Iranian Fiduciary Trust Fund Act of 1950

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Iranian Fiduciary Trust Fund Act of 1950
Great Seal of the United States
Long titleAn Act to discharge a fiduciary obligation to Iran.
NicknamesIranian Foreign Educational Act of 1950
Enacted bythe 81st United States Congress
EffectiveSeptember 29, 1950
Citations
Public lawPub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 81–861
Statutes at Large64 Stat. 1081
Legislative history
  • Introduced in the House as H.R. 5731 by A. S. J. Carnahan (D–MO)[1] on August 1, 1949[2]
  • Signed into law by President Harry S. Truman on September 29, 1950

Iranian Fiduciary Trust Fund Act of 1950 was authorized by the 81st United States Congress which established a trust fund for the education of Iranian naturalized persons in the United States. The one hundred and ten thousand dollars was governed as a trust fund and accrued by the United States from the Iranian government in four transaction installments occurring between December 24, 1924, and March 29, 1925.

The Act of Congress confirmed the trust fund in accordance with the Diplomatic and Consular Service Appropriations Act of 1896 as codified by 29 Stat. 32 entitled Trust Funds.[3] The United States federal statute amended the Permanent Appropriations Repeal Act of 1934 providing an addendum to section twenty entitled Certain Funds Established as Trust Fund Accounts.[4]

Origins of Iranian Educational Exchange Act[edit]

Tehran, capital of Persia (Iran), attested to periodic societal rivalries with the Baháʼí Faith during the 1920s of the Qajar dynasty and succession of the Pahlavi dynasty.

A United States Foreign Service officer by the name of Robert Whitney Imbrie was serving in Iran on a temporary assignment representing the foreign relations of the United States. On July 18, 1924, Robert Imbrie toured the Grand Bazaar, Tehran where he was accosted by a social movement of contradictory skeptics of the Baháʼí orthodoxy as an interest group of Religion in Iran. The accentuating social exchange with the Persians ― Islam in Iran ― proved to be a fateful engagement for the United States foreign service officer in July 1924.

Katherine Imbrie, wife of Robert Whitney Imbrie, judiciously appealed to the 69th United States Congress in 1926. The public plea was a expediency for an expenditure of funds advancing the education of Persian students in the United States.[5][6]

See also[edit]

▷ Allen Dulles
▷ Anglo-Persian Agreement
▷ Anglo-Persian Oil Company
▷ Islamic extremism

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Iranian Fiduciary Trust Fund Act of 1950 ~ House Bill H.R. 5731". 81st Congressional Record of United States House of Representatives, First Session. U.S. Congress.gov. August 1, 1949. p. 10526.
  2. ^ "Iranian Fiduciary Trust Fund Act of 1950 ~ House Bill H.R. 5731". 81st Congressional Record of United States Congress, First Session. U.S. Congress.gov. August 1, 1949. p. D535.
  3. ^ "Diplomatic and Consular Service Appropriations Act of 1896 - P.L. 54-34" (PDF). USLaw.Link. 29 Stat. 28, Chapter 34 ~ House Bill 4960. United States Government Publishing Office. February 26, 1896.
  4. ^ "Permanent Appropriations Repeal Act of 1934 - P.L. 73-473" (PDF). USLaw.Link. 48 Stat. 1224, Chapter 756 ~ House Bill 9410. United States Government Publishing Office. June 26, 1934.
  5. ^ "Education of Persian Students and Indemnity for Mrs. Katherine Gillespie Imbrie ~ House Report No. 985" (PDF). 69th United States Congress House of Representatives, First Session. United States Government Publishing Office. April 26, 1926.
  6. ^ "Katherine Imbrie ~ House Report No. 2032" (PDF). 69th United States Congress House of Representatives, Second Session. United States Government Publishing Office. February 10, 1927.

Footnotes[edit]

☆ Imbrie, Robert Whitney (1918). "Behind the Wheel of a War Ambulance". Internet Archive. R.M. McBride & Co. OCLC 1041071694.
☆ "The Chargé in Persia (Murray) to the Secretary of State". Office of the Historian ~ Foreign Service Institute. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1924, Volume II, Document 479. United States Department of State. September 19, 1924.
☆ Zirinsky, Michael P. (August 1986). "Blood, Power, and Hypocrisy: The Murder of Robert Imbrie and American Relations with Pehlavi Iran, 1924". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 18 (3). Cambridge University Press: 275–292. doi:10.1017/S0020743800030488. JSTOR 163379.
☆ Stein, Susan M. (July 1, 2020). On Distant Service: The Life of the First U.S. Foreign Service Officer to Be Assassinated. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctv10sm8rd. ISBN 978-1640121942. JSTOR j.ctv10sm8rd. OCLC 1120149518.
☆ Zirinsky, Michael P. (May 2022). "Lethal Encounter in Tehran: The Attack on U.S. Vice Consul Robert W. Imbrie and Its Aftermath". Foreign Service Journal. American Foreign Service Association.
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