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1 The amounts reported include the annual assessments or contributions with adjustments where applicable (as explained in the text), for advances to the working capital fund, credits due the United States or payments made on a split-year basis. This table does not include

(a) The amount of $5,000,000 advanced to the United Nations to help meet the cost of clearing the Suez Canal. This advance is being refunded from canal tolls.

(b) A loan of $65,000,000 to the United Nations to build its headquarters. This loan is being repaid in annual installments.

(c) The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), considered as part of the cost of U.S. participation in international meetings and conferences. (d) The cost of U.S. Government employees loaned to the secretariats of organizations, such as the Central Treaty Organization, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization.

2 Contributions to the Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Civil Aviation Organization, and the Caribbean Commission are paid on a split-year basis; i.e., the amount contributed during a given U.S. fiscal year pays approximately half of the assessments for the previous and current calendar years. 3 Of this amount $1,399,210 applies to calendar year 1960 and $1,600,000 applies to calendar year 1961.

4 Of this amount $672,187 applies to calendar year 1960 and $722,813 applies to calendar year 1961.

The fiscal year 1961 contribution includes $29,962,833 for calendar year 1960 and $38,654,061 for calendar year 1961. The fiscal year 1962 contribution includes a balance of $8,855,596 for calendar year 1961 and $37,016,800 for calendar year 1962.

Total contributions from other governments not yet complete; consequently, U.S. percentage cannot be determined. Total contributions to Apr. 15, 1962, amounted to $49,025,489.

7 Of this amount $33,931 applies to the fiscal period ending September 1960 and $78,368 is the full assessment for the fiscal period ending September 1961. U.S. participation is provisional pending completion of necessary action to establish the Commission. Includes a balance for prior years.

10 The percentage shown applies to the International Council of Scientific Unions only.

11 Under the treaty the 1961 total was $90,900,000 from all participating governments (Australia, Canada, Germany, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, United Kingdom,
United States, and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development). The amount for the United States ($43,900,000) represents about 48 percent, funded
from fiscal year 1961 and 1962 funds.
12 Of this amount $3,675,000 represents a loan from the Development Loan Fund.

13 In addition, through Dec. 31, 1961, the United States had contributed the equivalent of $33,374,493 in Pakistani rupees (Public Law 480 currency).

15 In addition the United States also donated 76,000,000 pounds of dried skim milk with a CCC valuation of $13,100,000 or a world market value of $5,300,000. 16 Includes $6,500,000 in Public Law 480 food commodities.

17 In addition to the adjustments (see footnote 1) amounting to about $26,000,000, this amount also includes U.S. contributions to the UNOC Economic Program, the Commission for Technical Cooperation in Africa, and the Indus Basin Development, for which complete data is not available to be included in the columns "Total program."

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D. Immigration and Visas

669. WAIVER OF FINGERPRINTING REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN NONIMMIGRANT ALIENS: Announcement Issued by the Department of State, April 22, 1961 1

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The Federal Register on April 22 published regulations of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service amending the requirements for fingerprinting nonimmigrant aliens who remain in this country longer than 1 year. Under these regulations nonimmigrant aliens who are nationals of countries that fingerprint U.S. citizens in like circumstances will be required to be fingerprinted when they have been here 1 year. Fingerprinting is waived for other nonimmigrant aliens, regardless of the length of their stay here, provided they maintain their legal status as nonimmigrants.

The new regulations are based on an agreement of April 5, 1961. between the Secretary of State and the Attorney General for the implementation of section 8 of the act of September 11, 1957, which authorized the waiver of the fingerprinting requirement. The agreement of April 5, 1961, replaces one dated October 9, 1957,3 under which fingerprinting was waived for all nonimmigrant aliens during the first year of their stay in this country. Under both agreements fingerprinting is waived on a reciprocal basis for all nonimmigrant visa applicants.

According to available information, the following countries apply a fingerprinting requirement to nonimmigrant U.S. nationals staying in their territory:

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670. VISITORS', QUOTA, AND NONQUOTA IMMIGRANT VISAS ISSUED DURING FISCAL YEAR 1961: Announcement Issued by the Department of State, August 26, 1961 (Excerpt)*

More foreign visitors obtained visas for the United States in the last fiscal year than ever before, according to figures released by the Department of State on August 26.

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Department of State press release No. 249 (text as printed in the Department of State Bulletin, May 8, 1961, p. 692).

26 Fed. Reg. 3563.

3 See American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1957, pp. 1679-1680. Department of State press release No. 597 (text as printed in the Department of State Bulletin, Sept. 25, 1961, p. 524).

Salvatore A. Bontempo, Administrator of the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, in releasing the annual statistics on visa services, which are compiled in the Department's Visa Office, pointed out that the 714,019 nonimmigrant visas issued, principally to visitors, was 6 percent higher than the record set in the preceding fiscal year. The total number of visas issued by American consular offices throughout the world during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1961, was 974,051, an increase of 5 percent over last year's record number.

Mr. Bontempo noted that an increase of 44 percent was registered in nonimmigrant visas issued to Argentine nationals and expressed the hope that corresponding increases would soon be registered in other countries through the efforts of the Kennedy administration to stimulate tourist travel in the United States.

A total of 260,032 quota and nonquota immigrant visas was also issued during the 1961 fiscal year to persons seeking permanent residence in the United States. More immigrant visas were issued to Mexicans (40,097) than to persons of any other nationality. Canadians (32,849) came next, followed by Germans (30,970), British (24,163), and Italians (19,787).

