Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-23
President Won 3 Foreign Aid
Battles, but Lost Tariff Fight
By John M. Hiehtower
Associated Press Stuff Wrifet.

By John M. Hiehtower
Associated Press Stuff Writer.
President Eisenhower won
three of his big foreign aid bat
tie with Congress. He lost q
fourth, which may hamper Sc
verely his policies for tightening
United States relations with
allied countries. @
Here is the record:
/. Foreign trade-Gen. Eisen-
hower's major setback. Congress
baked at the Presidents pro-
gram for lowering tariffs to en-
courage allied and friendly ma
tions to trade with the United
States. The President succeeded
in getting mainly a simple ex-
tension for one year of his bill
to negotiate tariff -cutting trade
treaties, but none of the new
authority he asked to lower
tariffs through such treaties.
Diplomats attached great sig
nificance to the record on this
issue because American foreign
aid programs. aside from mill
tary, are. rapidly coming to an
end and other countries are
worrying about where necessary
dollars will be obtained.
| 2. Foreign aid. Congress voted
a total of $2,781, 100000 for the
current 12-month period-about
! 300 million less than the nearly
$3.5 billion requested by the
President.
Administration officials indi-
Gated the cuts were not Gripping
however, and would not be in
terpreted by foreign govern
mentS as evidence that the
United States was withdrawing
into isolation. Other govern
ments constantly look to con-
gressional action for evidence as
to whether the legislators are on
the whole supporting the Presi-
dents program of partnership
with friendly countries. About
80 per cent of the total for
foreign aid is for military pur-
poses.
8. Atomic energy. The Presi-
dent registered possibly Ais
greatest victory on this issue. He
gained authority, although not
all he asked, to transfer to Amer
ica's allies in Europe secret in
formation about the effects OF
| atomic weapons and such infor-
nation as size, weight and shape
Of these weapons.
officials said this would enable
the United States to bring mill
tary thinking Of countries like
France and italy out Of World
War II concepts into the concepts
of the atomic age.
| The President also won au-
thority to assist cooperating
countries like Belgium. which
furnishes atomic raw materials
to the United States, to build ur
atomic industry.
4. Bricker amendment. Gen
Eisenhower. won a tough fight
when the Senate declined to sup
port the constitutional amend
ment put forward by Senator
Bricker. Republican, of Ohio to
restrict presidential powers to
make international agreements
There was a fifht great issue
which never was officially pre-
sented to Congress although
members spent many an hour
making speeches on the subject
how to save Southeast Asia
from Communist conquest.
Long Range Effects.
The program of legislation
turned out by Congress will have
a long-range important bearing
on United States foreign rela-
tons aside from immediate ef-
fects.
This is a period Of transition
in relationships with other coun-
tries.
In general the United States
is cleaning up eight years OF
efforts to promote the economic
recovery and stability of other
countries. Nations like Britain
and France are back on their
feet-at least to the extent that
American dollar grants can get
them there. In underdeveloped
countries Of Asia and Africa
American policy increasingly en-
phasizes Point Four assistance
the relatively inexpensive pro-
gram of teaching other people
how to grow more food and make
more goods.
For the big Western European