U.S.A. INFORMATION SERVICES WILL BE CURTAILED
(Rec. 10.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 11. The State Department will eliminate its information and cultural activities in at least nine countries, including New Zealand, as the result of Congressional appropriation cuts. Other countries affected are Australia, Canada, South Africa, Portugal, Malaya, Dominica, Republic of Salvador, and Honduras. Operation, however, will be maintained or slightly increased in “ critical ureas,” including Russia and its satellites and some regions of the Far Fast, especially Greece The services will be curtailed in Belgium, Czeclio-Slovakia. Denmark, Britain, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland. Some 1,700 employees throughout the world will be dismissed as a result of these curtailments
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Evening Star, Issue 26151, 12 July 1947, Page 7
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