NO WITHDRAWAL FROM VIETNAM

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Of course, the USIA had no alternative
but to announce a ban on this fake film.
The fact is, it should never have been
contracted for in the first place-and it
causes one to wonder how much more is
being spent to sugar-coat the news. This
should be looked into. I say further, it is
time the administration started to give
the American people the truth about
Vietnam.
THE HONORABLE ROBERT J. COR-
BETT, OF PENNSYLVANIA, RE-
CEIVES FIRST GEORGE WASHING-
TON CARVER AWARD
(Mr. JOHNSON of Pennsylvania asked
and was given permission to address the
House for 1 minute and to revise and
extend his remarks.)
Mr. JOHNSON of Pennsylvania. Mr.
Speaker, as we all know, last Tuesday,
January 5, was George Washington Car-
ver Day-a day set aside each year by
act of this Congress when a grateful
nation that has benefited so greatly from
his genius commemorates the passing of
the great scientist, teacher, and human-
itarian.
At impressive ceremonies held here in
the Nation's Capital on that day, the
man most responsible for the designation
of January 5 each year as George Wash-
ington Carver Day, our distinguished col-
league the gentleman from Pennsylvania
(Mr. CORBETT] was appropriately hon-
ored by receiving the first George Wash-
ington Carver Award.
The award was presented to Mr. CoR-
BETT in the, form of a handsomely in-
scribed bronze and walnut plaque by Dr.
Rosa Gragg, chairman of the Career
Commemoration Committee of the Dis-
trict of Columbia, "in appreciation for
his , pioneering efforts in introducing
legislation in the 79th Congress of the
United States to honor a great scientist
and insure future recognition of Carver's
outstanding contributions."
I am pleased to bring this to the at-
tention of the Members of the House as
I know that all his colleagues feel as I
do that this is an honor which Mr. Coa-
BETT richly deserves and that they all
join with me in offering him sincere con-
gratulations.
[Mr. HA L addressed the House. His
remarks wi 1 appear hereafter in the
AppendfxJ
(Mr. STRATTON asked' and was given
permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his
remarks.)
Mr. STRATTON. Mr. Speaker, like
other Americans I am well aware that the
situation in Vietnam has been going
badly. I do not claim to have, any more
'than anyone else, a pat or simple solu-
tion tour military difficulties there.
But I have watched with increasing
concern and uneasiness in recent days as
individual Members of the Congress, in
the face of these mounting discourage-
ments, have proposed abandoning our
commitments in Vietnam and retreating
or disengaging there in one fashion or
another. I do not believe that these
sentiments, though they may have come
in for special attention in the press, rep-
resent the thinking of the overwhelming
majority of the Members of the House or
the Senate and I believe it is important
for some of us to say so publicly without
delay.
For nearly two decades America has
led the worldwide fight for freedom and
against Communist aggression and en-
croachment. We formalized that com-
mitment in the Truman doctrine, and
expounded it in the policy of contain-
ment. We underwrote it with money
and courage and blood in the Marshall
plan, in military and economic aid, in the
Korean war, in the Berlin airlift, in
Lebanon, in the Formosa Straits, and in
the Cuban missile crisis. Over the years
as we have discharged these responsibil-
ities we have had our ups and downs.
But we have continued to honor this com-
mitment. Never before have we seriously
considered quitting just because the going
.was getting tough. Most emphatically
we should not do so now.
For what is at stake today in Viet-
nam is far more than the current mili-
tary situation in one faraway corner of
the world. It is nothing less than the
leadership and credibility of the United
States of America. Having put our hand
to the plow we cannot now possibly turn
back without disastrous results not
merely in southeast Asia but around the
world. If the United States, once suffi-
ciently harassed and embarrassed, can
be persuaded to back down on its com-
mitment in Vietnam, who then can ever
again put faith in our commitment in
any other part of the world? What
better proof that Uncle Sam is after all
just a paper tiger, that our will and de-
termination simply -do not measure up to
the megatonage of our nuclear arsenal?
