The use of international executive agreements in the foreign assistance and mutual security programs, 1940-1956

This study will attempt to: (1) take cognizance of recent proposed amendment (Bricker) to the Constitution as an attempt to place restrictive limitations on the use of executive agreements, and the President's power to conclude them, (2) show the historical use of International Executive Agreements as an important but publicly unrecognized instrument used to achieve United States foreign policy objectives, (3) take cognizance of the President's power to execute executive agreements without, or with, prior Congressional approval, (4) indicate that in the modern world executive agreements have certain inherent advantages over the use of treaty method for implementing and/or executing United States foreign policy, (5) specially analyze and discuss the use of the executive agreements as a foreign relations instrument intensively used by the United States during the years 1940-1956, in the furtherance of the survival of the free nations of the world in their struggle against Nazism and Communism, particularly with reference to the Foreign Assistance and Mutual Security Programs in 1940-1956.