An Act making appropriations for mutual security for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, and for other purposes
PL 82-249 (H.R.5684), enacted 10/31/1951

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[65 STAT. 
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6 U. S. C. J 168c. 
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SU. S.C.§168a. 
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6 U. S. C. § 168d. 
(1) Act approved March 3, 1925, chapter 419, sections 1 and 
2, 43 Stat. 1104. 
(2) Act approved February 28, 1929, chapter 385, 45 Stat. 
1412, 1413. 
(3) Act approved March 22,1935, chapter 39, section 1 (part), 
49 Stat. 69 (only the proviso in the paragraph immediately 
under the heading "Collecting and Editing Official Papers of 
Territories of the United States", appearing on page 69). 
(4) Act approved February 14, 1936, chapter 70, 49 Stat. 
1139. 
(6) Act approved May 15, 1936, chapter 405, section 1 (part), 
49 Stat. 1311 (only the proviso in the paragraph immeoiately 
under the heading "Collecting and Editing Official Papers of the 
Territories of the United States", appearing on page 1311). 
(6) Act approved June 16, 1937, chapter 359, section 1 (part), 
50 Stat. 262, 263 (only the proviso which begins near the bottom 
of page 262, and ends on page 263). 
(7) Act approved June 28, 1937, chapter 386, 50 Stat. 323, 324. 
(8) Act approved April 27,1938, chapter 180, section 1 (part), 
52 Stat. 249 (only the proviso in the third full paragraph appear-
ing on page 249). 
(9) Act approved June 29,1939, chapter 248, Title I (part), 53 
Stat. 886 (only the proviso in the last paragraph on page 886). 
(10) Act approved July 31,1945, chapter 336, 59 Stat. 510, 511. 
(11) Act approved July 7,1950, chapter 452, 64 Stat. 320. 
(1) The repeal, by subsections (a)-(k) of this section, of the stat-
utes and parts oi statutes referred to in such subsections, shall not 
affect any rights or liabilities existing under such statutes or parts 
of statutes at the time this Act takes effect. 
Approved October 31, 1951. 
Public Law 249 
October 31, 1961 
[H. R. 6684] 
CHAPTER 656 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for Mutual Security for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1952, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
A^ro "rfatiorf^AcT ^^^'^^^ States of America in Congress assembled^ That the following 
1952."^ 
' sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, namely: 
MUTUAL SECURITY 
Arae,V).zn. 
63 Stat. 973. 
63 Stat. 714. 
For expenses necessary to enable the President to carry out the 
provisions of the Mutual Security Act of 1951 (Public Law 165, 
approved October 10,1951), as follows: 
Military assistance, title I : For assistance authorized by section 
101 (a) (1), $4,818,852,457, of which $44,476,271 is for payment of 
obligations incurred under authority granted in the Second Supple-
mental Appropriation Act, 1950, and extended in the Foreign Aid 
Appropriation Act, 1951, to enter into contracts under the Mutual 
Defense Assistance Act of 1949, as amended (22 U. S. C. 1571-1604) ; 
and, in addition, unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore 
made for carrying out the purposes of title I of the Mutual Defense 
Assistance Act of 1949, as amended, shall remain available through 
June 30, 1952, and such unexpended balances of appropriations shall 
be consolidated with this appropriation; 
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Economic and technical assistance, title I : For assistance authorized 
by section 101 (a) (2), $1,012,000,000; and, in addition, $10,000,000 
to carry out the provisions of section 115 (e) of the Economic Coopera-
tion Act of 1948, as amended, except that when determined by the 
22U.^8.c^'5i5i3. 
Director such balances as cannot be effectively expended shall 
be merged with funds appropriated under section 101 (a) (2) of the 
Mutual Security Act of 1951; and, in addition, unexpended balances Ante,p.z7i. 
of appropriations heretofore made for carrying out the purposes of 
the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, as amended (22 U. S. C. 
