U.S. INFORMATION SERVICE IN N.Z. TO BE ELIMINATED
(Rec. 10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 11. The State Department will eliminate its information and cultural activities in at least nine countries, including New Zealand, as a result of Congressional appropriation cuts. Other countries affected are Australia, Canada, South Africa, Portugal, Malaya, the Dominica Republic, El Salvador and the Honduras. Operation, however, will be maintained or slightly increased in “critical areas,” including Russia and its satellites and in some regions of the Far East, especially Greece.
The services will be curtailed in Britain, Finland, Iceland,. Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. Seventeen hundred employees throughout the world will be dismissed as a result of these curtailments. ’■ _ "
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 July 1947, Page 5
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