The House bill provided that any person who knowingly exports or imports wheat or wheat-flour in excess of the quantity of wheat or wheat-flour permitted to be exported or imported would forfeit to the United States a sum equal to three times the market value of the quantity of wheat or wheat-flour which exceeded the amount authorized to be exported or imported. The Senate amendment reduced the forfeiture to an amount equal to the market value of the excess. The conference substitute makes the forfeiture an amount equal to two times the market value of the excess and provides that the forfeiture shall only apply to importations or exportations knowingly and willfully made. BRENT SPENCE, PAUL BROWN, JOHN C. KUNKEL, Managers on the Part of the House. PRINTING AS A DOCUMENT A MANUSCRIPT ENTITLED “A DECADE OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY: BASIC DOCUMENTS, 1941-49," RELATING TO AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OCTOBER 18, 1949.-Ordered to be printed Mrs. NORTON, from the Committee on House Administration, submitted the following REPORT To accompany S. Con. Res. 60) The Committee on House Administration, to whom was referred the concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 60) to print as a Senate document, and 1,000 additional copies printed for the use of the Committee. on Foreign Relations of the Senate, the manuscript entitled "A Decade of American Foreign Policy: Basic Documents, 1941-49" prepared at the request of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by the staff of the committee and the Department of State, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the concurrent resolution do pass. The estimated cost for printing the document as provided for herein is approximately $17,000. O SETTLEMENT OF CERTAIN FINNISH CLAIMS OCTOBER 18, 1949.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. KEE, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, submitted the following REPORT (To accompany H. J. Res. 376) The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred the joint resolution (H. J. Res. 376) to settle the claims arising out of the requisitioning of Finnish vessels by the United States, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the joint resolution do pass. I. INTRODUCTION The legislation here proposed in no wise involves a gift or a grant. It involves only the settlement of an obligation long recognized by this Government and founded upon clear principles of domestic and international law. Following an initial study by the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Department of State of the complex circumstances and the simple aim of the legislation, the subject joint resolution, House Joint Resolution 376, was introduced by Representative Fulton on October 14. It was considered by the Committee on Foreign Affairs in executive session on October 18 and reported favorably. Previously the members of the committee had individually studied the documents and the legal arguments involved in this legislation. The proposition contained in this joint resolution is simple: To permit a direct appropriation to settle claims by the Government of Finland on behalf of certain Finnish shipowners growing out of ship requisitions made by this Government during World War II. The claims would be settled by transfer of the appropriate amount of money to the Finnish Government, and further claims in connection with the circumstances would then be foreclosed. This course will |