1501-1522), shall remain available through June 30, 1952, and be 
consolidated with this appropriation; 
Assistance to Spain: For economic, technical, and military assist-
ance, in the discretion of the President under the general objectives 
set forth in the declaration of policy contained in the titles of the 
Economic Cooperation Act of 1948 and the Mutual Security Act of 
1951, for Spain, $100,000,000; 
Military assistance, title I I : For assistance authorized by section 
201, $396,250,000; and, in addition, unexpended balances of appropria-
tions heretofore made for assistance to Greece and Turkey, available 
for the fiscal year 1951, pursuant to the Act of May 22, 1947, as 
amended (22 U. S. C. 1401-1410), and for assistance to Iran pursuant 
^i stat. 103. 
to the Mutual Defense Assistance Act of 1949, as amended (22 U. S. C. 
1571-1604), shall remain available through June 30, 1952, and be 
63Stat.7i4. 
consolidated with this appropriation; 
Economic and technical assistance, title I I : For assistance author-
ized by section 203, $160,000,000; 
Military assistance, title III: For assistance authorized by section 
301, $535,250,000; and, in addition, unexpended balances of appro-
priations heretofore made for the purposes of title III of the Mutual 
Defense Assistance Act of 1949, as amended (22 U. S. C. 1602-1604), 
esstat.vie. 
shall remain available through June 30,1952, and be consolidated with 
this appropriation; 
Economic and technical assistance, title III: For assistance author-
ized by section 302, $237,155,866; and, in addition, unexpended balances 
of funds heretofore made available for carrying out the purposes of the 
China Area Aid Act of 1950 (22 U. S. C. 1547), shall remain available 
64Stat.202. 
through June 30, 1952, and be consolidated with this appropriation; 
Contributions to United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency, 
title III: For the United States contribution to the United Nations 
Korean Reconstruction Agency as authorized by section 303, the unob-
ligated balances of the appropriations heretofore made, and available 
during the fiscal year 1951, for assistance to Korea under authority of 
the Far Eastern Economic Assistance Act of 1950, as amended (22 
64stat.5. 
U. S. C. 1543, 1551, 1552), shall i-emain available through June 30, 
1952, and be consolidated with this appropriation; 
Military assistance, title IV: For assistance authorized by section 
401, $38,150,000; 
Technical assistance, title IV: For assistance authorized by section 
402, $21,245,653. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 2. Appropriations in this Act under the heading "Mutual Secu- 0^^^™^^^ °^ ^P" 
rity" for economic and technical assistance and allocations from any 
appropriations under such heading to the Director for Mutual Security 
or the Mutual Security Agency shall be available, without limitation 
on any authority conferred by the Mutual Security Act of 1951 or 
^n<e,p.373. 
any Act continued in effect thereby, for rents in the District of Colum-
bia ; expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the purposes 
of such appropriations; hire of passenger motor vehicles; purchase 
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Expenditures of con-
fidential character. 
Acquisition of tem-
porary quarters. 
Officers of PHS and 
Coast and Geodetic 
Survey. 
62 Stat. 47. 
Persons engaging, 
etc., in strikes against 
or advocating over-
throwof U. S. Govern-
ment. 
Affidavit. 
Penalty clause. 
