Mutual Security Appropriations for 1957: Hearings Before the Subcommittee ... Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session

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Page 946 - Toynbee, expresses when he says that "our age will be best remembered' because it is the first age since the dawn of history in which mankind dared to believe it practicable to make the benefits of civilization available to the whole of mankind.
Page 576 - Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained.
Page 752 - UNICEF works in close conjunction with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which are concerned generally with matters of health and nutrition respectively.
Page 402 - I have a very strong feeling that one of the most important things we can do is to get inspired teachers.
Page 161 - For loans to promote multilateral trade and economic development, made through established banking facilities of the friendly nation from which the foreign currency was obtained or in any other manner which the President may deem to be appropriate.
Page 681 - The statement will be inserted in the record at this point and you may proceed with highlighting it, General. (The statement referred to is as follows:) STATEMENT OF MAJ. GEN. FRANK A. HEILEMAN, CHIEF OF TRANSPORTATION...
Page 229 - It is a pleasure to have this opportunity to speak to you concerning that part of the mutual security program for fiscal year 1957 which concerns the European area.
Page 600 - Representatives. (b) The Department of Defense is authorized to incur, in applicable appropriations, obligations in anticipation of reimbursements in amounts equivalent to the value of such orders under subsection (a) of this section. Appropriations to the President of such sums as may be necessary to reimburse the applicable appropriation, fund, or account for such orders are hereby authorized.
Page 893 - We propose to offer research reactors to the people of free nations who can use them effectively for the acquisition of the skills and understanding essential to peaceful atomic progress. The United States, in the spirit of partnership that moves us, will contribute half the cost. We will also furnish the acquiring nation the nuclear material needed to fuel the reactor.
Page 752 - Mass health campaigns against such crippling and killing diseases as malaria, yaws, tuberculosis, trachoma, and leprosy. 3. Activities to improve nutrition including long-range child-feeding programs and the increased production and use of milk. 4. A limited amount of UNICEF's resources each year is used to provide emergency assistance for the victims of catastrophes such as earthquakes, floods, droughts, and famines, where the welfare of the child population is seriously affected. Such aid is primarily...

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