Origins
Immediately after World War II, U.S. policy concerned itself with providing nations and financial assistance for displaced refugees (created both by the war and by the formation of Israel) and with promoting general economic development in the region. Towards this end, the Economic Survey Mission was launched in 1949, the UNRWA came to Beirut in 1950, and the Point Four program was created. President Truman soon found that the many organizations in the Near East produced “too many plans and too much talk and not enough action.” This frustration with the bureaucracy served as the catalyst for the Locke Mission, commenced in December 1951.
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