COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTY-NINTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H.R. 8664 and H.R. 15271 BILLS TO IMPLEMENT THE AGREEMENT ON THE IMPOR- AND H.J. Res. 688 TO GIVE EFFECT TO THE AGREEMENT FOR FACILITATING 64-216 JUNE 6 AND 7, 1966 Printed for use of the Committee on Ways and Means U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1966 Press release dated May 26, 1966, announcing public hearings on H.R. 8664 and H.R. 15271, bills to implement the Florence Agreement, and House Joint Resolution 688, a bill to implement the Beirut Agreement. - Text of House Joint Resolution 688. Executive communication dated May 28, 1965, from Hon. Dean Rusk, Secretary of State, addressed to Hon. John W. McCormack, Speaker of the House of Representatives, forwarding a draft bill to implement the Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Materials, of November 22, 1950_. Letter dated May 4, 1966, from Hon. Douglas MacArthur II, Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations, to Chairman Mills, with Analysis of Florence Agreement Implementing Legislation (H.R. 8664) attached. Text of the Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Materials (Florence Agreement) – – Executive communication dated August 20, 1965, from Hon. Burnett Anderson, Acting Director, U.S. Information Agency, to Hon. John W. McCormack, Speaker of the House of Representatives, transmitting a draft joint resolution to give effect to the Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Character, approved at Beirut in 1948, an analysis of the provisions of the proposed joint resolution, and Text of Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Health, Education, and Welfare, Department of, report dated June 8, 1966, from Hon. Wilbur J. Cohen, Under Secretary, to Chairman Health, Education, and Welfare, Department of, report dated June 9, 1966, from Hon. Wilbur J. Cohen, Under Secretary, to Chairman Mills on House Joint Resolution 688. Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations, Executive Office of the President report dated June 3, 1966, from Hon. Chris- tian A. Herter, Special Representative, to Chairman Mills on Treasury Department, Office of the General Counsel report dated June 8, 1966, from Fred B. Smith, General Counsel, to Chairman STATEMENTS BY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS Commerce, Department of, Hon. James F. Collins, Deputy Assistant STATEMENTS BY PUBLIC WITNESSES American Association of Physics Teachers, Prof. Harald C. Jensen, chair- American Council on Education, Randall M. Whaley, chancellor, Univer- American Library Association, Verner W. Clapp- American Textbook Publishers Institute and American Book Publishers Council, joint Washington office, Robert W. Frase, director--- Association of American Colleges, Randall M. Whaley, chancellor, Univer- Benton, Hon. William, U.S. Ambassador to UNESCO, and publisher, Encyclopaedia Britannica...... Book Manufacturers' Institute, Inc., James H. French, attorney. Page 215 70, 106 Council on International Non-Theatrical Film Events, Thomas W. Hope, 223 Dunn, Donald M., director, E. Leitz, Inc___ Feist, Leonard, Music Publishers' Committee on Federal Relations_. Hyer, Dr. Anna, executive secretary, Department of Audio-Visual Instruc- 142 70 152 70, 106 101 223 225 International Allied Printing Trades Association, O. R. Strackbein__ Jensen, Prof. Harald C., chairman, Committee on Apparatus for Educa- 215 McCauley, Alfred R., Scientific Apparatus Makers Association___. Magazine Publishers Association, Inc., C. Robert Devine, chairman, Music Publishers' Committee on Federal Relations, Leonard Feist__ National Association of State Universities & Land-Grant Colleges, Randall Picker X-Ray Corp., and Siemens America, Inc., H. A. Land.. Scarff, James G., executive vice president, E. Leitz, Inc. - Steinberg, David J., secretary and chief economist, Committee for a Strackbein, O. R., International Allied Printing Trades Association_ 99 135 70 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 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, from Douglas MacArthur II, Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations, Department of State, to Chairman Mills.. Clapp, Verner W., resolution by American Library Association. Coates, Vincent J., director, Distributor Products Department, Perkin- Elmer Corp., letter dated June 6, 1966, to Chairman Mills.. College English Association, Donald A. Sears, professor of English, Howard Curtis, Hon. Thomas B., a Representative in Congress from the State of Institute for Cancer Research, Thomas F. Anderson, senior Member and 231 198 154 256 110 243 257 Kaminstein, Abraham L., Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, 59 Karp, Irwin, counsel, Authors League of America, Inc., letter dated June 9, 252 |