Word: aid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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take the question of aid to Tito. There are a great many short-range, short-sighted arguments for giving aid to Yugoslavia--devilishly attractive arguments, the kind of arguments to which one can so easily say: "150 million Americans and the State Department can't be wrong." I believe they are wrong, wrong because they are thinking too precisely on the event, gazing rapturously at the free without noticing the nature of the forest...
Action on the plan began immediately with government officials drawing up necessary legislation, and the United Nations making provision to include American aid in its own plans for poorer nations. Several bills have been passed this session for increased appropriations to the U.N. for use in its economic assistance programs, but it was not until September that the main legislation went to Congress...
...keeping with the strictly economic nature of aid under Point Four, the proposed bill is entitled "International Technical Cooperation Act of 1949," it calls for $35,000,000 the first year, to be used through the U.N. and in direct loans of money and assistance to poor countries throughout the world. Most of the funds would probably be distributed through the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council...
...Foreign Affairs Committee several arguments have been raised against this aid. First of all there is the question of cost to this country, which is already committed to the European Recovery Plan, and to arms aid to Atlantic Pact countries, not to speak of heavy military expenditures at home. Although the Administration expects private capital to provide most of the funds in future years, it admits that the government must do the initial financing, and continue to give some help thereafter for as long as the program is necessary...
Lastly, and perhaps most important is the argument that U. S. money could mean U. S. "economic imperialism." Indeed the National Association of Manufacturers has asked to have certain political strings attached to any American aid given to countries under the program...