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Box 16

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Contains 9 Results:

State Department-foreign affairs-Cuba-invasion, 1961-1962

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 1-3
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1961-1962

State Department-foreign affairs-Dominican Republic, 1958-1959

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Correspondence primarily concerning support by the Dominican Government of Representative Rivers' speech condemning Fidel Castro and the Communist takeover of Cuba.

Dates: 1958-1959

State Department-foreign affairs-Europe, 1959-1961

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1959-1961

State Department-foreign affairs-Germany, 1958-1962

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 6-8
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1958-1962

State Department-foreign affairs-India, 1962

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1962

State Department-foreign affairs-Middle East, 1958

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and printed material concerning the United States' involvement in the Middle East. Including the landing of troops in Lebanon and the Iraqi Revolution.

Dates: 1958

State Department-foreign affairs-Panama, 1959

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Correspondence concerning United States retention of the Panama Canal.

Dates: 1959

State Department-foreign affairs-Portugal, 1962

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Correspondence primarily concerning Portugal's West African province in Angola.

Dates: 1962

State Department-foreign affairs-South America, 1962

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

Correspondence primarily concerning the Government of Peru.

Dates: 1962