National Affairs: Foreign-Aid Progress

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week furnished convincing proof that President Eisenhower's appeals and John Foster Dulles' sturdy testimony on foreign aid have taken root. By a 12-3 vote (Democrats Wayne Morse and Russell Long, Republican William Langer) the committee approved an authorization bill that sliced off only $227 million of the $3.8 billion Ike had requested for military and economic aid. But more than that, the influential Foreign Relations Committee chalked up a far-reaching first. For the first time in the ten years of foreign aid, it approved—in principle—the President's program for an economic development fund of indefinite duration...