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Beating the Backlog. In last week's report, the final one to be made by the group, the Draper Committee's deepest worry was that the U.S. might be fooled into thinking that Congress had not cut dangerously into foreign-aid programs. Overall spending figures, the committee explained, are deceptive. During the Korean war, the U.S. built up an $8.5 billion backlog of military-aid appropriations. But since 1954 the U.S. has been delivering about $2.5 billion worth of arms to its allies-while congressional appropriations averaged only $1.5 billion a year'. The difference has been made...
...foreign-aid time, there are few sharper antagonists in the House than Louisiana Democrat Otto Passman and Minnesota Republican Walter Judd-Passman passionately against, Judd dourly for. Louisiana's Passman, 59, onetime refrigerator distributor and World War II Navy materiel and procurement officer, seven-term Congressman and Appropriations Committee axman, is an acknowledged expert who knows how to find every foreign-aid dollar in every foreign-aid pipeline and how to take maximum debating advantage thereof. Minnesota's Dr. Judd. 60, onetime medical missionary in China, is a nine-term Congressman and Foreign Affairs Committee veteran who just...
...debate's end the House, by 279,136, upheld Otto Passman, upheld the Appropriations Committee's slash of foreign-aid funds from the President's $3.9 billion to $3.1 billion, including $435 million lopped off U.S. military aid to U.S. allies...
Last week the President also: if Signed a supplemental appropriations bill providing an additional $2.8 billion for fiscal 1959. A key item: $150 million for the foreign-aid program's Development Loan Fund...
While they worked behind the scenes, President Eisenhower appeared at the meeting to make a plea for his foreign-aid program. Part of that program, said Ike, is "a freer flow of world trade. We must do this without prejudice to our national security and without inflicting undue hardship on our local producers. Especially among the less-developed countries we must use every available means to assure that these people not only add to the free world's strength, but eventually become valued participants as both sellers and buyers in the markets of world trade...