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State urged favorable action on the Bill.9 The Foreign Relations Com-
mittee took ithe position that it was not prepared to deal with the
investment aspects of the program and reported unanimously a much
simplified Bill giving essentially the same authority as that contained
in the House Bill in connection with technical cooperation programs.'0
The bill authorized the full $45,000,000 requested by the administra-
tion, but made no reference to capital investment. After considerable
debate this bill passed the Senate by one vote. The opposition to the
bill came both from those who apparently did not desire to partici-
pate in the technical cooperation program and those who felt that the
bill should be expanded &to give emphasis to-the investment aspects of
the program.
  5. After a long discussion in conference between the House and
Senate on -thebill, theSenate conferees accepted the .House bill sub-
stantially uinchanged except that the authorization was raised to
$35,000,000.11 Prior to the Senate's voting on the conference report
Senators Millikin and Taft led a group of:Republican senators in a
vigorous attack on the bill. The bill was defended not only by the ad-
ministration leadership in the Senate but by other senators including
Senators Saltonstall and Smith, Republicans, who were satisfied with
the version of the bill which-had now been agreed to by the Senate
conferees. The bill was passed by the Senate as Title IV of the Foreign
Economic Assistance Act of 11950 and was -approved by the President
on June 5,1950.
   16. 'Hearings before the Senate Appropriations :Committee took place
 between the 14th and 19th of June and it is contemplated that the
 appropriation will be added in the Senate'as an amendment to the
 omnibus appropriation bill which the House passed prior to passage
 of the authorizing legislation.,'
   7. The long period of time between the initial hearings on the pro-
 gram and the final action of Congress which is the result partly of the
 crowded Congressional calendar and partly of the delays inherent in
 developing a bill which would have broad acceptance among various
 interested groups, has resulted in a greater understanding on the part
 of Members of Congress of the bill and its purposes.

   9See 81st Cong., 2d sess., U.S. Senate, Hearings-before the Committee.
on For-
 eign Relations on an Act for International Development, March 30, April
3. For
 statements by Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Assistant Secretary of State
for
 Economic Affairs Willard Thorp, and Ambassador at Large Philip Jessup, see
 ibid., pp. 3-39.
   "0For the Senate Report, see 81st Cong., 2d sess., Senate Report
No. 1371,
 Foreign Economic Assistance, 1950, Report of the Committee on Foreign Rela-
 tions on S. 3304.
   For the Conference Report, see 81st Cong., 2d sess., Conference Report
to
 accompany H.R. 7797, Foreign economic assistance act of 1950.


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