JAPANESE CONTRIBUTION

Mr. GARY. What are the Japanese putting into this program in the way of yen?

General HAMBLEN. That is the one we were just talking about, sir, on the 5 percent. They put up 188,460,000 yen (equivalent to $513,000) in Japanese fiscal year 1950 and 289,026,000 yen (equivalent to $803,000) in Japanese fiscal year 1951. They will continue to bear the local Japanese currency requirements.

Mr. GARY. For 1951?

Colonel HANNIGAN. The Japanese fiscal year starts on April 1. April 1, 1951, onward.

Mr. GARY. In other words, that is a year's appropriation?

General HAMBLEN. That is right, sir.

Mr. GARY. They have contributed a year's amount?
General HAMBLEN. That is right.

TRIESTE AND OFFICE FOR OCCUPIED AREAS

Mr. GARY. At this point we shall insert page 64 of the justifications in the record, which deals with Trieste and the United States expenditures here.

(The document is as follows:)

SECTION II. ADMINISTRATION AND REORIENTATION
Project summary, Trieste and Office for Occupied Areas

Mr. GARY. You are asking for $789,000 for those purposes. what is the $136,000 for Trieste to be used?

For

General HAMBLEN. Those are 16 civilians in the allied headquarters in Trieste.

Mr. GARY. What do they do?

General HAMBLEN. They are, I think, largely administrative people. They are business economists, chief of the program for exports and imports, agricultural economists, commercial specialists, civil engineers. Their particular purpose is to watch out for the economic interests of Trieste to protect our dollar expenditures there. There are, I think, five secretaries. The rest are economic specialists.

Mr. GARY. The $653,000 used here is the backstop program we talked about a few moments ago?

General HAMBLEN. Yes, sir.

Mr. GARY. We would like to have a personnel statement or tabulation showing the number of people employed in Trieste on this program, military, civilian and native, with the cost for 1951, and the estimated cost for 1952, and the same information with respect to the domestic expenditures.

General HAMBLEN. You mean this $653,000?

Fiscal year 1951-Schedule of employees by major activity for Office of Occupied Areas (including New York field office of the Reorientation Branch)

Fiscal year 1952-schedule of employees by major activity for Office of Occupied Areas (including New York field office of the Reorientation Branch)

ESTIMATED OBLIGATIONS FOR GARIOA, JUNE 30, 1951

Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. Under the Ryukyus you are asking $15 million for economic aid, $600,000 for reorientation supplies; $300,000 for interchange of persons and $2,125,000 for administrative expenses, as I understand it; a total of $18,025,000.

Colonel FOSTER. Yes, sir.

(Discussion off the record.)

Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. The chairman has asked you to furnish a detailed statement as to obligations and the pipeline with respect to the items appearing on page 8 of the justifications.

Mr. GARY. Stocks in the pipeline. I do not think I asked for the obligations. You may get the obligations, also.

Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. I would like to have the obligations as of some recent date for each one of the items appearing on page 8 of the justifications, and on page 9 of the justifications, both for the Ryukyus and for Japan.

(The information is as follows:)

GARIOA funds fiscal year 1951-Estimated obligations as of June 30, 1951

Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. In respect to page 41, showing $3,025,000 request for fiscal 1942 for the Ryukyus, I wish you would put in a table showing in parallel columns 1950 and 1951 for each of those items. (The information is as follows:)

SEC. II. ADMINISTRATION AND REORIENTATION

Project summary, Ryukyu Islands