In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.

Mr. Nehru is subjected to stern lectures on neutralism by our Department of State, and an American President observes sourly that Sweden would be a little less neurotic if it were a little more capitalistic ''.

The State Department tacitly rejected the neutral Laos idea after the Geneva conference of 1954, and last year Washington backed the rightist coup that ousted neutral Premier Souvanna Phouma.

A senate subcommittee headed by Sen. Jackson of Washington has been going over the State Department and has reached some predictable conclusions.

In addition Rep. Frelinghuysen's brother Harry was on the Korean desk of the State Department in World War 2.

State Department officials refusing to show their passes at the boundary, and driving two blocks into East Berlin under military escort, will not avail.

The fullest cooperation by and with Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Department of State, and other concerned agencies shall also be carried out in the interest of achieving the objectives of this Act.

It is the concern of the Department of State that the American people are safe and secure -- defense is not a monopoly concern of the Department of Defense.

It is also the concern of the Department of State that our trading relationships with the rest of the world are vigorous, profitable, and active -- this is not just a passing interest or a matter of concern only to the Department of Commerce.

If the Department of State is to take primary responsibility for foreign policy in Washington, it follows that the ambassador is expected to take charge overseas.

Mr. Truman emphasized this point by saying, `` You fellows in the Department of State don't know much about domestic politics ''.

Perhaps existing Public Health Service, State Department and Armed Services medical facilities can be utilized.

Pending the reorganization of our foreign aid structure and program, the Peace Corps should be established as an agency in the Department of State.

Meanwhile, the Peace Corps could be physically located in ICA's facilities and depend on the State Department and ICA for administrative support and, when needed, program assistance.

This temporary Peace Corps is being established under existing authority in the Mutual Security Act and will be located in the Department of State.

In the Dunn-Atherton memorandum of February 4, 1942, the State Department had expected to be able to hold Russia in check by withholding agreement to her 1941 boundaries.

`` The Groth Institute '', which was established in 1958, is a group activity affiliated with the Physics Department of The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa..

Activity by British traders and the presence of a colony on the Red prompted the United State War Department in 1819 to send Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Leavenworth from Detroit to put a post 300 miles northwest of Prairie Du Chien, until then the most advanced United States post.

After promoting Frost's appearance at the Inauguration, he persuaded the poet to return several months later to give a reading to a select audience of Cabinet members, members of Congress, and other Washington notables gathered in the State Department auditorium.

* U. S. State Department Background Note: Colombia

* U. S. Department of State Background Note on Afghanistan

* U. S. State Department Background Note: Ecuador

* U. S. State Department Background Note: Micronesia

* Background Note: Guatemala-Information from the US State Department

* 2003 U. S. Department of State Background Note of Albania

* U. S. State Department Background Note: Kiribati

* Background Note: Mauritania-History from the US State Department.

* U. S. State Department Background Note: Nauru

* U. S. State Department Background Note: Palau

* U. S. State Department Background Note: Papua New Guinea

* Background notes: South Korea, U. S. Department of State

* US Department of State Background Note: Tonga

* U. S. State Department Background Note: Uruguay

* U. S. State Department Background Note: Suriname

* U. S. State Department Background Note: Uganda

* U. S. State Department Background Note: Marshall Islands

* U. S. Department of State Background Notes, 2003

* Campbell, James, " Elements in the Background to the Life of St Cuthbert and his Early Cult " in The Anglo-Saxon State.

*" Background to the Italian Renaissance ", Washington State University

* Original text from U. S. State Department Background Note: Cambodia

* U. S. State Department State. gov, Background Note: Poland

* U. S. State Department Background Note: Uganda