The Finnish Educational Exchange Act, Public Law 265, 81st Congress, provides that part of the annual payment of Finland's World War I debt to the United States may be used for educational exchanges between the two countries. The contractual costs of this program must be financed by appropriations under the Smith-Mundt Act. The India Emergency Food Aid Act of 1951, Public Law 48, 82d Congress, authorizes the use of certain sums, payable by the Government of India to the United States as interest on the emergency food relief loan, for educational exchanges between the two countries. Public Law 701, 79th Congress,3 authorizes the instruction at the United States Merchant Marine Academy of citizens from the other American Republics. 163 Stat. 630. Supra, pp. 2227-2229. 60 Stat. 961. INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAM Number of Exchanges by Country and Category (Cumulative 1949 through fiscal year 1954; figures for fiscal year 1955 listed in separate column) 1 3200 INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAM-Continued Number of Exchanges by Country and Category-Continued (Cumulative 1949 through fiscal year 1954; figures for fiscal year 1955 listed in separate column) 1 Although the dates given are 1949 through 1955, the program was not in operation in all of the countries for the whole period. The table, as given, includes grants awarded under the Fulbright Act (PL 584, 79th Cong., 2d sess., Aug. 1, 1946; A Decade of American Foreign In addition to the totals given in the table, there were, for the period 1939-1948, 5,481 exchanges which are not listed by country. These exchanges were principally with the During the period 1949-1955 emergency aid grants were given, following the withdrawal of the Government of China to Taiwan, to 3,641 Chinese nationals to enable them to Laos, Cambodia, and Viet-Nam were grouped under Indochina for the years 1950, 1951, and 1953. Figures in this table were included under Viet-Nam for those years. 3203 |