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FACTS TO A CANDID WORLD: America's Overseas Information Program
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FACTS TO A CANDID WORLD
America’s Overseas Information Program
Oren Stephens
Published in 1955. Essential to the security and well-being of a nation is the good opinion of other nations.
The molding of international public opinion by propaganda is a vital function of government and one that should be understood by every citizen whom government serves. In, Facts to a Candid World, Oren Stephens, who has broad theoretical background and working experience in journalism and public relations, discusses propaganda - what it is, why it is important, and how t o make it internationally effective.
As the author points out: "As public opinion is ultimately decisive within a state or empire, so is it ultimately decisive in the international arena."
The first part of the book describes the power and nature of public opinion. The second part discusses America's overseas program, showing its weaknesses and strengths. Beginning with the Creel Committee, Stephens describes the work of the Office of War Information, the Voice of America, the International Information Administration, the United States Information Agency, and other official agencies.
A pioneer study in the field of psychological warfare, Facts to a Candid World, is an analysis of the nature of propaganda, a credo for the specialist, and an explanation for the citizen.
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Title: Facts to a Candid World
Author: Oren Stephens
Publisher: Stanford University Press 1955
ISBN: 0804761728
International Arms Control: Issues and Agreements
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This is a reproduction edition from the 1976 publication.
This is an exhaustive analysis of national and international arms control: its history, philosophy, cultural context, technology, economic and political ramifications, achievements, and future prospects. The book reflects the combined contributions of the Stanford Arms Control Group, an interdisciplinary group of nearly twenty faculty members who have been jointly teaching an undergraduate arms control course at Stanford University since 1971.
The book will assist the general reader in understanding and forming intelligent opinions on such issues as the role of doctrine in military strategy, the difficulties posed by rapidly changing technology, and the value limitations of arms control as a way to prevent war. It is also designed as supplementary reading for courses in international relations, diplomatic history, and foreign policy.
An appendix contains the text of eighteen major arms control agreements. The volume concludes with discussion questions and suggestions for further reading.
John H. Barton is Professor of Law at Stanford University. Lawrence D. Weiler is
Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Stanford University.
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Title International Arms Control: Issues and Agreements
Authors Stanford Arms Control Group, John H. Barton, Lawrence D. Weiler
Editors John H. Barton, Lawrence D. Weiler
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1976
ISBN 0804709211, 9780804709217
Length 444 pages
The Stanford Arms Control Group:
John H. Barton, Richard Brody, Gordon A. Craig, Alexander Dallin, Sidney D. Drell, Donald Dunn, Thomas Ehrlich, Alexander L. George, Joshua Lederberg, John W. Lewis, Robert D. North, Wolfgang Panofsky, Peter Paret, Henry Rowen, Jan Triska, Lawrence D. Weiler, Franklin B. Weinstein
Invited Participants in the Review Conference at Stanford, August 1974:
Anne Cahn, Steven Canby, Albert Carnesale, Harold Feiveson, Leslie Fishbone, Ralph Goldman, James Gustin, Roman Kolkowicz, Joseph Kruzel, George Quester, Eric Stein, Samuel Williamson
Contents
Introduction 1
Arms Control: Cultural Context and Motivations 9
Modern Disarmament Efforts Before World War II 31
The Changing Nature of Strategic Weapons 46
An Overview of the Negotiations Since World War II 66
Agreements and Treaties Other than SALT and the NPT 94
Strategic Doctrine 123
The Institutions of Arms Control 151
The Negotiation of SALT I 172
SALT, 1972-1975 208
The Economics of Arms and Arms Control 228
Regional Arms Control: The European Example 249
Control of Conventional Arms 271
Control of Nuclear Proliferation 288
Towards an Evaluation of Arms Control: Unanswered Questions 310
Appendixes 323
Discussion Questions 419
Suggested Further Readings 425
THE UNITED STATES AND THE FAR EAST, 1945-1951
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Europe-or Asia? This was the crux of the great debate on American foreign policy precipitated by General MacArthur's return to the United States in April 1951.
MacArthur raised the issue: should we sacrifice the European coalition and go it alone in the Far East?
In The United States and the Far East, 1945-1951, Harold M. Vinacke tells how this country became involved in the affairs of postwar Asia. He describes, too, the dilemma of American policy-makers in that area. Abroad, our Administration was suspected of seeking to overthrow the Communist regime in China and restore the Nationalist regime; at home, the Administration was charged with seeking to overthrow the Nationalists and deal with the Communists.
In this careful, balanced account Dr. Vinacke tells how the containment policy has been developed and applied in China, Japan, southeast Asia, India, and Korea. He shows the difficulties of fostering independence and economic betterment in Asian countries without courting the charge of imperialism.
He explains how Japan, rather than China, has become an anchor of our defense system, and discusses the risks of bringing into play the Sino-Russian alliance by attacking the Chinese Communists from bases in Japan.
This book was originally prepared as a data paper for the Eleventh International Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations, held in India in October, 1950. It has since been revised and a chapter has been added carrying the story through the summer of 1951 and discussing the issues raised by Communist China's intervention in the Korean war.
