Whaley, Randall M., chancellor, University of Missouri, American Council on Education, Association of American Colleges, and the National Association of State Universities & Land-Grant Colleges. - - MATERIAL SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD Air Transport Association of America, Leo Seybold, vice president, Federal American Book Publishers Council, Inc., and American Textbook Pub- lishers Institute, Robert W. Frase, director, joint Washington office, letter dated June 7, 1966, to Leo H. Irwin, chief counsel, Committee on Ways and Means, enclosing analysis of the export-import balance on books, entitled "The Manufacturing Clause The Economic Case American Council of Learned Societies, Frederick Burkhardt, president, letter dated June 2, 1966, to Chairman Mills____ American Library Association, Verner W. Clapp, resolution by American Textbook Publishers Institute, and American Book Publishers Council, Inc., Robert W. Frase, director, joint Washington office, letter dated June 7, 1966, to Leo H. Irwin, chief counsel, Committee on Ways and Means, enclosing analysis of the export-import balance on books, entitled "The Manufacturing Clause The Economic Case for Repeal"- Anderson, Thomas F., senior member and professor of biophysics, Univer- 252 256 257 Association of American University Presses, Inc., Chester Kerr, president, 230 Authors League of America, Inc., Irwin Karp, counsel, letter dated June 9, 252 Burkhardt, Frederick, president, American Council of Learned Societies, 251 Canadian Embassy, aide memoire, with covering letter dated June 2, 1966, 242 98 256 258 Curtis, Hon. Thomas B., a Representative in Congress from the State of Dunn, Donald M., director, E. Leitz, Inc., supplemental statement re- garding what other signatory countries are doing in the way of legislation implementing the Florence Agreement and their procedures thereunder.. Feist, Leonard, Music Publishers' Committee on Federal Relations, National Music Council resolution on the Florence Agreement Fidler, William P., general secretary, American Association of University Professors, letter dated June 6, 1966, to Chairman Mills__. Frase, Robert W., director, joint Washington office, American Book Pub- Institute for Cancer Research, Thomas F. Anderson, senior Member and Professor of biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, letter dated June 10, 231 198 110 243 Kaminstein, Abraham L., Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, 59 Karp, Irwin, counsel, Authors League of America, Inc., letter dated June 9, 252 Kerr, Chester, president, Association of American University Presses, Inc., Leitz, E., Inc., Donald M. Dunn, director, supplemental statement Library of Congress, Abraham L. Kaminstein, Register of Copyrights, Marks, Hon. Leonard H., Director, U.S. Information Agency: Interdepartmental Committee on Visual and Auditory Materials for Distribution Abroad, Committee on Attestation, Code of Policies and Administrative Procedure, as published in the Federal Register, States which have accepted the agreement (Beirut) Summary of House Joint Resolution 688, a bill to implement the Music Publishers' Committee on Federal Relations, Leonard, Feist, Na- tional Music Council resolution on the Florence Agreement. National Association of College Stores, Inc., Russell Reynolds, general Putzell, Edwin J., Jr., vice president and general counsel, Monsanto Co., 228 Reynolds, Russell, general manager, National Association of College 256 258 Letter dated June 13, 1966, to Chairman Mills, with attached material relating to the signatory parties implementation of the "scientific Position Paper on Agreement on the Importation of Educational, 164 Seybold, Leo, vice president, Federal Affairs, Air Transport Association of 252 Meeting of Governmental experts on the Agreement on the Impor- Stone, Geo. Winchester, Jr., dean, New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Science, letter dated June 2, 1966, to Chairman Mills.......... U.S. Information Agency, Hon. Leonard H. Marks, Director: Interdepartmental Committee on Visual and Auditory Materials for Distribution Abroad, Committee on Attestation, Code of Policies and Administrative Procedure, as published in the Federal Register, States which have accepted the agreement (Beirut). Summary of House Joint Resolution 688, a bill to implement the United Kingdom, memorandum with attachment with covering letter dated June 14, 1966, from Douglas MacArthur II, Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations, Department of State, to Chairman Mills. Weston, Harold, chairman, National Council of the Arts and Government, IMPLEMENTATION OF FLORENCE AND BEIRUT MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1966 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS, Washington, D.C. The committee met at 10 a.m., in room 1102, Longworth House Office Building, the Honorable Cecil R. King (acting chairman) prosiding. Mr. KING. The purpose of the hearing this morning is to receive testimony from Government witnesses and from the general public on bills to implement the so-called Florence Agreement and the socalled Beirut Agreement. These bills are H.R. 8664, H.R. 15271, and House Joint Resolution 688. Without objection, copies of the bills will be included in the record of this hearing as well as copies of the press release announcing these hearings, copies of the executive communications transmitting these proposals along with analyses thereof and the requests that they be considered by Congress. Also, without objection, there will be included in the record reports received by the committee on H.R. 8664 from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Honorable Wilbur J. Cohen, Under Secretary; the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations, the Honorable Christian A. Herter; the Department of the Treasury, Fred B. Smith, General Counsel; memorandum on H.R. 8664 from the U.S. Tariff Commission, and report on H.J. Res. 688 from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Hon. Wilbur J. Cohen. (The information follows:) [Press release, May 26, 1966] CHAIRMAN WILBUR D. MILLS (D., ARK.), COMMITTEE ON WAYS And Means, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, ANNOUNCES PUBLIC HEARINGS ON H.R. 8664 AND H.R. 15271, BILLS TO IMPLEMENT THE FLORENCE AGREEMENT, AND H.J. RES. 688, A BILL TO IMPLEMENT THE BEIRUT AGREEMENT subject (1) H.R. 8664 and H.R. 15271, bills to implement the agreement on the importation of educational, scientific, and cultural materials, opened for signature at Lake Success on November 22, 1950 (the Florence Agreement); and (2) H.J. Res. 688, to give effect to the agreement for facilitating the international circulation of visual and auditory materials of an educational, scientific, and cultural character, approved Beirut in 1948. Chairman Wilbur D. Mills (D., Ark.), Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, today announced that the Committee on Ways and Means would conduct a two-day hearing-Monday and Tuesday, June 6 and 7, 1966 on H.R. 8664 (Chairman Mills) and H.R. 15271 (Curtis), bills to imple 1 |