Report, "Partners in Progress: A Report to the President by the International Development Advisory Board"
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OCR Page 1 of 11PARTNERS IN PROGRESS
TRUMAR
A REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT
by the
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY BOARD
GOVERNMENT
March 1951
(Summary)
In writing this report concerning the well-being of the
peoples of the so-called underdeveloped areas of the world, the
Advisory Board on International Development has been governed by
the conviction that we free peoples are faced with two main threats.
One is military aggression and subversion. The other is hunger,
poverty, disease and illiteracy.
Pursuant to your instructions on November 24, 1950, the
Advisory Board has considered "our policy toward the underdeveloped
areas" including the "types and size of programs which it considers
desirable for the United States to undertake" as well as how these
programs can be realized "with maximum dispatch and effectiveness."
Immediately after we began our assignment, a national emergency was
declared. In these circumstances, the Board felt its first respons-
ibility was to ask and examine what is the proper place of inter-
national development in relation to defense.
Our first imperative must be to rebuild sufficient
military strength to resist aggression. Today the production of
the free world is not sufficient to meet both the human and defense
needs of its people, nor can these needs be met by any one nation
alone. The people who live in what have been termed the underde-
veloped areas of Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and
Oceania need our help and we need theirs.
This Board also recognizes that to achieve lasting peace,
security and well-being in the world, we must join forces in an
economic offensive to root out hunger, poverty, illiteracy and
disease. Only by working together in common interest can we pro-
duce the necessary increase in foods, raw materials and manufactures.
As a result of these findings, the Advisory Board feels
that strengthening the economies of the underdeveloped regions and
an improvement of their living levels must be considered a vital
part of our defense mobilization.
Considered from the point of view of the strategic depend-
ence of the United States on these regions, it must be emphasized
that we get from them 73% of the strategic and critical materials
we import - tin, tungsten, chrome, manganese, lead, zinc, copper --
without which many of our most vital industries could not operate.
They send us more than half of all our imports.
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