Word: msa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sent to Congress four reorganization proposals, including 1) a merger of all foreign information services, now carried on by State, MSA, Point Four and occupation authorities, into a new U.S. Information Agency, and 2) the abolition of MSA in favor of a new, broader Foreign Operations Administration. Both will be under the State Department's policy guidance...
...foreign aid. Proposed outlay: about $5.8 billion, or some $1.8 billion less than Harry Truman's request for fiscal 1954. Other highlights of the 1954 Mutual Security program: ¶ Europe will still be the No. 1 beneficiary, but its proportion (more than $3 billion) of the whole MSA pie will be cut from about 75% to 55%. ¶ Asia will get about 30%, a larger share (about $1.7 billion) than ever before. This sum includes $400 million for Indo-China. representing about 40% of the cost of the Indo-Chinese war to France (although the French, cut down...
...Administration knew that its MSA program faced a rough reception on Capitol Hill, and brought up its biggest guns to help the $5.8 billion request on its way. The President, in a special message, guaranteed that the $5.8 billion figure had been "carefully developed," and added: "Unequivocally, I can state that this amount of money judiciously spent abroad will add much more to our nation's ultimate security . . . than would an even greater amount spent merely to increase the size of our own military forces in being...
...against any cuts in the program and, in the process, dashed hopes for a balanced budget: "I am distressed that we cannot balance the budget this year . . . the risks that would involve in our security would simply be too great . . ." Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, JCS Chairman Omar Bradley and MSA Director Harold Stassen echoed the Administration argument...
Governor Tri took his plan to the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, and last month got a grant of 7,000,000 piastres ($340,000) to give it a try. Said MSA Director Frederic P. Bartlett: "It's a calculated risk, a useful experiment of French, Vietnamese and American cooperation...