Oral History Interviews with
Henry Van Zile Hyde
During the Truman Administration, was Chief, Health Division, UNR'RA, 1945; Chief, Division of International Health, USPHS, 1948-49; Assistant Chief, Health Services Branch, Division of International Labor, Social and Health Affairs, 1950-52; Director, Division of Health and Sani-tation, Institute of Inter-American Affairs, 1950-52; U.S. representative on the executive board, World Health Organization, 1948-52; and Director, Health and Sanitation Staff, Technical Cooperation Administration, 1952-53.
Interview Transcripts
July 16 | & July 24, 1975
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List of Subjects Discussed
Acheson, Dean, 29
Aid for International Development (A.I.D.), 199-200
Amouzegar, Jamshid, 146-147
Andrews, Stanley A., 148-151, 154-156, 188, 191, 196, 197
Arab-Israel conflict, 129-133
Baez, Martinez, 77, 78
Bell, Katherine, 136
Bennett, Henry, 141, 149-151
Benson, Ezra, 102
Bingham, Jonathan, 151
Biraud, Yves, 48
Bolton, Mrs. Frances P., 46
Brazil, Servico program in, 142-143
Calderwood, Howard B., 10, 16, 25, 27, 41, 43, 81, 108, 117-118, 120
Campbell, Eugene, 145, 149
Candau, Marcolino G., 126, 142
Cavaillon, Andre, 24
China, U.N. representation, 133-134
Chisholm, Dr., 47, 65, 82, 125
Churchill, Sir Winston, 5
Coggeshall, Lowell, 59
Committee of Seventy-Six, 88-89, 132-133
Committee of Twelve, 87-88
Cumming, Hugh, 37
Davidson, Alfred, 71-72
Dore, Victor, 78
Doull, James, 13-14, 16, 18, 19, 21, 32, 43, 44, 119, 120
"dream sheets", 90
Dulles, John Foster, 22
Dunham, George, 138, 168
Economic and Social Council, U.N., 16, 18, 19
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 22
Eisenhower, Milton, 92, 93-94
Elliot, Martha, 59, 70
Evang, Karl, 42, 133
Federal Security Agency, 26
Finance Committee of the Assembly, U.N., 51-52
Fishbein, Morris, 18
Fory, Esmond, 37
Germany (GDR), 137
Haines, John, 94
Halverson, Dr., 148
Hamlin, John, 163
Hanlon, John, 193-194
Harris, General, 139
Health, Public Health Service, 26-28
Huxley, Julian, 78, 79
Hyde, Henry Van Zile:
Institute for Inter-American Affairs, 57-58, 74, 137-144, 146, 167, 169, 191-193
Inter-Government Conference, on Rural Health, 1936 (League of Nations), 174
International Atomic Energy Agency, (IAEA), 136
Interim Commission, International Health Conference, 47-49, 64-65, 77, 82, 109-114, 121, 122
International Health Conference, 1946, 31-32, 34-35, 38, 41, 47, 104-105
International trade policy, 81
Iran, Servico, 145
Iverson, Kenneth, 141
Jackson, Sir Robert, 4-6
Jafar, M., 125-126
Jaksie, Colonel, 7
Jameson, Sir Wilson, 19, 24
Joint Health Policy Committee, UNICEF, 68-69
Judd, Walter H., 46, 49
Kacprzak, M., 52
Kotschnig, Walter, 81
LaClainch, Dr., 14, 18, 19
LaGuardia, Fiorello, 4
Laise, Caroline Clendening, 46
Landers, James M., 2
Latin America, 139
Laugier, Henri, 75
League of Nations, 33-34, 74, 82, 108
Lehman, Herbert, 4
Lie, Trygvie, 4-6
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 49, 101
Long, Dr., 175
McCormick, J.B., 105
McLeish, Archibald, 80
Mayo, Charles, 92
Middle East Supply Center, WW II, 3-4
Moll, Aristides, 37
Mudalier, Sir Arcot, 130
Mudaliar, Sir Ramas Suanee, 20-21
Mulliken, Otis, 11-12, 41
Murdock, Dr., 37
NAMRU III, 23
National Science Foundation, 93
Needham, James, 76, 77, 78, 79
National Institute of Health(NIH), 92-93
Office International d'Hygiene Publique, 32
PanAmerican Health Organization, 39-40, 126-128, 190-191
PanAmerican Sanitary Bureau, 35-36, 39, 42
Parran Draft, 24
Parran, Thomas, 12, 16, 21, 24, 25, 28-29, 43, 60-61, 119
Pasha, Aly Tewfik Shousha, 21-22, 23, 24, 131
