Federal Government: State, 1962
Scope and Contents
A large collection of letters, reprints, news clippings, reports, telegrams, memorandum, memos, an accident diagram of a death in Italy, a copy of Awake!, brochures & other items. Examples are: letters (Apr, July & Aug. 1962) from constituent Dr. James I. Knott (Alvarado Medical Center), Congressman Wilson, Frederick G. Dutton (Assist. Secretary, Dept. of State) & attached copy of Dr. Knott's "The Baja California Peninsula – A Mexican-American Commonwealth" & "A Reprint From The April, 1962 Bulletin of the San Diego County Medical Society re/ promotion using Alliance for Progress program; letters (Aug. 1961-Feb. 1962) from constituent Mrs. Malcolm Mercer, Congressman Wilson, Brooks Hays (Assist. Secretary, State Dept.) & Frederick G. Dutton (Assist. Secretary, State Dept.) re/ questions raised in the book A Nation of Sheep; letters (July & Aug. 1962) & attached copy of a letter to the editor, The San Diego Union (7/30/62) re/ foreign aid to Iran between 1956 and 1960 and excess profits to the Development and Resources Corporation from U.S. foreign aid money; letters (July-Aug. 1962) from constituent Edmund Burke, Wilson, John L. Salter (Assist. Administrator, A.I.D. Congressional Liaison) and a copy of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Washington Report (Vol. I, No. 29, July 20, 1962) re/ the Chamber's promotion of tax cuts, reduced government expenditures generating inflationary pressures, & criticism of Kennedy's Alliance for Progress for "training South American union officials in our country;" telegram and letters (Aug.-Sept. 1962) from La Mesa constituent A. F. McClellan, Wilson & Frederick G. Dutton (Assist. Secretary, Dept. of State) re/ recent visit of Stanislaw Kuzinki (member of the Polish Parliament) to the United States; letters (Aug.-Sept. 1962) from constituent Earl Patrick, Wilson & Frederick G. Dutton (Assist. Sec., Dept. of State) re/ a response to Mr. Patrick's questions concerning Algeria and Brazil after reading A Nation of Sheep; a letter (9/19/62) from Frederick Dutton (Dept. of State) to Congressman Wilson responding to a constituent's question about Atkinson Field in British Guiana – "a wartime United States base and was obtained as part of the 1941 'bases for destroyers' exchange between the United States and Great Britain;" other issues and topics of concern in this folder are: fears about a counterinsurgency training program in the foreign office; newspaper story and constituent concerns about visiting Tijuana and false arrests; "inquiry concerning the alleged arrival of a North Korean Admiral to the United States;" October Dept. of State Memorandum on briefings on the Cuban situation; State Dept. responses to a constituent concerns about a daughter and son-in-law working in Afghanistan for A.I.D.; rumors about Cuban-based bombers flying over the Southwestern part of the United States; response to constituent inquiry about restrictions on the travel of juveniles to Mexico; fears about U.S. assistance to India and communist influence; responses of Wilson and State Dept. to constituents' inquiry regarding their son's death in an accident in Italy; constituent concerns about how "Spain Suppresses Religious Freedom" (Awake, Apr. 8, 1962); material regarding "Research Study Tour for George W. Bergstrom, Jr., Center For Cultural And Technical Interchange Between East and West;" State Dept. responses to constituent queries regarding UNICEF funds, UN Operation in the Congo and "unspent cash" in UN agencies; Ukrainian-American constituent concerns about "captive nations" in the Soviet Union; constituent concerns and State Dept. responses regarding USIS program in Columbia and Latin America; constituent critical view of aid programs abroad and of the Kennedy Administration by Wilson.
Dates
- created: 1962
Creator
- From the Collection: Wilson, Robert (Wilson, Robert Carlton) (1916-) (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
From the Collection: 0.00 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
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