193. Editorial Note
On March 9, President Eisenhower signed into law the Senate Version of H.J. Resolution 117, S.J. Resolution 19, as Public Law 85–7. (71 Stat. 5) He also announced that Ambassador James P. Richards would leave for the Middle East on March 12 as the head of a special mission to explain the Resolution to the region’s leaders. For text of the President’s statement, see Department of State Bulletin, March 25, 1957, page 480.
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs had reported out H.J. Resolution 117 on January 25 with slight modifications. The text of the report, Approval of an Amended Middle East Resolution by the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives: House Report No. 2, 85th Congress, January 25, 1957, and the text of the amended resolution adopted by the House of Representatives on January 30 by a vote of 355 to 61, are printed in American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1957, pages 803–817.
On February 14, the Senate Committees on Foreign Relations and Armed Services, acting jointly, reported out S.J. Resolution 19 with substantive amendments. The text of the Senate report, Approval of an Amended Middle East Resolution by the Committees on Foreign Relations and Armed Services of the Senate: Senate Report No. 70, 85th Congress, February 14, 1957, and the text of the amended resolution adopted by the Senate on March 5 by a vote of 72 to 19 are printed ibid., pages 818–831. The House of Representatives approved the Senate version of the resolution on March 7 by a vote of 350 to 60.