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This week, at the Philadelphia Bulletin Forum, Secretary Dulles said that the U.S. can begin counteracting the new Soviet policy by adopting the mutual security program sent to Congress Jan. 16 by President Eisenhower, i.e., 1) appropriate $100 million more for fiscal 1957 than the $4.2 billion being spent this year, 2) place parts of the mutual security program on a long-range basis. Said Dulles: "We should not appropriate in a panic merely because of Soviet economic activities. There is, however, need for somewhat greater flexibility and for greater continuity. Some of the development projects which are most significant will take several years to complete. It is difficult for the countries concerned to arrange for financing these projects unless United States support can be relied upon not just for one year at a time but for several years."