Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-26

some OF the DumS IN other
nations have given us a kick
in the pants many times for
our pains. We can take it, but
let us not be so altruistic that
we really defeat our own
aims, by creating a more dan
gerous discomfort in other
nations than already exists.
Let's give them something to
work for, and let the down.
trodden do something on
their own hook to earn the
respect Of the world. They
have had their misery for
many years. In these under
deve lope d countries, they
have been exposed to the
civilization and help Of the
white man for many years.
ColonialiSm has not been the
despotic slavery which the
mouthings of a few dema-
gogueS have proclaimed. Large
parts of Asia and Africa have
had the opportunities which
we as a fledgling country
were denied. Are they any
better than we?
To those who say that the
United States is against the
world, in refusing to heal
the sick. and feed the hungry
of the rest of the world, and
that If we do not change our
attitude, the world will be-
come Communist, I reply:
If we attempted this program
on a worldwide scale, we
would play right into the
hands of the Communists.
For the more we tried to
carry out this project, the
bigger the problem would be-
come. We would be in the
position of Pandora, and her
box Of all the pests Of man
kind. Let us remember, too,
that the harder we would
struggle, and the more of our
resources we would expend in
this effort, the easier prey we
would ultimately become-to
the Communists who boosted,
1--WE will take them without a
struggle"
William P. Thomas, jr.
q 4
! could not pretend to un-
derStand the nature of the
threat to our economy which
this gold depletion involves,
but the strident nature of the
alarms suggests that those on
the inside are very concerned.
However, the most battling
aspect of the matter is that
the condition develops as a
crisis at all. All the facts pre-
sented so freely in the papers
and the news during the past
two months have been part
OF the government records all
through the years, and the
present condition represents
only the end result Of the
trends clearly in process for
several years. Our present adj
ministration has always rep
resented itself as an "econ-
omy" one and has been lib
orally criticized by the oppo-
sition, and even by it's more
liberal" elements in the same
party, for its "pinchpenny"
policies. Yet it has insisted
upon foreign aid of over 81
billions per year, and has re-
ceived just about what it has
requested from Congress. the
past several years. Certainly
none of this information has
been classified as to the mem
berS of Congress, especially
the finance committees. It is
astounding that they have
approved the massive foreign
aid bills year after year with
these facts at their disposal.
Again, I may be the victim
of naive appraisal, but my
perusal of the articles flood
ing the news media about the
matter lead me to conclude
that the rate of our gold de-
pletion is almost exactly par
allel to our foreign aid and
that the funds spent in over
seas markets is the cause of
our crisis. If this is so, how
can we justify the continu-
ance Of this program, and
why has our Government in
sisted upon this expense
through the years? Even now,
after the recalling of our
military dependents, there
has been no official published
discussion of limiting this ex-
pense in the future, and the
incoming administration has
not indicated that it is lean
ing toward this type of econ
omy. AS recently as the past
summer our Latin American
neighbors were given $3.50
millions of credit in one
package. w. II. Moses.