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1953 Press Photo Secretary State Walter Smith Senate

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Caption: Washington, July 24--Under Secretary Testifies--Under Secretary of State Walter B. Smith testifies today before the Senate Appropriations Committee. In the course of the hearing, Smith and Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WIS) clashed over McCarthy's accusation that the overseas library program has been buying books by communists. Smith was before the group to ask that it back President Eisenhower's request for 88 million dollars to run the International Information Agency (IIA) in the fiscal year which began July 1.

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