Word: foreign-aid
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...mood to go along with the House's deep cut of $1.1 billion in the Administration's $4.9 billion foreign-aid bill. Eloquent Walter George pleaded for the compromise $4.5 billion that his Senate Foreign Relations Committee had approved−and that the Administration had agreed to accept. As he argued, with increasing emotion, that the foreign-aid program is a symbol of U.S. world leadership, the Senate ceased its rustling and rattling to listen to the kind of nonpartisan greatness it hears all too rarely. Said George...
...Force-which the Administration, after arduous consideration, had decided it did not need. At the same time, but by no means the result of erratic happenstance-the Senate Democratic leaders, again urged on by bipartisan rank-and-filers, seemed determined to lop $1.1 billion off the foreign-aid program-a cut which the Administration, after painful consideration, had decided would be next to disastrous (TIME, June...
...sense not only of long-range foreign aid, but of all the other economic techniques and forces that the world's leading capitalist-enterprise republic has to offer? Without a real world economic plan, and faced by a fast-moving Communist economic offensive, the Administration had dissipated its foreign-aid advantage, to the distress of staunch foreign-aid friends in both parties-and to the delight of ancient isolationist enemies in both parties...
...pour into bombs and missiles and planes and tanks and guns that will assure you peace." It is more profitable to spend for "constructive things that tend to make people respectful of the great values that we are supporting." Thus, it would be "tragic" not to support foreign-aid programs "cheerfully and adequately...
Rare Drama. The House leaders struggled desperately against the onslaught. Majority Leader John McCormack, Sam Rayburn and Joe Martin (who read a 380-word letter from the President pleading for the foreign-aid program) all spoke earnestly-and futilely. Then Dick Richards, serving the last of his 23 years in the House (he is retiring this year), arose to defend his committee's cuts. It was a moment of rare House drama: the policy of an able, hard-working committee chairman had been repudiated by his leaders, who were also his dear friends. Sam Rayburn and Joe Martin, said...