By Dr. James S. Sweet, Legislative Reference Service.

"To enable it to carry out its assignment under Senate Resolution 214, the Subcommittee on Technical Assistance Programs in 1954, under the chairmanship of Senator Hickenlooper, solicited the views of American citizens stationed or residing in countries receiving technical assistance. The reports received in late 1954 and early 1955 in response to this request are of such interest that the subcommittee directed Mis Morella Hansen of the committee staff to summarize them in order to make them readily available to subcommittee members and others concerned witht he technical assistance programs."--foreword.

Over the past 150 years, Americans have responded repeatedly to the needs of people in foreign lands, providing aid in times of natural disaster, in the wake of war, in the development of resources, in the eradication of disease and poverty and in the battle against hunger. This challenging task has been tackled again and again by churches, corpora