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Council of Europe

Responding to an invitation issued in May 1951, fourteen members of the Congress of the United States met in Strasbourg on November 20, 1951 in a special session with twenty members of the Council of Europe. The United States delegation included Senators Benton, Green, Henrickson, Hickenlooper, Humphrey, McMahon and Wiley and Representatives Cox, Ellsworth, Judd, Keating, O'Toole, Reams and Smith. Council representatives were Mssrs. Spaak (Belgium), Brentano (Germany), Boothby (United Kingdom), Crosbie (Ireland), Gerstenmaier (Germany), Glenvil-Hall (United Kingdom), Jacini (Italy), Kieft (Netherlands), Mercouris (Greece), de Menthon (France), Moe (Norway), Mollet (France), Ohlin (Sweden), Parri (Italy), Reynaud (France), Schmid (Germany), Treves (Italy), Urguplu (Turkey), de VallePoussin (Belgium), and Lord Layton (United Kingdom). The session was to discuss “the European Union, its problems, progress, prospects, and place in the Western world”; specifically the agenda included: 1) the economic aspects of rearmament; 2) the political aspects of European defense; 3) the dollar gap and trade between eastern and western Europe; and 4) the problem of refugees and emigration.

Text of Three Part Proposal Submitted by the United States Delegation on Behalf of the United States, United Kingdom and France at the Meeting of the Deputies of the Foreign Ministers, Paris, May 2, 1951

Examination of the causes and effects of present international tensions in Europe and of the means to secure a real and lasting improvement in the relations between the Soviet Union, the United States, United Kingdom and France, including the following questions relating to: the demilitarization of Germany; the existing level of armaments and armed forces and measures to be proposed jointly by the USSR, United States, United Kingdom and France for the international control and reduction of armaments and armed forces; fulfillment of present treaty obligations and agreements; the elimination of the threat of war and fear of aggression.

North Atlantic Council

Defense CommiteeA week of conferences on strategic plans for meeting the threat of communist aggression preceded the meeting of the Defense Committee on the North Atlantic Treaty organization on April 1at the Hague. The North Atlantic Military Production and Supply Board met for one day on March 24 at the Hague under the chairmanship of Hubert K. Howard, head of the United States delegation. The primary object of this meeting was to consider certain proposals for an integrated and coordinated production of military equipment and supplies by members of the pact. An official statement made at the end of the meeting announced that “encouraging” progress had been made in laying the groundwork for effective operation of production and supply activity. Thestanding group of the Military Committee, composed of military representatives of the United States, the United Kingdom and France, on March 25 resolved final, minor differences in an all inclusive program evolved from plans of the five regional military groups in the pact.

Philip Sidney Smith, 1877-1949

Philip Sidney Smith, a Governor of the Arctic Institute from September 1944, died in St. Albans, Vermont, on 10 May 1949. Philip Smith was born in Medford, Massachusetts, on 28 July 1877 and was graduated from Harvard in 1899 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1904 he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard. In 1906 Dr. Smith joined the United States Geological Survey and began a long and distinguished career in the public service. After several years of geological and exploratory work in Alaska, he was appointed Administrative Geologist of the Geological Survey in 1915 and later was made Acting Director. In 1925 he succeeded Alfred H. Brooks as the head of the Alaskan Branch of the Geological Survey with the title of Chief Alaskan Geologist. This position he occupied for more than 20 years until his retirement at his own request from the federal service in 1946. During this long interval Philip Smith guided the Alaskan work of the Survey with such notable ability that the reputation of the Survey as a factor in the economy of Alaska grew far out of proportion to the public funds expended for the investigations. In spite of his time-consuming administrative responsibilities, Dr. Smith found opportunity to travel widely in Alaska and to know personally many Alaskans, both native and white, in all parts of the Territory. In 1924 and again in 1926 he made remarkable exploratory trips into northern Alaska to investigate the potentialities of the newly established Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4. He is the author of an imposing number of bulletins, professional papers, and other publications on the geography and geology of Alaska and he was well known as one of the outstanding Alaskan specialists of his generation. Dr. Smith was an official delegate to the Fourth Pacific Scientific Congress, Java, 1929; he served for eight months as Supervising Engineer, Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works in Alaska, 1933-34; and was the Chairman of the United States delegation to the Seventeenth International Geological Congress, U.S.S.R., in 1937. From the time of his retirement until his death, Dr. Smith was greatly interested in, and gave much time, to the affairs of the Arctic Institute. His wide knowledge of Alaska, especially northern Alaska, his long experience in guiding research activities in the north, and his exceptional knowledge of government procedures combined to make his services to the Institute of unusual value. Dr. Smith is survived by his wife, a son, two daughters, and three grandchildren.

