Evening star., 1950-03-26
by the Assoeiuted Press


KEY WEST, Fla, March Is.
-FolloUing is the tert OF Pres
ident Truman's letter to Chair
man Kee of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee calling for
the full amount OF administra-
ton foreign aid requests:
I understand that the House
of Representatives will soon con-
slider the Foreign Assistance Act
of 1850. I believe the Congress of
the United States has an oppor-
tunity to strike major blow for
peace on behalf of people every
where by taking rapid and favor
able action on this legislation.
Approval of this measure will
give renewed hope and vigor to
people everywhere who are work
ing to achieve their economic in
dependence and maintain their
political freedom. Passage of this
act will strengthen all nations
threatened with intimidation,
subversion or direct aggression.
1t is the interest of each Ameri-
can that there be a far greater
measure of well-being in other
lands. Other countries must be
able to produce and procure from
us and each other those things
which will enable their people to
have the food, health. and housing
necessary to maintain economic
and political stability.
Poverty, misery and insecurity
are the conditions on which COM
munism thrives. Freedom loving
peoples can eliminate these con-
ditions only by joining their
knowledge and resources in a great
cooperative effort.
Will Aid Southeast Asia.
The Foreign Assistance Act will
authorize continued economic aid
to the Marshall Plan countries in
Europe and to the Republic of
Korea to enable them, through
their own efforts, to establish self
supporting economies. 1t will au-
thorize aid where needed to those
free countries in the general area
of China whose survival is threat
ened by the imminent danger of
Communist inf1ltration. This act
will provide authority for a major
effort to assist the peoples of
Southeast Asia.
1t will provide for participation
in the United Nations efforts to
solve the serious problem of the
Palestine refugees. Satisfactory
solution of this problem is funda-
mental to permanent peace in the
Near East.
The act will authorize the
carrying forward of the vital pro-
gram OF technical and other
assistance to under developed
countries which was the fourth
point in my inaugural address.
This will provide the peoples in
under-developed areas of Asia,
the Middle East. and other parts
of the world the hope and the
tools they need to achieve and
maintain real freedom for them
selves.
The program called for by this
act Is the minimum consistent
with the interest of the United
States and our efforts to achieve
a peaceful world. Failure to en-
act it's full amount would do
irreparable damage. We cannot
live isolated in relative wealth
and abundance. We cannot ig-
more the urgent problems of other
peoples or threats to their inde-
pendence.
Are Not Acts of Charity.
These measures are not acts of
charity. Neither are they a waste
OF the resources Of the United
States. They are, indeed, the
keystone of our protection against
the destruction OF another war
and against the terrible weapons
OF this atomic age. Our armed
forces can afford us measure of
defense. but real security for our
Nation and all the rest OF man
kind can come only from build
ing the kind of world where men
can live together in peace.
The United States turned its
back on the rest of the world