Title: Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Historical Series)
Description: Contains transcripts of certain Senate Foreign Relations Committee executive session hearings and minutes of Senate Foreign Relations Committee executive sessions held from Jan. 9 through July 28, 1956. Transcribed hearings are. a. Briefing on 1955 Geneva Summit Conference between President Dwight D. Eisenhower, British Prime Minister Anthony Eden, French Premier Edgar Faure, Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Bulganin, and Soviet Communist Party Secretary Nikita S. Krushchev. Jan. 6, 1956. p. 1-34. Includes discussions of reunification of Germany, European security, disarmament, and improvement of East-West relations. Also includes discussion of U.S. foreign policy regarding India, Yugoslavia, Spain, and the Middle East. b. Aswan Dam aid proposal. Jan. 10, 17, 1956. p. 37-72. c. Arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Feb. 27, 1956. p. 79-118. Includes discussions of Israeli versus Arab military strength and of Middle East arms sales by the Soviet Union. d. Briefing on U.S. nuclear disarmament proposals for UN Disarmament Subcommittee meeting. Mar. 2, 1956. p. 121-147. e. Briefing on Asian affairs. MAr. 23, 1956. p. 149-168. Includes discussion of SEATO Council meeting. f. Mutual Security Act of 1956. Apr. 13, May 8, 9, 15, 17, 22, June 13-15, 26, 1956. p. 173-196, 199-248, 251-287, 289-296, 303-494, 501-531. Restores deletions made to published hearings on FY57 foreign aid and mutual security program authorizations. Also includes discussion of Nikita S. Khrushchev's speech denouncing Stalinism at the 20th Soviet Communist Party Congress and committee mark-up sessions. g. Economic and military aid programs to Yugoslavia. June 20, 1956. p. 497-500. h. Saudi Arabian prohibitions against stationing of American Jewish servicemen at Dhahran AFB and other US military facilities. July 20, 23-25, 1956. p. 537-602. i. Briefing on Hungarian revolution and Suez Canal crisis. Nov. 12, 1956. p. 605-660.

Considers (84) H.R. 11356, (84) S. 4001, (84) S. Res. 298.
Subjects: Foreign relations, Diplomatic relations
Places: United States
Time periods: 1953-1961