What more dramatic evidence that
American democracy just does not have
the stomach to stay the full distance,
that communism, not democracy, is the
real wave of the future? If America can
be harassed and frustrated out of south-
east Asia, how could she then be counted
on to stand firm- if the going suddenly
got tough in Berlin or Cuba or Latin
America? _
Mr. Speaker, I believe these counsels of
retreat and discouragement do a grave
disservice to the American tradition of
world leadership and I believe they must
emphatically be rejected. However long
and hard the road may be, America in
my judgment has no honorable alterna-
tive but to stay in Vietnam until the
independence of the people of Vietnam
has been assured.
I was gratified that President Johnson
made it clear in his state of the Union
message that this Nation will continue to
honor its commitment to freedom in
Vietnam. As one Member of this Con-
gress and as one member of its Commit-
tee on Armed Services, I intend to sup-
port whatever additional commitments
of American power to Vietnam may be
necessary to insure the continued free-
dom of the people of this area and the
continued denial of their country to the
forces of aggressive and totalitarian com-
munism, whether Soviet or Chinese.
645
(Mr. PIRNIE asked and was given per-
mission to address the House for 1 min-
ute and to revise and extend his re-
marks.)
Mr. PIRNIE. Mr. Speaker, today I
am introducing legislation designed to
attack farm problems on three fronts
and wish to take this opportunity to
urge my colleagues to give this measure
their fullest consideration.
We in the Congress have been witness
to a vast number of farm programs that
have been enacted over the years. Many
of us have been opposed to several of
these programs for two prime reasons.
First, although the need to help the in-
dividual family farmer was most press-
ing, it was the corporate farms that ob-
tained the greatest advantage from the
majority of these programs. Second,
and certainly equally significant, far too
many of these programs have failed to
give the farmer an option as to whether
or not he would participate, thus serving
to usurp the farmer's control over his
own operation and placing it in the
hands of the Federal Government.
I have steadily maintained that this
trend has served to give the little farmer
a "big brother" complex and must be
abated. I strongly feel that the farmer
should retain the right to make major
decisions with regard to the production
and sale of his products and should not
be dictated to by an impersonal author-
ity in a distant city.
The bill that I am introducing is
geared to first, increase per family farm
income; second, reduce the surplus of
wheat and feed grains; and third, de-
crease the public costs of maintaining
farm programs. Its principal provisions
call for adjustments to wheat and feed
grain production programs and the es-
tablishment of a cropland retirement
program.
I anticipate that the programs will
help to stabilize feed grain prices so as
to make more nearly possible the plan-
ning that is requisite for successful farm-
ing and, with regard to the cropland re-
tirement program, protect the Nation
with respect to future. needs of an ex-
panding population.
This measure was prompted by lengthy
discussions with my farmer constituents.
It reflects our combined thinking and
sincere desire to arrive at sensible and
workable solutions to many of the prob-
lems that plague our existing farm pro-
grams. I do not claim that it is a cure-
all; however, I feel that it constitutes
a giant step in the right direction.
At this time, I would like to include
in my remarks several salient points per-
taining to the main features of this bill.
These points were developed in my sev-
eral conferences with spokesmen from
and for the farm community.
New wheat legislation should be en-
acted in time to eliminate the necessity
for another referendum on the wheat
certificate plan provided by existing law
which was rejected by wheatgrowers in
1963.
The present "emergency" feed grain
program was initiated in 1961 and has
been extended with minor modifications
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since that time. Considering the vast
acreage of land diverted from production
by the program, the growth in market at-
tained during its 4 years of operation,
the poor crop in 1964, and the continuing
surplus of feed grains, the program
clearly has failed to solve the feed grain
problem.
Furthermore, the programs for wheat
and feed grains have aggravated the
price and income problems of livestock
producers and have proved an enormous
financial burden on the American tax-
payer.
The bill that I am introducing states
that authority for wheat marketing
quotas and acreage allotments would be
terminated and the multiple-price wheat
plan provisions of the 1962 Farm Act
would be repealed. The provisions of
the Agriculture Act of 1964, authorizing
the 1964 and 1965 program for wheat
would be allowed to expire. The 1963
Feed Grain Act, which applies only to the
1964 and 1965 crops of feed grains would
be allowed to expire. These actions
would clear the slate, beginning with the
1966 crops, for a new approach to the
wheat and feed grain problem.
