Foreign Educational Benefits and Surplus Property: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Military Affairs, United States Senate, Seventy-ninth Congress, Second Session, on S. 1440, a Bill Authorizing Use of Credits Established Through the Sale of Surplus Properties Abroad for the Promotion of International Good Will Through the Exchange of Students in the Fields of Education, Culture, and Science; and S. 1636, a Bill to Amend the Surplus Property Act of 1944 to Designate the Department of State as the Disposal Agency for Surplus Property Outside the Continental United States, Its Territories and Possessions, and for Other Purposes. February 25, 1946 ... |
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1944 to designate agency for surplus agreement Alaska including Aleutian Islands amend the Surplus amount appropriate Belgian Belgium benefits BENTON Borchardt Boxer indemnity Boxer Rebellion Chairman China Chinese claims colleges Committee on Military Congress continental United cultural currencies or credits dated January Dean Acheson DEAR SENATOR designate the Department desirable disposal agency dispose of surplus educational or training ELBERT D exchange of students facilities February 21 financing foreign countries foreign currencies foreign educational foreign governments funds including the Aleutian intangible rights interest J. W. Fulbright January 17 LANE legislation letter ment Military Affairs nations payment President proposed provisions Rhodes scholarship sale of surplus scholarships Secretary Senator FULBRIGHT Senator O'MAHONEY interposing Servicemen's Readjustment Act statement STEIN STUART SYMINGTON suggestion surplus property abroad Surplus Property Act Surplus Property Administrator surplus property disposal surplus property located Territories and possessions tion United States Senate Veterans Washington WILLIAM FULBRIGHT
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Page 29 - Congress hereby finds and declares — (a) that marine resources, including animal and vegetable life and mineral wealth, constitute a far-reaching and largely untapped asset of immense potential significance to the United States; and (b) that it is in the national interest of the United States to...
Page 7 - Islands, for foreign currencies or credits, or substantial benefits or the discharge of claims resulting from the compromise, or settlement of such claims by any Government agency in accordance with the law, whenever the Secretary of State determines that it is in the interest of the United States to do so and upon such terms and conditions as he may deem proper.
Page 2 - ... financing studies, research, instruction, and other educational activities of or for American citizens in schools and institutions of higher learning located in such foreign country, or of the citizens of such foreign country in American schools and instltutions of higher learning located outside the continental United States, Hawaii.
Page 2 - Islands, including payment for transportation, tuition, maintenance, and other expenses incident to scholastic activities; or (B) furnishing transportation for citizens of such foreign country who desire to attend American schools and institutions of higher learning in the continental United States, Hawaii, Alaska (including the Aleutian Islands), Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, and whose attendance will not deprive citizens of the United States of an opportunity to attend such schools and institutions...
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Page 1 - AN ACT To amend the Surplus Property Act of 1944 to designate the Department of State as the disposal agency for surplus property outside the continental United States, its Territories and possessions, and for other purposes.
Page 2 - States schools and institutions of higher learning located outside the continental United States, Hawaii, Alaska (including the Aleutian Islands), Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands...
Page 42 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to remit to China as an act of friendship...
Page 41 - States as and when they shall be certified to the Secretary of the Treasury by the said court, and any balance remaining after all such claims have been adjudicated and paid shall be returned to the Chinese Government in such manner as the Secretary of State shall decide, and the Secretary of the Treasury* is hereby authorized and directed to so return the same...
Page 43 - State shall, subject to the provisions of the War Mobilization and Reconversion Act of 1944, have sole responsibility for carrying out the provisions of the Surplus Property Act of 1944, with respect to surplus property located outside the continental United States, Hawaii, Alaska (including the Aleutian Islands), Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.