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Secretary of State Dean Acheson (left), testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that this country may give new economic aid to Chinese Formosa. Mr. Acheson and ECA Administrator Paul Hoffman (right), urged approval of a request for a $100,000,000 for the American sponsored Republic of South Korea.

Sidney W. Souers, head of Central Intelligence Group, is shown walking up the steps of a government building, probably the Old Executive Office Building. The White House is seen in the background.

Former President Truman is shown shaking the hand of Sidney W. Souers on the occasion of Souers 70th birthday. Mr. Souers was former head of the CIA under Truman.

Rear Admiral Sidney W. Souers (on podium), shakes hands with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who laid the cornerstone for the CIA's new 5 million dollar building. The present director, Allen Dulles, is on the right of the President, while Rev. Frederick Brown Harris, chaplain of the Senate, is on the platform behind Adm. Souers.

Left to right, Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Chief Justice Earl Warren, and James F. Twohy (national Catholic co-chairman of the National Conference of Christians and Jews and Governor of the Federal Home Loan Bank Administration), at the unveiling of a portrait of Chief Justice Hughes at the National Conference of Christians and Jews headquarters in New York City.

James F. Twohy (center, first row), Governor of the Federal Home Loan Bank Association from 1939 to 1946, poses with 14 unidentified regional presidents.

Clarence R. Decker, Assistant Director, Mutual Security Agency and Chief of the Far East Division, on tour in Vietnam, shakes hands with an elderly Vietnamese man after being introduced by an unidentified Vietnamese official.

Clarence R. Decker, Assistant Director, Mutual Security Agency and Chief of the Far East Division, on tour in Vietnam, is photographed with unidentified Vietnamese officials walking between an audience of young children waving American and Vietnam flags. Clarence R. Decker Papers.

Clarence R. Decker, Assistant Director, Mutual Security Agency and Chief of the Far East Division, on tour in Vietnam, is photographed with an unidentified French officer. The location and event are unknown.

Clarence R. Decker, Assistant Director, Mutual Security Agency and Chief of the Far East Division, on tour in Vietnam, is photographed with a group of medical personnel treating a patient for an eye problem.