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The U.S. Government and the future of international medical research : hearings before the Subcommittee on Reorganization and International Organizations of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, eighty-sixth congress, first session ; international health study (pursuant to S. Res. 347, 85th Cong., S. Res. 42, and S. Res. 255, 86th Cong.) July 9 and 16, 1959.

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations

Date:: 1960-61

Credit: The U.S. Government and the future of international medical research : hearings before the Subcommittee on Reorganization and International Organizations of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, eighty-sixth congress, first session ; international health study (pursuant to S. Res. 347, 85th Cong., S. Res. 42, and S. Res. 255, 86th Cong.) July 9 and 16, 1959. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Therefore, I drafted Senate Resolution 347, 85th Congress, and introduced it. It was unanimously approved by the Committee on Government Operations, by the Committee on Rules, and thereafter by the full Senate. I asked Mr. Cahn to come with our committee and to head up the staff for this particular study within the Subcom- mittee on Reorganization and International Organizations. | ; This then is part of the legislative side of the chronology involving international health. But the executive branch has played an impor- tant role, as well as regards both authority and expenditures. Accord- ingly, we have assembled a series of quotations from the official actions taken by both branches of Government. I shall ask that this chro- nology be printed at this point in the record. It will provide very helpful background, I believe, on the series of actions before, during, and after the 10th anniversary meeting of WHO in Minneapolis last year which I was privileged to attend as a delegate. CHRONOLOGY OF OFFICIAL STATEMENTS ON COOPERATION IN WORLD MEDICAL RESEARCH Excerets FROM ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT DwicHt D. HISENHOWER ON THE STATE OF THE UNION, BEFORE JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS, JANUARY 9, 1958 [From the Congressional Record, Jan. 9, pp. 171 ff.] WORKS OF PEACE My last call for action is not primarily addressed to the Congress and people of the United States. Rather, it is a message from the people of the United States to all other peoples, especially those of the Soviet Union. This is the spirit of what we Americans would like to say: “In the last analysis, there is only one solution to the grim problems that lie ahead. The world must stop the present plunge toward more and more destruc- tive weapons of war, and turn the corner that will start our steps firmly on the path toward lasting peace. “Our greatest hope for success lies in a universal fact : The people of the world, as people, have always wanted peace and want peace now. “The problem, then, is to find a way of translating this universal desire into action. “This will require more than words of peace. It requires works of peace.” Now, may I try to give you some concrete examples of the kind of works of peace that might make a beginning in the new direction. For a start our people should learn to know each other better. Recent nego- tiations in Washington have provided a basis in principle for greater freedom of communication and exchange of people. I urge the Soviet Government to cooperate in turning principle into practice by prompt and tangible actions that will break down the unnatural barriers that have blocked the flow of thought and understanding between our peoples. Another kind of work of peace is cooperation on projects of human welfare. For example, we now have it within our power to eradicate from the face of the earth that age-old scourge of mankind: Malaria. We are embarking with other nations in an all-out 5-year campaign to blot out this curse forever. We invite the Soviets to join with us in this great work of humanity. Indeed, we would be willing to pool our efforts with the Soviets in other cam- paigns against the diseases that are the common enemy of all mortals—such as cancer and heart disease. If people can get together on such projects, is it not possible that we could then go on to a full-scale cooperative program of science for peace? A program of science for peace might provide a means of funneling into one place the results of research from scientists everywhere and from there making it available to all parts of the world. There is almost no limit to the human betterment that could result from such cooperation. Hunger and disease could increasingly be driven from the earth. ie dream of a good life for all could, at long last, be translated into reality.

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