POINT. FOUR PROGRAM


  the past nine months the principal participant[s] have assumed that
  the administrative pattern set forth in the so-called "Management
  Plan" (Tab A 2) developed last summer would be adopted. Recently
  the IIAA (Glick)1 has come forward informally with an alternative
  plan which is regarded4 favorably by both NEA and ARA., The result-
  ing confusion must be;eliminated as promptly as possible....
  D isc u ss io n ..      .. .
    1. HistOry and general prov'itsons of the POint IV lManagement
 Plan.
   About a year agoMMr. Thorp was, assignediresponsibility within the
 Department for Point.IV program planning. At that time there was a
 great deal of interest in Point IV throughout thle executive branch of
 the government. Many-ageneies had begun to think and plan in terms
 of providing ,techni",aýlassist anee abroad in their specialized
fields.
 For this reason and becaUse it seemed foolish not to take advantage
 of the technical'know-how of other agencies, Mr. Thorp thought of
 the program in terms-of.a- government-wide effort guided by the State
 Department1from the standp6int of it's: impact upon total foreign
 policy. He established an- :Intberdepartmental Ad*isory Committee on
 Technical Assisthance (ACTA) .as a means of obtaining interdepart-
 mental participationi in program planning.
   Last:spring:it looked 6asthouph there migcht be someP ossibility of
 going ahead: with a p  .ogra  for fiscal y ea 1950. A Stfate Department
 group prepareda' p   rper ummarizing a plan of administration. Based
 upon that paper a budget wasprepared and hearings were held at the
 Budget Bureau in July. Following those hearings a group wase8stab
 lished: in ithe Depaimeit to,pr epare a management plan in'more detail
 Mr4. Hanson  was-loaned to E tb spoarhedt.his; group which included
 representaties from 0MB, IJNA, ,E a-d AiRA. The resulting plan was
 sent -t~ncoror t; r~each ASsist~it Secret~a~i fry Vand every suggestion
made was either
 incorporate-d o r a unqtuat s~tsactory solutinwa  rrvdat hepa
                                     toiuonwas arrived at. 'The plan,
 was then discussed extensively in iACTA meetings and with some
 changes wasapprovecl by th'at committee.  :
   Although this managemet plan never W{s submitted to the Seere-
 tary' s office for official- Departmenwtapproval, itlhasbeen used as a
 basis for legislative.presetation by Mr. Thorp anid Mr. Dort5" and
as
 a basis for.preparation of the, 1951-budget. The seven other agencies
 (ECA, FSA,;'Treasuryfabor Interior Commerce and Agriculture)

 2 Not printed.
   Philip M. Glick , Acting'President"Orf the Institute of Inter-AmericaneAffairs.
   .HaldoreHanson, Executive Direcitor, Secietaariat, Interdepartmental Commit-
teeonScientific and Cultural Cooperation (5CC).
   Dallas W. Dort,, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Economic
Affairs.,
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