legislative report on status of such requests. Reads Congressional Record and prepares a daily summary designed to be an early and quick-reading notice of significant congressional developments. Performs special research as requested. Bennie Mae Stevens, GS-9, $5,100-Research assistant (Legislative Reference)

Maintains a legislative reference service for the use of the Department, which involves the collection and indexing of documents and material pertaining to the legislative program of the Department, and the cataloging and preservation of supplementary material. Answers inquires concerning and prepares a weekly status report of legislative developments for departmental distribution. Performs miscellaneous research as assigned. Attends and prepares reports on congressional committee hearings to insure that offices concerned are notified of significant developments, which may require departmental action.

Beatrice Ruffin, GS−9, $4,725—Personal assistant

Manages the Assistant Secretary's immediate office. Relates and explains the Secretary's views to various departmental officers. Determines that studies and reports requested are initiated, conducted, and completed; composes correspondence; and performs nontechnical research and works with Secretary in assembling material to be used in meetings.

Mary M. Walker, GS-9, $4,600—Administrative assistant

Responsible for the daily operational matters relating to personnel, management, and budgetary services for the Office. Prepares regular and special budget estimates and justifications. Maintains appropriate fiscal records of funds for personnel, travel, overtime, and other miscellaneous expenses. Processes administrative actions, including personnel actions, travel arrangements, etc. Coordinates the administrative and clerical operations of the Office to effect an expeditious flow of work. Supervises operation of Office Message Center and Office messenger service.

Annette Vollmer, Florence Grendon, Milrae Jensen, GS-7, $3,950-Secretarial assistants

As secretary, arranges calendar, plans detailed schedules for meetings with Members of Congress and inter- and intradepartmental groups. Secures and compiles materials for superior's use; takes and transcribes technical and confidential dictation. Serves as personal assistant in relieving superior of many details.

George Winnett, Jr., GS-7, $3,825—Clerical assistant

Responsible for insuring that congressional correspondence receives top-priority handling. Maintains a close control over all congressional correspondence being worked on throughout the Department and to expedite replies. Through this system, the average time required in the answering of congressional letters has within the past year been reduced from an average of 14 days to less than 4 days. Assists in the answering of oral inquiries from Members of Congress. Assists in the review of correspondence addressed to Members of Congress.

Louise Hines, GS-6, $4,075; Ruth Filsinger, GS-6, $3,575; Mary Ann Sames, GS-6, $3,450-Secretarial assistants

Regularly is reponsible for (1) developing superior's working schedule, (2) taking and transcribing dictation, (3) generally disposing of considerable administrative and clerical matters directed to superior, who is absent an appreciable portion of time for attendance at meetings of Members of the Congress or of officers of the Department of State and other departments.

Helen E. McAllister, GS-5, $3,100; Norma Griffin, GS-5, $3,475—Secretary (stenographers)

Secretarial and clerical assistants responsible for planning schedules, making appointments, and reviewing incoming and outgoing mail. Receives telephonic messages and reports which must be promptly relayed to interested persons by telephone or memorandum. Takes and transcribes technical and confidential dictation and maintains necessary files.

Barbara E. Mason, GS-4, $2,875—Clerk

Receives, analyzes, and distributes incoming communications received in the Office and assigns appropriate routings. Maintains appropriate records of classified material. Assists in maintaining card index of legislation introduced of

interest to Department and acknowledging requests from Congress for Department's comments on pending or proposed legislation. Daily prepares report of Legislation and Legislative Reports cleared through the Office.

Curtis White, CPC-4, $2,770; James O. Holland, CPC-3, $2,412-Messengers

Responsible for collecting and delivering documents, papers and other material requiring special handling; running special errands between the Office and other Government agencies and the Congress; performing simple clerical duties, such as opening mail, alphabetizing papers for filing and sealing outgoing mail; and assisting in the arrangement of furniture, obtaining and stocking supplies, etc.

LEGAL ADVISER

WITNESS

ADRIAN S. FISHER, LEGAL ADVISER

Mr. ROONEY. The next item, the Office of the Legal Adviser, appears at page 20 of the justifications. At this point we shall insert in the record the table on page 20, from which it appears that the request is in the amount of $571,585 for 97 employees, the same as the appropriation and the personnel in the current fiscal year. (The matter referred to is as follows:)

Mr. ROONEY. Do you have a workload statement with regard to the Office of the Legal Adviser?

