I hope these charts will be helpful in understanding the 1949 budget.

No, UNRRA will not be used.

It does. Yes.

This surplus is one of the most important factors in combating inflation, and an essential element of prudent fiscal management.

The remarkable thing about the budget to me is the fact that we have been able to hold it well below the 1948 fiscal year budget, and had it not been for our requirements for foreign aid and things of that sort, we would have been $3 1/2…

That is the simplest approach we could find to it, and was recommended by the Economic Advisers as the most satisfactory way of relieving the cost of living to the small taxpayer.

You have got to increase those enough so that they can have enough to eat.

The preparation of the budget for the fiscal year 1949 has been a painstaking process.

That is what is intended.

The Philippine Alien Property Administrator is authorized to transfer to the Republic of the Philippines in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of the Philippine Property Act of 1946, as soon as practicable after final payment of…

The policies on which this budget is based, therefore, mean that under present conditions of high costs, it is even more realistic and hard boiled than the 1948 budget was.

I don't think it has been a bit more difficult.

I contemplate designating Major General Kuter as Chairman of the Board.

I would appreciate your aid in securing the passage of the bill as soon as practicable.

I would appreciate your aid in having the bill introduced in the Senate.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the joint resolution approved December 30, 1947 (Public Law 395, 80th Congress), and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Whereas, the provisions of numbered paragraph 2 of said exclusive trade agreement providing for the application to products of the Republic of Cuba of portions of schedule XX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, dated October 30…

Whereas, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, have found as a fact that certain existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States of America and the Republic of Cuba are unduly burdening and…