Jacob Blaustein, of Baltimore, prominent Jewish communal leader, has been appointed to serve as a member of the Advisory Committee on International Business Problems of the Department of State, it was announced here today by Under Secretary of State George W. Ball.
The Committee will advise the Secretary of State and the administrator of the Agency for International Development on the handling of specific business problems confronting American firms abroad. It will give particular attention to the application of the Hickenlooper Amendment of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1962 which calls for the termination of assistance to countries nationalizing or expropriating U. S. -owned property unless “appropriate steps” are taken to meet its obligations under international law.
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