Editorial Note
On August 13 the Acting Secretary of State, James E. Webb, sent a letter to Tom Connally and James P. Richards, Chairmen of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and House Foreign Affairs Committee, respectively, in which he informed them of the President’s recommendation that $30 million be extended to Yugoslavia for economic assistance and that this amount be advanced from funds available on the basis of joint resolutions which provided for the operation of the government through August 31, pending approval of the proposed Mutual Security Program. It was stated that this amount was part of and not in addition to the $60 million estimated for Yugoslavia during fiscal year 1952 under the Mutual Security Program. Copies of these letters are in file 868.00–FA/8–1351.
On August 27 the Yugoslav Ambassador was presented a letter informing him of the allotment of $29,800,000 in economic assistance for fiscal year 1952; the text of this letter was transmitted to Belgrade in telegram Ecato 132, August 28. (ECA message files, FRC 53A278, Belgrade) The following day the ECA issued a press release which announced its allotment for Yugoslavia and stated that this allotment was made in line with the London agreement under which the United States, the United Kingdom, and France agreed to supply Yugoslavia $50 million in aid during the last six months of 1951. The ECA press release is extensively quoted in the Wireless Bulletin, No. 209, August 28, 1951, page 6. Similar information was released to the press in Belgrade at the same time as reported in telegram 269, from Belgrade, August 28. (768.5–MAP/8–2851) Copies of the aide-mémoire handed to the Yugolav Government by the United States, the United Kingdom, and France on August 27 and the responding Yugoslav aide-mémoire of August 31 were transmitted in despatch 231 from Belgrade, September 6. (868.10/9–651)