Box 14

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Correspondence concerning the United States Post Department including the construction of an additional mail-handling facility in North Charleston, the construction of an airport mail facility in Charleston advance airmail arriving from the Military Air Transport Service (MATS), appointments to postal positions, the discontinuance of highway post office service between Charleston, South Carolina, and Augusta, Georgia, the female-male ratio at post offices, and bulk mail distribution.

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Correspondence primarily concerning Katanga, a state that proclaimed its independence from the Republic of Congo in 1960. Rivers included an editorial from The Charleston News and Courier, titled "The Betrayal in Katanga," concerning the intervention of the United Nations and the spread of Communism in Africa in the Appendix of The Congressional Record.

Scope and Contents Copies of printed material and informational pamphlets concerning Asia including international recognition of Communist China, the renaming of the Olympic Committee of National China, text of a speech delivered by the Ambassador of India to the Conference on India and the United States, a copy of a booklet entitled As Driven Sands: the Arab Refugees, a release from the Embassy of the Republic of Iraq, and the remarks of Senator Thomas J. Dodd on the Floor of...

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A large amount of booklets, pamphlets, and a photograph concerning the visit of President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan to Washington, D.C., a newspaper article concerning Laos, a letter and article concerning the spread of Communism in Vietnam, a booklet entitled Invasion of American Rights on the Part of Arab League of Nations, and a booklet entitled Success Story concerning the Philippines.

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Correspondence concerning an investigation of the State Department's activities in Laos and the possibility of sending American combat forces into Southeast Asia.

Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning the Caribbean including a statement included in The Congressional Record. concerning The New York Times' support of Fidel Castro, a United States VISA for Cuban ex-President Fulgencio Batista, a copy of the July 1959 report from the Caribbean Anti-Communist Research and Intelligence Bureau, and a booklet entitled Birth and Growth of Anti-Trujillism in America...

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Speeches delivered by Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Ambassador to the Republic of China and correspondence concerning a request by the Chinese Nationalist Government to recoup losses sustained when the four ships they purchased from the United States Maritime Commission in 1946 were repossessed by the United States Government in 1950.

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Correspondence primarily concerning the admission of Communist China into the United Nations.

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Correspondence concerning the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cuban blockade placed by the United States. Representative Rivers advocated a United States led invasion and occupation of the island.