APPENDIX 6 

 REPORT ON THE INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE SERVICE 



Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report on the activi- 

 ties of the International Exchange Service for the fiscal year ended 

 June 30, 1942 : 



The congressional appropriation for the Exchanges was $44,880, 

 the same amount granted for the previous year. As was done last 

 year, the Department of State transferred $500 to the Exchange 

 Service from an appropriation made by Congress to that Department 

 for carrying on its work of increasing the cultural relations between 

 the United States and other American republics. This amount was 

 used by the Exchange Service to send packages directly to corre- 

 spondents in Argentina and Brazil by mail instead of forwarding 

 them in boxes to exchange bureaus for distribution, thereby greatly 

 reducing the time required for packages to reach their destinations. 

 To all other South and Central American countries, as well as to 

 Canada, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, and Newfound- 

 land, packages of publications are transmitted by mail under govern- 

 mental frank. The $500 was not sufficient to meet the entire cost of 

 postage on all the packages for Argentina and Brazil but the extra 

 amount needed for this item was met from the congressional appro- 

 priation for the Exchanges. The total available resources for carry- 

 ing on the exchange work was $48,505.50, there having been received 

 during the year on account of repayments $3,125.50. 



During the year 561,151 packages passed through the service, a 

 decrease from last year of 15,131. The weight was 326,406 pounds, 

 a decrease of 62,243 pounds. The publications sent and received 

 through the Exchange Service are classified under three heads: 

 Parliamentary documents, departmental documents, and miscellane- 

 ous scientific and literary publications. The term "parliamentary 

 documents," as here used, refers to publications set aside by act of 

 Congress for exchange with foreign governments, and includes not 

 only documents printed by order of either House of Congress, but 

 also copies of each publication issued by any department, bureau, 

 commission, or officer of the Government. Governments to which 

 this class of publications are forwarded send to this country in ex- 

 change copies of their own official documents for deposit in the Library 

 of Congress. The term "departmental documents" embraces publica- 



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