AN ACT TO AMEND THE IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES: Public Law 87-301, Approved September 26, 1961 "

671. ANALYSIS OF THE AMENDED IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT: Remarks Made by the Deputy Administrator (Cieplinski), Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, Department of State, Before the American Immigration and Citizenship Conference, New York City, October 6, 1961 (Excerpt)"

Your organization and its many members are vitally interested in the revision of our immigration policies. The immigration policy of the United States is not only a matter of domestic concern; it is an important factor in our foreign relations. The Department therefore wholeheartedly supported and welcomed the recent amendment to the Immigration and Nationality Act which eliminated the much

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S. 2237, 87th Cong.; 75 Stat. 650.

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See also S. Rept. 646, 87th Cong., July 28, 1961; H. Rept. 1086, 87th Cong., Aug. 30, 1961; and H. Rept. 1172, 87th Cong., Sept. 12, 1961 (the conference report).

Department of State press release No. 684, Oct. 4, 1961 (text as printed in the Department of State Bulletin, Oct. 30, 1961, pp. 727–728).

Cited as an unnumbered title, supra.

misunderstood requirement that a visa applicant state his race and ethnic classification. From a foreign policy point of view it was of equal importance that the Congress eliminated the ceiling on minimum quotas in the Asia-Pacific triangle and made it possible that new political entities do not lose any of the quotas held previously by their components. This latter change in our laws will meet the problems created by the formation of newly independent nations, for example, the projected federation of The West Indies. From a long-range point of view, the Department recognizes the importance of placing all independent areas in the Western Hemisphere on an equal footing. The recent legislation also relieved certain pressures on oversubscribed quotas for the benefit of close relatives of American citizens and permanent resident aliens. The Department is in favor of any legislation which permits the unification of families separated in migration. It is hoped that eventually this objective will be met by more permanent legislation, possibly following the approach proposed by Representative Walter in H.R. 6300, which would permit the use of unused quotas for this purpose.

In summarizing the views of the Department on needed revisions of our immigration laws, I cannot do better than quote the President of the United States in his message to you when you met in March of this year.

"The tasks we face in revision of our immigration policy must be keyed to the tasks we face in connection with every aspect of our rapidly changing world. The emergence of new nations in Asia and Africa, the assumption of power by any totalitarian tyranny, the cries for assistance when disaster strikes, all call for the best in our American traditions. Our immigration programs must be free from any taint of racism or discrimination."

'See the unnumbered titles, ante, p. 340.

INDEX*

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development, 710, DLF assistance in,
1264-1266, 1299-1302, European eco-
nomic aid in, 510, 511, 524-525, 535,
542, 543, FAO survey, 184, IBRD sur-
veys, 203, Investment Guaranty Pro-
gram, 1267, 1300-1301, U.N. Gen. Ass.
res., 716-720, 1187, U.S. statements,
38, 42-46 passim, 704–707, 714-716,
1185, WHO assistance, 241-243; polit-
ical freedom for-African position re,
703-704, 707n, 711, Nigerian-U.S.
communiqué, 895, nonaligned coun-
tries, declaration of, 119, 121, Su-
danese-U.S. communiqué, 897, U.N.
view on, 126, U.S. statements re, 44,
165-168, 704-709, 745; United Na-
tions, African participation in, 123-
125, 165, 241, 242, 772, 893, 895, 897;
U.S. Naval Task Force visit to, 794

Locate under substantive elements of
titles

Agency for International Development
(AID) (see also International Co-
operation Administration): Estab-
lishment of, 1293, 1297; foreign cur-
rency loan program, assumption of
responsibility for administration of,
1323; report on operations, 1298-1301
Agricultural commodities (surplus),
programs for disposal of. See Agri-
cultural Trade Development and As-
sistance Act of 1954, Food-for-Peace
Program, U.S., and World Food Pro-
gram

Africa (see also individual countries
and territories): Charters-African | Agencies, national and international.
and Malagasy Union (Brazzaville
Powers), 713-714, African Charter of
Casablanca (Casablanca Group), 703-
704, 709, Union of African States
(Ghana-Guinea-Mali), 710-713; con-
ferences of-African and Malagasy
Heads of State and Government
(Monrovia), 710, 893, 895, (Yaoundé)
707, African States on Development
of Education in Africa (Addis
Ababa), 710, Afro-Asian States, Eight,
Heads of State or Government of
(Casablanca), 750, All-African Peo-
ples, 3d (Cairo), 707, Heads of State
or Government of Nonaligned Coun-
tries (Belgrade), 118–124, 554; de-
nuclearized zone-proposal of Africa
as, U.N. Gen. Ass. res., 1186-1187, U.S.
view re, 1184-1186; development of
African States plan for educational

*NOTE: Organizational abbreviations
(e.g., DLF, EFTA, OAS, etc.) used in
the text and in the index appear in their
alphabetical order in the index.

The terms "Soviet," "U.K.," and
"U.S." are employed throughout the
index as adjectival forms for the United
Kingdom (Great Britain), the United
States, and the U.S.S.R.

Persons are not identified by office
in the index, but usually where a person
is first mentioned in any section a foot-
note identification is given unless that
person is identified in the text.

Agricultural production program of
FAO. See Freedom-from-Hunger
Campaign

Agricultural Trade Development and
Assistance Act of 1954 (see also Food-
for-Peace Program): Administration
of, 1254-1259; amendment of, 1253;
foreign currency loans under, 1283,
1317-1318, 1322–1323, 1331-1332, 1335-
1336, 1355, 1359-1361; Inspector Gen-
eral, Foreign Assistance, responsibili-
ties under, 1288

Agriculture, Committee on (House), re-
quest for sugar report, 328
Agriculture, Department of: Agricul-
tural Trade Development and Assist-
ance Act of 1954, as amended, admin-
istrative responsibilities under, 1254,
1256; export promotion of farm prod-
ucts, 1227; sugar, Special Study

(1373)

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