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Memorandum Prepared by the Staff Committee of the National Advisory Council for the Council

NAC–44
[Washington,] January 17, 1946.

In connection with NAC Document No. 43,31 the National Advisory Council Staff Committee recommends consideration of the following as a preliminary list of the probable loan requirements for the Export-Import Bank to the end of fiscal 1946–47:

Europe
Belgium $ 100,000,000
Czechoslovakia 65,000,000
Denmark 30,000,000
Finland 65,000,000
France 750,000,000
Greece 50,000,000
Italy 100,000,000
Netherlands 250,000,000
Norway 50,000,000
Poland 50,000,000
U.S.S.R. 1,000,000,000
Yugoslavia 25,000,000
Middle East
Turkey 50,000,000
Egypt —
Saudi Arabia 25,000,000
Far East
China 500,000,000
Netherlands East Indies 100,000,000
Philippine Islands 50,000,000
Latin America
Other 200,000,000
500,000,000
Total $3,960,000,000

  1. NAC–43 not printed. It advanced the work begun in NAC–37, p. 1411, by taking the substance of the earlier draft and incorporating it into the form of a draft statement on the foreign lending policy of the United States.↩