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Records of the U.S. Information Agency. 1900 - 2003. Correspondence Files with Latin American United States Information Service Posts

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Records of the U.S. Information Agency. 1900 - 2003. Correspondence Files with Latin American United States Information Service Posts

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This series consists of telegrams, despatches, clippings, memorandums, pamphlets, and correspondence between Latin American US Information Service (USIS) posts and the Press and Publications Service. Also included in the despatches are translated speeches, interviews and articles. The records were maintained by the Press and Publications Service. A few documents are in Spanish. Subjects covered include communism, distribution of materials to the local press, labor, agriculture, the annual dinner of ex-residents in Paraguay, distribution of food aid packages, the Atoms for Peace program, nuclear energy, libraries, exhibitions, petroleum, sports, elections, education, technical assistance programs, the Salk vaccine, US aid, square dancing, and freedom of the press. Other topics covered include reactions in the press to international agreements; international conferences; local news; international events; requests to produce, reproduce, translate and distribute articles, pamphlets, government publications, biographies, Christmas cards and photographs; and USIS press operations and organization. Also covered are the visits of the US Society of Editors and Commentators Group to Buenos Aires, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, and Santiago; press coverage of the visits of the Secretary of State, Vice President Richard Nixon, the US Navy, and other US government officials; the International Cooperation Administration (ICA) grantees teams on textiles, civil engineering, and silver industry. Some of the people mentioned include Henry Finch Holland, John Foster Dulles, President Dwight Eisenhower, Vice President Richard Nixon, Johnny Wood (Racecar Driver), Josephine Baker, Juan Domingo Perón, Sylvana Pampanini, Princess Margaret Rose, Francisco Jose Croquer, Milton Eisenhower, Ricardo Marin, Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz, Oswaldo Guayasamin, Emilia Correa Lima, Jorge Delano (Coke), foreign political leaders, and foreign journalists. Some of the international conferences, congresses, fairs, and events included are the Festival of Youth at Guatemala City, the Festival of Students at Santiago, the Communist sponsored Conference of Latin American Women in Rio de Janeiro, the Economic Commission for Latin America in Bogota, the New Orleans Investment Conference, the Big Four Conference, the Geneva Conference, the Atoms for Peace Conference, the Dominican Republic's International Fair for Peace and Brotherhood of the Free World, the First Cuban Congress on Petroleum, independence day celebrations, UN Human Rights Day, the World Youth Festival, the South American Youth Festival in Sao Paulo, and the Communist sponsored International Meeting of Journalists. Also included are pamphlets "Communism versus Progress in Guatemala" by Theodore Geiger (file "[1955 US Information Service Guatemala City]") and "Unidos no Caminho do Progresso" (file "[1956 US Information Service Rio de Janeiro]").