COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS JOHN TABER, New York, Chairman RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, Massachusetts CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri CHARLES A. PLUMLEY, Vermont FRANCIS H. CASE, South Dakota H. CARL ANDERSEN, Minnesota P. W. GRIFFITHS, Ohio LOWELL STOCKMAN, Oregon JOHN PHILLIPS, California ERRETT P. SCRIVNER, Kansas CHARLES R. ROBERTSON, North Dakota FREDERIC R. COUDERT, JR., New York LOUIS LUDLOW, Indiana JOHN H. KERR, North Carolina W. F. NORRELL, Arkansas JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi J. VAUGHAN GARY, Virginia 561 E & Oth V.33 DEPARTMENT OF STATE APPROPRIATION BID, HEARINGS CONDUCTED BY THE SUBCOMMITTEE, MESSRS. KARL STEFAN (CHAIRMAN), ROBERT F. JONES, WALT HORAN, IVOR D. FENTON, JOHN J. ROONEY, J. VAUGHAN GARY, AND THOMAS J. O'BRIEN, OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, IN CHARGE OF THE DEPARTMENTS OF STATE, JUSTICE, COMMERCE, AND JUDICIARY APPROPRIATION BILLS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1948, ON THE FOLLOWING DAYS, NAMELY: MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1947. STATEMENT OF HON. GEORGE C. MARSHALL, SECRETARY OF STATE; ACCOMPANIED BY DEAN ACHESON, UNDERSECRETARY; SELDON CHAPIN, DIRECTOR GENERAL, FOREIGN SERVICE; JOHN HILLDRING, ASSISTANT SECRETARY; WILLIAM BENTON, ASSISTANT SECRETARY; WILLARD L. THORP, ASSISTANT SECRETARY; WILLIAM EDDY, SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE SECRETARY; HARRY KURTH, BUDGET OFFICER; JOHN E. PEURIFOY, ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY Mr. STEFAN. The committee will come to order. We are going to take up at this time the appropriation for the Department of State for the fiscal year 1948. DATA ON ESTIMATES, OBLIGATIONS, EXPENDITURES, ETC. We will put into the record at this point pages 1 to 9 of the justifications. (The pages referred to are as follows:) Summary of requirements, fiscal year 1948 Appropriations, 1947 regular act. Supplemental appropriations for 1947 (Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1946) Add: $128,668, 752 49, 868, 654 $178, 537, 406 Appropriations established through consolidation... Pending supplemental appropriations (Public Law 390). Deduct: Appropriations eliminated through consolidations.. Activities reduced or eliminated.. Reduction in cost of handling penalty mail.. Base for 1948... M600343 1 Average number. Includes obligations for total Philippine rehabilitation program, whereas "Comparative summary of estimated obligations to be incurred" includes only State Department portion of program. 1 Includes obligations for total Philippine rehabilitation program, whereas "Comparative summary of estimated obligations to be incurred" includes only State Department portion of program. Estimated obligational authority related to obligations and expenditures (excluding Unobligated balances available.. Transfers to and from other Government agencies (net). Reimbursements and advances from other agencies... Payments available from nongovernmental sources.. Total obligational authority... Less unobligated balances at end of year: To be carried forward in continuing accounts. To lapse upon closing of accounts.... Total obligations to be incurred. Obligations outstanding at start of year.. Obligations to be accounted for.. Less expenditures in payment of obligations included above and shown in schedules of other agencies... Less collections treated as deductions from expenditures and items paid from agencies to which transferred. Department of State (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration)— Estimated obligational authority related to obligations and expenditures (excluding |