Speaker. as the program has deVeloped over the years. technical assistance. as originally planned. has been losing its character and has become involved as part of a huge giveaway and Is now mostly economic assistance. The administrators of this program have too often considered technical assistance as a crash program. one designed to bring quick and everlasting results. something akin to the spectacular. In 1953 it was my privilege to have been a member of a subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee which was authorized to visit the Middle East and check on the Arab refugee problem and also other programs that had been set up in that part of the world. During our visit to Egypt and specifically Cairo the chief of the ICA mission at that time was anxious to show what had been done under his direction and he arranged a trip outside of Cairo for our inspection. In the automobile in which I was riding was the chief of the mission and an Egyptian who had several degrees from American universities and who had returned to his homeland to serve his people.