Word: msa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turn of events in Iran, was yet aware that they were also going to play hob with his attempt to cut down foreign spending. The State Department tentatively decided that the best it could offer at the moment is about $20 million out of a special emergency MSA fund. Before the U.S. threw Iran this life preserver, it wanted to discuss the rescue operation with Britain. Called in, British Ambassador Sir Roger Makins said that he realized the importance of keeping Iran in the anti-Communist camp. Still, it would not do to advance aid so quickly or generously...
...hour and a half with G.O.P. legislative leaders, urging passage of the refugee bill, foreign aid and ratification of the three NATO treaties. The next morning House Appropriations Chairman John Taber and members of the House Foreign Aid Subcommittee sat at the White House mess for talks about the MSA money bill...
Setback: Foreign Aid. A few days after Congress authorized $5,157,000,000 Mutual Security aid in fiscal 1954, the President, keeping well below the ceiling, submitted a request for $5,124,000,000 in specific MSA appropriations. But the House committee, led by New York's John Taber, knocked $705 million off the request...
...ships cited for 1953. The British, said the report, have done nothing to crack down on Hong Kong shipping firms, which operate 68 vessels as fronts for their actual owners, the Chinese Communists. Next in line for the subcommittee's strictures were the State Department and MSA. Charged the investigators: "Since the beginning of the Korean war, our Government has had no clear-cut policy on China trade by our allies; they had inadequate factual information as to the kind, extent and effect of the trade; they lacked the forcefulness and vigor necessary to convince our allies that they...
There were other indications of restiveness about aid, on both sides of the aisle. Prodded by Montana's Democratic Senator Mike Mansfield, a onetime champion of foreign aid, the Senate handed MSA two new deadlines: all economic-aid speeding must end by June 30, 1956, and all spending for military assistance must be wound up a year later. The deadlines demonstrated that the U.S. Senate (and U.S. citizens) has not forgotten that the MSA program was, indeed, meant to be temporary. Said Senator Mansfield: "I believe . . . that the MSA as such has reached a point where the returns...