Committed to the "trade not aid" idea, the Eisenhower Administration proposed last spring to 1) continue the reciprocal trade program for one year, and 2) meanwhile, set up a commission to study the problem and work out a sound policy. Even that far from bold program ran into trouble on Capitol Hill. Pennsylvania's Republican Representative Richard Simpson introduced a bill to extend the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act and gut it with protectionist amendments. The Administration put up a battle, finally got most of what it had asked.
In June, Simpson & Co. brought forward a new bill to amend the Reciprocal Trade...