Office of the Historian

United States foreign assistance programs: the development of the mutual security program 1

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For documentation on the Point Four Program, with particular reference to organizational and administrative problems of technical assistance activities, see pp. 1641 ff. For documentation on U.S. economic, military, and financial aid in support of the defense of Western Europe, see vol. iii, pp. 1 ff. For additional material on U.S. assistance to specific nations and regions, see volumes ii , iv , v , vi , and vii .

Regarding the origins of the Mutual Security Program, see also Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 82d Cong., 1st sess., 1951 (Historical Series, vol. III, Parts 1 and 2, made public in August 1976), Part 2.

[99] Paper Prepared in the Department of State

[Washington,] July 21, 1951.

700.5 MAP/7–2151

[103] The Secretary of State to Certain Missions Concerned With the Mutual Security Program

Washington, August 3, 1951—2:50 p. m.

800.00 FA/8–351: Circular airgram

[105] Paper Prepared by the International Security Affairs Committee

[Washington, August 8, 1951.]

S/S-NSC Files, Lot 63 D 351, NSC 114 Series1

[107] Memorandum Approved by the International Security Affairs Committee

[Washington,] September 6, 1951.

ISAC Files, Lot 53 D 443

[109] Paper Prepared by the International Security Affairs Committee

[Washington, October 12, 1951.]

S/S–NSC Files, Lot 63 D 351, NSC 114 Series

[110] Current Economic Developments

[Washington,] October 15, 1951.

Current Economic Developments, Lot 70 D 467, FRC Acc. No. 72A6248

[113] The Secretary of Defense (Lovett) to the President

Washington, October 23, 1951.

Truman Library, Truman Papers, PSF–General File

[115] Current Economic Developments

[Washington,] November 12, 1951.

Current Economic Developments, Lot 70 D 467, FRC Acc. No. 72A6248

  1. Master files of the records of the National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems, 1945—1958, as retired by the Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State (FRC Acc. No. 71A6682, Item 70, 15 boxes).↩
  2. Serial master file of National Security Council documents and correspondence and related Department of State memoranda for the years 1947–1961, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat of the Department of State.↩