80 



According to Glick, immediate self-interest by tlie United States ^^ 

 and lack of efficient State Department coordination of programs ^^ 

 precluded the formulation of integrated technical assistance projects 

 and programs designed to promote the overall economic development 

 of the underdeveloped nation. 



In sum, the ])rogram conducted by the SCC was small, not well- 

 coordinated ancl was not geared to overall economic development. Tech- 

 nical assistance was provided in localized instances to serve U.S. 

 strategic and political aims. Undoulitedly, very little of this effort 

 had direct benefit to the economies of nations where it occurred. Only 

 $17.7 million was spent over the total 8-year life of the SSC, and this 

 sum was spread thinly over many projects. See table IV. 



TABLE IV.— PARTICIPATION OF THE UNITED STATES IN TECHNICAL COOPERATION IN THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS 

 THROUGH AGENCIES OF THE INTERDEPARTMENTAL COMIVIITTEE ON SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL COOPERATION 

 FROM JULY 1, 1940, TO DEC. 31, 1948' 



Assignments Foreign 



of U.S. trainees 



Government brought to the Amount 



experts United States obligated 



Cooperation in agriculture,. 885 202 $5,698,599 



Cooperation in public health .__ 156 198 787,286 



Cooperation in industry, labor resources, government services: 



(a) Statistical services.. 46 120 739,583 



(b) Railvi^ay transportation 1 5,979 



(c) Highway transportation 1 '995 



(d) Civil aviation 63 1,021 2,193,188 



(e) Industrial training... 79 130,765 



(f) Women's employment 9 16 75,159 



(g) Labor standards 1 17 70^389 



(h) Geologic investigations 117 18 832^387 



(i) Mining and metallurgy 20 1 136,643 



(j) National income and balance-of-payments research 2 16 42,788 



(k) Industrial research and standardization 2 23 53,715 



(I) Tariff research and administration 8 41,767 



(m) Public administration 35 134,395 



(n) Telecommunications regulations 3 8,600 



(0) Weather investigations. 18 65 711,573 



(p) Tidal observations 82... 61,524 



(q) Magnetic and seismological observations 84... 157,572 



(r) Fishery and wildlife resources... 30 27 343.730 



Cooperation in social welfare: 



(a) Child welfare. 58 19 385,610 



(b) Social security 14 22,630 



Cooperation in education: 



(a) Exchange of students 21,744 2,563,090 



(b) Exchange of professors and specialists... 3 265 < 558 1,588,270 



(c) Aid to U.S.-sponsored schools in Latin America 965,825 



Total amount obligated 17,752,062 



'Point 4: Cooperative Program for Aid in the Development of Economically Underdeveloped Areas (Rev. January 

 1950), op. ciL, p. 130. 

 - Includes U.S. students sent to Latin America as well as Latin American students brought to United States. 

 3 U.S. professors and specialists to Latin America. 

 < Latin American professors and specialists to United States. 



s« Neither in the work of the IIAA nor in the work of the Interdepartmental Committee had the United 

 States yet undertaken to assist the Latin American governments in promoting economic development 

 as a direct program purpose * * * .(Dsid., p. 23). The principal objective of the Interdepartmental Com- 

 mittee was to maintain and improve friendly relations between the Government of the United States 

 and the governments of Latin America. (Ibid., pp. 10-11.) Immediateself-interest on the part of the United 

 States contributed to this thinking. U.S. personnel were at work in some tropical and jungle areas within 

 Latin America on programs to grow rubber and extract minerals for use in the United States. Malaria con- 

 trol and other pubhc health progi'ams were necessary for their protection, and, if local food supplied could 

 be increased, fewer ships would be needed to take food to them from the United States. (Ibid., pp. 15-16.) 



" According to Glick dfjid., pp. 8-9), there was no central authority to view the program as a whole, to 

 select particular activities for greater emphasis and others for curtaihnent, or to establish controlling poli- 

 cies or procedures for aU member agencies of the SCC). 