of not to exceed ten aircraft for use outside the continental limits of 
the United States and maintenance, operation, and hire of aircraft; 
purchase of not to exceed fifty passenger motor vehicles for use outside 
the continental limits of the United States and, in addition, passenger 
motor vehicles abroad may be exchanged or sold and replaced for an 
equal number of such vehicles; transportation of privately owned 
automobiles; entertainment within the United States (not to exceed 
$20,000) ; exchange of funds without regard to section 3651 of the 
Revised Statutes (31 U. S. C. 543); loss by exchange; expenditures 
(not to exceed $50,000) of a confidential character other than enter-
tainment provided that a certificate of the amount of each such 
expenditure, the nature of which it is considered inadvisable to specify, 
shall be made by the Director or Deputy Director of Mutual Security, 
and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the 
amount therein specified; insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign 
countries; acquisition of temporary quarters outside the continental 
limits of the United States to house employees of the United States 
Government by rental (without regard to section 322 of the Act of 
June 30, 1932, as amended (40 U. S. C. 278a)), lease, or construction 
and necessary repairs and alterations to such temporary quarters; 
health and accident insurance for foreign trainees and technicians 
while en route or absent from their own countries participating in 
activities authorized under the Mutual Security Act of 1951; actual 
expenses of preparing and transporting to their former homes in the 
United States or elsewhere the remains of persons or members of the 
families of persons who may die while such pjei-sons are away from 
their homes participating in activities under the Mutual Security Act 
of 1951; and services of commissioned officers of the Public Health 
Service and of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and for purposes of 
providing such services the Public Health Service may appoint not 
to exceed 20 officers in the Regular Corps to grades above that of senior 
assistant, but not above that of director, as otherwise authorized in 
accordance with section 711 of the Act of July 1,1944, as amended (42 
U. S. C. 211a), and the Coast and Geodetic Survey may appoint for 
such purposes not to exceed 20 commissioned officers in addition to 
those otherwise authorized: Promded^ That not to exceed $75,000,000 
shall be available for administrative expenses of the departments and 
agencies concerned with the administration of the programs provided 
for herein and no part of such amount shall be used to pay the salary 
of any civilian employee at a rate greater than that paid by the State 
Department for comparable work or services in the same area. 
SEO. 3, No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or of 
the funds available for expenditure by any corporation included in 
this Act, shall be used to pay th^ salary or wages of any person who 
engages in a strike against the Government of the United States or 
who is a member of an organization of Government employees that 
asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, 
or who advocates, or is a member of an organization that advocates, 
the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or 
violence: Provided^ That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be 
considered prima facie evidence that the person making the affidavit 
has not contrary to the provisions of this section engaged in a strike 
against the Government of the United States, is not a member of 
an organization of Government employees that asserts the right tt) 
strike against the Government of the United States, or that such 
person does not advocate, and is not a member of an organization 
that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States 
by force or violence: Provided further^ That any person who engages 
in a strike against the Government of the United States or who is a 
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member of an organization of Government employees that asserts 
the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or 
who advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, 
the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or 
violence and accepts employment the salary or wages for which are 
paid from any appropriation or fund contained in this Act shall be 
guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than 
$1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both: 
Provided 
further^ That the above penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not 
in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law. 
SEC. 4. This Act may be cited as the "Mutual Security Appropria-
tion Act, 1952". 
Approved October 31, 1951. 
Short title. 
Public Law 250 
CHAPTER 660 
AN ACT 
For the relief of the Fort Pierce Port District. 
October 31,1951 
[H. R. 2176] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money 
in the Treasury not otlierwise appropriated, to the Fort Pierce Port 
District, Fort Pierce, Florida, the sum of $235,286.08, in full satisfac-
tion of its claim against the United States for compensation for the 
use by the Navy Department during the period January 3, 1943, to 
March 1, 1946, of the Fort Pierce harbor, port, and channel, which 
were developed at the expense of the taxpayers residing within the 
taxing jurisdiction of the Fort Pierce Port District: Provided^ That 
no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per 
centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent 
or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with this 
claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary 
notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this Act 
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof 
shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. 
Approved October 31, 1951. 
Public Law 251 
CHAPTER 661 
AN ACT 
Relating to the income-tax treatment of gain realized on an involuntary 
conversion of property. 
October 31,1951 
[H. R. 3590] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That (a) section 112 
(f) of the Internal Revenue Code (relating to involuntary conver-
sions) is hereby amended to read as follows: 
"(f) 
INVOLUNTARY CONVERSION.—If property (as a result of its 
destruction in whole or in part, theft, seizure, or requisition or con-
demnation or threat or imminence thereof) is compulsorily or involun-
tarily converted— 
" (1) CONVERSION INTO SIMILAR PROPERTY.—^Into property similar 
or related in service or use to the property so converted, no gain 
shall be recognized. 
Internal Revenue 
Code, amendments. 
53 Stat. 39. 
26 U. S. C. § 112 (0.