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CONGRESSMAN REPORT^
. Continued from page 2 recent Article in the Wall Street
•Journal} on the questionable valuer of our, .operations jn the tiny, is• dated Country of Nepal, which lies between India and Tibet, the latter how under domination of Red China. * * - Before 1950, it is stated, only 24 non-Asiatics' of any nationality had entered he capital, Katmandu, | starting place for climbing Mount > Everest. Now, 42 .American ad» ministrators and technicians are trying !to spend $10 million in the current fistal year on aid projectsan amount jjpughly equal tto the entire budget d the Nepalese Government.
According to. the article, we are
settingj up co-operatives for souvenir | salesmen, linking jungle town with roads and telephone / lines and building an aerial ropeway td haul freight in buckets over a mountain. • ; v ' > 1
Katmandu by all accounts, is not one of the luxury spots of life.. world, but th<. Nepalese don’t like the idiea of foreigners’ moving in' to the palaces of their hated former rulers, although our representatives claim the palaces are the only places in town suitable for offices' and apartments. The Nepalese get the impression these . rich iriterplopers from the United States have set up shop as a new ruling class in tjheir country.
Oifr efforts to better living standards in this primitive country can’t jseem to be received with en
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