Point IV, 90, 98, 101-102, 140, 143, 144-147, 191-193
Public Health Service, U.S., 26, 44, 138, 140, 160
Radioactive fallout, 134-135
Rajchman, Ludwik, 67-69, 70-73
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 26
Roosevelt, Mrs. Franklin D. (Eleanor), 32, 44
Roosevelt Hospital, Guatemala, 169-170
Rules Committee, U.S., House of Representatives, 46
Salk, Jonas, 92
Sand, Rene, 23-24
Segal, Milton, 100
Selassie, Haile, 176
Senate-House Conference Committee, 49
Servico, concept of, 141-143, 165-167, 168
Smith-Mundt funding, 120
Society of International Law, 108
Soper, Dr., 194
Sousa, Geraldo de Paula, 14, 18, 19, 24, 52
Stampar, Andrija, 20, 24, 42, 65-66, 72
Stare, Fred, 192
State Department, U.S., 41, 117-121, 123-126
Sterling, Clarence, 137-140
Stone, Abraham, 96
Stroud, George, 148
Sze, Szeming, 14, 18, 19, 24
Technical Cooperation Administration (TCA), 153-159, 161-164
Technical Preparatory Committee, 19, 30, 32-35, 41, 67, 70, 82, 122
Togba, Joseph, 111-112
Truman, Harry S., 28
UNESCO, 76, 79, 80, 95
UNICEF, 62-63, 67-69, 71, 73, 199
UNRRA, 68
United Nations, 50, 81
United Nations Charter, 74-76
United Nations Development Program, 89-90
Vandenberg, Arthur H., 49, 103
Vina Del Mar, Chile, 169
Vinogradov, Dr., 65-66
Walker, E. Ronald, 79, 80
Waynick, Capus, 141, 150
Whiting, Ed, 178
Williams, Louis L., 9-10, 11, 16, 21, 27, 43, 44, 119, 120, 138
Winslow, C.E.A., 196-197
Wolman, Abel, 59
World Health Assembly 1948, 28, 50-52
World Health Organization, 17, 29-30, 38-40, 47, 52, 57-58, 73, 75, 78, 80, 82-87, 89-90, 91-95, 99, 103-108, 114-116, 126-128, 135, 190-191, 194-198, 199-200
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- Administration and Budget Committee, First World Health Assembly, representative of, 62-63
American Public Health Association, 60-61
American Regional group, pre-existence, first assemblies,knowledge of, 87-89
Andrews, Stanley A., 150-151, 155-156, 191-193
Bennett, Henry, 149-151
birth control, and, 61-62, 96-100
China, and, 133-134
draft charter, and, 45
Executive Board, World Health Organization, member of, 91
Germany, division of, opinion on, 137
health centers, opinion on, 172-180
health delivery systems, comment on failure of, 73-75
ICA health personnel recruitment, responsible for, 159-161
Institute for Inter-American Affairs, 57-58, 137-144
Interim Commission, Involvement with, 53-56, 60-61, 121-122
International Labor, Social, and Health Affairs, Division of,assigned to, 16
Middle East, War generated problems, and, 3-6
Organized medicine, and, 1-2
Pan-American Health Organization, and, 126-128
politics, problem of, within countries, comment on, 167-171
Point IV, 191-193, 198-201
- in Iran, 145
program changes, discussion of, 147-149
"Position paper" approach, 27
public health, TCA program modification of, opinion on, 184-187
Public Health Service Officers, evaluation of, 181-184
radioactive fall out, and, 134-135
Rajchman, Ludwik, work with, 70-73
refugees, and, 6-8
regional organization, opinion on, 41-45
Servico, describes, 165-167
State Health Department (NY.), Bureau of Pneumonia Control, director of, 1-2
State Department, U.S., 117-121, 123-126
- political officers, 25
reports, opinion on, 117-121
T.C.A., work for, 154-159, 193-194
teaching hospitals, assessment of, 188-191
Williams, Louis L., assistant to, 9-10
World Health Assembly, 1948, 63-69
World Health Organization, member of Executive Board, 91-133
- Central Planning group, establishment of, 121-122
Executive Board, 122, 123
and International politics, 129-133
- World Meteorological Organization, 108
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