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Conference. The United States also gave the chief representatives of each country a 13-volume
set of technical books written especially for the Conference. |:
The United States supplied 17 of the 51 technical films presented by the United Nations
and also exhibited 28 short fllms on specialized subjects in four small theaters in the United
States exhibit to’ more than 15,000 persona in 1,550 showings.
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The United States furnished two of the six outstanding scientists who delivered lectures
on topics of general interest on three evenings during the Conference.
Again, as in 1955, the United States participated in the Commercial Exposition sponsored
by the city and canton of Geneva in the downtown area of Geneva during the Conference, More
than 50 private companies engaged in the atomic energy industry in the United States Joined
the Atomic Energy Commission tn assembling one of the Jargeat exhibits presented by the
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Conference organization.’ United Nations plans for the second Geneva Conference were
formulated by the Secretary-General’s Advisory Committee, on which the United States was
represented by Dr. I. I. Rabi, Higgins Professor of Physics at Columbia University, who
served ina similar capacity at the 1955 Conference.| .
Officers of the Conference, who presided at the opening and closing general sessions,
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Administrative direction of the Conference was provided for the United Nations by Dr.
Sigvard Eklund (Sweden), Conference Secretary-General, and Homi N. Sethna (India), Deputy
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The United States was represented at the Conference by 463 accredited delegates, Chairman of the United States delegation was Lewis L. Strauss, Specia] Assistant to the President
on Atomic Affairs and former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Dr. Willard F.
Libby, member of the Atomic Energy Commission, served as Vice Chairman. Other chief
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Technology; Robert McKinney, United States representative to the International Atomic Energy
Agency; and Dr. Rabi. Special advisors to the United States chief representatives were Dr.
Shields Warren, United States representative to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the
-Effects of Atomic Radiation, and John A. McCone, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission.
Seven members of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy served as speciil advisors to
the United S-ates Delegation: Representative Carl T. Durham, Chairman of the Joint Com-~
mittee, Senator John O. Pastore, Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper, and Representatives Craig
Hosmer, James T. Patterson, Melvin Price, and James E. Van Zandt. Other Members of
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Congress who served as special advisors in Geneva were Representatives Frank J. Becker,
A. S.J. Carnahan, John H. Dent, Peter Freylinghuysen, Jr., William J. Green, Walter H. Judd,
Ludwig Teller, John M. Vorys, and William B. Widnall.
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Energy Commission. Assisting him as Deputy Executive Director was Richard C. Hagan,
Office of International Conferences, Department of State. The United States technica] program
at Gereva +as planned and executed by Dr. L. D. P. King of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, sho served as Technical Director. The public information program for the United States
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