FAIRLESS COMMISSION PRO-AID

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000900090077-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2013
• Sequence Number: 77
• Publication Date: March 14, 1957
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Commission Pro-Aid,
By FULTON LEWIS, JR.- 4
TAKE a careful look at the so-called
Fairless Commission which has just
recommended ipdefinite continuation of
the foreign aid program, and its basic
character becomes evident. ?
To begin lilt!), it was neatly and
serupulously stacked with members of
excellent public repute 'but nonetheless
of predetermined and strong interna-
tionalist leanings. Secondly, its widely-
advertised jaunt around the world to,
enable those members to see conditions
for themselves consisted entirely of one
and two-day stops during which it would
be impossible to reach Any legitimately
definite conclusions. ?
Sincere and Honest
This is not to impugn the motives of
The commission's members. Everyone' may
be perfectly sincere and honest in his
internationalist predilections. Neverthe-
less, from business or idealistic reason-
ings, the fhinking of each has long leaned
heavily in that direction. ?
There are seven inembers:
Benjamin F. Fairless, Chairman ; re-
tired lard Chairman of U. S. Steel
tatrporation, widely kgown as a liberal
internationalist despite the liberal-left's
effort to eharacterize him as rapacious
big husiness.
Colgate 'NV. Darden, jr., former Gov-
ernor Of -Virginia, now president of the
University or vh,vinia, U. S. delegate to
several UN meetings.
EWA:1rd I?. Denprce, Board Chairman
of Proctor & Gamble. which has impilr-
ant foreign business connections.
John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers, which seeks for-
eign markets for the additional coal its.
members want, to mine.
Whit claw Reid, Board Chairman of
the New York Herald Tribune; like his
newspaper. staunchly "modern Repuldi-
Fan " and supporter of altYliling and
everything proposed by President Eisen-
hower. ?
Waller .11,e1,1e11....,$anith, president. of
...1.1?11,7-Ationies, lite., wrirthlle chief of
staff --trpatftenttleneral. IXiseahower : for-
t he Cent ra I Int elligence' Agency, and Un-
der-sectefary of State.
? Jesse \Y. Tapp, Board Chairman of
the Bank of America and longtime high,
government functionary' under the New
Deal: ?
'Impartial' Commission
Those are the members of this "im-
partial" eonnnission 1.;(*.t up to, take an.
allegedly bard look at. foreign aid and
determine its true necessity.
? The group visited -18 countries in a
total of seven weeks and three days,
Washington to Washington, including
traveling :Ind sleeping time. Leaving this
capital December 27. it arrived in Madrid
on December 28. Its ensuing itinerary,
showing a laical dates:
,Paris, December 31; Bonn, January
3; Vienna, January 5; Belgrade, Janu-
ary 7; Athens, .January 9: Istanbul, Jan-
ury 11; Ankara, January 14; Teheran,
January 16; Karachi., January 18; New
January 22; Rangoon. January 25r
Bangkok, -January 27; Saigon, January
29; Manila, January 31; Hongkong, Feb-
ruary 2; Taim;.. Eehrnary 5; Seoul, Feh-
r-nary 7 ? Tokyo. February- 9; Washing-
'ton. Fehruar:, 17.
Flying tioa? ? hetween each of the
point ; I 001: 411 or most of a day, mean-
ing one full day for most of the stops.
The (attend:1r shows that ihP two days
anal three n:ghts in Paris ineluded New
Year's Eve and Nea Year's Day, (tur-
a hieh it is highly doubtful that much
work was transtieted.
Furthermore, wrek-ends were in-
eluded in the Madrid. Vienna, Istanbul,
Karachi. Rangoon-Bangkok, Hongkong
and Tokyo toop,.
?
Four on Fnil Trip
the
less. Dardeo..1{aid and Tapp. .Deupree
was too ill to Lot: smith was too busk.
with other affairs; Lea is traveled with
lie party as Or as .1 nkai a. then re-
tdrned to Britain for 1 ,leeks of por-
sonal study of us econoir.y.
iii view or nil "ds he ki4t.jug part
of tic Gotidai 111111 it
Even at Clint. only four members of
eminnission made the full trip?Faitalwaetked
.oramended as many changes and eirenm;
seripl ions as it- did.
President Eisenhower set up the
Cimrm-
flh!SSiOii Nvith the eert a in knowledge that.
.on the, basis of their already-recorded.
views, its members would find contin-
ued foreign, aid essential. This should be
kept in miiid in assessing the worth of
aa man, oai AS t l'is1)011.
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