CONTENTS LIST OF WITNESSES Page Merchant, Hon. Livingston T., Assistant Secretary of State for Dulles, Hon. John Foster, Secretary of State--. Humphrey, Hon. George M., Secretary of the Treasury. Bradley, Gen. Omar N., Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. 229 Wood, Hon. C. Tyler, Deputy to the Director for Mutual Security---- FitzGerald, Hon. D. A., Deputy to the Director for Mutual Security___ Stewart, Maj. Gen. George C., Director, Office of Military Assistance, O'Hara, Brig. Gen. John J., Deputy Director, Military Assistance Division, Headquarters, United States European Command__ Danforth, Comdr. Paul, Department of the Navy---- Halaby, Hon. N. E., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Inter- FitzGerald, Hon. D. A., Deputy to the Director for Mutual Security___ Stewart, Maj. Gen. George C., Director, Office of Military Assistance, Wood, Hon. C. Tyler, Deputy to the Director for Mutual Security__. 559 Henkins, Mrs. Clifford N., legislative chairman, National Congress of Parents and Teachers (presented by Mrs. Edith Fisher, foreign Ogg, W. Raymond, international affairs department, American Farm 609 710 676, 678 Duff, Lt. Col. Daniel D., Office of Assistant for Mutual Security, Efron, Samuel, Assistant General Counsel, Department of Defense--- Lourie, Hon. Donald B., Under Secretary of State for Administration, Martin, Edwin M., special assistant to the Secretary of State for Merchant, Hon. Livingston T., Assistant Secretary of State for Euro- Rodimon, Capt. W. S., United States Navy, Foreign Military Aid Stewart, Maj. Gen. George C., Director, Office of Military Assistance, Office of the Secretary of Defense.... Wood, Hon. C. Tyler, Deputy to the Director for Mutual Security. 712 710 Andrews, Stanley, Administrator, Technical Cooperation Adminis- Duff, Lt. Col. Daniel D., Office of Assistant for Mutual Security, Efron, Samuel, Assistant General Counsel, Department of Defense. Robertson, Hon. Walter S., Assistant Secretary of State for Far East- ern Affairs, Department of State__. Rodiman, Capt. W. S., United States Navy, Foreign Military Aid, Material Control Division, Office. Chief of Naval Operations. Stewart, Maj. Gen. George C., Director, Office of Military Assistance, Wood, Hon. C. Tyler, Deputy to the Director for Mutual Security___ Cale, Edward G., Jr., Director, Office of Regional American Affairs, Gardiner, Arthur Z., Politico-Economic Adviser, Bureau of Near East- Radford, Adm. Arthur W., Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet-- Sayre, Robert M., Office of Regional American Affairs, Department Stewart, Maj. Gen. George C., Director, Office of Military Assistance, 748 749 754 760 733 729 812 843 Wood, Hon. C. Tyler, Deputy to the Director for Mutual Security____ 811 Ellis, Ray C., vice president, Raytheon Manufacturing Co., Boston, 881 Andrews, Stanley, Administrator, Technical Cooperation Administra- Byroade, Hon. Henry A., Assistant Secretary of State for Near East- ern, South Asian, and African Affairs, Department of State----- Cabot, Hon. John M., Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Department of State---- Cook, Richard F., Program Director, Institute of Inter-American Af- FitzGerald, Hon. D. A., Deputy to the Director for Mutual Security-- Gardiner, Arthur Z., politico-economic adviser, Bureau of Near East- ern, South Asian, and African Affairs, Department of State-‒‒‒‒‒ Kersten, Hon. Charles J., a Representative in Congress from the State Wood, Hon. C. Tyler, Deputy to the Director for Mutual Security___ Young, Kenneth T., Director, Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Depart- 1049 Hall, Graham, special assistant to the Assistant Secretary for United Henderson, Joseph S., Chief, Division of International Administra- 1134 Martin, Edwin M., special assistant to the Secretary of State for Mu- Milliken, Otis, officer in charge, United Nations Social Affairs, Bureau 1150 O'Hara, R. E., Office of the Secretary, Department of Defense___ Russell, Brig. Gen. Sam C., G-4, Department of the Army_. Schmeder, Lt. Comdr. C. E., Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Warren, George L., special assistant to the Assistant Secretary for 1143 Wood, Hon. C. Tyler, Deputy to the Director for Mutual Security- 1133, 1185 Efron, Samuel, Assistant General Counsel, Department of Defense.. 1269 Eichholz, Robert B., General Counsel to the Director for Mutual Murphy, John E., Comptroller for the Director for Mutual Security.. Wood, Hon. C. Tyler, Deputy to the Director for Mutual Security-- MUTUAL SECURITY ACT EXTENSION WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1953 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE FAR EAST AND THE PACIFIC, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, in executive session, Foreign Affairs Committee Room, United States Capitol, at 10: 50 a. m., Hon. Walter H. Judd (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Mr. JUDD. The subcommittee will come to order. I was hoping that all the members of the Subcommittee on the Far East and the Pacific could be here before we started. Mrs. Church and Mr. Lanham are members. For some reason they are not yet here, but I think we should go ahead without them. General Olmsted, it is nice to have you back with us. As I said to the members of the committee, in the notice inviting them to this session, we wanted to have you come before us and give us your observations, impressions, criticisms, or recommendations that would be helpful to us when we have to get down a little later to reviewing the Mutual Security Act. You are able to give us your impressions on the basis of your knowing our committee and what we were trying to do when we passed the legislation. You were with us almost every day during our deliberations last year and because of your recent trip through the Far East, and inasmuch as you have returned to civilian life and will not be here when we have the bill, we have to take advantage of you while you are here. For the benefit of the new members of the committee, I wonder if you would mind giving us a little of your own background so that they will know you as the rest of us do. Then go ahead and make any preliminary statement following which we will ask you questions, if you do not mind. STATEMENT OF MAJ. GEN. GEORGE H. OLMSTED, FORMER DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF MILITARY ASSISTANCE, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE General OLMSTED. Mr. Chairman and ladies and gentlemen, I am happy for the opportunity to come and chat with you about this problem. I was educated as a professional soldier and resigned from the Army after a couple of years of active duty. I entered business in Iowa, my home State, was recalled to active duty as a Reserve officer in 1942, and served 42 years largely in the lend-lease type, or the international supply type of operation, both here in Washington and, for the last 18 months, in China. |