Beginning with the 1966 crop, price
supports for wheat would be set at the
U.S. farm price equivalent of the aver-
age world market price during the im-
mediately preceding 3 marketing years-
currently about $1.34 per bushel. Pre-
miums and discounts would be used to
reflect market demand for milling and
baking quality. For corn, supports
would be 90 percent of the average price
received by farmers for corn during the
immediately preceding 3 years. Cur-
rently this would mean a price support of
about $1 per bushel for corn. Supports
for other feed grains would be related to
corn with differentials to reflect dif-
ferences in feeding value.
Under no circumstances would the
price support level be less than 50 per-
cent of the applicable parity price. At
the present time support prices com-
puted by the market price formulas would
be considerably higher than 50 percent
of parity in all cases. This approach
would automatically adjust support
prices to changing supply and demand
conditions.
The cropland retirement provisions of
this measure deserve special attention.
They are both temporary and voluntary
in nature. Producers of all. commodities
would be given an opportunity to par-
ticipate in the cropland retirement pro-
gram. The voluntary nature of this
proposed program minimizes the likeli-
hood that it would have any adverse ef-
fects on individual counties or communi-
ties; however, to make certain that no
area would be adversely affected, the Sec-
retary of Agriculture would be directed
to place a maximum limitation on the
percentage of total cropland which could
be retired in any one State or county.
The key to this entire bill that makes it
attractive to me, a number of my col-
leagues and, most important, to the
farmers, is that it preserves the oppor-
tunity for each farmer to make his own
decisions. It provides for needed adjust-
ments in resource use without forcing
every farmer to retire a part of his farm
without regard to his individual situa-
tion. It uses support prices to encour-
age orderly marketing and orderly ad-
justments in production rather than to
fix prices. In short, it demonstrates our
sincerity to maintain our partnership
with the farmer and willingness to do
all that we can to assist him and preserve
his role as a bulwark in our society.
HON. LUTHER H. HODGES, SECRE-
TARY OF COMMERCE
(Mr. HARRIS asked and was given
permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his re-
marks.)
Mr. HARRIS. Mr. Speaker, as Mem-
bers of Congress we have an opportunity
of associating with and observing the
work of many outstanding Americans
who perform brilliant services in various
stations of our Government. It has been
my privileges, as well as yours, to work
with so many outstanding, capable, ex-
perienced, and dedicated persons who
have rendered service to America and
added strength to our country in its
great institutions.
I wish to pay tribute today, Mr. Speak-
er, to one of our great Americans who
has served his country so well and con-
tributed so much over the past two dec-
ades. In addition to outstanding public
service-he has rendered in many sta-
tions in Government, serving his coun-
try since the early part of World War
II, the Honorable Luther H. Hodges has
served as a member of the Cabinet in
the high post of Secretary of Commerce
for the past 4 years with brilliance, cour-
age, and dedication.
It has been my privilege and certainly
a very great pleasure to have worked
closely with him during his service,
which I would describe as that of a truly
great Secretary of Commerce of the
United States., Since it has been my
pleasure to have had the association
with him officially and personally dur-
ing these years, I wish to take this occa-
sion, Mr. Speaker, to acknowledge our
Nation's debt to this dedicated public
servant as he retires from this outstand-
ing Cabinet post.
As President Johnson so well said to
him as he leaves his post:
Your leadership in the Commerce Depart-
ment has been marked by prudence and
progress. You have given of your wisdom
and your tolerance not only to your own De-
partment, but to the entire Cabinet as well.
As is well known, Secretary Hodges
came to the Commerce Department al-
ready highly successful in both business
and politics-as an executive in the great
American textile industry, and as a Gov-
ernor of the populous and progressive
State of North Carolina.
