("POINT IV" PROGRAM) м. Стилисто HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS EIGHTY-FIRST CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H. R. 5615 GARD DIVISION A BILL TO PROMOTE THE FOREIGN POLICY SEPTEMBER 27, 28, 30, OCTOBER 3, 4, 5, 6, AND 7, 1949 Printed for the use of the Committee on Foreign Affairs 50-66132 97625 UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1950 COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS JOHN KEE, West Virginia, Chairman JAMES P. RICHARDS, South Carolina HELEN GAHAGAN DOUGLAS, California MIKE MANSFIELD, Montana THOMAS E. MORGAN, Pennsylvania LAURIE C. BATTLE, Alabama GEORGE A. SMATHERS, Florida A. S. J. CARNAHAN, Missouri THURMOND CHATHAM, North Carolina OMAR BURLESON, Texas II CHARLES A. EATON, New Jersey FRANCES P. BOLTON, Ohio LAWRENCE H. SMITH, Wisconsin CHESTER E. MERROW, New Hampshire WALTER H. JUDD, Minnesota JAMES G. FULTON, Pennsylvania JACOB K. JAVITS, New York JOHN DAVIS LODGE, Connecticut BOYD CRAWFORD, Administrative Officer and Committee Clerk IRA E. BENNETT, Staff Consultant GEORGE LEE MILLIKAN, Staff Consultant JUNE NIGH, Staff Assistant WINIFRED OSBORNE, Staff Assistant DORIS LEONE, Staff Assistant MABEL HENDERSON, Staff Assistant MARY G. CHACE, Staff Assistant Hon. James E. Webb, Under Secretary of State__. Hon. Willard L. Thorp, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Hon. Oscar Ewing, Administrator, Federal Security Administration__ 65–79 Hon. Nelson Rockefeller, formerly Coordinator of Inter-American 208-213 Dr. Gerald Winfield, formerly with Office of War Information----- 170–174 Hon. Christian A. Herter, Representative in Congress from the State Thomas M. Tarleau, attorney, of New York__- 256-265 Very Rev. Msgr. John McClafferty, representing the National Con- 265-270 STATEMENTS SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD Text of H. R. 5615, Eighty-first Congress, first session. Private Enterprise and the Point IV Program (recommendations of the United States loses in United Nations on a Point IV move-Economic Coun- cil bars plan to have experts draft lines for development aid (article Text of H. R. 6026, Eighty-first Congress, first session_-_ 174-180 Letter of August 23, 1949, from Hon. Spruille Braden to Hon. Christian 227-236 270-272 60 Statement on H. R. 5615 on behalf of the Detroit Board of Commerce---- 312-314 Memorandum concerning technical-assistance program of the Economic Statement of H. A. Howard, national director of the bigger-and-better- business program of Phi Beta Sigma, a national collegiate fraternity-- 330-332 Statement of Robert E. Rodes, representing the American Trade Asso- ciation of Morocco and the Morocco Post of the American Legion--- 332–335 Letter of June 2, 1949, from Robert E. Rodes to Assistant Secretary of Letter of September 30, 1949, from Albert Mevi, president, Tartaric Raw Materials, Inc., to Assistant Secretary of State Willard Thorp_______ 339–342 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 INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL COOPERATION ACT OF 1949 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1949 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Washington, D. C. The committee met at 10 a. m., the Honorable John Kee (chairman) presiding. Chairman KEE. The committee will come to order. The Foreign Affairs Committee has under consideration today H. R. 5615, a 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. The purpose of this bill is to authorize the implementation of what is known as the President's Point IV program for the economic help of the backward or underdeveloped nations of the world. (H. R. 5615 follows:) [H. R. 5615, 81st Cong., 1st sess.] A 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 of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "International Technical Cooperation Act of 1949". SEC. 2. The Congress hereby finds that the United States and other nations of the world have a common interest in the material progress of all peoples, both as an end in itself and because such progress will further the advance of human freedom, the secure growth of democratic ways of life, the expansion of mutually beneficial commerce, and the development of international understanding and good will. The Congress further finds that the efforts of the peoples living in economically underdeveloped areas of the world to realize their full capabilities and to develop the resources of the lands in which they live, can be furthered through the cooperative endeavor of all nations to assist in such development. It is, therefore, declared to be the policy of the United States, in the interest of its people, as well as that of other peoples, to promote the development of economically underdeveloped areas of the world. SEC. 3. It is the objective of this Act to effectuate the policy set forth in section 2 by enabling the Government of the United States to participate in programs, in cooperation with other interested governments, for the interchange of technical knowledge and skills which contribute to the balanced and integrated development of the economic resources and productive capacities of economically 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 organizations shall be sought wherever practicable; and (b) the participation of private agencies and persons shall be encouraged. |