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There now is pending before the Congress Mr. Eisenhower’s money request for the Mutual Security Program < the formal name of our foreign aid operations) for the fiscal year beginning July 1. The to) tal is $4,173 million-^—or more than $4 fbillion. For this fiscal year) Congresss appropriated $3,226 million.
Ihe President, as of Jwy 1, will have on hand and not yet committed an estimated $2,000 million in foreign aid money voted by Congress last year or earlier.
In his message to the Congress last week, Mr. Eisenhower pounded hard on the theme that a higher rate of foreign aid spending is essential to the national security of the I'nited Staffs,:
“The mutual security program is a program essential to world progress in freedom.
“The amount requested for military assistance within the defense budget is in mv- considered judgment, and in that of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a need for our de
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