In leaving his Cabinet post tomorrow,
Secretary Hodges will be leaving that
great Department with a legacy of pur-
pose that is unique in our time. He has
reorganized it and revitalized it, and giv-
en it a new sense of mission in its serv-
ice to the business community and to all
the American people.
In our century so many of the great
decisions in the lives of men and nations
are economic decisions-choices ground-
ed in the very stuff of our individual and
national existence, our livelihoods, and
our security. In these economic deci-
sions, the Commerce Department has a
vital role and a growing responsibility-
for supplying information and services,
and the leadership and guidance to help
us, individually and as a nation, to make
the most of our opportunities.
Secretary Hodges has stirred the De-
partment to its organizational roots,
bringing forth a new vitality, a new
awareness of its mission to promote
growth at home and the fulfillment of
the grand concept of expanding free
trade in a free world society. He was
a tower of strength in the battle to enact
the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, and
he has gone around the country with
missionary zeal preaching to American
businessmen the need to get into the
mainstream of international trade. And
in these years of developing world mar-
kets our shipments of American goods
abroad have soared by more than $5
billion or 27 percent to a record last
year of $25 billion.
He has also traveled tirelessly to every
continent promoting the sale of U.S.
goods and extending a personal invita-
tion to businessmen and tourists alike
to come to the United States, to make
this great country the No. 1 travel desti-
nation of the world. In these and other
efforts, he has made the Commerce De-
partment a major force in our increas-
ingly successful effort, to alleviate the
persistent deficit in our international
balance of payments.
Secretary Hodges has brought science
and technology into focus as a vital eco-
nomic determinant, affecting our ability
to compete abroad and to maintain a
rapidly rising American standard of liv-
ing in an atmosphere of price stability.
He has promoted the modernization of
our industrial plant, the development of
techniques for making existing tech-
nology more readily available to the pro-
duction line and the small business firm.
He has helped to bring new prosperity
to the great textile industry, and has
shown great courage in spotlighting the
problems of our national transportation
system.
Throughout the Department he has
made its activities more responsive to
the needs of American business and the
American economy. Never before have
businessmen had such a broad range of
services, and never before has there been
a greater effort to bring these coordi-
nated services to the attention of those
who need them, when they need them,
and where they need them-from New
England to Hawaii, from Alaska to
Puerto Rico.
Luther Hodges has had a leading part
in the growing involvement of business-
men in the civic and social goals of our
country.
We bid farewell tomorrow to a great
Secretary of Commerce. Our country
and our future is the richer because of
his labors. His efforts will live in the
industrial spirit that has made America
the envy and the hope of mankind.
We wish for him and his lovely com-
panion, Mrs. Hodges, who has been a
tower of strength sustaining him
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throughout the years, continued. good
health, joy, and happiness, and all bless-
ings of life which they so richly deserve.
Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, will the
gentleman yield?
.Mr. HARRIS. I am very happy to
yield to our majority leader, the dis-
tinguished gentleman from Oklahoma.
Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, first of
all the distinguished gentleman from
Arkansas is to be commended for taking
this time to pay this tribute which is so
well deserved, to a great American as he
leaves this area of high public service
in the Nation's Capital.
Governor Hodges has had a long and
distinguished career of public service as
Governor of his State, as a Cabinet offi-
cer, and in many other positions of im-
portance and public trust. He is a big
man. He is a kind man. He is a wise
man. He carries those attributes of
greatness in a frame and habit that be-
comes the greatest of men.
It has been a great pleasure and privi-
leae to have known him and his good.
wife for a number of years. Secretary
Hodges is certainly one of the great men
of this generation and I join the dis-
tinguished chairman of the Committee
on Interstate and Foreign Commerce,
who in his committee work has worked so
closely with Secretary Hodges during
the past 4 years, in wishing them all
the richest blessings of life as they leave
us.
Mr. HARRIS. I thank the gentleman
for his most appropriate comments.
Mr. COOLEY. Mr. Speaker, will the
gentleman yield?
Mr. HARRIS. I yield to the gentle-
man.
[Mr. COOLEY addressed the House.