Notes and personalia

As announced earlier, the Seventh Pacific Science Congress is to be held in Auckland and Christchurch, New Zealand, February 2 to 23, 1949. Persons interested should write to Dr. Gilbert Archey, Secretary General of the Congress, Auckland Institute and Museum, Box 27, Newmarket, Auckland, S. E. 1, New Zealand, sending a copy to Mr. Harold J. Coolidge, Executive Secretary, Pacific Science Board, National Research Council, Washington 25, D.C.This Conference was held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 21 to 30, 1948. On the United States Delegation were the following AGU members: T. A. Middlebrooks, Chairman; Gail A. Hathaway, and Carl P. Vetter.

Report on the Program of Unesco

T HE complete report of the Program Commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization was presented at Paris, on December 8) I946, by Archibald MacLeish, vicechairman of the United States delegation. This report, which was adopted by the General Conference with minor revisions, is the first formal program of inquiry, public service, and development under the auspices of the Organization. The execution of these proposals now waits the approval of a modest budget-about $7,000,ooo for the current year. The history of many of the projects approved in Paris can be traced by reference to a booklet issued by the Preparatory Commission, entitled Report on the Programme.' Under the

How Far Have We Gone Towards International Control of Atomic Energy?

[Speech delivered by a member of the United States Delegation to the united nations Atomic Energy Commission, before the Joint Institute of the National Committee on Atomic Information and the American Association for the United Nations, New York, February 25, 1947.]

A magna carta for health

A report of the International Health Conference in New York, June 19-July 22, 1946, by Elmira B. Wickenden, Executive Secretary of the National Nursing Council and nurse adviser to the United States delegation.

Multiple Representation in International Assemblies

When the representatives of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States met at Yalta in February, 1945, the Soviet delegation raised the question of giving separate representation in the Assembly of the United Nations to the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The United States delegation agreed to support this claim at San Francisco, but reserved the right of the United States to put in a similar claim for three votes for itself and its possessions. The Soviet delegation raised no objection to the latter claim and the British delegation agreed to support both claims. No agreement was reached at the time with respect to the question of the participation of the two Soviet Republics at the San Francisco Conference itself. When the Yalta agreement was disclosed at the end of March objections were raised in different quarters against the principle of plural votes itself and very vehemently against the secrecy attached to the agreement. In order to pour some oil on the troubled waters the Government of the United States announced that the United States would not request for itself additional votes in the General Assembly. The United States delegation was directed, however, to cast the vote of the United States in favor of the admission of the Byelorussian and Ukrainian Republics and on April 27, 1945, the San Francisco Conference unanimously invited these Republics to become initial members of the United Nations. On April 30, 1945, it permitted them to take seats at the Conference immediately. The delegates of these republics at the Conference generally voted with the Soviet delegation but in a few instances their votes diverged. One might recall in that connection that while in the early days of the League of Nations the British Dominions followed quite closely the lead of the British delegation, twenty-five years later, at San Francisco, the British delegation found the Dominions sometimes among its most bitter opponents. It is quite possible that the position of the Soviet Republics might evolve along similar lines, though it might take some time.

