Evening star., 1951-05-24
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A partial tert of President
TrunlGn'S foreign aid message
to Congress today tollo,Ds::
Three weeks ago I transmittee
to the Congress request for $6t
million for the United States de.
fense establishment during thu
fiscal year ending June 80, 1852
I am now recommending fol
the fiscal year ending June 80
1852, mutual security program
as follows:
/. Military assistance to other
free nations in the amount Of
$6.250, 100000.
2. Economic assistance to other
free nations in the amount o1
$2,250.000.000, primarily to sup
port expanded defense efforts
abroad.
These amount compare with
$5.3 billion appropriated for mill
tary assistance and So billion
for economic assistance in the
current fiscal year.
The program for our own armed
forces and this mutual security
program interlock. The one builds
upon the other. The purpose of
each is the security of the United
States-the security of American
lives and homes against attack
and the security of our rights and
liberties as laW-abiding members
OF the world community.
Our country has greater eco
nomic strength and larger poten-
tial military power than any other
nation on earth But we do not
and We should not stand alone.
We cannot maintain our civiliza- .
ton, If the rest of the world is
split up, subjugated and organ
lied against us by the Kremlin.
Mutual Program Needed.
This is very real and terrible
danger. But it can be overcome.
To do so, we must work with the
rest of the free world: we must
join other free nations in COM
mon defense plans; we must con-
cert our economic strength with
theirs for the common good, and
we must help other free countries
to build the military and economic
power needed to make impossible
the Communist dreams of world
conquest.
This mutual security program
brings together our various for
eign aid programs, including the
arms aid of the mutual defense
assistance program, economic as
siStance for Europe-now being
directed primarily to support of
rearmament-and our economic
aid to underdeveloped areas under
the Point ~ concept. Every one
of these programs has proved its
worth.
In preparing the present recon-
mendations, each of these separate
programs has been revised in the
light of the emergency situation
that exists in the world and the
extraordinary demands that are
being placed on our Nation. The
amounts, the geographical areas
and the purposes of the aid have
all been chosen in order to bring
about the greatest possible in
crease in the security of the
United States and the whole free
world.
Under this program, the United
States will send tanks, guns and
planes to a number of free coun-
tries, in Europe and other parts of
the world, which are building up
armed forces against the threat of
Communist attack. We will also
send economic help to a number
of countries-economic help rang
ing from machinery and materials
with which to make weapons, to
seeds, medicine and technical as
siStance with which to conquer
communism's allies of starvation
and sickness.
This program was designed with
three major characteristics of the
Soviet threat in mind:
Three Major characteristics.
First. the Soviet threat is world
wide. In Europe, in Asia, in our
own hemisphere, the strategy OF
the Kremlin concentrates on try
ing to pick off the free countries
one by one, so that their resources