His remarks will appear hereafter in the
Mr. ROGERS of Florida. Mr. Speak-
er, will the gentleman yield?
Mr. HARRIS. I shall be glad to yield
to the gentleman from Florida, a mem-
ber of the committee who has observed
the work of Secretary Hodges through-
out the last 4 years as I have been
privileged to do.
Mr. ROGERS of Florida. I thank the
gentleman.
Mr. Speaker, I would like to join in
these remarks in expressing our best
wishes to Secretary Hodges as he re-
tires from his Government service.
As the chairman has said, it has been
my honor to observe his work, being a
member of the Committee on Interstate
and Foreign Commerce myself. I think
the great confidence that Luther Hodges
brought to Government and the people
who came in contact with him was one
of his greatest contributions. I think
the business community certainly had
their confidence reestablished in the way
he ran the Department of Commerce. It
certainly was a great privilege to work
with him as a member of this committee
and my chairman working with him, to
see the success and the progress of the
programs that he initiated.
So I too, Mr. Speaker, would like to
join with my chairman and colleagues
in wishing for Secretary Hodges and
Mrs. Hodges Godspeed in their voyage
through life in the days ahead.
Mr. HARRIS. I thank the gentle-
man.
Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent
that all Members wishing to do so may
extend their remarks at this point in the
RECORD.
The SPEAKER. Without objection, it
is so ordered.
There was no objection.
DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS ON MON-
DAY, JANUARY 18, AT 10 A.M.
(Mr. ALBERT asked and was given
permission to address the House for 1
minute.)
Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, I take
this time for the purpose of informing
colleagues on this side of the-aisle that
there will be a caucus of Democratic
Members of the House here in the Hall
of the House of Representatives on
Monday, January 18, at 10 a.m., for the
purpose of agreeing to recommendations
of the Democratic committee on commit-
tees in designating Democratic members
of the several committees and their as-
signment thereon.
COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT
OPERATIONS
Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, I offer a
resolution, House Resolution 114, and ask
for its immediate consideration.
The Clerk read the resolution, as fol-
lows:
H. RES. 114
Resolved, That during the Eighty-ninth
Congress, the Committee on Government Op-
erations shall be composed of thirty-four
members.
Mr. GERALD R. FORD. Mr. Speak-
er, will the gentleman yield?
Mr. ALBERT. I yield to the gentle-
man.
Mr. GERALD R. FORD. Would the
gentleman from Oklahoma indicate the
distribution o-1 the three additional mem-
bers?
Mr. ALBERT. This is an addition of
three memberships to the Committee on
Government Operations, two of which
will be assigned to the majority and one
of which will be assigned to the minority.
This is a matter which has been worked
out, as a few other matters have been,
between the leadership on both sides for
the convenience of the House.
The resolution was agreed to.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the
table.
LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM
(Mr. GERALD R. FORD asked and
was given permission to address the
House for 1 minute.)
Mr. GERALD R. FORD. Mr. Speaker,
I have asked for this time for the purpose
of asking the gentleman from Oklahoma
[Mr. ALBERT], the majority leader, if he
can give us a schedule for next week.
Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, will the
gentleman yield?
Mr. GERALD R. FORD. I yield to the
gentleman from Oklahoma.
647.
Mr. ALBERT. Next week there will be
one or more. messages received. I know
the Defense Department message is com-
ing up. We expect to receive that on
Monday.
There will be considered a resolution
designating Members on this side of the
aisle to serve on committees; and I as-
sume that a similar resolution will be
offered for the Republican side of the
aisle.
The District of Columbia budget is ex-
pected to come up next week.
Except for resolutions and procedural
matters, I know of no legislative business
for next week. There will be, of course,
the inaugural procedures next week. We
hope to be able to expedite matters and
to meet at appropriate times for the
Souse to participate in those ceremonies.
Mr. GERALD R. FORD. Will the
House go over until Monday when it ad-
journs today?
Mr. ALBERT. It will be,my purpose,
since we do not have any business which
requires a meeting of the House tomor-
row, to make such a request. If the gen-
tleman will yield for that purpose, I will
make the request now.
