An Act to provide for the control by the United States and cooperating foreign nations of exports to any nation or combination of nations threatening the security of the United States, including the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and all countries under its
PL 82-213 (H.R.4550), enacted 10/26/1951

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PUBLIC LAW 212—OCT. 26, 1951 
[65 
STAT. 
Provided further^ That the instrument of conveyance shall reserve 
to the Carolina-Virginia Coastal Highway Corporation necessary 
rights-of-way and easements as may be required for the construction, 
maintenance, and repair of a toll road across the Currituck Beach 
Lighthouse Reservation: Provided further, That the instrument of 
conveyance shall reserve to the Virginia Electric and Power Company 
a perpetual easement and right-of-way across the Currituck Beach 
Lighthouse Reservation as may be required for an electric distribu-
tion line from Duck to Caffeys Inlet along the Great Barrier Reef 
located in Currituck and Dare Counties, together with such easement 
rights and privileges for construction, operation, and maintenance 
of such pole and wire lines across the said Currituck Beach Light-
house Reservation. 
Approved October 25, 1951. 
[For additional Public Laws approved October 25,1951, 
see Public Laws 219-221 on pages 655-657.] 
Public Law 212 
CHAPTER 574 
October 26,1951 
[H. R. 3937] 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act of June 28, 1948 (62 Stat. 1061), to provide for the operation, 
management, maintenance, and demolition of federally acquired properties 
following the acquisition of such properties and before the establishment of 
the Independence National Historical Park, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
tionsa^^^torl^fpM^k United States of America in Congress assemhled, That the Act of June 
Administration, etc.; 
of properties. 
Funds. 
Contracts. 
28,1948 (62 Stat. 1061), is hereby amended to add thereto the follow-
ing section: 
"SEC. 7. Following the acquisition by the Federal Government of 
properties pursuant to this Act and until such time as the buildings 
thereon are demolished or the properties and buildings thereon are 
devoted to purposes of the Independence National Historical Park as 
provided herein, the Secretary is authorized, with respect to the said 
properties, to administer, operate, manage, lease, atid maintain such 
properties, and lease, demolish, or remove buildings, or space in build-
ings thereon, in such manner as he shall consider to be in the public 
interest. Any funds received from leasing the said properties, build-
ings thereon, or space in buildings thereon, shall be deposited to the 
credit of a special receipt account and expended for purposes of oper-
ating, maintaining, and managing the said properties and demolish-
ing or removing the buildings thereon. 
The Secretary, in his dis-
cretion and notwithstanding other requirements of law, may exercise 
and carry out the functions authorized herein by entering into agree-
ments or contracts with public or private agencies, corporations, or 
persons, upon such terms and conditions as he deems to be appropriate 
in carrying out the purposes of this Act." 
Approved October 26, 1951. 
October 26,1951 
[H. R. 4550] 
Public Law 213 
CHAPTER 575 
AN ACT 
To provide for the control by the United States and cooperating foreign nations 
of exports to any nation or combination of nations threatening the security of 
the United States, including the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and all 
countries under its domination, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Seriate and House of Representatives 
of the 
sis^ce^c^ntrofAct United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may 
of 1951. 
be cited as the "Mutual Defense Assistance Control Act of 1951". 
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645 
TITLE I—^WAR MATERIALS 
SEC. 101. The Congress of the United States, recognizing that in a ^^^^- P^^^y «
^ em-
world threatened by aggression the United States can best preserve 
and maintain peace by developing maximum national strength and by 
utilizing all of its resources in cooperation with other free nations, 
hereby declares it to be the policy of the United States to apply an 
embargo on the shipment of arms, ammunition, and implements of 
war, atomic energy materials, petroleum, transportation materials of 
strategic value, and items of primary strategic significance used in the 
production of arms, ammunition, and implements of war to any nation 
or combination of nations threatening the security of the United 
States, including the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and all 
countries under its domination, in order to (1) increase the national 
strength of the United States and of the cooperating nations; (2) 
impede the ability of nations threatening the security of the United 
States to conduct military operations; and (3) to assist the people 
of the nations under the domination of foreign aggressors to reestablish 
their freedom. 
