Military Assistance Extension of the Mutual Defense Assistance Testimony by Gen. Dwight Eisenhower on For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Stock Number: 052-070-03690-7 58 382 ST XL i LU 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, JOHN H. BUCHANAN, JR., Alabama BENJAMIN A. GILMAN, New York ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO, California MARIAN A. CZARNECKI, Chief of Staff (II) Foreword 22 This is the sixth 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. As indicated in the foreword to volume V, the hearings in this volume deal with the extension of the mutual defense assistance program of 1949, frequently called MDAP 1950. Also included in the volume are the committee's unpublished hearings on the Greek-Turkish Aid Act of 1947 and the Inter-American Military Cooperation Act, considered later in the same year. 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, |