Mr. McWILLIAMS. I have the Legal Adviser, Mr. Adrian Fisher, here.

Mr. ROONEY. Do you have a workload chart?

Mr. FISHER. I can provide it for the record, broken down for two subdivisions of the office. It is not possible to give you an over-all chart, because the type of work in the various component offices is varied. For example, one of the largest components of the office is the treaty unit, with which I am sure the chairman (Mr. Rooney) is familiar. It requires specialists in the law of treaties. They have the primary responsibility for such matters as treaty drafting and treaty clearing, providing information on the full powers and some of the other formalities necessary for treaties, providing information and services to permit the embassies abroad and lawyers to know what the treaty rights and obligations of this country are; also for compiling for use of the political units of the Department information on treaties of other countries.

I will be delighted to break those down quantitatively for you and supply it for the record.

(The information referred to is as follows:)

TREATY AFFAIRS STAFF

MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS IN FISCAL YEAR 1950

1. Drafted 27 proposed treaties and other agreements.

2. Revised drafts of 130 treaties and agreements prepared in other offices of the Department.

3. Drafted reports to the President on 25 treaties with a view to submission of those treaties to the Senate for its advice and consent to ratification.

4. Members of staff served as treaty advisers at four formal international conferences:

(a) United Nations Conference on Road and Motor Transport (Geneva). (b) First session of International Wheat Conference (Washington).

(c) International Telecommunication Union Region 2 Conference (Washington).

(d) Fourth Inter-American Radio Conference (Washington).

5. Participated in many meetings on bilateral negotiations with representatives of other governments, including, among others:

(a) Meetings with representatives of Argentine, Canadian, Colombian, and Uruguayan Governments regarding double taxation convention.

(b) Meetings with representatives of Canada on the treaty regarding uses of the waters of the Niagara River.

6. Attended congressional committee hearings on various treaty matters, for example, the Convention on Road Traffic and the recently approved law on the publication of treaties in a new compilation.

7. Prepared comprehensive documentation on all significant developments on treaty law since 1945 for use by the International Law Commission of the United Nations.

8. Recommended position to be taken on numerous treaty questions, for example:

(a) Whether or not the Paris telegraph regulations required approval by the Senate. (b) Application of consular convention with the Republic of the Philippines to Philippine citizens in the United States Navy.

(c) Tax exemptions for British Foreign Service officers living in Arlington, Va. (d) Obligation of the United States under the convention of 1867 to furnish the U. S. S. R. with copies of documents regarding Alaska.

(e) Publication by the Department of United States treaties and agreements in a new compilation separate from the Statutes at Large.

(f) Determination of liability of private operating agencies for share of expenses of administrative telecommunication conferences.

9. Continued performing depositary functions with respect to various international agreements for which the United States is depositary, for example, the Chicago aviation agreements, the 1949 wheat agreement, the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Convention, the 1949 Inter-American radio agreement, the International Whaling Convention of 1946, the convention of the World Meteorological Organization and the International Monetary Fund and Bank agreements, each of which is very active.

10. Drafting: In addition to drafts of new treaties and of reports thereon to the President, L/T prepared: 10 ratifications and acceptances, 8 proclamations, 27 full powers, 327 letters in reply to inquiries, and, 228 instructions and diplomatic

notes.

11. Prepared 27 special surveys and lists of treaties and agreements on various subjects.

12. Prepared manuscripts for publication of 152 treaties and agreements concluded by the United States.

13. Prepared certificates for registering with the United Nations 158 treaties and other agreements and 49 certificates on aviation agreements for registration with the International Civil Aviation Organization.

14. Prepared preliminary documentation on 352 treaties and other agreements concluded by the United States and on over three times that number of treaties to which the United States is not a party.

15. Prepared annotations on 181 treaties and agreements and revised annotations on 235 treaties and agreements for publication in the loose-leaf service entitled "United States Treaty Developments."

16. Member of staff lectured on treaty negotiation to the School of Basic Officer Training, Foreign Service Institute.

TREATIES

Mr. ROONEY. With how many treaties have you been concerned in the past fiscal year?

