Evening star., 1961-05-25
Text Of Kennedy Message
Setting Forth U. S. Goals

OVOAS
cap our efforts to compete
abroad and to achieve full re.
covery here at home. Labor
and management must-and J
am confident that they will
pursue responsible wage anC
price policies in these critica
times. I look to the President'I
Advisory Committee on Labor.
Management Policy to give {
strong lead in this direction.
Moreover, If the budget deficit
now increased by the needs o,
our security is to be held withir
manageable proportions-if VI
are to preserve our fiscal in
tegrity and world confidence II
the dollar-it will be necessary
to hold tightly to prudent fisca
standards, and I must request
the cooperation of the Con-
gress in this regard-to refrair
from adding funds to programs
desirable as they may be, to thu
budget-to end the posta
deficit through increased rate.
ia deficit, incidentally, which
exceeds the fiscal year 1876;
cost Of all the space and de-
fense measures I am submitting
today)-to provide full pay-as.
you-build highway financing
and to close those tax loophole'
earlier specified. Our security
and progress cannot be cheaply
purchased. and their price mus
be found In what we all foregc
as well as what we all mus
pay.
III. Economic and
Social Progress Abroad
I stress the strength Of oul
economy because it is esSentia
to our strength as q Nation
And what is true in our case Il
true Of other countries. Theii
strength In the struggle fol
freedom depends on the strength
Of their economic and socia
progress. Their ability to resist
imperialism from without and
subversion from within de-
pends in large measure upor
their capacity for orderly politi'
cal and economic growth.
This is particularly true ir
those less-developed countries
that have become the great
arena Of struggle. And that L
why our response to their dan.
ger must be essentially con.
structive. We want to generate
hope in those countries. We
want to help them modernize
their societies, broaden human
opportunity and stand as equal
partners In the community Of
free nations. We would be
badly mistaken to consider their
problems in military terms
alone.
For no amount Of arms and
armies can help stabilize those
governments which are unable
or unwilling to achieve social
reform and economic develop
ment. Military pactS cannot
help nations whose social in
justice and economic chaos In
vite insurgency and penetration
and subversion. The most skill
ful counter-guerrilla efforts
available cannot succeed where
the local population is too
caught UP In its own misery to
be concerned about the ad-
vance Of communism.
On the other hand, no
amount Of subversive activity
can corrupt q nation working
with confidence for a better So
ciety, under leadership 1t
trusts, and with increasing par
ticipation by all in the benefits
Of new development.
This is our concept. We
stand ready no VITO provide
generously Of our skills, our
capital, and our food to assist
the peoples Of the less-devel-
oped nations to reach their
goals-and to help them before
they are engulfed in crisis.
This is also our great op-
portunity. II we grasp it, then
subversion to prevent its sue
cess is exposed as an unjustifi-
able attempt to keep these ma
tions from being either free or
equal. But If we do not pursue
it, the bankruptcy of unstable
governments and unfulfilled
hopes will surely lead to a series
of totalitarian receiverships.
Earlier in the year. I out
lined to the Congress a new
program for aiding emerging
nations; and it Is my intention
to transmit shortly draft legis-
lation to implement this pro-
gram, to establish a new Act
for International Development
(AID), and to add to the figures
previously requested, in view Of
the swift pace of critical events.
an additional $3.50 million for
la presidential contingency
fund, to be used only upon a
presidential determination in
each case that a sudden and
extraordinary drain of regular
funds-as illustrated by recent
events in Southeast Asia
makes necessary the use Of this
emergency reserve. I make this
additional request because OF
my conviction that in these un-
certain times we must have the
flexibility to respond to new,
but as yet unknown, crises
and opportunities. The total
amount requested-now raised
to $2,650, 900, ,000-is both mini
NAL and crucial. I do not
see how anyone who is con-
cerned about the growing
threats to freedom around the
world-and who is asking what
more we can do-can weaken
or oppose the single most i'm