SELECTED EXECUTIVE SESSION HEARINGS Volume United States Program Mutual Security Act of 1957 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS DANTE B. FASCELL, Florida, Chairman LEE H. HAMILTON, Indiana HARRY REID, Nevada MEL LEVINE, California EDWARD F. FEIGHAN, Ohio TED WEISS, New York GARY L. ACKERMAN, New York BUDDY MACKAY, Florida MORRIS K. UDALL, Arizona ROBERT GARCIA, New York WILLIAM S. BROOMFIELD, Michigan BENJAMIN A. GILMAN, New York ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO, California JIM LEACH, Iowa TOBY ROTH, Wisconsin OLYMPIA J. SNOWE, Maine HENRY J. HYDE, Illinois GERALD B.H. SOLOMON, New York DOUG BEREUTER, Nebraska MARK D. SILJANDER, Michigan ROBERT K. DORNAN, California CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH, New Jersey CONNIE MACK, Florida MICHAEL DEWINE, Ohio DAN BURTON, Indiana JOHN MCCAIN, Arizona Chairman's Foreword This is the first of the third group of volumes in the historical series which presents hitherto unpublished transcripts of selected hearings of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. These volumes cover committee hearings during the 85th and 86th Congresses (1957-60). In publishing the transcripts, it is the committee's continuing desire to make available the maximum amount of material that may be of interest to scholars and the public in general. As in the case of the earlier volumes, the transcripts in these volumes were selected for their relevance to significant foreign policy and international relations developments during the years which are covered. For historians and others interested in the development of our foreign policy, the transcripts selected shed additional light, we believe, on a number of significant undertakings in which the committee played an important part. During the years 1957-60, implementation of the mutual security programs through the Mutual Security Acts continued to be a major concern of the committee. As the principal vehicle for U.S. aid to other nations, the mutual security program (which came to be known colloquially as the "foreign aid" program), served as a very important channel through which America provided economic and military assistance to build up the strength of its allies and areas vital to the country's security. Throughout the years covered in this group of volumes, objectives, amounts, and types of foreign assistance were modified to meet changing situations. In addition to vital. military considerations, especially the Communist threat to the peace and security of the United States and its partners in the community of free nations, there was an increasing |