An Act making appropriations for Mutual Security for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, and for other purposes
PL 83-218 (H.R.6391), enacted 08/07/1953

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PUBLIC LAW 218~AUG. 7, 1953 
[67 ST A T . 
August 7, 1953 
[H« R. 6391] 
Public Law 218 
CHAPTER 351 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for Mutual Security for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1954, and for other pui'poses. 
Be it enaxited hy the Seriate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Mutual Security United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following 
ppropnation ct. g^j^g ^^.g appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, for Mutual Security for the fiscal year ending 
June 30, 1954, namely: 
1954. 
MUTUAL SECURITY 
65 Stat. 373. 
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u s e 
1 6 5 1 
note. 
Ante, 
pp. 152, 
159, 156. 
Ante, 
pp. 152, 
159, 156. 
22 u s e 1691. 
Ante, p. 156. 
Ante, 
pp. 152, 
159. 
22 u s e 1701. 
China. 
Ante, 
pp. 152, 
159. 
22 u s e 1711. 
Ante, 
pp. 152, 
159. 
22 u s e 1681. 
Spain. 
Italy. 
Formosa, etc. 
Ante, p. 152. 
22 u s e 1702. 
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 amended, as follows: 
Military assistance, Europe: For assistance authorized by sections 
540 and 548 for the purpose of section 101 (a) (1), $1,860,000,000, 
together with not to exceed $1,311,977,003 of the unobligated balances 
of appropriations heretofore made for military assistance, Europe, 
which balances shall be consolidated with this appropriation; 
Military assistance, Near East and Africa: For assistance author-
ized by sections 540 and 548 for the purpose of section 201, 
$240,000,000; and in addition, for assistance authorized by section 
202 (b), $30,000,000; together with not to exceed $312,713,221 of the 
unobligated balances of appropriations heretofore made for military 
assistance. Near East and Africa, which balances shall be consoli-
dated with this appropriation; 
Military and other assistance, Asia and the Pacific: For assistance 
authorized by sections 540 and 548 for the purpose of section 301, 
$1,035,000,000, together with not to exceed $256,843,411 of the 
unobligated balances of appropriations heretofore made for military 
and other assistance, Asia and the Pacific, which balances shall be 
consolidated with this appropriation, of which there shall be avail-
able for assistance to the Nationalist Government of China, with 
temporary headquarters on Formosa, 20 per centum in excess of the 
sums set up in the document entitled, "Mutual Security Program 
estimates, fiscal year 1954"; 
Military assistance, American Republics: For assistance author-
ized by sections 540 and 548 for the purpose of section 401, $15,000,000, 
together with not to exceed $50,723,170 of the unobligated balances of 
appropriations heretofore made for military assistance, American 
Republics, which balances shall be consolidated with this appropria-
tion; 
Mutual defense financing, defense support, economic and technical 
assistance, Europe: For assistance authorized by sections 541 and 548 
for the purpose of section 101 (a) (2), $220,000,000, together with 
not to exceed $115,706,906 of the unobligated balances of appropria-
tions heretofore made for the purposes of this paragraph of which 
unobligated balances, $75,049,926 shall be availble only for assistance 
to Spain and $37,500,000 shall be available for aircraft production in 
Italy; 
Mutual defense financing, defense support, economic and technical 
assistance, Formosa and the Associated States of Cambodia, Laos, and 
Vietnam: For assistance authorized by section 541 for the purpose of 
section 302 (a), $84,000,000, together with not to exceed $17,821,596 
of the unobligated balances of appropriations heretofore made for 
this purpose, which balances shall be consolidated with this 
appropriation; 
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Mutual defense financing, manufacturing in France: For assistance 
authorized by section 102, $85,000,000; 
Mutual defense financing, manufacturing in the United Kingdom: 
For assistance authorized by section 102, $85,000,000; 
Mutual defense financing, for equipment, materials and services 
for forces in the Associated States of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam: 
For assistance authorized by section 304, $400,000,000; 
Mutual special weapons planning: For assistance authorized by 
section 542, $50,000,000; 
Economic and technical assistance, Near East and Africa: For 
assistance authorized by section 543 for the purpose of section 203, 
$33,792,500; 
Economic and technical assistance, defense support, Asia and the 
Pacific, other than Formosa and the Associated States of Cambodia, 
Laos, and Vietnam: For assistance authorized by section 543 for the 
purpose of section 302 (a), $51,278,001, together with not to exceed 
$10,821,999 of the unobligated balances of appropriations heretofore 
made for economic and technical assistance, Asia and the Pacific, 
which balances shall be consolidated with this appropriation; 
Technical assistance, American Republics and non-self-governing 
territories of the Western Hemisphere: For assistance authorized by 
section 543 for the purpose of section 402, $22,342,000; 
Basic materials development: For assistance authorized by sections 
514 and 548, $19,000,000; 
Special economic assistance, Near East and Africa: For assistance 
authorized by section 206, $147,000,000; 
Palestine refugee program: Not to exceed $44,063,250 of the 
unobligated balances of appropriations heretofore made for this 
purpose are hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1954; 
Special economic assistance, India and Pakistan: For assistance 
authorized by section 302 (b), $75,000,000; 
Movement of migrants: For contributions authorized by section 
534, $7,500,000; 
Multilateral technical cooperation: For contributions authorized 
by section 544 during the fiscal year 1954 under section 404 (b) of the 
Act for International Development, $9,500,000; 
International children's welfare work: For contributions during 
the fiscal year 1954 as authorized by law, $9,814,333; 
Ocean freight, voluntary relief shipments: For payments author-
ized by section 535, $1,580,166, together with not to exceed $244,834 
of the unobligated balances heretofore appropriated for this purpose, 
which balances shall be consolidated with this appropriation; 
Contributions to United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency: 
For making contributions authorized by section 303 (a), $50,700,000. 