The Problem of Long Term and Equity Capital

It must be clear that no satisfactory solution will be found to the problem of providing small business with capital until it is projected in the context of the more extensive problems of full production and employment with which it is functionally related. Yet the problem of small business has been generally treated in relatively complete isolation from these more fundamental subjects. This treatment has led, in the opinion of the writer, to sterile proposals for the providing of capital to small business. This article will critically evaluate recent discussions of the financing of small business and current suggestions for providing it with capital, and offer an alternative approach. This analysis is based upon the following premises: i. That to date small business has not proved its case. By this is meant, not that there is no financial problem for some small businessmen, but that it is still open to question whether the aggregate of these problems is sufficiently widespread and meritorious to constitute a national problem or call for action by the federal government; that the research, investigation and discussion up to the present is not conclusive on this point. 2. That the necessary and sufficient conditions of whatever small business financial problems there may be are not to be found within the small business area where inquiry has been almost exclusively directed. But that these causes could have been found within the private banking system, that they are primarily of a psychological order stemming from the habits and attitudes of commercial and investment bankers in the principal financial centers as well as in regional areas, and that the stiff price asked by the bankers for small business accommodations results from these attitudes and is a much more important cause of the shortage of such accommodations than the availability of lendable funds. 3. That the plans, programs, bills for Congressional action, etc., which have been proffered as solutions for the problem are panaceas with scant hope of success f The views expressed in this article are entirely those of the writer and are not to be taken as expressing the views of any member of the Securities and Exchange Commission or of its staff. * A.B., 1921, Harvard University. Investment banker, 1921-1931. Staff member of the Securities and Exchange Commission since 1934, and at present Assistant Director of its Trading and Exchange Division. Adviser to the United States Delegation at the International Monetary Conference, Bretton Woods, 1944.

Panamerican Sanitary Congress

AN article in the November issue of the Boletin de la Oflcina Sanitaria Panamericana states that a very high place must be given to the Panamerican Sanitary Congress, which was held in Rio de Janeiro during September 7-18, 1942. Every Republic of South America was represented, and all, with one exception, by specialists including directors and professors of hygiene and authorities on tropical medicine, venereal disease, malaria, tuberculosis, bacteriology, radiology, forensic medicine, dietetics, aerial quarantine, dermatology and public health administration in general. The United States delegation consisted of six members, that of Paraguay eight and that of Chile ten, while that of Brazil was naturally larger. The Dominion of Canada was represented for the first time. The problems discussed consisted of the role of public health in the defence of the hemispheres, followed by more or less closely connected subjects such as malaria, typhus, nutrition, plague, influenza, tuberculosis, quarantine, yellow fever, trypanosomiasis, dysentery, cancer, heart disease and sanitary engineering. Caracas, Venezuela, was selected as the site for the next Congress, which is to be held in 1946.

The Democratic Diplomacy of Secretary Hull

Journal Article THE DEMOCRATIC DIPLOMACY OF SECRETARY HULL Get access ULRIC BELL ULRIC BELL Mr. Bell began his career as a newspaperman with the Louisville Courier-Journal in 1910, and since 1921 has been correspondent for that paper in Washington. He accompanied Secretary Hull and the United States delegation to the Seventh International Conference of American States at Montevideo as press adviser, and during Mr. Hull's tour of South America in 1933-34 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 2, Issue 1, January 1938, Pages 36–47, https://doi.org/10.1086/265151 Published: 01 January 1938

Haiti for the Haitians

Essay| July 01 1934 Haiti for the Haitians Ernest Gruening* Ernest Gruening* *Dr. Gruening was general adviser to the United States delegation at the Pan-American Conference last December. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1934) 40 (4): 418–424. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1934.40.4.418 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ernest Gruening*; Haiti for the Haitians. Current History 1 July 1934; 40 (4): 418–424. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1934.40.4.418 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCurrent History Search This content is only available via PDF. © 1934 by The Regents of the University of California1934 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Third International Congress of Radiology

