Editorial Note
On November 6, 1954, President Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10575 which further defined the administration of foreign aid functions. In his Executive Order the President more precisely divided and defined responsibility for the foreign aid program between the Foreign Operations Administration and the Departments of State, Defense, and Commerce. The Executive Order also stipulated that the chiefs of United States diplomatic missions abroad would exercise, as direct representatives of the President, plenary coordinating powers over all aspects of United States policy relating to the respective countries to which they were accredited. Furthermore, the chiefs of mission were granted plenary adjudicatory powers in all unresolved policy matters “unless a representative of a United States agency requests that the issue be referred to the Secretary of State and the United States agencies concerned for decision.” For text of Executive Order 10575, see 19 Federal Register 7249.