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...must be a part of U.S. budgets for many years to come, it is hardly an adequate response to the demands of nations that are now under development. Not only is the proposed fund pitiably small; it also will be a venture undertaken by the United States on a bi-lateral basis. This principle of direct nation-to-nation assistance is now coming under increasing attack from recipient nations--an attack that deserves an adequate U.S. response...
...recent meeting of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, meeting in India, crystallized the sentiment among many under developed nations against bi-lateral aid. Fearing that direct aid often carried with it undesirable outside pressure on internal political affairs, the meeting adjourned agreeing that aid should be channeled instead through regional funds like the Colombo Plan, and through the United Nations itself. While the vagueness of the Asian nations' fears may obscure their legitimate complaints, the fact that the fears exist should lead the U.S. to increase its own allotment to regional and international funds...
...would be foolish to argue that the U.S. should suddenly divert its total program of economic assistance into these two programs, no matter how much more acceptable the international programs are to have-not nations. The simple fact is that U.S. bi-lateral programs are generally working well, from India to Egypt. Even more important, the United Nations is just not prepared to absorb the tremendous administrative details which this country's bi-lateral aid programs have successfully handled...
...increasing present minute contributions to the U.N. and Colombo Plan and still retaining direct aid. The three paralled programs are not fundamentally at odds, and by partially satisfying Asian demands with increased international funds, the U.S. will gain more respect than it would by stubbornly emphasizing the principle of bi-lateral...
...dawn broke over Montgomery next day, tension lay thickly beneath an apparent calm. Thousands of Negroes walked to work through the rain in a nonviolent demonstration. Then, at week's end, Alabama's Governor James Folsom called for a Bi-Racial Commission to try to work out some new ways of putting the pieces back together in a city that would somehow never be the same again...