Opponents charged that the United States would wind up paying a disproportionate share of the WHO’s budget and suspected the Soviet Union's involvement in the organization
Talk of forming an international health group began after World War II. The declared purpose was to combat diseases such as cholera and malaria, to promote medical research, and to advise governments on sanitation, nutrition and other health measures. It began in Geneva on interim basis in 1946. But to become operational, the WHO had to be ratified by 26 nations by June of 1948.
The House and Senate introduced measures to provide $1.9 million a year to the WHO, or $20.6 million in current dollars. The Senate passed the bill and so did the House Foreign Relations Committee. Then without explanation the House Rules Committee blocked the bill for nearly a year.Opponents charged that the United States would wind up paying a disproportionate share of the WHO’s budget.
The delay drew criticism. “The prevention and control of epidemics is one of those international undertakings which have remained free from East-West rivalry,” The Post editorialized. “The effect of the Rules Committee’s intransigence is to have American medicine lagging behind Russian in a strictly humanitarian field.”In May, Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, urged congressional passage.
The revised bill hinted at the reasons for opposition. For one, it put the $1.9 million funding as an annual limit. The committee said “This would keep the United States from having to foot the bill if in future years there should be some great and costly epidemic,” the Times reported.Second, the bill required that any U.S. physician appointed to the WHO’s executive board have at least 10 years experience.
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