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f1dence in State Department en-
ployes, Mr.. Acheson said:
1--WE have 10000 employees in
the department. and of course, I
cannot know all of them. But I
know most of the responsible Of
ficers in Washington and in the
field. I have sent people to every
dangerous part of the world-and
1 have never had a squawk out
of them. Some of them have
been killed and others imprisoned.
Il know they are a good cou-
rageous outfit"
Mr.. Acheson praised the man
agement set up of the department.
The Undersecretary of State, he
said, is a. former Marine fighter,
Jim" Webb. He took the Sperry
company from an organization of
300 to one of 10000, Mr.. Acheson
said, before he came to the de-
partment. He added that many
of the first-string men in the
department came from Southern
States.
Georgian Spoke German.
"At a recent meeting in which
many languages were used" the
Secretary continued, Dean Rusk
of Georgia agreed to use German.
After the meeting. he was ap-
preached by a representative of
France who asked what part of
the country he came from. Mr..
Rusk replied he was from Georgia.
'Ah,' said the Frenchman, I
thought you spoke German with a
Russian accent"
In his address earlier Mr.. Ache
son urged the Governors to rally
to the support of the Point Four
program which is now before the
Senate Appropriations Commit
tee.
There, he said, the Point Four
plan has been under "paradoxical
and contradictory" attacks, which
have obscured the basic elements
of Self-help in the program and
the fact that it deals with 1.-The
fundamentals of community life
health, sanitation and agri-
culture"
Need Healthy Relationships.
Healthy relationships must ex-
list between the advanced indus
trial economies of the North At
lantic community and the under
developed areas of the world" Mr..
Acheson said.
He contended that a great deal
can be done by technical assis-
tance in Asia, Africa, the Near
East and Latin America to raise
the standards of living and to
combat hunger and poverty.
To point up his argument, Mr..
Acheson called attention to a long
list of State officials who have
been loaned to foreign govern
ments to help improve water sup
plies, health conditions and agri-
culture.
There are many aspects of life
in America that we take for
granted, which would be revolu-
tionary in their effect if they
could be duplicated in many parts
of the world. Mr.. AcheSon said.
Problems We Have Licked.
He mentioned such matters as
clean water supplies, sewerage dis
poSal, control of communicable
diseases, setting up road districts,
school districts. and collection of
taxes-all problems which I'VE
have licked" in this country.
Many visitors to the United
States" continued Mr.. Acheson,
''have told us that the most re-
markable thing in our country was
not the great sky-scrapers or our
great industries. or our many au-
tomobileS, but the fact you can
drink water right out of the tap.
One visitor wrote back home mar
yelling that even on the 50th floor
OF his hotel there was running
water-and it was fit to drink.
I'm Asia since the war;" said
Mr.. Acheson, there are nine new
governments with total popula-
ton of 600 million people. All
OF these governments are neigh
borS of the Soviet Union or of
Soviet dominated China. Many OF
these governments have asked our
help in working out some of the
simple problems of public admin
istration.
Under the Point Four program
we will be able to make our expert
ence available to them on a SUBJ
stantial scale"
Need Agricultural Stations.
i Agricultural experiment sta
tions and extension services, basic
in this country. are vitally needed
in many parts of the world and
can be supplied under the Point
Four program, Mr.. Acheson con-
tinued.
Men and women who have gone
inf0 these fNreioya oreaS IN he ~