Statement by Commissioner of Education Earl James McGrath

PRESENTATION For the past several years the United States has engaged in an exchange of graduate students with the other Americán republics as provided under the terms of the Convention for the Promotion of Inter-American Cultural Relations and the travel and maintenance grant program. During this time, approximately 2,300 Latin-American graduate students have studied in this country under these two programs and about 200 graduate students from the United States have studied or carried on independent research in the various Latin-American countries. The United States graduate students have been required to present to the Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, a copy of their final research study which usually is in the form of a thesis or doctoral dissertation. These studies relate to many academic fields but the majority have been made in the social sciences, Spanish, Portuguese or French language or literature, music and art. In order to make these valuable studies available to other scholars of the Americas, it is a pleasure for me to present to you, Dr. Lleras, a number of these research projects. The volume which I am about to present to By Earl James McGrath, U.S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security Agency, Washington, D.C., upon occasion of presenting first copy of completed theses and dissertations to Dr. Lleras, Secretary-General of the Pan American Union, on April 1, 1952, Washington, D.C.