In addition to amounts otherwise made available herein, such 
amounts of 1953 funds as were obligated prior to June 30, 1953, and 
deobligated thereafter for any reason, shall be available for reobliga-
tion for the purposes of this Act during the current fiscal year. 
Ante, p. 153. 
Ante, p. 153. 
Ante, p. 153. 
Ante, p. 153. 
Ante, p. 154. 
22 u s e 1693. 
Ante, p. 154. 
22 u s e 1702. 
Ante, p. 154. 
22 u s e 1712. 
22 u s e 1665. 
Ante, p. 159. 
Ante, p. 154. 
Ante, p. 154. 
Ante, p. 154. 
Ante, p. 155. 
Ante, p. 161. 
Ante, p. 155. 
Ante, p. 155. 
1953 funds. 
CORPORATION 
The following corporation is hereby authorized to make such 
expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority 
available to such corporation or agency and in accord with law, and to 
make such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year 
limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation 
Control Act, as amended, as may be necessary in carrying out the pro-
grams set forth in the Budget for the fiscal year 1954 for such 
corporation: 
Institute of Inter-American Affairs. 
59 Stat. 598. 
31 u s e 849. 
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GENERAL PROVISIONS 
65 Stat. 373. 
22 u s e 
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note. 
Rental 
ters. 
47 Stat. 412. 
SEC. 102. Appropriations in this Act for economic or technical 
assistance and allocations from any appropriations to the Director 
for Mutual Security, or the Mutual Security Agency, or the Depart-
ment of State, shall be available, without limitation on any authority 
conferred by the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended, or any Act 
continued in effect thereby, for rents in the District of Columbia; 
expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the purposes of 
such appropriations; employment of aliens, by contract, for services 
abroad; examination of estimates of appropriations in the field; 
maintenance, operation, and hire of aircraft; hire of passenger motor 
vehicles and, in addition, passenger motor vehicles abroad may be 
exchanged or sold and replaced by an equal number of such vehicles; 
transportation of privately owned automobiles; entertainment within 
the United States (not to exceed $15,000) ; 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 entertainment, 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 
of quar- official motor vehicles in foreign countries; rental of quarters outside 
the continental limits of the United States to house employees of the 
United States Government (without regard to section 322 of the Act 
of June 30, 1932, as amended (40 U. S. C. 278a)), lease, necessary 
repairs and alterations to quarters; 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 persons are away from their homes participating in 
activities under the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended; purchase 
of uniforms; ice and drinking water for use abroad; and services of 
commissioned officers of the Public Health Service and of the Coast 
and Geodetic Survey, and for the purposes of providing such services 
the Public Health Service may appoint not to exceed twenty 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 twenty commissioned officers in addition to those otherwise 
Admini strative authorized: Provided^ That not to exceed $57,500,000 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: Provided further^ That 
none of the funds provided herein shall be used after September 30, 
1953, to pay any employee a basic salary of $12,000 or more per annum, 
except that this prohibition shall not apply to two-thirds of the number 
of employees being paid at the basic salary of $12,000 or more per 
Travel expenses, auuum ou Juue 30, 1953: Provided further^ That appropriations made 
under this Act 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 trans-
portation begins in the current fiscal year pursuant to travel orders 
issued in that fiscal year, notwithstanding the fact that such travel or 
transportation may not be completed during the current fiscal year: 
Provided further^ That no part of any appropriation contained in this 
62 Stat. 47. 
expenses 
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Act shall be available for expense of transportation, packing, crating, 
temporary storage, drayage, and unpacking of household goods and 
personal effects in excess of an average of five thousand pounds net 
but not exceeding nine thousand pounds net in any one shipment, but 
the limitations imposed herein shall not be applicable in the case of 
employees transferred to or serving in stations outside the continental 
United States under orders relieving them from a duty station within 
the United States prior to August 1,1953. 
