AID HEAD TO QUIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200920001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 16, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

REPORT
Inside Washington
By ROBERT S. ALLEN and PAUL SCOTT
Aid Head to Quit
WASHINGTON - Inner .1,'ll As Ford Foundation president,
Fen cahinrt cirrlrs nre hun.ing, >?icald has been paid $75,000 it
with it provocative report alroutl ;Year plus expenses. In addition,
Foreign Aid Administrator Da-t he receives $5,000 as a trustee.
",a n,,tt I Tall and quiet spoken, Bell is
to join the Ford Foundation.
F
According to one version of
this hark-stage report, 46-year-
old Fell will succeed Henry
Heald. 61. who is ouittipg as
president of the giant foundation
at the end of this year. He hasp bond of finding n new foreign
-held this position since 1956. - :aid administrator, he is, also
'Bell has filled high offices in confronted with the even more
the Truman, Kennedy and John-, tortuous problem of what to do
srm regimes, From 1049 to 1,953, about the wldely-asaalled and
he was administrative assistant' battered huge spending program
him budget director, and two
years later shifted him to the
multi-billion dollar foreign aid
n,-onry. where he has been
einr,r. If Bell does leave, he will
hn this latest in a long succession
of foreign aid directors.- His
rom 1951 -until named budget business organizations w t t h
director, in late 1960 he was.nverseas operations
academic
,
with the Harvard Graduate organizations, retired American
Schnnl of Public Administration,'ambassadors" and the corre-
rising to assistant dean. spondents of U.S. newspapers
While President Johnson np- and press associations that
parently faces the early likeli- maintain staffs abroad.
voting $1.28 billion for more
military and economic aid
strictly enjoined the adminis-
tration to submit a new plan and
concept next year.
For this purpose, the Presi-
dent has named a "general ad-
thrpe-year tenure establ-ishes an; visory committee" to study the
endurance record. various foreign assistance pro-I
Some of his numerous prede-? gram's and submit recommtenda-
r ssnrs stayed only a matter of. lions. This committee, headed
months- by Dr. James Perkins, presidents
',-Isis disruptive factor and the of Cornell University, has beenl
fi eq ncnt changing of the agen- conferring with congressionai
t
l
'
s s
rv
atus tit
e were caustically and other authorities.
crmdeinned in a 1960 report of Among those consulted was
the Senate Appropriations Com- Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore., a
mitree-which branded them as leading critic of,the current aid
"detrimental to operations." program
.
Based on a study by Sen. Gale Members of the special presi-j,
McGee. D-Wyo., the report de- dential committee include Eu-
Glared: gene Black, former head of the
"To the detriment of the op- World Bank; Gen. Alfred Gruen-1
oration, the administrators of -ther, ex-head of the. American
the successive aid agencies have Red Cross; Sol Linowitz, a'
changed oftener than the name board chairman, Xerox Corpor-
nf the acencv. There have been ation; AFL-CIO P?r e s i d e n t
nine administrators in the pastlGcorge Meany; David Rocke-
Ien years. feller, president, Chase Manhat-
"The government or aniza- tan Bank; Dr. Franklin Murphy,
R firms which carried out t e for- chancellor, University of Cali-'
eicn assistance programs were fornia at Los Angeles; Dr. Sam-
irnrru. of emergency and went iuel Nabrit, president, Texas
through frequent reorganize- Southern University; Dwayne
firms, consolidations, changes In Andreas, chairman, executive
nAme.- changes in leadership. committee National City Bank
Within this period, the principal of Minneapolis.
Aid agency h b vW 0al fT9Te
. fhA lfi A, TCA, M , , - ,c " -. -I . -the Foreign
to President Tnmmn. In 1960,, itself.
President-elect Kennedy named The recent Congress, while
lions such as the World Bank,
RGOO.OO920@O*4 the
International Development As-
sociation? ... Would U.S. in-
terests better be served by a
policy which would direct an
increasing proportion of U.S.
aid through multilateral chan-
nels, and If so, why? If not,
why not?
President Johnson's prolonged
stay at his' Texas ranch is hold-
ing tip the formal accreditation
of three new ambassadors
Ernst Lemberger of Austria;
launched a backstage inquiry t Farhan Shubilat of Jordan, and
obtain suggestions and Ideas.. Ade Martins of* Nigeria. Under
improve the "effectiveness" of diplomatic procedure they atre
foreign aid spending, not officially accredited as the'
t
n
f
Washin
t
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g
o
represen
at
ves o
In this effort, Fulbright Is
their count,-' t'I th
res
n?
To assist them in formulating
their views, Fulbright lists "four
specific issues . of funda-
mental Importance in dntermin-
Ing what kind of an aid pro-
gram, if any, would best serve
the interests of the. United
States." He detailed them as
follows:. I
"At the present time,' there
are AID or Food for Peace pro-
grams in about 80-foreign coun-
tries. - The AID administrator
has noted that 95 per cent
of aid goes to only Al countries.
. Is it in the national interest
of the U.S.to have foreign aid
programs (or an AiD presence),
in as many developing countries
as possible? If so, why?. If not,
why not? If there Is no gener-
ally applicable principle, then
what are the criteria which
should be applied in determin-
ing whether there should be an
aid program in any country?
"A related issue Is whether
the aid program should make
a distinction (and if so, how?)
among political purposes, hu-
manitarian purposes, and eco-
nomic development purposes.
If economic development
does not necessarily serve the
political purposes of the U.S.,
ire there ways In which those
iurposes can be served more
effectively?
"Assuming that development;
assistance Is nodded for a given
state which follows policies. not
antithetical 'to the U.S., are, U.S.
neling aid to such countries
of c inteeres s st servea ism
r i 1[r tt1..
a
r cy pre
sent their papers to the Presi-
dent in person. Until then, they
are titularly only "ambassador
designate;"
The President has suggested
they present their credentials to
Secretary Rusk but the three
envoys are balking at that and
insisting- on making their offi-
cial bows to the President in
person ? s. Which means they
have quite it wait ahead of
them.... Soviet experts of the
State Department are convinced
Russia will not buy any grain
in the'U.S., despite a poor wheat
crop. The Soviet will do its
buying from other countries.
However, its 'satellites are free
to make up their grain short-
ages with purchases in this
country. East Germany already
has done that, and others are
sxpected to do likewise. Russia's
wheal harvest Is estimated
around 100 million metric tons
compared to 1Z0 million last
year. So far, Moscow has
bought 7.5 million tons of wheat
from Canada and'other western
count.ries.'
NOTE: The boxed portions
of this article did not
appear in the 15 November
issue of the NORTEEIN'VIR-
GINIA SUN. ,
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