SELECTED EXECUTIVE SESSION HEARINGS wwwwww Volume Foreign Economic Part I Foreign Assistance Act of 1948 (Marshall Plan For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THOMAS E. MORGAN, Pennsylvania, Chairman CLEMENT J. ZABLOCKI, Wisconsin L. H. FOUNTAIN, North Carolina DONALD W. RIEGLE, JR., Michigan CARDISS COLLINS, Illinois GERRY E. STUDDS, Massachusetts WILLIAM S. BROOMFIELD, Michigan BENJAMIN A. GILMAN, New York ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO, California MARIAN A. CZARNECKI, Chief of Staff (II) Foreword 2 This is the third in a series of volumes based on transcripts of hearings in executive sessions of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs (now the Committee on International Relations) during the period 1943-50 and dealing with subjects of historical interest. As I indicated in the foreword to the series as a whole (which appears in volume I), the committee feels these volumes will help in the commemoration of our Nation's bicentennial. Congress determined our foreign policy in the country's early years, and throughout our history has continued to play an important role in foreign affairs and international relations. It is likely that this role will increase as global interdependence in economic, technological, and other fields requires more consideration of the best ways to manage resources for the benefit of our Nation as well as the world and to preserve our national welfare. The hearings in this volume include the committee's discussions of the European recovery program (the Marshall plan) and related measures, ultimately combined in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1948. Except for the correction of typographical errors and the insertion of appropriate subheads, the hearings printed in this volume are published in complete form, as they were taken down at the time. In accordance with the committee's procedures, former members have given their permission for publication of these hearings, and the Department of State has indicated that it has no objection to their release from the standpoint of foreign policy. THOMAS E. MORGAN, Chairman, Committee on International Relations. (III) |