HomeRadiologyVol. 15, No. 5 PreviousNext EditorialThird International Congress of RadiologyParis, July, 1931Published Online:Nov 1 1930https://doi.org/10.1148/15.5.599MoreSectionsPDF ToolsImage ViewerAdd to favoritesCiteTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked In AbstractThe work of the Congress will be divided into the following sections: (1) Roentgen Diagnosis; (2) Roentgenotherapy and Curietherapy; (3) Radiobiology; (4) Radiophysics; (5) Natural and Artificial Heliotherapy; (6) Medical Electrology.In conformity with the regulations of the International Congress of Radiology, membership in the Congress will be open to (a) members of the national roentgen societies regularly constituted, and (b) persons accepted by these societies.The officers of this Third International Congress are as follows: President, Dr. Antoine Béclère, Paris, France; Vice-presidents, Dr. J. Belot and Prof. C. Regaud, for Paris, and Prof. Cluzet and Prof. Rechou, for France outside of Paris; Secretary-general, Dr. Ledoux-Lebard; Treasurer, Dr. Henri de Rothschild; Adj. Treasurer, Dr. Morel-Kahn; Secretaries, Dr. Claude Béclère and Dr. P. Gilbert.The registration fee for the Congress is 300 francs for each individual member, and 50 francs additional for each member of the family attending the Congress. Application blanks will be available at a later date.The five delegates from the United States are: James T. Case, M.D., Chicago (American College of Radiology); Edwin C. Ernst, M. D., St. Louis, Secretary of United States delegation (Radiological Society of North America); Preston M. Hickey, M.D., Ann Arbor, Michigan (American Roentgen Ray Society); Albert Soiland, M.D., Los Angeles, Chairman of United States delegation (American Medical Association), and Douglas Quick, M.D., New York (American Radium Society).Any one desiring more detailed information may feel free to write to either the Chairman or the Secretary of the United States delegation.Article HistoryPublished in print: Nov 1930 FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited ByThe making of a ‘proletarian capital’: Patterns of Stalinist social policy in Kiev in the mid‐1930sSerhyYekelchyk1998 | Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 50, No. 7Recommended Articles RSNA Education Exhibits RSNA Case Collection Vol. 15, No. 5 Metrics Altmetric Score PDF download

The effects of several different depths of funnels on the collection of rainfall

In accord with a re que st by Dr. Kimball dated December 4 , 1929, for suggestions as to what the United States delegation to the Stockholm meeting should contribute to the discussion of Resolution No. 5, Messrs. Hayes, Kadel, and Fergusson made the following statement:“In specifications for a standardized rain‐gage particular attention should be given to the depth of upper flange of funnel, and the shape and slope of funnel, to prevent outsplashing; and to the minimum diameter of funnel; also that there be provided a narrow‐mouthed container for collected water, to minimize looses by evaporation.”

First American World's Dairy Congress a Success

The World's Dairy Congress which was held in Washington October 2 and 3, Philadelphia October 4, and Syracuse October 5 to 10, 1923, was attended by 231 delegates from 43 foreign countries, together with 1590 registered American delegates from 47 states and the District of Cob,mbia, only one state not being represented; a total of 1821 registered delegates. Doubtless there were individuals who attended one or more of the 27 section meetings without registering. Canada led with i00 delegates, England 22, Switzerland 12, Scotland 10, while the remaining 39 countries had from 1 to 9 each. Japan, Argentina, South Africa, and Russia are suggestive of the distant countries represented. Of the United States delegation, New York State led with 313, Pennsylvania followed with 175, Illinois 133, District of Columbia 106, and in decreasing numbers down through the entire list of states. The program listed 256 papers to be delivered at the 27 section meetings. Of these, 240 papers, including every phase of dairy science, practice and utilization were presented, 115 of these papers were contributed by foreign authors and were, with few exceptions, delivered in person by the author. Indications are that the printed proceedings of the Congress will consist of two volumes of approximately 900 pages. The editorial work is practically completed. The volumes will be pubfished by the United States Department of Agriculture, and persons not registered as delegates or members of the Congress will doubtless be able to secure the proceedings in the same manner as other government publications, to the extent that they are available. Requests should be addressed to the