No. 139
Editorial Note
On September 27, the Director of Foreign Operations, Harold E. Stassen, submitted to Congress the third semiannual report on operations under the Mutual Defense Assistance Control Act of 1951, or the Battle Act (adopted October 26, 1951; 65 Stat. 644). The text of Stassen’s letter of transmittal, a summary of the contents of the report, and Chapter IV, dealing with control of trade with Communist China, are printed in Department of State Bulletin, October 26, 1953, pages 569–574; for the complete text of the report, see World-Wide Enforcement of Strategic Trade Controls: Mutual Defense Assistance Control Act of 1951 (the Battle Act): Third Report to Congress (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1954). Other reports in this series deal less extensively with United States restrictions on exports to China but contain information concerning the United States export control program.