SEC. 103. Payments made from funds appropriated herein for engi- 
Engineering 
neering fees and services to any individual engineering firm on any one *Re*port. 
project in excess of $25,000 shall be reported to the Committees on 
Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives at least 
twice annually. 
SEC. 104. Of the funds appropriated by this Act, except funds 
appropriated for assistance under sections 541 and 548 of the Mutual jg^"*^' PP* ^^2, 
Security Act of 1951, as amended, not less than $100,000,000 shall be 
used to carry out the provisions of section 550. 
SEC. 105. None of the funds provided by this Act nor any of the 
Foreign debts, 
counterpart funds generated as a result of assistance under this or '
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any other Act shall be used to make payments on account of the princi-
pal or interest on any debt of any foreign government or on any loan 
made to such government by any other foreign government; nor shall 
any of these funds be expended for any purpose for which funds have 
been withdrawn by any recipient country to make payment on such 
debts: Provided, That after September 1, 1953, none of the funds ^^'^TniSn.^*^" 
herein appropriated shall be used to make up any deficit to the 
European Payments Union for any nation of which a dependent area 
fails to comply with any treaty to which the United States and such 
dependent area are parties and said failure to qomply has been 
adjudicated adversely to said nation in any court of competent juris-
diction nor shall any of the counterpart funds generated as a result of 
assistance under this Act be made available to such nation. 
SEC. 106. The Administrator shall, in providing for the procurement 
Transp o r t a tion 
of commodities under authority of this Act, take such steps as may be seis^*^* "*^ ^**" 
necessary to assure, so far as is practicable, that at least 50 per centum 
of the gross tonnage of commodities, procured within the United States 
out of funds made available under this Act and transported abroad 
on ocean vessels, is so transported on United States flag vessels to the 
extent such vessels are available at market rates. 
SEC. 107. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
strikes or over-
be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who engages in a strike Lent*.* °^ Govem-
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 
Affidavit, 
for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered prima facie evi-
dence that the person making the affidavit has not contrary to the pro-
visions of this paragraph engaged in a strike against the Government 
of the United States, is not a member of an organization of Govern-
ment employees that asserts the right to 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 
fur-
ther, That any person who engages in a strike against the Government 
Penalty. 
of the United States or who is a member of an organization of Govern-
ment 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 
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in this or any other Act shall be guilty of a felony and, upon convic-
tion, 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. 
Short title. 
QEO. 108. This Act may be cited as the "Mutual Security Appropri-
ation Act, 1954". 
Approved August 7, 1953. 
Public Law 219 
CHAPTER 352 
August 7, 1953 
^^ ACT 
[H. R. 5256] 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the retirement of judges 
of the Tax Court of the United States. 
T a x 
C o u r t 
5 u s e 691 note. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress asserrwled^ That part I of sub-
"sFstat. 158. 
chapter A of chapter 5 of the Internal Revenue Code (relating to 
1105.^^^ ^ ^ °°* organization and jurisdiction of the Tax Court of the United States) 
is hereby amended by inserting after section 1105 the following new 
section: 
"SEC. 1106. RETIREMENT. 
"(a) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this section— 
"(1) The term T a x Court'means the Tax Court of the United 
States. 
"(2) The term 'Civil Service Commission' means the United 
States Civil Service Commission. 
"(3) The term 'judge' means the chief judge or a judge of the 
Tax Court; but such term does not include any individual per-
forming judicial duties pursuant to subsection (c). 
"(4) The term 'Civil Service Retirement Act' means the Civil 
46 Stat. 468. ^ 
Scrvice Retirement Act of May 29,1930, as amended. 
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"(5) In any determination of length of service as judge there 
shall be included all periods (whether or not consecutive) during 
which an individual served as judge or as a member of the Board. 
"(b) 
RETIREMENT.— 
"(1) Any judge who has served as judge for eighteen years or 
more may retire at any time. 
"(2) Any judge who has served as judge for ten years or more 
and has attained the age of seventy shall retire not later than the 
close of the third month beginning after whichever of the follow-
ing months is the latest: 
"(A) The month in which he attained age seventy; 
"(B) The month in which he completed ten years of serv-
ice as judge; or 
"(C) The month in which this section is enacted. 
56^stat.^i4. 
Section 2 (a) of the Civil Service Retirement Act (relating to 
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automatic separation from the service) shall not apply in respect 
to judges. 
" (c) RECALLING OF RETIRED JUDGES.—Any individual who is receiv-
ing retired pay under subsection (d) may be called upon by the chief 
judge of the Tax Court to perform such judicial duties with the Tax 
Court as may be requested of him for any period or periods specified 
by the chief judge; except that in the case of any such individual— 
"(1) the aggregate of such periods in any one calendar year 
shall not (without his consent) exceed ninety calendar days; and 
"(2) he shall be relieved of performing such duties during any 
period in which illness or disability precludes the performance of 
such duties. 
5 u s e 715.