In their fight to cut foreign-aid appropriations. House Democrats put on a cloak that was tailor-made for their uncomfortable posture. As onetime champions of mutual assistance and onetime foes of isolationism, they could not use the well-worn cry"Why pour good U.S. dollars down foreign ratholes?''against the principle involved.
"I want to give them every cent they need," cried Louisiana's Representative Otto Passman, leader of the cut-foreign-aid forces. The Eisenhower Administration, said Passman & Co., already has about $9.5 billion in unspent foreign-aid funds appropriated in previous yearsplenty to keep the program going. Democrats...
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