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service" training with various Cow
eminent agencies here. This year
221 such specialists are studyins
here.
They are distributed as follows.
Agriculture Department, 43; Budget
Bureau, 8: Census Bureau, IA; Civil
Aeronautics Administration, Is;
Coast and Geodetic Survey, Is;
business economics In the Commerce
Department, 6; international trade,
8; Bureau of Standards, 4; Weather
Bureau, s; Federal Communications
Commission, Q; Federal Security
Agency public health, vital statis-
tics, etc., So; Fish and Wildlits
Service, s; Geological Survey, Q;
Labor Department, Is; National
Archives, 3; Tariff Commission, 4.
In another phase of the cultural
program, this Government makes
small grants to aid certain com.
munity schools in Latin America.
The State Department wants au-
thority for such aid extended to the
rest of the world so 1t can give
financial help to such institutions
as the famous American University
of Beirut and Robert College In
Turkey.
These are long established insti.
tutions built and financed by Amer.
lean missionary groups. Mr.. Benton
emphasized that the Government
has no intention OF attempting to
assume any control of such insti-
buttons, but merely to make grants
of aid where necessary to improve
their services. Their nongovern.
mental background has been inn-
portant in making them extremely
influential in the Near East.
University Influenced Arabs.
Describing these private institu.
tons as without any question
among the major American politf.
cal assets in the Near East" Mr..
Benton said one British diplomat
stated that the American Univer.
sity of Beirut was "the most inpor-
tant single influence for keeping the
Arab states loyal to the Allies dur
ing the war"
Increasing appreciation Of this
value of cultural and information
work done by private agencies is
reflected in the pending authorize
ton bill. 1t provides that "it shall
be the duty of the Secretary Of
State to utilize, insofar as is prac-
ticable, the services and facilities Of
private agencies" in carrying out
the authorized activities.
william I. Nichols, editor of This
Week Magazine, now is working as
consultant to the State Depart
ment on study of what the de-
partment can do to facilitate and
stimulate the work of private agen-
cies of all kinds in building better
understanding of America abroad.
His study will include a review Of
what Is being done in this field by
American business firms with prop
critics and sales forces in foreign
countries. Such companies are In
position to build invaluable good
will for the United States In their
dealings with peoples Of other ma
tons.
Passage Of the pending authorize
ton bill would change the name of
OIC to the once of Information
and Educational Exchange, as wen
as extend It's educational exchange"
functions beyond the Western Hemi-
sphere and give formal authority to
It's information activities.
In its unanimous report on the
measure, the House Foreign Affairs
Commute declared its enactment
Is essential II we are to have a
mutual understanding between the
people of the United States and the
people OF other countries which viii
serve as a firm and lasting founda.
ton for world peas