Overseas Information Programs of the United States: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Eighty-second Congress, Second Session, on Overseas Information Programs of the Unioted States. November 20 and 21, 1952, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1953 - United States |
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Page 630 - ... (a) The encouragement and development of an air transportation system properly adapted to the present and future needs of the foreign and domestic commerce of the United States, of the Postal Service, and of the national defense...
Page 484 - States to promote a better understanding of the United States in other countries, and to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.
Page 232 - PRINCIPLES 1. No picture shall be produced which will lower the moral standards of those who see it. Hence the sympathy of the audience . shall never be thrown to the side of crime, wrong-doing, evil or ' sin. 2. Correct standards of life, subject only to the requirements of drama and entertainment, shall be presented. 3. Law, natural or human, shall not be ridiculed, nor shall / sympathy be created for its violation.
Page 232 - Motion picture producers recognize the high trust and confidence which have been placed in them by the people of the world and which have made motion pictures a universal form of entertainment. They recognize their responsibility to the public because of this trust and because entertainment and art are important influences in the life of a nation.
Page 484 - In achieving these objectives are— (1) an Information service to disseminate abroad information about the United States, Its people, and policies promulgated by the Congress, the President, the Secretary of State and other responsible officials of Government having to do with matters affecting foreign affairs...
Page 630 - The regulation of air transportation in such manner as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of, assure the highest degree of safety in, and foster sound economic conditions in, such transportation, and to improve the relations between, and coordinate transportation by, air carriers...
Page 484 - Secretary is authorized, when he finds it appropriate, to provide for the preparation, and dissemination abroad, of information about the United States, its people, and its policies, through press, publications, radio, motion pictures, and other information media, and through information centers and instructors abroad.
Page 257 - My very expert and experienced advisers at the Home Office are of the opinion that on the whole the cinema conduces more to the prevention of crime than to its commission. It keeps the boys out of mischief ; it gives them something to think about.
Page 583 - I firmly believe that educational exchange programs are an important step toward world peace. Because of failures in human relationships, my generation has suffered through two world wars. The threat of another will not be removed until the peoples of the world come to know each other better ; until they understand each other's problems, needs and hopes. Exchange of persons programs can contribute immeasurably to such understanding.
Page 259 - Hence, though regarding motion pictures primarily as entertainment without any explicit purpose of teaching or propaganda, they know that the motion picture within its own field of entertainment may be directly responsible for spiritual or moral progress, for higher types of social life, and for much correct thinking.