National Affairs: The Word from Karachi

U.S. taxpayers, unhappily preparing to shoulder the load of the biggest peacetime budget in history (including $10.5 billion in foreign aid), got a fast estimate of the Government's Point Four plans for Pakistan, which is scheduled to get $8,000,000 to $12 million this year. The word, as reported by the New York Times from an official source in Karachi: "Paltry .. . [we are] insulted."

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