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Harry Truman: “All funds appropriated to carry out the provisions of the Act by the Third Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1948 (such…”

On the recordDecember 25, 1947
All funds appropriated to carry out the provisions of the Act by the Third Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1948 (such funds being in the amount of $522,000,000), are hereby transferred to the Department of State, to be administered in accordance with the provisions of the Act (as implemented by this order) and of the said Appropriation Act.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Executive Order 9914—Providing for the Administration of the Foreign Aid Act of 1947

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