Allowances are paid to the Institute's oversea staff, to students assigned to the Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese area language centers, and to a limited number of language students who receive short periods of training at their posts of assignment.

Funds under this estimate represent the payments of the employer's share of contributions for the various types of personnel benefits provided to Federal employees by law.

The increase of $7,500 is distributed by activity as set forth below:

Funds for travel and per diem are required for students on training details, field trips, field seminars, and consultations. Travel and per diem for staff are also necessary for the supervision of the post language and local staff travel at the language training centers.

Funds for post training expenses are used to cover the cost of the post language training programs and the operating costs of the Institute's oversea training centers at Beirut, Tokyo, and Taichung.

Funds are required for the tuition and related expenses of students assigned to universities for graduate level training in area and language, economics, and management. In addition, the institute sponsors students for special extension study after working hours in courses related to their job assignments.

Mr. ROONEY. They indicate that the request is in the amount $5,282,346, which would be an increase of $197,900 over the amount appropriated for this Institute in the current fiscal year. Do you have a general statement, Mr. Strom?

GENERAL STATEMENT OF DIRECTOR

Mr. STROM. Yes, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. I am Carl Strom, and I am a Foreign Service officer and Director of the Foreign Service Institute.

Since this is my first appearance before the committee I might make a short reference to myself.

I was born in Minnesota and lived, before entering the Foreign Service, in Minnesota and Iowa. I served in the First World War as a second lieutenant of infantry. I was graduated from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Subsequently, I took a master's degree at the University of Iowa. In 1924, I was elected a Rhodes scholar from Iowa, and I took a degree in mathematics at the University of Oxford. On

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returning to the United States, I took a doctor's degree in mathematics at the University of Illinois. I entered the Foreign Service after examination in 1935. I am now in my 27th year as a Foreign Service officer.

During the last 10 years, I have been assigned as deputy chief of mission in Seoul, Korea, as an inspector, and more recently as Ambassador to Cambodia and last to Bolivia.

I was appointed Director of the Foreign Service Institute about a year ago and entered on service at the end of May.

I have had a long interest in the affairs of the Institute. I was Chief of the Legislative Planning Branch of the Division of Foreign Service Planning when the legislation establishing the Institute was drawn up in 1946. I have maintained my interest through personal friendships with members of the staff and I have been the beneficiary of instruction on two occasions, having taken courses in French and Spanish.

PLANS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1963

Mr. Chairman, we are planning to operate next year on essentially the same program as in the current year.

The expansion of program involves certain training for dependents, which is almost entirely on a space-available basis this year, and certain extensions in the language training.

Mr. ROONEY. That is a splendid career, Mr. Strom. I listened with great interest and I wonder if you have had any further administrative experience?

Mr. STROM. Yes, sir. I am one of the few officers of the Foreign Service who has been in administrative work almost entirely until becoming Chief of Mission. I was assigned to the Division of Foreign Service Administration in 1941. I was administrative officer in Mexico City in 1943 and, as I mentioned, I was Chief of the Legislative Branch of the Division of Foreign Service Planning in the Department in 1948.

Subsequently, I was supervising consul general in Mexico City, which is essentially an administrative function, and after that I was a Foreign Service inspector 212 years.

Mr. ROONEY. Then we ought to have less trouble than usual in understanding your figures. Let us see if we need help.

Mr. STROM. I hope that we can make them plain, sir.

FISCAL YEAR 1963 COMPARED WITH FISCAL YEAR 1962

Mr. ROONEY. Let us look at page 399 of these justifications where we find the figure $4,068,000, which is said to represent a decrease of 18 positions to provide funds to meet priority needs of other offices. It appears that this figure of $4,068,000 is the base figure for 1962 for 302 positions.

However, when we look at last year's justifications at page 412, we find that 320 positions would cost $4,081,037; is that correct?

Mr. MEYER. That is correct, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. ROONEY. In other words, if I understand this correctly, Mr. Strom, the 18 positions decreased to provide funds to expend for other offices, only provided a saving of $13,037; is that right?

Mr. STROM. I think the explanation is the way in which