Part XIII

THE INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION, EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE, AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS PROGRAMS

A. Legislation and Administration

406. A PLAN FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT IN HAWAII OF A CENTER FOR CULTURAL AND TECHNICAL INTERCHANGE BETWEEN EAST AND WEST: Report Transmitted by the Secretary of State (Herter) to the Congress, December 31, 1959 (Excerpt)1

CHAPTER VI

SUMMARY OF PROPOSALS AND ESTIMATES

An International Center, as proposed, concentrating on Asian and Pacific affairs and established in connection with the University of Hawaii could make a valuable contribution to the programs of the United States for the promotion of international educational, cultural, and related activities.

1. In keeping with the views of the Hawaiian Community Advisory Committee, it should consist of two principal units, to be maintained, staffed, and operated by the University. These units would consist of (1) an International College offering academic programs and related services and (2) an International Training Center providing facilities for on-the-job, in-service, or field training. The principal officers of the Center would be the Director, the Dean of the International College, and the Director of the Training Center. The Director of the International Center would report directly to the President of the University.

2. To initiate a program for such a Center would require the provision as soon as possible of adequate housing and related facilities; its expansion would have to be commensurate with the growth of such facilities.

1 Department of State Bulletin, Jan. 25, 1960, pp. 130-131.

3. During the first three years, scholarships for students from Asian and Pacific areas as well as for those of the United States should be provided, and also grants for outstanding scholars, scientists, and other specialists and men of leadership in order to strengthen the program of the Center and demonstrate its potentialities.

4. The facilities, services, and resources of the Center should be made available at reasonable cost to all qualified students, scholars, agencies, and institutions interested in participating in its programs.

5. Appropriate advisory committees should be established to assure adequate liaison and policy and program guidance from the viewpoint of the participating or sponsoring agencies and institutions.

6. To carry out such a Plan would require special financial support, that is, support from sources other than and in addition to the Government and University of Hawaii.

7. Such special financial support, it is estimated, would amount to $8,300,000. This would be distributed as follows: (a) a contribution to initial building costs; and during the first three years, (b) contributions toward operational expenses, (c) scholarships for 225 Asian and Pacific students and 75 American students, (d) grants to outstanding Asian, Pacific, and American scholars and other leaders, and (e) advisory services. (For detailed figures, see Appendix 7.) 2

8. Regarding the possibility of special financial support from the Federal Government, no specific provision has been made for these needs in the budget for 1961. The Plan for the Center as it materializes can be called to the attention of agencies of the Government planning programs which might make use of available facilities. Some support for the Center might be possible also to the extent that it could be derived from grants available under programs authorized by general legislation. Thus, the University might further explore the possibilities of obtaining assistance for the necessary building under the loan program of the Housing and Home Finance Agency or under programs of assistance to educational institutions, like those currently proposed in H.R. 4267 or S. 1017, 86th Congress, First Session, 1959. For scholarships, fellowships, and other similar payments to or for students and other individuals, grants could be sought under the regular programs for which the Congress appropriates funds as authorized by the U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, as amended; 3 Title III of Chapter II of the Mutual Security Act of 1954; the National Defense Education Act; and other Acts cited specifically or in general terms in the legislation which has authorized this Report."

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The complete text of the report was issued as a committee print of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

Text in American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1959, pp. 1713–1726. 4 Text ibid., pp. 1612-1615.

P.L. 85-864, approved Sept. 2, 1958; 72 Stat. 1580.

6 For the Congressional action taken on this report, see chapter VII of the Mutual Security Act of 1960; ante, doc. 392.

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BUREAU OF EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Circular No. 355, Issued by the Department of State, April 26, 1960 7

407. APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY AND FOR RELATED EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FOR FISCAL YEAR 1961: Title IV of Public Law 86-678, Approved August 31, 1960 (Excerpt) 8

UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For expenses necessary to enable the United States Information Agency, as authorized by Reorganization Plan No. 8 of 1953, and the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act, as amended (22 U.S.C. 1431 et seq.),10 to carry out international information activities, including employment, without regard to the civil service and classification laws, of (1) persons on a temporary basis (not to exceed $120,000), (2) aliens within the United States, and (3) aliens abroad for service in the United States relating to the translation or narration of colloquial speech in foreign languages (such aliens to be investigated for such employment in accordance with procedures established by the Secretary of State and the Attorney General); travel expenses of aliens employed abroad for service in the United States and their dependents to and from the United States; salaries, expenses, and allowances of personnel and dependents as authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended (22 U.S.C. 801-1158); entertainment within the United States not to exceed $500; hire of passenger motor vehicles; insurance on official motor vehicles in foreign countries; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a); 12 payment of tort claims, in the manner authorized in the first paragraph of section 2672, as amended, of title 28 of the United States Code 13 when such claims arise in foreign countries; advance of funds notwithstanding section 3648 of the Revised Statutes, as amended; 14 dues for library membership in organizations which issue publications to members only, or to members at a price lower than to others; employment of aliens, by

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་ The Department of State Bulletin, May 23, 1960, pp. 844-846. The new bureau, created out of the former Bureau of International Cultural Relations (see American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1959, pp. 1726-1727), became so designated effective Apr. 17, 1960.

