Mr. WILLIAMS. That is true. This country is the one we thought we could have a long-term commitment with in Africa.

REASON FOR SELECTION OF CITY

Dr. DEVAULT. If I might have a word here, Mr. Chairman, the reason we selected this city was due to the fact I made a survey of this whole area and we chose this area not only because it was so centrally located but also because there are 3,000 missionaries in this area that have been there something like 50 years and they found this to be the ideal location.

Senator MCCLELLAN. That will be intended to accommodate them also?

Dr. DEVAULT. No. This center we are hoping to acquire here is a hospital of 25 beds that they built 12 years ago. They found that for their 3,000 people there, it would not be large enough, so they are going out to the edge of the city. This is on a plateau at 4,000 feet altitude. The missionaries chose the area because it was sort of an oasis. The climate is marvelous. They have there a missionary center. They are building a hospital at the edge of town of 180 beds. Senator MCCLELLAN. This is fortunate for the program?

Dr. DEVAULT. This is very fortunate.

Senator MCCLELLAN. It is one of the most friendly and stable, and so forth, and it is centrally located.

Dr. DEVAULT. That is why we chose it.

Senator HOLLAND. You will have available in the same amount. It is not a very expensive operation.

Again, perhaps my only fear is we are not sighting big enough.

NEED FOR LONG-RANGE PLANNING

Senator SMITH. There, Secretary, that concerns me greatly because it seems to me this is sort of a piecemeal operation to get what you can while it is an emergency, that it would be more efficient if we could stop and think this over and do a little better planning on a longrange basis and it seems to me we are going to be there and we know this is a very, very great program and I would think it was a very worthwhile one but we are starting out with the feeling it is not going to be sufficient and it seems to me that is false economy.

Mr. CROCKETT. I am only thinking about the magnitude of it. The facilities that we would have there would be expandable certainly. We have done a lot of planning. The planning we have done on this is about for 8 months. We sent a team there with Dr. DeVault the head of it. He visited every country. He looked at the hospital facilities of every country. This is the culmination of their trip and their recommendations. Now this is not the total answer and we are not thinking of this as being the answer to every medical problem that arises. This would be a first echelon clinic, you might say, and the more serious cases or those that should be treated under American conditions, then would be evacuated to Frankfurt or to some American hospital but I think that initially, this will solve our first problem of clinical treatment.

Doctor, would you like to say some more about that? Perhaps you should.

PRESENT PLANS

Dr. DEVAULT. Well, for the Senator, I would just like to assure you our plans are to establish a firstline diagnostic and treatment center in the facility now occupied by the missionaries. They have found that for their 3,000 people this facility is adequate for the care of their American missionaries, but a larger facility has become necessary to also include the care of Africans. By means of small planes such as the missionaries use, it will be possible to go out and bring our people into this diagnostic and treatment center. Then it can be determined whether or not they shall be further evacuated to the United States or Germany. We do not anticipate that we are going to be able to take care of everything that occurs there but the center will be staffed and equipped to handle most cases of illness or injury.

We anticipate having a topnotch surgeon and internist here to be able to diagnose and treat probably 80 or 85 percent of all the conditions that will require hospitalization in this area but there still will be a few or some that should be evacuated directly to the United States.

OPERATIONS IN THE CONGO

Senator MCCLELLAN. If there are no other questions on this item we will pass over to the contribution of international organizations.

You were allowed the full amount on this item, Mr. Secretary. I see it is covered in your statement, $25,616,000 and in a supplemental to the previous provision and it represents, you say, the United Nations assessment for operations in the Congo from November 1, 1961, to June 30, 1962.

Mr. CROCKETT. Yes, sir.

Senator MCCLELLAN. You have no money in regular budget to pay that?

Mr. CROCKETT. No, sir. We never asked for the money. We have Secretary Cleveland here from the International Organization who will speak to this.

STATEMENT OF HARLAN CLEVELAND, ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS

GENERAL STATEMENT

Senator MCCLELLAN. I would like to know how much we are now contributing annually to International Organization. Does anyone know? Could you get that total figure yet?

Mr. CLEVELAND. Yes, sir; altogether there are quite a lot of figures. Senator MCCLELLAN. For the moment give me your totals. Mr. CLEVELAND. Out of the State Department appropriation. Senator MCCLELLAN. Do you have a chart here showing all of them?

Mr. CLEVELAND. We have a chart here showing all of them on State Department, AID, and other appropriations.

Senator MCCLELLAN. I would like for that statement to be printed in the record at this point so we will have that information. (The information referred to follows:)

1.

1 Assessment for period July-December 1960.

2 Includes waiver of airlift costs reimbursed to Department of Defense.

8 Fiscal year 1962 supplemental now before Congress.

Public Law 480 contribution in kind.

Financing mechanism dependent on progress of "refugee" legislation. Alliance for Progress.

7 Anticipated supplementals.