Announcement that the Bank is Sending a Mission to Guatemala on June 5, 1950

: f/ 191 ~AT·ION/lL BANK.:F6R: R!CONS'l'BUCTION AND DEV:ELOPMENT 0 Wasbington ll FOR TJJE PRESS FOR R~SE 12 Noon Presa Rele~se No. 191 Monday, June, 5, 1950 _ Eugene R. Black., Prea·ident· o-£ the- 'i:nternat ional B&,k for Reconstruction and Development, ~nnounc.ed today that 'at th~· request of the G.o.vernuent o~ Guatemala, the ~ank is sending a. mieei9n. to that cfol.llltry to. make. a gene~l i,l \'1 survey of Guatemala~, a developm~nt ;potent.it~).itiee and to l"ecoJDinend measures_ ) ;• t~. facili~f1-te thei,r~fealizatio~\· The mission will arrive:· 1n G.uat:e£i,1a on 0 f . Jun~ 14 and? is exp~~ted ~:.o r.ama:tn tbere Ofor ~bov.t t:wo months • The s,urvey th~ ~iaaion will undertake 1$· deaigne~ to aa·sis-t the Govern- ..• , .... (, ;,, ment ih working ou:p a balanced and integrate~''program for"\ e~anding proC,.~ctton \i,l and r~ieing the standard of livtng .. . 'l'he mission will no.t be concernec;i wlth the; ~tud.y of specific projects, nor will it conaj.q.er poseible fj,,?U!,nc·i11g by . /; th,e Bank, I:u addition to eXl)erts in the(general field of· e~onoi,iic.s ancl fine.µce, tbe ~ission will include specialists in agric:ul'ture,. industry,·,. power and transportation. Dr. GeQTge E. l3ritnell;., Head of th.e Department of Econo~ic:e and PoliticAl Science, University of Saskatchewan;\ Canada, wil-l head the- mtasion.. Other members are Georges deFleu.-rieu of the Bank' a Ecpno~ic De.partment, economis.t; Ii ---..::::::, '·"',~Dr. Bi9harc;l F. Behrendt pf' Colgate Uni vere it~.' ec.onom;t~t; J. Stuart Sneddon, Engineer and ManageU.1ent. . Consul :) . t~t, ind".st~J .' an(l pow,r apecialis t; General "Ecbnond H. Le~vey, former Chief of th.a U-.s. A.rnJY· Transportation Corpe, tr~"" porte.tion special~at; and Be.·lPh. Allee·, Director o·r the InteT-America}l Institute of Agrictllture, Turr:talbe., Costa ~ica, agricultural .spec:Laliat. Mr. Allee will \be aaaistetd by members of the· et:~f:f' of t·µe Turr~JJ.lba; Institute pn various apecie.l aspects of Guatemala' e agricultu~al problems •