Neither a defense of the Administration's record nor an attack upon it, Dr. Vinacke's book is at once a concise account and a penetrating analysis of the main events and issues in our recent Far Eastern policy. It is published to help thoughtful citizens appraise grave issues which confront this country in its position of world leadership.
At the time of publication in 1951, Harold M. Vinacke, was Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati, and one of America's leading authorities on the Far East and its relations with the United States. He taught at Nankai University, Tientsin, and during World War II he was a specialist on Japan for the Office of War Information. He is the author of A History of the Far East in Modern Times and other books.
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Title: THE UNITED STATES AND THE FAR EAST, 1945-1951
Author: Harold M. Vinacke
Publisher: Stanford University Press 1951
ISBN 080473528X
The Emerging States of French Equatorial Africa
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This is the first book in English dealing with the vast area of French Equatorial Africa, out of which have now been created the four autonomous republics, of Gabon, Tchad, Central Africa, and the Congo. The authors' emphasis is primarily on the current problems and recent history of the four new republics.
Not the least of these problems is the political ferment in the surrounding territories. The two northern republics, Tchad and Central African Republic, are adjacent to the Arab League countries of Sudan and Libya. Along the western flanks of Tchad, Gabon, and the Central African Republic are the former trust territory of Cameroun, now in a state of unrest; the republic of Niger, which may unite with the Ivory Coast and Volta republics; and Nigeria. In the south, the Congo Republic will inevitably be deeply affected by the profound changes taking place in the Belgian Congo.
In Part I the authors examine the former federation of states and analyze its administrative practices, civil and judicial institutions, political organizations, rural economy, industry and labor, communications, and welfare. Part II studies the political and economic development of the territories and the emergence of the four republics.
Uncertainty surrounds the future of all these new republics. The principal question is in regard to the shape that their former unity will take, should it survive. The present leaders of the four republics have refused to re-create a strong federal executive, but they have agreed to maintain a loose form of economic and technical cooperation, as well as some of the established cultural and judicial institutions. It remains to be seen whether this trend to cooperation will be strong enough to counteract the older, centrifugal forces of disunity.
Virginia Thompson and Richard Adloff are the authors of French West Africa (Stanford, 1958), and several other books.
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Title The emerging states of French Equatorial Africa
Authors Virginia McLean Thompson, Richard Adloff
Edition 2, illustrated
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1960
ISBN 0804700516, 9780804700511
Length 595 pages
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Mall and Memorial
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World War II Memorial in Washington, DC with the Washington monument in the background
WWII seal
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World War II Memorial in Washington, DC
An Atlantic to Remember
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World War II Memorial in Washington, DC
Rosie The Riveter: Gun Show!
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Square version of a parody design based on the famous public domain WWII poster "Rosie The Riveter" by J. Howard Miller. Image: Rosie The Riveter Text: Gun Show!
Guerrilla Daughter
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The experiences of an American family in the Philippines during World War II
Just nine days before her seventh birthday, Virginia Hansen Holmes heard about the attack on American forces at Pearl Harbor and wondered if this was going to change her life. She lived on the Philippine Island of Mindanao with her two teenage brothers, eleven-year-old sister, mother, and father, an official with the East Mindanao Mining Company.
Guerrilla Daughter is a memoir of this family’s extraordinary struggle to survive the Japanese occupation of Mindanao from the spring of 1942 until the end of the war in September 1945. The men in the family fought as guerrilla soldiers in the island’s resistance movement, while Holmes, her mother, and her older sister were left to their own resources to evade the Japanese, who had been given orders to execute Americans. The Hansen women, faced with immediate death if found and suffering from hunger, disease, and barely tolerable living conditions, hid out in the Philippine jungle and remote villages to remain just ahead of the growing Japanese presence and avoid capture.
Using original documents and papers belonging to her father, as well as her own vivid recollections and the reminiscences of her siblings, Virginia Hansen Holmes presents this gripping and compelling account of extraordinary survival.
Virginia Hansen Holmes graduated from the Colegio de Jesus-Maria in the Philippines when the war ended and came to the United States in 1954. After her marriage to Kent Holmes in 1958, several of his foreign assignments with the U.S. government took them back to the Philippines. They now live in Virginia.
Micronesia, August 05
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Secret Armies: The New Techniques of Nazi Warfare
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Spivak reviews the period 1937 to 1939 when the Nazis were able to obtain all of their desires for expansion (Austria, Czechoslovakia, the Ruhr, etc.) without having to fight. They used negotiation, intimidation and their foreign agents to influence foreign policy in Britain and other major foreign powers. They also used the influence of the wealthy, whose fear of communism led them to favor the development of fascist countries. The author warns about similar techniques being used within the United States-- to keep us out of the war and to weaken us in the event of war. To me, the story was enlightening and plausible. Most other histories I've seen of this period gloss over the details, so I enjoyed reading it. It is one man's view of the coming debacle and must have been enlightening to some people during the period before America entered the war.This is a reproduction copy from a scanned edition, please review the online preview to see that it meets your expectations.
I Want You
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Uncle Sam needs you.
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