CONTENTS Organization for the conduct of foreign economic programs. The Department of Defense and the conduct of foreign affairs___ The role of the Department of State in program operation and Representation in foreign countries__ Consequence of shifts in power relationship.... The National Interests and Objectives of the United States-- Page Development of the Overseas Information Program....... Impact of the United Nations System on United States Administration__ Reorganization of the Department of State and the Foreign Service----- Regional Arrangements and Their Effect upon Administration__ Joint work on civil affairs and occupied areas administration.. SUMMARY: SCOPE AND CONCLUSIONS OF THE REPORT This report was undertaken primarily for the purpose of supplementing certain portions of the work of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (the Hoover Commission). The principal objective has been to prepare an analysis yielding conclusions that can be applied to certain phases of the general problem of organizing the Government for the conduct of foreign affairs and overseas operations. In pursuing this objective, special attention has been given to questions of organization that are of general and enduring importance and that can also be expected to have interest in relation to the decisions of 1951. SCOPE OF THE REPORT The first three chapters of the report are devoted respectively to a review of factors basic to the conduct of foreign relations in the world today, to recent developments in Government organization affecting the administration of foreign affairs, and to key elements of administrative doctrine for major units of the Government. Six chapters then follow, each of which is devoted to the detailed examination of a complex problem involving a number of main issues and alternative courses of action. The problems selected for analysis in chapters IV to IX have been stated as follows: 1. To determine the basic structure of organization in the executive branch most suitable for the conduct of foreign economic programs. 2. To review the responsibilities of the Department of Defense in the field of foreign affairs and to determine the relationships it should accordingly maintain with other foreign affairs agencies. 3. To determine the functions that should be performed by the Department of State in the operation and coordination of foreign programs. 4. To determine the manner in which the United States Government should be represented in foreign countries, and the relationships of United States officials in each country to the chief of the diplomatic mission in that country. 5. To determine the kind of personnel administration that is needed |