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Ae a De Ane ee as lll eae ai fale At present the Bureau is paying §3,000 a year mnenbership fee to the ICPC. This expense ts in addition to the cost of maintaining the lZiateaon and spending tine in fruitless unprofitable octivities with no material or valuable returns fron this investment. In this connection, tt ta pertinent to note that Duclour apparently contends that the Bureau ta not paying the full quote. . Although he has not recently made an official protest to the Bureau, it was mentioned by Soderman during his tnterview with Mr. Clegg tn Decenber, 1949. Ducleur apparently belteves that the United States should pay approzimately $6,500 annually on the thesis that the rules of the ICPC stipulate that countries having more than 50,000,000 inhabitants mid? nay Mini #o franca for every 25,000 inhabitants: will pay 5 Swiss eee ger SET gy Sag FCS wlere wey and since the 190 census placed the population of the United States at 131,669,275, this would anount to approrinately 6,500. In this connection it is to be noted further that in 1946 when the Bureau again affiliated with YePc, President Louwage wrote to the Director under date of July 9, 1946, stating that he was quite aware that the Burencu wmaula find the nreserrihed manmhoreshin wrirw itn wt Vie ae ee few wre aed ie we Trew we we Pres we weer ao little too high for a State of considerable popu~ lation and that "the financial contribution of States of high population as in USA and USSE 48 rather eymbolie and the amount may be left te the discretion of their governments.” President Louwoge therefore suggested that if our contribution equals that of a State with a population of 60,000,000 inhabitants, the Secretory General would be only tee glad te mevactnua 4 Toa need fowk T eaet nA fewest 'GuCcryvoe # He Ge WUUE LU, Uy 42 MUCH WH FRMEU & - 2] -