Capitol Hill tempers heat up rapidly when U.S. foreign aid comes under discussion. And no proposal is likely to generate more warmth than the one to help India build a government-operated steel plant in the town of Bokaro, north of Calcutta.
India already gets the largest single slice of U.S. aid—$775,100,000 in 1962 v. $403,900,000 for second-place Pakistan—and Nehru's socialist government has not been notably grateful. The Bokaro plan calls for a $512 million first loan and another $379 million later; if granted, it would become the biggest single U.S. foreign aid project ever undertaken anywhere.
President Kennedy supports the plan....
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