Box 16
Contains 9 Results:
State Department-foreign affairs-Cuba-invasion, 1961-1962
Correspondence concerning Representative Rivers' planned proposal to recommend to the Houses of Representatives that the United States should invade Cuba and that the United Nations should sanction the invasion to eliminate the Communist threat.
State Department-foreign affairs-Dominican Republic, 1958-1959
Correspondence primarily concerning support by the Dominican Government of Representative Rivers' speech condemning Fidel Castro and the Communist takeover of Cuba.
State Department-foreign affairs-Europe, 1959-1961
Correspondence concerning Europe including Communist rule in Poland and Hungary, aid for the people of Sevilla, Spain, terrorism in Portuguese West Africa, a press conference held by President de Gaulle in Paris, a farewell speech by the United States Ambassador to Spain, and the Soviet occupation of Germany.
State Department-foreign affairs-Germany, 1958-1962
Correspondence and printed material concerning an ultimatum issued by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev for the Western powers to withdraw from West Berlin. Eventually this crisis would result in the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961.
State Department-foreign affairs-India, 1962
Correspondence concerning United States aid for India. Rivers "violently opposed" aid to India because of their record of opposition to the United States' actions at the United Nations.
State Department-foreign affairs-Middle East, 1958
Correspondence and printed material concerning the United States' involvement in the Middle East. Including the landing of troops in Lebanon and the Iraqi Revolution.
State Department-foreign affairs-Panama, 1959
Correspondence concerning United States retention of the Panama Canal.
State Department-foreign affairs-Portugal, 1962
Correspondence primarily concerning Portugal's West African province in Angola.
State Department-foreign affairs-South America, 1962
Correspondence primarily concerning the Government of Peru.