TERNATIONAL TECHNICAL COOPERATION ACT OF 1949 (“POINT IV” PROGRAM) i 1950 COMMITTEE ON FOREIGNATPATRS EIGHTY-FIRST CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H. R. 5615 A BILL TO PROMOTE THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE WORLD SEPTEMBER 27, 28, 30, OCTOBER 3, 4, 5, 6, AND 7, 1949 JOHN KEE, West Virginia, Chairman ROBERT B. CHIPERFIELD, Illinois THOMAS S. GORDON, Illinois JOHN M. VORYS, Ohio HELEN GAHAGAN DOUGLAS, California FRANCES P. BOLTON, Ohio MIKE MANSFIELD, Montana LAWRENCE H. SMITH, Wisconsin THOMAS E. MORGAN, Pennsylvania CHESTER E. MERROW, New Hampshire LAURIE C. BATTLE, Alabama WALTER H. JUDD, Minnesota GEORGE A. SMATHERS, Florida JAMES G. FULTON, Pennsylvania JACOB K. JAVITS, New York BOYD CRAWFORD, Administrative Officer and Committee Clerk II CONTENTS LIST OF WITNESSES - Hon. James E. Webb, Under Secretary of State--- - Hon. Willard L. Thorp, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Tednesday, September 28, 1949: - Hon. Charles F. Brannan, Secretary of Agriculture_- Hon. Oscar Ewing, Administrator, Federal Security Administration - 65–79 - Hon. Nelson Rockefeller, formerly Coordinator of Inter-American Austin T. Foster, chairman of the treaty committee, National Foreign Hon. Charles Sawyer, Secretary of Commerce Wynn C. Fairfield, secretary for general administration, Foreign Mis- L. G. Shreve, president, Counsel Services, Inc--- Dr. Gerald Winfield, formerly with Office of War Information----- 170-174 Hon. Christian A. Herter, Representative in Congress from the State Rayford Logan, representing the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People --- Hyde G. Buller, representing the Agricultural Development, Inc---- 213-217 Hon. Spruille Braden, formerly Assistant Secretary of State in charge of American Republic Affairs---- Thomas M. Tarleau, attorney, of New York- Very Rev. Msgr. John McClafferty, representing the National Con- ference of Catholic Charities.. Hon. Philip M. Kaiser, Assistant Secretary of Labor- Hon. Julius A. Krug, Secretary of the Interior--- R. W. Gifford, representing the Detroit Board of Commerce-- STATEMENTS SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD st of H. R. 5615, Eighty-first Congress, first session--- ivate Enterprise and the Point IV Program (recommendations of the National Foreign Trade Council Inc.)-- uited States loses in United Nations on a Point IV move Economic Coun- cil bars plan to have experts draft lines for development aid (article in New York Times, July 29, 1949) port of special committee on Point IV program, Chamber of Commerce xt of H. R. 6026, Eighty-first Congress, first session--- mmary of tax treatment accorded by other countries to business income of their nationals from foreign sources. tter of August 23, 1949, from Hon. Spruille Braden to Hon. Christian Herter, Representative in Congress from the State of Massachusetts-- 221–224 int IV by private enterprise (address by Hon. Spruille Braden). 227-236 itement of Benjamin C. Marsh, secretary, Peoples' Lobby, Inc----- 270-272 Statement of the Secretary of Labor on the International Technical Statement on H. R. 5615 on behalf of the Detroit Board of Commerce- 312- ** Memorandum concerning technical-assistance program of the Economic Cooperation Administration --- Statement of H. A. Howard, national director of the bigger-and-better- business program of Phi Beta Sigma, a national collegiate fraternity--330- Statement of Robert E. Rodes, representing the American Trade Asso- ciation of Morocco and the Morocco Post of the American Legion -- 332- Letter of June 2, 1949, from Robert E. Rodes to Assistant Secretary of Joint statement by Morocco Post No. 1, American Legion, and Ameri- can Trade Association of Morocco State Department hearings on Morocco-French proposals for continued suppression of independent American business- Letter of September 7, 1949, from Robert E. Rodes to the Secretary of Recommended terms for negotiation relative to concessions requested by --Letter of September 30, 1949, from Albert Mevi, president, Tartaric Raw Materials, Inc., to Assistant Secretary of State Willard Thorp------- 339. Letter of August 28, 1949, from Robert E. Rodes to Assistant Secretary United States exports to French Morocco, 1947 and 1948, by quarters.-- Letter of October 11, 1949, from Allan B. Kline, president, American Farm Bureau Federation, to the chairman of the Committee on For- Letter of October 3, 1949, from Benjamin C. Marsh, executive secretary, the Peoples' Lobby, Inc., to the chairman of the Committee on For- eign Affairs, enclosing press release of Dr. Colston E. Warne, professor of economics, Amherst College----- Statement by Burlin B. Hamer concerning technical assistance in the Letter of October 7, 1949, from Hamilton A. Long to the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, in opposition to the Point IV program.- 350 NTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL COOPERATION ACT OF 1949 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1949 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, D. C. The Foreign Affairs Committee has under consideration today I. R. 5615, a bill to promote the foreign policy of the United States nd to authorize participation in a cooperative endeavor for assistag in the development of economically underdeveloped areas of the torld. The purpose of this bill is to authorize the implementation of what 3 known as the President's Point IV program for the economic help f the backward or underdeveloped nations of the world. (H. R. 5615 follows:) [H. R. 5615, 81st Cong., 1st sess.) BILL To promote the foreign policy of the United States and to authorize participation in a cooperative endeavor for assisting in the development of economically underdeveloped areas of the world Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States f America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Interational Technical Cooperation Act of 1949". SEC. 2. The Congress hereby finds that the United States and other nations f the world have a common interest in the material progress of all peoples, oth as an end in itself and because such progress will further the advance of uman freedom, the secure growth of democratic ways of life, the expansion of iutually beneficial commerce, and the development of international understandag and good will. The Congress further finds that the efforts of the peoples ving in economically underdeveloped areas of the world to realize their full apabilities and to develop the resources of the lands in which they live, can be urthered through the cooperative endeavor of all nations to assist in such deelopment. It is, therefore, declared to be the policy of the United States, in the aterest of its people, as well as that of other peoples, to promote the developient of economically underdeveloped areas of the world. Sec. 3. It is the objective of this Act to effectuate the policy set forth in ection 2 by enabling the Government of the United States to participate in prorams, in cooperation with other interested governments, for the interchange f technical knowledge and skills which contribute to the balanced and interated development of the economic resources and productive capacities of ecolomically underdeveloped areas. Sec. 4. In carrying out the objective of this Act (a) the participation of the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and their related organizations and of other international organiza. tions shall be sought wherever practicable; and (b) the participation of private agencies and persons shall be encouraged, |