This area in dire need of reforestation. reclamation. road construction. reservoir building. and many other helpful developments. There should be early transition to works program at going wage scale for this area. At the time the Senator from Wyoming and I cabled the foregoing statement to President Eisenhower and Secretary Herter. the United Nations was considering a resolution to extend for an additional period the refugee relief program which otherwise would have expired at the end of the current fiscal year. It was my hope that any U.N. action extending the program would be conditioned upon the taking of appropriate action by the local governments concerned to eliminate the fraudulent use and corrupt use of ration cards and to restrict the issuance of rations to bona fide refugees whose need and whose eligibility were clearly established. Officials of the State Department have expressed their gratification for the cable which the Senator from Wyoming and I sent. and have stated in public hearings that it was helpful to them in obtaining a provision in the United Nations resolution. The U.N. resolution which was ultimately passed. extended the refugee program not for 10 years. as proposed. but for 3 years. I was pleased that the language of the resolution at least reflected cognizance on the part of the U.N. of the situation which existed with reference to the distribution of rations in Jordan. The resolution contained language which. in effect. expressed the hope that the situation to which I have referred. and which was described in the joint statement by Senator MCGEE and myself. would be corrected.
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