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Synopsis J, The Adoption of a United Foreign Aid Program, May-October 1951
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SYNOPSIS J
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THE ADOPTION OF A UNIFIED FOREIGN AID PROGRAM
May - October 1951
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HST requests
On May 24 HST asked Congress to appropriate $8.5 billion
$8.5 billion
during the fiscal year 1952 for a mutual security program,
including both military and economic foreign aid. Of the
total, he suggested that $6.25 billion be allocated for
military assistance and $2.25 for economic assistance,
primarily to support expanded defense efforts abroad.
HST pointed out that the mutual security program combined
the various foreign aid programs of the US, including the
arms aid of the mutual defense assistance program, economic
aid for Europe, and the Point IV program. He said that in
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preparing the present recommendations, each of the formerly
separate programs had been revised "in the light of the
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emergency situation that exists in the world and the extra-
the
ordinary demands that are being placed on our nation. " HST
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proposed that the total funds contemplated under the mutual
security program be divided as follows: Europe, $1.65
billion for economic aid and $5.24 billion for military aid;
the Middle East and Northern Africa, $125 million for
economic aid and $415 million for military aid; Asia, $375
million for economic aid and $555 million for military aid;
Latin America, $22 million for economic aid and $40 million
for military aid; and $78 million for the administrative
expenses of the program. He pointed out that "for the
security of the US, free Europe is a critical area that
must be defended, !! and that, consequently, that area would
receive the greatest proportiom of the funds.
With regard to the administration of the program, HST said
that the military aspects would be handled, as at present,
by the Department of Defense, and economic portions by the
ECA and by the TCA of the State Department. He pointed out
that in order to ensure co-ordinated policy guidance, a key
co-ordinating committed had been established, headed by the
Director of International Security Affairs.
House hearings
The House Foreign Affairs Committee began hearings on June
DGA testifies
26th, with DGA as the first witness. DGA declared that
strength was "the precondition of peace" and that the
interdependent factors of strength---military political,
economic, and spiritual- had been brought together in the
mutual security program. Ho pointed out that this was not
essentially a new program and that it would be administered
under existing legislation, brought together and amended to
further the objectives of the nation's foreign policy.
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