It is further declared to be the policy of the United States that no 
military, economic, or financial assistance shall be supplied to any 
nation unless it applies an embargo on such shipments to any nation 
or combination of nations threatening the security of the United States, 
including the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and all countries 
under its domination. 
This Act shall be administered in such a way as to bring about the ^Administration of 
fullest support for any resolution of the General Assembly of the 
United Nations, supported by the United States, to prevent the ship-
ment of certain commodities to areas under the control of governments 
engaged in hostilities in defiance of the United Nations. 
SEC. 102. Responsibility for giving effect to the purposes of this Act 
Administrator. 
shall be vested in the person occupying the senior position authorized 
by subsection (e) of section 406 of the Mutual Defense Assistance Act 
of 1949, as amended, or in any person who may hereafter be charged 
^ ^*^|- "^^^-^ ^^^ 
with principal responsibility for the administration of the provisions 
of the Mutual Defense Assistance Act of 1949. Such person is herein-
after referred to as the "Administrator". 
SEO. 103. (a) The Administrator is hereby authorized and directed ite?fs*^tr*be"embar-
to determine within thirty days after enactment of this Act after full goed. 
and complete consideration of the views of the Departments of State, 
Defense, and Commerce; the Economic Cooperation Administration; 
and any other appropriate agencies, and notwithstanding the provi-
sions of any other law, which items are, for the purpose of this Act, 
arms, ammunition, and implements of war, atomic energy materials, 
petroleum, transportation materials of strategic value, and those items 
of primary strategic significance used in the production of arms, 
ammunition, and implements of war which should be embargoed to 
effectuate the purposes of this Act: Provided^ That such determinations 
Adjustments. 
shall be continuously adjusted to current conditions on the basis of 
investigation and consultation, and that all nations receiving United tions°r™lMng *u °s 
States military, economic, or financial assistance shall be kept informed assistance. 
of such determinations. 
(b) All military, economic, or financial assistance to any nation sistanS!'^*'°° °^ ^' 
shall, upon the recommendation of the Administrator, be terminated 
forthwith if such nation after sixty days from the date of a determi-
nation under section 103 (a) knowingly permits the shipment to any 
nation or combination of nations threatening the security of the 
United States, including the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and 
all countries under its domination, of any item which he has determined 
under section 103 (a) after a full and complete investigation to be 
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[65 STAT. 
Continuance of as-
sistance by direction 
of President. 
Reports to Congress. 
Resumption of as-
sistance. 
"Assistance" activ-
ities not included. 
included in any of the following categories: Arms, ammunition, and 
implements of war, atomic energy materials, petroleum, transporta-
tion materials of strategic value, and items of primary strategic sig-
nificance used in the production of arms, anmiunition, and implements 
of war: Provided, That the President after receiving the advice of 
the Administrator and after taking into account the contribution of 
such country to the mutual security of the free world, the importance 
of such assistance to the security of the United States, the strategic 
importance of imports received from countries of the Soviet bloc, and 
the adequacy of such country's controls over the export to the Soviet 
bloc of items of strategic importance, may dirwjt the continuance of 
such assistance to a country^ which permits shipments of items other 
than arms, ammunition, implements of war, and atomic energy 
materials when unusual circumstances indicate that the cessation of 
aid would clearly be detrimental to the security of the United States: 
Provided further. That the President shall immediately report any 
determination made pursuant to the first proviso of this section with 
reasons therefor to the Appropriations and Armed Services Commit-
tees of the Senate and of the House of Representatives, the Committee 
on Foreign Relations of the Senate, and the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs of the House of Representatives, and the President shall at 
least once each quarter review all determinations made previously and 
shall report his conclusions to the foregoing committees of the House 
and Senate, which reports shall contain an analysis of the trade with 
the Soviet bloc of countries for which determinations have been made. 
SEC. 104. Whenever military, economic, or financial assistance has 
been terminated as provided in this Act, such assistance can be resumed 
only upon determination by the President that adequate measures have 
been taken by the nation concerned to assure full compliance with the 
provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 105. For the purposes of this Act the term "assistance" does 
not include activities carried on for the purpose of facilitating the 
procurement of materials in which the United States is deficient. 
TITLE II—OTHER MATERIALS 
Regulation of ex-
ports. 
