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...Appropriations Committee has stuck $792 million back on the year's allocations for foreign aid. Yet cheered as the Administration must be at such a restoration it must already know that the final version of the aid bill will fall far below the $4.755 billion originally authorized. Mr. Otto Passman's subcommittee has done its work; it has persuaded the House that foreign aid is a dubious cause. When the joint House-Senate conference committee meets to consider the bill, the compromise will be less devastating than Mr. Passman might wish, but it will leave the President and A.I.D. bewildered...
...third approach is the closest to being usefully accurate, but like the first and second it is outrageously general. Granted that Mr. Passman's interrogation of aid officials is intended more to bait the State Department than to obtain information, it is still fair to say that the Administration has failed so far to point out convincingly that the reasons for foreign assistance to one country or another are highly specific. Principally the economic aid program wants to develop technocratic and fairly apolitical classes to supplant, gradually and delicately, the frequently irresponsible politicians and stubborn elites that now control poor...
Last week came Democrat John Kennedy's turn-and Passman is nothing if not nonpartisan about his attitudes toward foreign aid. His subcommittee whacked $1.1 billion-or about 24%-from Kennedy's $4.7 billion foreign aid program. Passman pushed the slash through the full Appropriations Committee, then through the House itself. The long-term Development Loan Fund (aimed at easing Allies like Greece and Iran into a realistic self-help economy) was cut by more than one-third, defense assistance by one-seventh, defense hardware by one-eighth, the Alliance for Progress by one-eighth, etc. Passman also...
...Still Cookin'." Otto Passman looked upon all his handiwork not as that of a butcher but as that of a master chef. Cried he in response to criticism: "They say if you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen. Well, I'm still cookin...
Instead of trying to mollify Passman (which was useless), President Kennedy attacked furiously (which may have been equally useless). "It makes no sense at all," he declared, "to make speeches against the spread of Communism, to deplore instability in Latin America and Asia, to call for an increase in American prestige and an initiative in Eastern Europe-and then vote to cut back the Alliance for Progress, to hamper the Peace Corps, to cut off surplus food shipments to hungry Poles." The President expressed hope that the "irresponsible action" inspired by Passman would be corrected...