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1955 Overseas Letter
1955 National Festival adhesives on cover to the USA
18 July 1955: registered cover addressed to Arlington, Virginia, posted at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, and flown
TWA Geneva-Shannon-New York. ARL INGTON JUL 22 1955 arrival mark on reverse
Between 1953 and 1955, the rate for a registered letter sent airmail to North America was SFr.1.30 (40c foreign letter
+ 40c registration fee + 25c x 2 airmail surcharge), a fee matched by the combined values of the National Festival
set plus a further 25c adhesive from the 1949 Landscapes issue.
Held on 18 July 1955, the Geneva Summit was a Cold War-era meeting of "The Big Four": President Dwight D. Eisenhower of the
United States, Prime Minister Anthony Eden of Great Britain, Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin of the Soviet Union, and Prime Minister
Edgar Faure of France. The stated mission of the 1955 summit was to reduce international tensions.