Mr. FISHER. In the past fiscal year we have drafted 27 treaties and other agreements. Then there were over 130 treaties and agreements prepared in other offices of the department.

Mr. ROONEY. With a staff of 97 people?

Mr. FISHER. That is the treaty unit itself. The treaty unit itself is subdivided into 16 professional and 9 nonprofessional-clerks and stenographers. I was trying to break it down into the various operating functions for you.

Mr. ROONEY. Do you want to make a statement with regard to this requested appropriation of $571,585?

ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS OF THE OFFICE

Mr. FISHER. I can do better by giving the components to you. When you get through with the treaty unit, you reach the Claims Section. The Claims Section handles claims of this Government and others claims presented against us and the presenting of claims to other foreign governments for which we are entitled to reimbursement. That in the budget is seven professionals and four nonprofessionals. It is primarily or at least in large part a service unit. It is run by Ben English, who is an old hand at this, and the best judges of his ability are those people who deal with international claims, and the expressions of a number of those who have worked with him, I think, is a universal recommendation. I know when I became Legal Adviser a few people I had not known before said, "Look, you have an awfully good man down there, Ben English," people who worked with him. They said, "He is a good man. When we come down there, he can give us

what information we want."

With those two exceptions, the rest of the organization is designed to follow the organization of the Department. We ourselves are not work initiators; we are a service function. We have men assigned to assist the Deputy Under Secretary for Administration; we have people assigned to assist the Deputy Under Secretary, the Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs, and all of the programs of the Department involving in one way or another legal principles.

You understand that our business is controlled by the extent of the substantive and functional business in the Department. For that reason, this budget represents in a sense a microfilm of the legal aspects of the entire work of the Department.

I think that is the justification, sir.

Mr. PRESTON. Do you advise the UN personnel?

Mr. FISHER. Yes, sir; we do.

Mr. PRESTON. It is gratifying to see your budget stays at the same figure.

Mr. FISHER. We try to do with what we have.

Mr. MARSHALL. How many treaties did you draft or how many items were put in the form of treaties last year in connection with fish and wildlife?

Mr. FISHER. I would have to provide that for the record. In the international field, that is a pretty active subject, but I do not have

the breakdown on that particular subject. If I may supply it for the record, I would certainly like to do so.

Mr. MARSHALL. I would like to see that included in the record. Mr. ROONEY. It shall be inserted in the record at this point. (The material referred to follows:)

WORK PERFORMED BY THE TREATY AFFAIRS STAFF (L/T) OF THE LEGAL ADVISER'S OFFICE DURING THE PERIOD JULY 1949 TO JUNE 1950 ON CONVENTIONS RELATING TO FISH AND WILDLIFE MATTERS

1. Reviewed drafts of four new fishery conventions.

2. Prepared report to the President on the port privileges convention with Canada with a view to the submission of that convention to the Senate for its advice and consent to ratification. This report outlines the general purpose of the convention, gives background information as to the need for the convention, and explains the manner in which it is to operate.

3. Performed depositary functions of the United States with respect to the International Whaling Convention of 1946 and the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Convention of 1949.

4. Prepared, for signature by the President, full powers authorizing signature of the port privileges convention with Canada, and ratifications of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Convention and the tuna conventions with Costa Rica and Mexico. Prepared protocol of exchange of ratifications of tuna convention with Costa Rica and arranged for and participated in the ceremony of such exchange between the Secretary of State and the Ambassador of Costa Rica. Subsequently prepared the President's proclamation of that convention.

5. Participated in formulation of exchange of notes with Costa Rica setting forth understandings respecting the tuna convention with that country.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC AFFAIRS

WITNESSES

WILLARD L. THORP, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR ECONOMIC AFFAIRS

CHARLES H. MACE, DIRECTOR, EXECUTIVE STAFF

LEROY D. STINEBOWER, DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF FINANCIAL AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY

CARLISLE H. HUMELSINE, DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARY FOR ADMINISTRATION

EDWARD B. WILBER, BUDGET OFFICER

Mr. ROONEY. The next item is entitled "Economic Affairs" and appears at page 22 of the justifications. The request, which is analyzed on pages 22 and 23 of the justifications, is for an increase of $40,300 above the amount appropriated in the current fiscal year and an increase of nine employees. These pages will be inserted in the record at this point.