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Organization of American States, the inter-American organization, where we pay 68 or 69 percent, and that is to be reduced eventually to two-thirds.

It is true that in those organizations the budget is voted in most cases by the conference of the organization. In the case of the General Assembly it is voted by the General Assembly, and in the General Assembly we have only one vote; so that, theoretically, it is possible for the other members of the organization to vote a budget over our opposition.

The record of these organizations I think will show that there have been no unusual increases, no arbitrary increases against the opposition of the United States.

Mr. STEFAN. Could the administrative expenditures of the United Nations increase another $6 million by 1955?

Mr. SANDIFER. Perhaps I had better ask Mr. Hall to comment on that. He is more familiar with that technical sort of detail than I

am.

Mr. HALL. I think that would depend entirely on the political developments between now and 1955, because the vast majority of the United Nations expenditures go directly into maintenance or support of missions, commissions, and programs intended to safeguard the peace, and into the general economic work of the organization. I would not anticipate under the present circumstances that any such increase would be necessary. But I must say that we might have a change in the political situation which would make that essential from the standpoint of the United States.

Mr. STEFAN. It might run up another $6 million?

Mr. HALL. It might, but I would not expect that it would under the present circumstances, so far as I can see now. I do not have the ability to prognosticate what the political situation will be in 1955, which I would have to do to be able to answer that question completely.

IMPROVEMENT IN COLLECTION OF ASSESSMENTS

Mr. STEFAN. What steps does the State Department propose to take to improve the collection of assessments by the United Nations in financing special agencies, such as the Food and Agriculture Organization, the ILO, the ICAO, UNESCO, World Health, and so forth? Mr. HALL. We are constantly concerned with that. We raise that. question at the meetings of the organization. We have approached the governments that have not paid and asked them to pay. I would like to say, Mr. Stefan, since you are referring to the report of the Senate committee, that I believe the statement of arrearages in that report is misleading, in this sense: that they took a date on which even the United States had not paid its contribution to a substantial number of these organizations.

We have here an up-to-date statement of the situation of these organizations which I would be glad to submit for the record which indicates a situation substantially better than the record indicated in that report.

Mr. STEFAN. You say Mr. McClellan's report is erroneous?

Mr. HALL. It is out of date, Mr. Stefan, in the sense that it was made as of a particular date. I have forgotten what that exact date was. [The date was August 31, 1950.]

There is one additional point on the arrearage situation in the various agencies. Since the legislative bodies of all governments do not meet at the same time during the year to consider legislation and to appropriate funds, it is obvious that the collection of any contributions from member governments by the international organizations will be spread over a year rather than concentrated at the beginning of the year.

The United States, for example, is never able to make its contribution to the UN until 6 months of the UN financial calendar year has passed. Since the UN and other organizations have workingcapital funds for the specific purpose of financing operations until contributions are received, these late payments, as long as they are not made too late within the year, are not injurious to the work of the organization. However, it is important that the representations with respect to arrears take this fact into account. Arrearage statements which reflect a situation before the close of the financial year in question are not significant. Nevertheless, the report has noted that as of August 31, 1950, which was only slightly beyond the midpoint of the organizations' financial year, FAO had received only 58.58 percent, the ILO 55.40 percent, UNESCO, 34.58 percent, and WHỎ, 31.19 percent of their assessed contributions.

The situation as of the end of the year was substantially better. I can give you those figures.

Mr. ROONEY. Insert the figures in the record at this point. (The statistics referred to are as follows:)

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