HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS. EIGHTY-SIXTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. 1711 A BILL TO PROMOTE THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE UNITED 43583 JULY 7, 8, AND 10, 1959 Printed for the use of the Committee on Foreign Relations AUG 1059 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1959 COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS J. W. FULBRIGHT, Arkansas, Chairman THEODORE FRANCIS GREEN, Rhode Island ALEXANDER WILEY, Wisconsin CONTENTS Beale, W. T. M., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs; accompanied by Roger Stewart, Chief, Public Law 480 Liai- son Branch, International Cooperation Administration; James A. Lynn, Assistant Chief, Economic Development Division, Depart- ment of State; and Howard M. Gabbert, Assistant Chief, Commod- Bliss, Daniel, president, board of directors, Near East College Associa- 128 Bookbinder, Hyman, legislative representative, AFL-CIO.. 285 230 Campbell, Wallace J., legislative representative of the Cooperative 289 Guffio, Frank, CARE 266 199 168 Healy, Patrick, assistant secretary, National Milk Producers Asso- Huge, William E., director, Soybean Council of America, Inc.. Kinney, Edward M., Catholic Relief Services_ Leavitt, Moses A., American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee___ Lynn, John C., legislative director, the American Farm Bureau Miller, Hon. Clarence L., Assistant Secretary of Agriculture; accompa- nied by Max Myers, Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service; Ray Ioanes, Deputy Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service; and Pat O'Leary, Assistant Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Morse, Hon. Wayne, U.S. Senator from the State of Oregon. Nathan, Robert R., national chairman, Americans for Democratic Rudis, Anthony, foreign trade committee, Illinois Manufacturers Sims, Albert G., vice president, Institute of International Education Solberg, Harvy R., chairman of the executive committee, National Farmers Union, and president of the Rocky Mountain Farmers Soth, Lauren, chairman, agriculture committee. National Planning Stambaugh, Lynn U., first vice president, Export-Import Bank of 11 175 244 261 305 131 303 114 Stewart, Mrs. Annalee, legislative secretary, U.S. section, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.. Swanstrom, Msgr. Edward E., chairman, executive committee, American Council of Voluntary Agencies for Foreign Service, Inc. - Symington, Hon. Stuart, U.S. Senator from the State of Missouri... Tourover, Mrs. Denise, Hadassah_ 266 Walley, Ersel, chairman, market development committee, American 222 Adams, Arthur S., president, American Council on Education___ Carr, William G., executive secretary, National Education Association_ Carroll, Hon. John A., U.S. Senator from the State of Colorado. INTERNATIONAL FOOD FOR PEACE TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1959 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, The committee met, pursuant to call at 10:05, in room 4221, New Senate Office Building, Senator J. William Fulbright (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Fulbright, Humphrey Mansfield, Morse, and Aiken. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. Today the Committee on Foreign Relations begins its consideration of S. 1711, the food for peace bill. This bill is a demonstration of the kind of legislative initiative which I think is appropriate for the Congress to display. It is a bill which joins the agricultural resources of the United States with its foreign policy objectives. (S. 1711 is as follows:) [S. 1711, 86th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To promote the foreign policy of the United States and help to build essential world conditions of peace, by the more effective use of United States agricultural commodities for the relief of human hunger, and for promoting economic and social development in less developed countries Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Public Law 480 of the Eightythird Congress, as amended, is further amended as follows: (1) The first section (which provides the short title) is amended to read as follows: "That this Act may be cited as the 'International Food for Peace Act of 1959'." (2) Section 2 (which consists of a statement of policy) is amended to read as follows: "CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS AND POLICY "SEC. 2. (a) Because of the increased productivity made possible by science and technology, there is now, for the first time in history, no reason in physical scarcity for the continued existence of hunger, anywhere on this earth. It is now possible and practical for mankind to take cooperative steps to abolish human hunger. "This being so, massive hunger and suffering from want of clothing, existing in the world in the shadow of unused present and potential surpluses of food and fiber, are no longer tolerable, either morally, politically, or economically. "The Congress, while recognizing the difficult international, political and economic problems that lie between hunger and want of clothing in many parts of the world and food and fiber surpluses in others, declares it to be the policy of the United States to move as rapidly as possible in cooperation with other friendly nations, toward putting its abundance of food and fiber more effectively in the service of human need. "(b) Peoples who comprise one-third of the human race have in our generation achieved national independence (or are in the process of doing so) and are 1 |