YOUR

YOUR

CONGRESSMAN

REPORTS By Rep. Burr P. Harrison f WASHINGTON — Since grants and loans under , various seas mdre than $60 billion in World War il, wehave sent overprograms of assistance to other „ nations. This does not include $6.5 ‘billion invested by the United Stai tes in the International Bank, the International Monetary .Fund and 1 the International-Finance Corporation. , / On the other hand, we have reV ceived from the beneficiary coun** tries, in repayment of loai^ allocations of lodal cu rrencies and set* dements of certain wartime acr counts, less than 2 billion. To the"; extent that we have invested wisely of course, we have acquired good will <*> an undetermined amount “and a bolstering of our own na1 tional security to an extent deter. ' , minable only be events yet to come. The seridus developments of recent weeks\in the Middle East have brought1 Renewed demand for approval by Congress of the full - amount of President Eisenhower’s £ * mutual security, or foreign aid, prqgram for the current fiscal year, i It- is contended that, more than I ever, we must encourage our friends abroad with dollars if we expect them to stand with us jn this period of increasing uiKertainity and ganger., ** There also exists the viewpoint which holds that the crisis in the Middle East does not so much . - justify swift provision of every dollar requested in the President’s budget for forqgn aid’as itunder* litjes the irt-gen^jwwsjty of reevaluating presenr~*6d proposed . programs. / f. _ Apart from those.-*who subscribe : to the “fortress America” concept, "-the idea of providing some finan■" rial.assistance to other free nations so long as,communist aggression remains a threat has become rather-generally accepted Most citizens who acknowledge the apparent continuing need for some < such program do not regard it as ' v pure philantrophy. They hope that • their fax doMars are ^winning us * friends, and more important, are ‘ strengthening the military and economic establishmets of other na■m