Foreign Relations of the United States, 1950, The Near East, South Asia, and Africa, Volume V

Editorial Note

Turkey and the United States signed at Ankara on December 27, 1949, an agreement (despatch 14, January 5, 1950, from Ankara, 511.823/1–550; TIAS No. 2111, printed in 1 UST 603; also, 98 UNTS 141) which, following its entry into force on March 21, 1950, provided for the establishment of a United States Educational Commission in Turkey to help administer an educational exchange program authorized by Public Law 584, 79th Congress, the Fulbright Act, approved August 1, 1946 (60 Stat. (pt. 11) 754).