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.

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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
Policy, pp. 1235-1236) as well as those under the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (PL 402, 80th Cong., 2d sess., Jan. 27, 1948; ibid., pp. 1224-1234)
and other legislative authority. For a special listing of grants awarded under the Fulbright Act, see Swords Into Plowshares-A New Venture in International Understanding: The
Story of the Educational Exchange Program Authorized by the Fulbright Act of 1946 (Department of State publication 6344; 1956), Appendix 1, p. 47.

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
other American Republics under the provisions of PL 355 of the 76th Congress, 1st session (approved Aug. 9, 1939; 53 Stat. 1290), which implements the Convention for the Pro-
motion of Inter-American Cultural Relations signed at Buenos Aires, Dec. 23, 1936 (Treaty Series 928; 51 Stat. 178). These include grants to Americans as follows: 142 students,
230 research scholars, 1 teacher, and 641 specialists. The following grants were awarded to nationals of other countries during this period: 1,807 students, 39 research scholars,
140 teachers, and 2,481 leaders and specialists, of whom more than 500 were trainees from the Philippines under the Philippine Rehabilitation Act (PL 370, 79th Cong., 2d sess.,
approved Apr. 30, 1946; 60 Stat. 128). In some instances these early figures were estimated totals.

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
complete educational projects. Of these grantees, 3,498 were students already in the United States, 104 were teachers and research scholars, and 39 were Chinese students and
scholars from other areas of the Far East who were brought to the United States under provisions of the legislation. For the details of this program, see Program of Emergency
Aid to Chinese Students (Department of State publication 6343; 1956). Sixty-one Korean students were also given assistance under this program.

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.

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