Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-04
YOUR
MONEYS WORTH
New Permanent Budget Items
BY SYLVIA PORTER

To civilization 1856 starts to unfold adding
two massivey significant things
A permanent munitions industry;
A permanent foregn-aid program.
When President Eisenhower's Standardization mes
sage delivered tomorrow these developments will be i'm
pc in word he about the defense budget
and the foreign-aid package
And although the headlines may stress the adminstra
TONS views other maershe soundneSs of the business
BOOM instance its proposals for schools highways
submit the implications of this tale important as
anything else the President will say.
Throughout history it has been American tradition
to be either at at Our budgets have been
budgets budgets In emergencies we have mob-
lied and factories have converted to goods at the
end of the emergencies have demobzed and fac
tories have reconverted to peace goods.
And have looked with revulsion at the old worlds
munitions industries scorned Erope baron
Now begins the year the end World War H.
And it hardly that in his key messages
the President will ask Congress to defense budget
of over $35 bliona budget that in other would
reflect a full-scale war
What's the vital point is not the size of the budget
The vital point that this the level at which annual
spending for defense slated to level off and become
manent.
Our munitions longer reconvert to peacetme
goods they remain munitions factories And the European
approach which have depsed for long have now
embraced.
Throughout history it has been American tradition
to be generousbut to restrict the generosity to oneho
often mpulSive actions In emergencies, have made
sensational gifts and other lands the end of the
emergencies have cut off the gifts loans You
call the fabulous lendleaSe of World War H. you
recall how cut it off almost the instant the shooting
stopped
And despite all the evidence its soundness have
shrugged of ldfashoned Great BritanS cenurieSod
policy of longterm aid to remote regions of the globe.
begins the second decade after the close World
War II
it also secret that key messages the
President will foreign aid program of close to IS
bion-up almost 100 per from last years appropra
ton.
Again. the vital point not the size of the budget The
vital point is that this the level at which annual
spending foreign aid is slated level become
permanent
Our gifts and loans longer oneshot deals. The
British approach which have ignored long
and more our approach.
And there Is increasing evidence that the administra
ton finally needing the pleas of those who
tirely bold and imaginative aid program and
who insist that unless lay out program for at least
l0year period and give the exbity great
Marshall Plan in Europe, will this phase of the
in Asia.
Would you have believed only few years ago that
Republican administration would be asking defense and
foreignad budgets of this magnitude-and implying the
budgets are to indefinitely?
Would you have thought it possible that the debate
would be not much the amounts to be spent
the strings to be attached to the spending who should
get how much and when?
A munitions industry and a foreign aid program in
America are not But permanent munitions industry
and permanent foreign-aid program in Amerca-these
in history And this really tells the state
OF our Nation and our world as 1856 begins.
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