincerely yours, ERNEST A. GROSS, Assistant Secretary (For the Secretary of State).
Page 58 - States; to provide for common action on the part of those States in the event of aggression; to seek the solution of political, juridical and economic problems that may arise among them; to promote, by cooperative action, their economic, social and cultural development, and to achieve an effective limitation of conventional weapons that will make it possible to devote the largest amount of resources to the economic and social development of the Member States.
Page 27 - That the Institute of Inter-American Affairs, created by Public Law 369, Eightieth Congress, shall have — (a) succession until June 30, 1955; and (b) authority, within the limits of funds appropriated or specific contract authorizations hereafter granted to it, to make contracts for periods not to exceed five years and not to extend beyond June 30, 1955, in any case.
Page 76 - ... may encounter in having collective investment funds comply with the 1940 and the 1933 acts. May I, therefore, cordially invite you and your committee to meet with representatives of this Commission at a mutually convenient time in the near future to discuss these matters. I am taking the liberty of sending a copy of this letter to each member of your committee, and I would be happy if you could telephone me at your convenience to arrange a meeting date. Sincerely yours, WILLIAM L.
Page 58 - To the Congress of the United States: I commend to the favorable consideration of the Congress the inclosed report from the Secretary of State to the end that legislation may be enacted...