Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wallop into his delivery, clenched his left hand into a veiny fist as he warned that without U.S. military aid, free countries bordering on the Communist world would, under Communist pressures, "suffer a slow strangulation quite as fateful as sudden aggression." Going it alone without the mutual-security program, he said, the U.S. would need to step up its draft calls and spend billions more for arms...
Military Aid. The U.S. offers aid to bolster the common U.S. and free-world defenses by supporting the military forces of allied nations. Already the U.S. has mutual-security treaties with 42 nations; since 1950 the U.S. has spread out $17 billion in direct military assistance to such good effect that the allies have spent $107 billion of their own on the common defense. (In 1950 U.S. allies had 500 jet aircraft; now they have 13,000.) The military program provides not only for direct purchases of military hardware but for aid to create a sound logistic base (e.g., supply...
...means for initial communication, "open skies" might possibly breed increased fear and suspicion, especially should either side find it difficult to account for various mysterious installations. Even if aerial inspection were limited to flights over Arctic airfields it could neither check surprise attack effectively nor inspire much mutual trust. Inspecting planes would have to be searched by counter-inspectors, and even with this there would always be a lurking dread...
Last summer Congress was convinced that the Yugoslavs, despite massive injections of U.S. aid ($1 billion since 1949), were cozying up to the Kremlin. Under Knowland's prodding a rider to the Mutual Security Appropriation Act banned any new military assistance to Marshal Tito in fiscal 1957 except for maintenance and spare parts. Congress also stipulated that the Administration cut off all aid authorized in previous years and still "in the pipeline," e.g., some $100 million in military hardware, including some 300 Sabre-jet fighter-bombers. The cutoff could be waived if two conditions were met: i) that...
...leaders to show much enthusiasm for the foreign aid program. They were unimpressed when Ike reported that his foreign aid proposal could be slashed $500 million through economies in military purchasing. They were not much more impressed when he listed as his rock-bottom figures $2.8 billion for mutual defense, another $1.08 billion for economic aid. Word leaked out that Georgia's powerful Richard Russell had congratulated the President on the foreign aid trimming and broadly implied that this might prove that the budget was still vulnerable in other areas...