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...worldwide welfare program. What we are trying to do is assist the people of these countries to get in the position where they can solve their own problems." Last month President Kennedy's special Committee to Strengthen the Security of the Free World, headed by retired General Lucius D. Clay, produced a report that, while thoroughly endorsing the principle of foreign aid, declared: "We cannot believe that our national interest is served by indefinitely continuing commitments at the present rate to 95 countries and territories" (TIME, March 29). The report concluded that the U.S. could well reduce its present...
...several days, Washington had been wondering how President Kennedy would react to the report (TIME, March 29) of a ten-man presidential committee, headed by retired General Lucius Clay, recommending cuts that could save some $500 million in the Administration's foreign aid program for next year, originally set at $4.9 billion. As it turned out, the President was willing to go part way with Clay. Dropping in at a meeting of the Magazine Publishers Association, he confided that his foreign aid message this week would request $4.7 billion, and that he would be content if he ended...
...close to $100 billion in economic and military aid to more than 100 foreign countries and foreign groups. There has, of course, been a lot of U.S. grumbling about the size and shape of the foreign aid program-to the point that President Kennedy last December asked retired General Lucius D. Clay to head up a ten-man committee to re-examine foreign aid policies. Last week the Clay group, both in a 22-page report to Kennedy and in a longer, more detailed series of recommendations to Foreign Aid Director David Bell, made known its findings. Clay...
Leverett House will present a forum at 3:15 tonight entitled "The Kennedy Administration--The First Two Years." Henry A. Kissinger '50, assistant professor of Government, Seymour E. Harris, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, and Theodore H. White '23, author of The Making of the President 1960, will participate in the discussion, which will be moderated by Mark DeWolfe Howe...
Seymour E. Harris, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, has defended President Kennedy's proposal for a $12-billion tax reduction as "the best possible compromise" between conservative fears of excessive federal deficits and liberal pleas for heavy welfare expenditures...