Mr. GERALD R. FORD. I yield to the
gentleman for that purpose.
ADJOURNMENT TO MONDAY,
JANUARY 18, 1985
Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, I ask
unanimous consent that when the House
adjourns today it adjourn to meet on
Monday next.
The SPEAKER. Is there objection to
the request of the gentleman from Okla-
homa?
There was no objection,
FOREIGN AID-MESSAGE FROM THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES (H. DOC. NO. 53)
The SPEAKER laid before the House
the following message from the Presi-
dent of the United States; which was
read, referred to the Committee on For-
eign Affairs and ordered to be printed:
To the Congress of the United States:
I
We live in a turbulent world. But
amid the conflict and confusion, the
United States holds firm to its primary
goal-a world of stability, freedom and
peace where independent nations can
enjoy the benefits of modern knowledge.
Here is our difference with the Com-
munists-and our strength. They
would use their skills to forge new
chains of tyranny. We would use ours
to free men from the bonds of the past.
The Communists are hard at work to
dominate the less-developed nations of
Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Their
allies are the ancient enemies of man-
kind: Tyranny, poverty, ignorance, and
disease. If freedom is to prevail, we must
do more than meet the immediate threat
to free world security, whether in south-
east Asia or elsewhere. We must look
beyond-to the long-range needs of the
developing nations.
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Foreign assistance programs reach be-
yond today's crises, to offer:
Strength to those who would be free;
Hope for those who would otherwise
despair;
Progress for those who would help
themselves.
Through these programs we help build
stable nations in a stable world.
n
Acting on the experience of the past
4 years, I am presenting a program
which--
Is selective and concentrated;
Emphasizes self-help and the fastest
possible termination of dependence on
aid;
Provides an increasing role for private
enterprise;
Improves multilateral coordination of
development aid;
Reflects continuing
management.
the Congress and request additional
funds.
III
I am requesting $1,170 million for the
military assistance program. This is an
increase of $115 million over the total
appropriation for military assistance for
the current fiscal year. In order to
meet urgent requirements in southeast
Asia during fiscal year 1965, we cut back,
programs in other countries which are
under pressure. Some of the fiscal year
1966 appropriation will be needed to
make up what we have left undone.
Still, the program is highly concen-
trated. Nearly three-quarters of the
money will go to 11 countries around the
great are from Greece to Korea. Viet-
nam alone will absorb an important
share.
Military assistance makes it possible
for nations to survive. It provides a
shield behind which economic and social
development can take place. It is vital
to our own security as well. It helps to
maintain more than 31/2 million men un-
der arms as a deterrent to aggression in
countries bordering on the Sino-Soviet
world. Without them, more American
men would have to be stationed overseas,
and we would have to spend far more
for defense than we now do.
IV
As a supplement to military assistance,
I am requesting $369 million for support-
ing assistance-economic aid which is
directly related to the maintenance of
stability and security. Eighty-eight per-
cent of the money will be used in Viet-
nam. Laos, Korea, and Jordan.
Specifically, for fiscal year 1966 I rec-
ommend-
No additional authorizations for devel-
opment lending or the Alliance for Prog-
ress; existing authorizations for those
purposes are adequate;
Authorizations of $1,170 million for
military assistance;
Three hundred and sixty-nine million
dollars for supporting assistance;
Two hundred and ten million dollars
for technical cooperation;
One hundred and fifty-five million dol-
lars for contributions to international
organizations ;
Fifty million dollars for the President's
contingency fund; and
Sixty-two million dollars for adminis-
trative and miscellaneous expenses.
I am also requesting a special standby
authorization for use if necessary in Viet-
nam only.
My appropriation request for fiscal
year 1966 under these authorizations is
for $3,380 million-$1,170 million will be
used for military assistance; $2,210 mil-
lion is for the other categories of aid.
This is a minimum request, the small-
`st in the history of the foreign aid pro-
gram. It is $136 million less than re-
quested last year, and will impose the
smallest assistance burden on the Amer-
ican people since the beginning of the
Marshall plan in 1948.
