Editorial Note
On September 17, 1952, a ceremony was held at the White House for the signing and exchange of loan documents for the loan of $15 million to Pakistan for the purchase of wheat. The loan was made by the Export-Import Bank, using funds made available by the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended. Copies of the remarks made by the President and the Ambassador of Pakistan at the ceremony are in the Secretary’s Memoranda, lot 53 D 444, White House Press Conferences. A White House press release on the signing is printed in the Department of State Bulletin, September 29, 1952, page 490. Additional documentation is in Department of State files 890D.2311 and 890D.5 MSP. The text of the agreement for the Loan to Pakistan for Emergency Wheat Purchase of September 17, 1952, is printed in 5 UST 348.