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Road to Peace: From the Disarming of the Great Lakes to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
From War to Peace: The Story of Great Britain and the United States
Nuclear Weapons: Documents, Video and Audio CD-ROMs: A Study Supplement for the book Nuclear Weapons
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Food Aid: World War II Through the Marshall Plan
Read a page from a 1945 report by the U.S. military government in Austria which discusses the reopening of schools in Vienna and the importance of school lunches
Read a page from a 1945 report by the U.S. military government in Austria which discusses school feeding in post-war reconstruction
Read a page from a January, 1946 report by the U.S. military government in Austria which discusses school feeding in post-war reconstruction
Read another page from the January, 1946 report by the U.S. military government in Austria which discusses school feeding in post-war reconstruction
Click here to view a page from the July, 1946 report of the U.S. military government in Austria
Click here to view another page from the July, 1946 report of the U.S. military government in Austria
Click here to view pages from a U.S. military government report on UNRRA school feeding in Austria (title page is upside down).
Read pages from a 1947 report by the U.S. military government in Austria which discusses relief activities including school feeding by the National Catholic Welfare Conference-War Relief Services (known today as Catholic Relief Services)
Read pages from a 1948 report by the U.S. military government in Austria which discusses food and reconstruction.
Read more pages from a 1948 report by the U.S. military government in Austria which discusses food and reconstruction.
Read a page from the May, 1948 report by the U.S. military government in Austria which discusses school feeding in post-war reconstruction
Click here to hear Herbert Hoover report on world hunger on May 17, 1946. Hoover served as a food ambassador to over 30 countries on behalf of President Truman in 1946
Click here to read an article from the Cincinnati Post just days after Hoover's address. The article is about a food collection drive to help Europe and a very generous donation. (May 21, 1946 article courtesy of the Cincinnati Public Library)
Click here to read from Herbert Hoover's 1947 report to Harry Truman where he emphasizes starting a school lunch program to fight child hunger in Germany
George Marshall's statement about hunger in Europe and the Citizen's Food Committee (October 1st, 1947)
Listen to Secretary of State George C. Marshall discuss hunger in Europe on October 5, 1947. A harsh winter and severe droughts in 1947 caused food shortages and threatened the post-war recovery. (courtesy Truman Library and WTOP)
Click here to view a page from a 1948 report on the U.S. Interim Aid program which preceded the Marshall Plan. This page shows agricultural aid to Austria.
Click here to view two more pages from the 1948 report on the U.S. Interim Aid program which preceded the Marshall Plan. Page 2 contains information about President Truman's Cabinet Committee on World Food Programs.
Click here to view additional pages from the 1948 report on the U.S. Interim Aid program which preceded the Marshall Plan.
Click here to view an article about a UNRRA clothing drive in the Cincinnati Enquirer on January 20, 1946.
Click here to view an article about a Save the Children clothing drive in the Cincinnati Enquirer during November, 1945.
Listen to General Eisenhower in a speech about child hunger on July 8, 1948
President Eisenhower talks about food for East Germany after the 1953 riots against Soviet and Communist domination. Harold Stassen, one of Ike’s assistants during the crisis, wrote: "The East Germans remembered who fed them when they starved and remain grateful to this day … the window of freedom those millions of East Germans glimpsed during this period, and their brutalization by the Soviet oppressors, laid the foundations for the political events of 1989. The whole world can thank Dwight Eisenhower for reaching out to feed the hungry Germans."
Listen to President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan discuss hunger and poverty on August 31, 1959
Listen to President Eisenhower's speech in India on December 11, 1959 discussing Food for Peace
Listen to President Eisenhower's Food for Peace speech on September 1st, 1960
In "The Road to Peace" read about President Eisenhower and President Kennedy’s pursuit of a nuclear test ban treaty, a first step in nuclear arms control with the Soviet Union. The attempt to control nuclear weaponry came at a time when the Soviet Union and the United States were engaged in the Cold War. Tensions were running high. Click here to listen to President Eisenhower discuss the nuclear arms race on October 8, 1953. (courtesy Eisenhower Library)
A lesser-known arms control measure is also discussed in the book, how the Soviet Union and the United States actually agreed to ban nuclear weapons from at least one part of the globe in 1959. Also read how a diplomat from Mexico led the struggle to create a nuclear weapons free zone in Latin America in the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
"The Road to Peace" includes the struggles between America and Britain over the Great Lakes and the Oregon territory. The now peaceful border of the United States and Canada did not come about easily. Read about diplomatic initiatives after World War I when the great hope of mankind was an end to warfare. Also, there is a concluding section on the INF and Open Skies treaties.
Featured in "The Road to Peace" are notable peace efforts by extraordinary statesmen who served in government here and abroad from 1812 to the 20th century. Lessons of diplomacy and cooperation between countries are applicable to today's conflicts.
Click here to listen to President Franklin D. Roosevelt talk about the undefended border between the United States and Canada during a speech at Chautauqua, New York on August 14, 1936. (Courtesy Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum)
Click here to learn more about Open Skies for Peace, and to listen to President Eisenhower discuss his "Open Skies" proposal.
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The Road to Peace: From the Disarming of the Great Lakes to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
At a press conference President Eisenhower stated, "the concept of atomic war is too horrible for man to endure and to practice, and he must find some way out of it."
Open Skies for Peace
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