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...platitudes and preachments. But to proud peoples far away, the simple expressions of good will and concern from the President of the U.S. carried a weight that had more than once turned the balance of public opinion -as Nikita Khrushchev found out last week in India, where he followed Ike's triumphal trip there by two months and met a much chillier reception than he had had in 1955 (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...recent unguided missives of propaganda aimed at Cuba: "Very recently in a faraway country that has never known freedom-one which today holds millions of humans in subjugation-impassioned language has been used to assert that the United States has held Latin America in a colonial relationship." Snapped Ike: "This is a blatant falsehood"-and he pointed to the U.S. record in Spanish-speaking Puerto Rico and the Philippines, in Hawaii and Alaska...
...will do all we can to foster the triumph of human liberty throughout the hemisphere," said he. In that uncluttered, single-sentence declaration, the peoples of Latin America could understand the U.S.'s purpose as well and easily as they understand Ike himself...
...tenth consecutive year, a U.S. President sent a mutual-security foreign-aid program to Congress, and Dwight Eisenhower's 1960 model had worn and familiar lines. A multibillion-dollar aid program, acknowledged Ike to a moderately hostile Congress, is now "a fixed national policy." And then he requested a budget-rattling $4,175,000,000 for fiscal...
Congressional Democrats, who have long championed mutual aid, at once complained that the program contained too few genuinely mutual, share-the-load projects. In this election year, they are only too eager to fling the President's free-spender charges right back at him. They promised to cut Ike down to size by lopping off $1 billion, possibly to tack the saving onto the embattled U.S. defense budget. "There is too much money and too little change in administration," said Montana's Mike Mansfield, the Senate Democratic whip. "Where is the joint foreign aid effort with other free...