Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government committees are appointed to delay action. Some are appointed to build up support for a course of action already agreed on. But when Dwight Eisenhower put onetime Under Secretary of the Army William H. Draper Jr. in charge of a committee last November to survey the vast U.S. foreign-aid program, the roll call of blue-ribbon committee members * made it clear that the President wanted hard answers. Last week in the Draper committee's preliminary report, he got three that nobody quite expected. Said the committee...
...asking for $3.9 billion for foreign-aid funds in fiscal 1960, the President is asking for too little, and not-as his knife-whetting congressional foreign-aid enemies are saying-too much. Needed, some $400 million more...
...should stop thinking of mutual-assistance funds as stopgap measures, should put the mutual-security program on a permanent basis-it "is and will continue to be an essential tool" of foreign policy. "In our fascination with our own mistakes, and the constant use of foreign aid as a whipping boy, we may be gradually choking this vital feature of our national-security policy to death...
Some Democrats, feeling the sting of recent Republican attacks on "spenders," grumbled that foreign aid might still be the place to cut. Such ardent Democratic believers in economic aid as Montana's Mike Mansfield and Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy were disappointed at the Draper committee's accent on arms. And Illinois' Everett Dirksen, Senate Republican leader, made the best of both worlds by saying that if the Draper committee recommended $400 million more than the President's $3.9 billion, then the least the Congress could do was to get busy and pass the $3.9 billion...
...Accept." The West was talking about a foreign ministers' conference on Germany for May n, he said with a grin, and "I'm giving away a Soviet government secret, but I'll tell you anyway that we accept." Of course, he added with a patient shrug, Russia would rather have a summit meeting first: "It would be better if the heavyweights-the chiefs of govern ment-undertook to clear away the enormous debris that has accumulated in international affairs. Let them shift the boulders out of the way and start removing the rubble . . . But if such...