8 See footnote 3 to doc. 415, post.

Text in American Foreign Policy, 1950–1955: Basic Documents, pp. 3184-3186. 10 American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1959, pp. 1713–1726.

11 60 Stat. 999.

12 60 Stat. 810.

12 73 Stat. 471.

contract, for service abroad; purchase of ice and drinking water abroad; payment of excise taxes on negotiable instruments abroad; cost of transporting to and from a place of storage and the cost of storing the furniture and household and personal effects of an employee of the Foreign Service who is assigned to a post at which he is unable to use his furniture and effects, under such regulations as the Director may prescribe; actual expenses of preparing and transporting to their former homes the remains of persons, not United States Government employees, who may die away from their homes while participating in activities authorized under this appropriation; radio activities and acquisition and production of motion pictures and visual materials and purchase or rental of technical equipment and facilities therefor, narration, script-writing, translation, and engineering services, by contract or otherwise; maintenance, improvement, and repair of properties used for information activities in foreign countries; fuel and utilities for Government-owned or leased property abroad; rental or lease for periods not exceeding five years of offices, buildings, grounds, and living quarters for officers and employees engaged in informational activities abroad; travel expenses for employees attending official international conferences, without regard to the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and to the rates of per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence expenses under the Travel Expense Act of 1949, 15 but at rates not in excess of comparable allowances approved for such conferences by the Secretary of State; and purchase of objects for presentation to foreign governments, schools, or organizations; $102,557,300, of which not less than $14,000,000 shall be used to purchase foreign currencies or credits owed to or owned by the Treasury of the United States: Provided, That not to exceed $90,000 may be used for representation abroad: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available for expenses in connection with travel of personnel outside the continental United States, including travel of dependents and transportation of personal effects, household goods, or automobiles of such personnel, when any part of such travel or transportation begins in the current fiscal year pursuant to travel orders issued in that year, notwithstanding the fact that such travel or transportation may not be completed during the current year: Provided further, That funds may be exchanged for payment of expenses in connection with the operation of information establishments abroad without regard to the provisions of section 3651 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 543): Provided further, That passenger motor vehicles used abroad exclusively for the purposes of this appropriation may be exchanged or sold, pursuant to section 201(c) of the Act of June 30, 1949 (40 U.S.C. 481 (c)),16 and the exchange allowances or proceeds of such sales shall be available for replacement of an equal number of such vehicles and the cost, including the exchange allowance of each such replacement, except buses and station wagons, shall not exceed $1,500: Provided further, That,

1563 Stat. 166; 5 U.S.C. § 835 note.

18 63 Stat. 383, 384.

notwithstanding the provisions of section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 665), the United States Information Agency is authorized in making contracts for the use of international shortwave radio stations and facilities, to agree on behalf of the United States to indemnify the owners and operators of said radio stations and facilities from such funds as may be hereafter appropriated for the purpose against loss or damage on account of injury to persons or property arising from such use of said radio stations and facilities: Provided further, That existing appointments and assignments to the Foreign Service Reserve for the purposes of foreign information and educational activities which expire during the current fiscal year may be extended for a period of one year in addition to the period of appointment or assignment otherwise authorized.

SALARIES AND EXPENSES (SPECIAL FOREIGN CURRENCY PROGRAM) For purchase of foreign currencies which accrue under title I of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1704), for the purposes authorized by sections 104 (i) and 104 (j) of that Act, to remain available until expended, $3,000,000, of which not less than $2,011,600 shall be available only to purchase currencies which the Treasury Department shall determine to be excess to normal requirements of the United States: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be used for the purchase of currencies available in the Treasury for the purposes of section 104(f) unless such currencies are excess to the normal requirements of the United States: Provided further, That the dollar value of the unexpended balances, as of June 30, 1960, of allocations of foreign currencies heretofore made for the purposes of such sections 104(i) and 104(j) is appropriated as of that date and shall be merged with this appropriation.

ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION OF RADIO FACILITIES

For an additional amount for the purchase, rent, construction, and improvement of facilities for radio transmission and reception, purchase and installation of necessary equipment for radio transmission and reception, without regard to the provisions of the Act of June 30, 1932 (40 U.S.C. 278a),18 and acquisition of land and interests in land by purchase, lease, rental, or otherwise, $8,740,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for acquisition of land outside the continental United States without regard to section 355 of the Revised Statutes (40 U.S.C. 255), and title to any land so acquired shall be approved by the Director of the United States Information Agency.

PHILIPPINE-AMERICAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION

For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of section 1011(d) of the United States Information and Educational Exchange

17 See the unnumbered title, ante, p. 811.

1847 Stat. 412, 1517.