Foreign Aid Overhaul

Archive Report

New Review of the Foreign Aid Program

Projected Survey of Goals and Accomplishment

Foreign aid, whose annual authorizations and appropriations have been running into increasing trouble in Congress, is about to come under the searching gaze of a blue-ribbon White House committee. The new Committee to Strengthen the Security of the Free World, headed by Gen. Lucius D. Clay,1 was formed to give continuing counsel to the President and other top administration officials on programs of economic and military aid to foreign countries. The announcement of the group's appointment, Dec. 10, stated that its first task would be to undertake “an immediate review of our military and economic assistance to determine whether the level and distribution of these programs is contributing materially to the security of ...

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