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posts overseas under living and working conditions which, by our standards, are mean and. miserable. Mkny have no opportunity to visit mountain or seashore retreats or otherwise flaunt comparative weal- \ th at the natives. - ' 'There' seems to be little doubt, however, that our efforts to win frineds have been offset in a number of lands by the style of living affected by members of our military and civilian units assigned to them. It is not that our peronnel are living beyond their means. It is that their means, often augmented by special foreign duty alowances, permit them to enjoy a standard availablemnly to the rich of’the lands in which they-are stationed.
Wc shall have to leave to those afflicted by restlessness the problem of working ou their readjustment to the strains of living in the
United States. Mjore important, to a naion operating on a deficit basis,’while trying to furnish the main piiljtary and Economic strength bf the *rce ^orlcf and attempting to influence favorably peoples the Communists likewise hope to win, are the festering effects of what others see as hieedles spending and high living, j
When an American clerk or "a lieutenant races across the foreign countryside in an expensive sports car the native! clerk.or lieutenant never pould hope to buy, resentment is being* bred, as well as contempt for the financial aid of a country which has so much money that even its hirelings apparently are rich. | 'This* phenomanon of our vast military end economic-aid pro- , grams is recalled to mind by a
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