ABSTRACT
Throughout World War II, the United States provided foreign aid in the form of war materials and economic credits to assist its allies in the war effort. In the closing days of World War II, the United States had to decide whether to continue the systematic transfer of wealth to other nations or to discontinue the policy of assistance as was the case at the end of World War I. To control for the potential variance in foreign aid policy decisions caused by the variances in organizational structure, legal authority, political relationships, and other differences between Agency for International Development (A.I.D.) and its predecessor agencies presents substantial theoretical and data difficulties, which are unnecessary to the primary research objective. These difficulties can be avoided through the adoption of research parameters pertaining to the temporal period.