Negotiations w i t h 
recipient countries for 
controlling certain ex-
ports. 
Afitt, p. 645. 
Termination of as-
sistance. 
SEC. 201. The Congress of the United States further declares it to be 
the policy of the United States to regulate the export of commodities 
other than those specified in title I of this Act to any nation or com-
bination of nations threatening the security of the United States, 
including the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and all countries 
under its domination, in order to strengthen the United States and 
other cooperating nations of the free world and to oppose and offset 
by nonmilitary action acts which threaten the security of the United 
States and the peace of the world. 
SEC. 202. The United States shall negotiate with any country receiv-
ing military, economic, or financial assistance arrangements for the 
recipient country to undertake a program for controlling exports of 
items not subject to embargo under title I of this Act, but which in 
the judgment of the Administrator should be controlled to any nation 
or combination of nations threatening the security of the United States, 
including the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and all countries 
under its domination. 
SEC. 203. All military, economic, and financial assistance shall be 
terminated when the President determines that the recipient country 
(1) is not effectively cooperating with the United States pursuant to 
this title, or (2) is failing to furnish to the United States information 
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sufficient for the President to determine that the recipient country is 
eflfectively cooperating with the United States. 
TITLE III 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 301. All other nations (those not receiving United States mili-
tary, economic, or financial assistance) shall be invited by the President 
to cooperate jointly in a group or groups or on an individual basis in 
controlling the export of the commodities referred to in title I and 
title I I of this Act to any nation or combination of nations threatening 
the security of the United States, including the Union of Soviet Social-
ist Republics and all countries under its domination. 
SEC. 302. The Administrator with regard to all titles of this Act 
shall— 
(a) coordinate those activities of the various United States depart-
ments and agencies which are concerned with security controls over 
exports from other countries; 
(b) make a continuing study of the administration of export control 
measures undertaken by foreign governments in accordance with the 
provisions of this Act, and shall report to the Congress from time to 
time but not less than once every six months recommending action 
where appropriate; and 
(c) make available technical advice and assistance on export control 
procedures to any nation desiring such cooperation. 
SEC. 303. The provisions of subsection (a) of section 403, of section 
404, and of subsections (c) and (d) of section 406 of the Mutual 
Defense Assistance Act of 1949 (Public Law 329, Eighty-first Con-
gress), as amended, insofar as they are consistent with this Act, shall 
be applicable to this Act. Funds made available for the Mutual 
Defense Assistance Act of 1949, as amended, shall be available for 
carrying out this Act in such amounts as the President shall direct. 
SEC. 304. In every recipient.country where local currency is made 
available for local currency expenses of the United States in connec-
tion with assistance furnished by the United States, the local currency 
administrative and operating expenses incurred in the administration 
of this Act shall be charged to such local currency funds to the extent 
available. 
SEC. 305. Subsection (d) of section 117 of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1948 (Public Law 472, Eightieth Congress), as amended, and 
subsection (a) of section 1302 of the Third Supplemental Appropria-
tion Act, 1951 (Public Law 45, Eighty-second Congress), are repealed. 
Approved October 26, 1951. 
Cooperation of non-
recipient countries. 
Ante, pp. 645, 646. 
Duties of Admin-
istrator. 
Applicability of des-
ignated provisions. 
63 
Stat. 717. 
22 U. S, C. §§ 1574, 
1575, 1577. 
A v a i l a b i l i t y of 
funds. 
Expenses chargeable 
to l o c a l currency 
funds. 
Repeals. 
62 Stat. 154. 
22 U. 8. C. § 1615. 
Ante, p. 63. 
Public Law 214 
CHAPTER 577 
AN ACT 
To amend certain housing legislation to grant preferences to veterans of the 
Korean conflict. 
October 26,1951 
[S. 2244] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Repi^esentatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That paragraph (14) 
of section 2 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (50 Stat. 388, 
as amended; 42 U. S. C. 1402) is amended to read as follows: 
"(14) The term 'veteran' shall mean a person who has served 
in the active military or naval service of the United States at any 
time (i) on or after September 16, 1940, and prior to July 26, 
Korean veterans, 
Housing 
prefer-
ences. 
63 Stat. 424 
"Veteran."