The Mutual Security Bill, containing $66,380,000 for the relief of Jewish refugees in Israel plus $3,000,000 in technical assistance for the state, moved to the Senate floor today, but was referred to the Senate Armed Services Committee for further study. Meanwhile, the House Foreign Affairs Committee met to decide on a House version of the measure.
The proposed three million dollar program of technical assistance for Israel for the fiscal year 1953 places an emphasis on increasing food and industrial production in order to meet the problem of absorbing the immigrant and refugee population into the economy of the country, it was made known today by the State Department.
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