1. THE CONVALESCENCE OF FOREIGN AID.
- Author
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Cleveland, Hwa
- Subjects
INTERNATIONAL economic assistance ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,TECHNICAL assistance ,FINANCE - Abstract
The article focuses on the convalescence of the U.S. foreign aid program, which is recovering gradually from multiple sclerosis. Previously, support for European recovery, for investment and technical assistance in Asia and Africa, for economic co-operation with Latin-American neighbors, even for the exchange of students and artists, had to be justified by reference to a new all embracing criterion, expressed in the word "security." Now it is "mutual security" rather than "economic co-operation." The foreign aid agency in its successive reincarnations was progressively weakened by internal disorders. The U.S. foreign aid effort is still too timid, too spasmodic in its financing, too rigid and centralized in its administration. However, the last year or so have seen evidence of real progress in controlling the symptoms. The most acute symptoms are disappearing now, and convalescence has begun. The program's leadership is no longer totally preoccupied with presidential ambitions or even with Ohio politics. The people and their Congress are impressed with the Soviet Union and seem to have decided that there must be something good about the U.S. foreign aid after all.
- Published
- 1959