This minimum request reflects my de-
terinination to present to the Congress
the lowest aid budget consistent with the
national interest. It takes full account
of the increasing efficiency of the assist-
ance program, and the increasing avail-
ability of assistance funds from interna-
tional agencies in which the costs are
shared among a number of countries.
I believe that in carrying out this pro-
gram the American people will get full
value for their money. Indeed, we can-
not afford to do less. Russia and Red
China have tripled their promises of aid
in the past year. They are doing more
than they have ever done before; the
competition between them has led to in-
creased efforts by each to influence the
course of events in the developing
nations.
If, during the year, situations should
arise which require additional amounts
of U.S. assistance to advance vital U.S.
interests, I shall not hesitate to inform
V
The world's trouble spots-the Viet-
nams and the Congas dominate the
headlines. This is no wonder, for they
represent serious problems. Over $500
million of the current request for mili-
tary and supporting assistance will be
deployed to meet the frontal attack in
Vietnam and Laos.
Indeed, $500 million may not be
enough. I am therefore requesting for
fiscal year 1966 an additional standby
authorization for military or supporting
assistance which would be used only in
Vietnam and only in case we should need
more funds to protect our interests there.
Any program which would make use
of this additional authorization will be
presented to the authorizing committees
of the Congress concurrently with the
Our past investment in the defense of' ports have tripled;
the free world through the military as-
sistance and supporting assistance pro- The private share of output has
grams has paid great dividends. Not doubled, and now accounts for two-thirds
only has it foiled aggression, but it has of all industrial production;
brought stability to a number of coun- Agricultural production has increased
tries. Since the beginning of this dec- by 50 percent.
ade, the funds used each year for mili- Free China has also joined other na-
tary aid and supporting assistance have tions as a good cash customer for U.S.
been sharply reduced. Today, we are exports, particularly agricultural com-
spending $1 billion less on these ac- modities.
counts than we did in 1960 and 1961. This remarkable cooperative effort has
VI brought the Republic of China to the
Military security in the developing point where it no longer needs AID as-
world will not be sufficient to our pur- sistance. Fiscal year 1965 marks the end
poses unless the ordinary people begin of this successful program.
to feel some improvement in their lives I am requesting $580 million as our
and see ahead to a time when their fiscal year 1966 aid commitment to the
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children can live in decency. It follows
that economic growth in these regions
means as much to our security as their
military strength. That is an impor-
tant reason why the United States has
taken the lead during the past few years
in organizing, on an international
basis, a program of development assist-
ance.
Of course, such assistance is and must
be concentrated where it will contribute
to lasting progress. Experience has
demonstrated that certain requirements
need to be met by the developing coun-
tries if such progress is to occur.
They need to undertake sound meas-
ures of self-help-to mobilize their own
resources, eliminate waste, and do what
they can to meet their own needs. And
they need to avoid spending their re-
sources on unnecessary armaments and
foreign adventures. Our aid can con-
tribute to their economic and social
progress only if it can be provided within
a framework of constructive and sensible
policies and programs.
Fortunately, most of the developing
countries recognize the relationship be-
tween the wise use of their own resources
and the effectiveness and availability of
external aid.
it is a cardinal principle of U.S. policy
that development assistance will go to
countries which have undertaken effec-
tive programs of self-help and are, there-
fore, able to make good use of aid. Dur-
ing fiscal year 1964, for example, 64 per-
cent of our development assistance went
to seven such countries: India, Nigeria,
Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Brazil, and
Chile. In other countries as well, includ-
ing a number of smaller countries, sound
self-help efforts are making it possible
for us to provide effective development
aid.
With development assistance we seek
to help countries reach, as rapidly as
possible, the point at which further
progress is possible without external aid.
A striking example of how, through
self-help, a developing country can reach
the point where it can carry on without
concessional aid is the Republic of China.
Little more than 10 years ago, free China
faced enormous security and develop-
ment problems. The prospects for eco-
nomic growth looked dim. But in only
10 years, as a result of determined self-
help supplemented by effective U.S. aid`.
Per capita gross national product has
risen 45 percent;