501.AC/10–1549
Memorandum of Conversation, by the Director of the Office of International Trade Policy (Brown)
| Participants: | Representative Doughton, Chairman, House Ways and Means Committee |
| Mr. Brown, ITP |
I called on Mr. Doughton and explained to him that we were in an embarrassing situation at the UN because of our failure to have legislation exempting our representatives from taxation when they paid an equivalent amount into the UN staff funds. I asked him whether his committee would be willing to consider the matter early next session, as one of the elements in our embarrassment was the uncertainty as to when the Congress was going to act and what it was going to do. The Chairman said I could assure representatives of the other Departments that the Chairman would see that the matter was considered early next session if the State Department made a request that the committee do so. He asked that a formal letter to this effect be sent to him when the Congress reconvened.
I expressed our appreciation of this action.1
[Here follow brief remarks concerning the recent renewal by the Congress of the Trade Agreements Act.]
- In November the Department was laying plans to “make every effort to get Congressional action on this legislation by March 15, 1950”, and moving the Item to Part I—“Legislation of Primary Importance”—in its legislative program for the 2nd Session of the 82nd Congress (memorandum, UNA, Sandifer, to H, Ben H. Brown, Jr., November 14, 1949, 811.032/11–1449).↩