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tions Which, in a localized or generalized Slowdown, will stand with
many of them will so
id how firmly? With
Marines once*more poised In battle drc.,s on the faraway soil of a country about which most , Arneriqans know little, this question has become more insistent in the assessment of our overall foreign aid ' operations and the detrmination o the amount which we must spend n what euphemistically is called our “enlightened self-interest.”
In the trouble areas of the world, much of our foreign aid must be districted on a “calculated risk” basis. There.is always the danger that the guns btiy for others may, on softie dark future day, be turned against us. y
Sine* World War II,' and through fiscal year 1957, we have sent Egypt, in assorted types of aid, approximately $64 million. The controlled press and radio of Egypt’s Nasser how castigate the United States and all its works daily, as do those of Egypt’s partner in the United Arab Republic, Syria, which har. received a little mire than $1 millicii in assistance.
Iraq, site of a revolt which [ re-. cipitated our movement of Marines into Lebanon, received nearly 12 million. Previously presumed kndly as a member of the Baghdad Pact, it is not clear at the moment whether "she remains at least passively anti-communist or has been absorbed fully into the Kremlin’s orbit.
It should bp understood that the stated figures on total postwar aid, through fiscal year 1957, do not include direct military assistance, as military aid figures]are not made public for individual countries,, but only on an are# basis. I
For the same period, we |ave spent on miliary and relkted assistance to countries of the Jjiear East, Africa and South Asia a total
of more than $4 billion, j
Here are the post-Worldl II
totals for non-military assistance for some of the other nations of ‘ that part of %he world: j Lebanon ....._$22 million Israel —__ $266 million Iran'_- $238 million Afghanistan _$8 million Saudi Arabia __$4 million Turkey Libya . Jordan
$593 mllion
. $50 m inion
i $38 m llion
56.5%