Word: foreign-aid
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Into the cavernous caucus room of the Senate Office Building last week marched NATO's General Alfred Gruenther. about to close out his distinguished Army career, on what he considered one of his most important missions: persuading the Senate Foreign Relations Committee not to vote cuts in the Administration's $4.7 billion foreign-aid program. Washington was crowded with holiday tourists, plenty of advance publicity had been given General Gruenther's appearance, and he could be counted upon for an eloquent, meaningful performance. But when the hearing opened only a handful of spectators and five Senators were...
...committee vote ordering them? Dick Richards eagerly ticked off deep-down, long-smoldering reasons. For one, Congressmen consider Pentagon bookkeeping atrocious, listened with narrow-eyed interest last week when Comptroller General Joe Campbell journeyed to the Hill to tell the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the $400 million surplus from the 1954 foreign-aid appropriation that the Defense Department refused to turn back to the Treasury. (Retorted the Defense Department: "a technicality.") Even after his committee's cuts, said Richards, "there's enough money in here with the carryover of $5.2 billion [in funds previously appropriated but unspent...
...Alexander Wiley heard some of his weird Wisconsin Republican colleagues let loose, he had good reason to guess that he was licked. The state G.O.P. convention, meeting in Milwaukee last week to choose its candidate for the U.S. Senate primary in September, cheered attacks on "Uncle Sap's" foreign-aid program, then passed resolutions praising the Bricker amendment and the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act. As everybody knew, Alex Wiley had been consistently faithful to the Administration's foreign policy as ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had voted against the Bricker amendment, and had even been...
...power generally. He refers to the nine Supreme Court Justices as "a little group of politicians [who have] not had enough experience to handle one chicken thief in Mitchell County" (the bottom of Georgia's backwoods; county seat: Camilla, pop. 4,000). He calls the U.S. foreign-aid program a "global WPA," and roars: "We gave money to build grain elevators in Pakistan. Why, that's 12,500 miles from Georgia...
...benefit of airpower alarmists last week, there was no such confident posture on an equally important question: Has the time come for a new look in foreign aid? For weeks there has been talk that a thorough review of U.S. assistance abroad was in the offing with stress on two problems: 1) How broad shall economic aid? and 2) How will it be distributed? Congress has shown a willingness to mark time on 1957 foreign-aid appropriations until the review is completed...