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TRUMAN
MAN
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JULY 27, 1951
The President has today sent identical letters to Honorable
Kenneth McKellar, Chairman, Committee on Appropriations of the United
States Senate, and Honorable Clarence Cannon, Chairman, Committee on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives. The text of the letter
follows:
My dear Mr. Chairman:
I wish to call to your attention a critical situation
which now exists with respect to the financing of the Palestine
Refugee Program of the United Nations. This program of relief
to Arab refugees displaced from Palestine was carried on during
the fiscal year 1951 through contributions from participating
countries, including a contribution from the United States of
$25,450,000. The Mutual Security Program now before the
Congress includes a request of $50,000,000 for the United
States contribution to this program in the fiscal year 1952.
In the July Joint Resolution making temporary appro-
priations, no provision was made for the Palestine Refugee
Program. The program was carried forward during July, however,
through the use of existing stocks and funds from other sources.
Available resources are now nearly exhausted.
One of the principal causes of tension in the Near
East is the miserable state of the hundreds of thousands of
Arab refugees from Palestine. A major step forward was recently
made when the Arab League went on record in favor of a massive
program of resettlement of Palestinian refugees in the Arab
States. Grave damage to this program is likely to result if
the present aid program collapses because of a temporary short-
age of funds.
I therefore urgently request that the pending continuing
resolution provide $2,000,000 for the month of August and
$3,000,000 for the month of September. Such a contribution is
essential to prevent the starvation of many refugees and to avoid
a deterioration in the present critical situation in the Near
East.
Respectfully yours,
HARRY S. TRUMAN
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