Word: aid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Francisco France is trying very hard to work his country into the brand-new North Atlantic alliance. This is not particularly surprising, for Spain, which so far has received no ERP help, is in worse economic shape than any country in Europe. Franco must receive U. S. aid if his government is to survive; he needs an estimated $700,000,000 to keep the Spanish economy from going bust. His industry is near-bankrupt, railway system wrecked, food-production cut to a starvation level. Thirty-one percent of the total national revenue supports his armed forces...
...political case is harder to argue. It is true that U.S. aid will unquestionably keep Spain safely anti-Communist. But the threat of Communism in Spain is pretty weak. For Spain remains, despite the blurbs of Franco, Farley, and "Life" magazine, a complete military dictatorship. Whether this dictatorship is more or less strict than it was ten years ago is not the issue. Franco's army of 400,000 men keeps "order," and the General is supported by a single recognized political party. Serious opposition is promptly and inevitably imprisoned or liquidated. All of which adds up to Fascism...
...American aid to such a government would be incredibly short-sighted. It would alienate France, which feels strongly that it would rather fight on the Rhine, not the Pyrenees. It would intrench a Fascist government just when we are trying so hard to encourage democracy in western Europe. It would give Russia a fine propaganda point; one which the Communists have already used effectively. The refusal of U.S. help may make things temporarily more tough for the Spanish people, but ERP or ECA or recognition or alliance will serve very nicely to indeterminately prolong their suffering...
Crimson orators, who argued that a federal aid bill should not be adopted, were William C. Becker '51, and Richard W. Hulbert...
Three-quarters of the nation's 17-18 year-olds are not enrolled in colleges, the report continued. At least half of this group cannot possibly afford a college education for financial reasons, and the proposed program would aid worthy students whose families' incomes are about $3000 or less a year...