U.S. FOREIGN AID

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29398, 28 December 1960, Page 9

U.S. FOREIGN AID

“Department’s Plan Cut” NEW YORK, December 27. President Eisenhower, in his final Budget next month, will ask less for foreign aid than last year, in spite of urgent State Department appeals for an increase to meet pressing needs in South Asia, Latin America, and Africa, the “New York Times" reported today. The Under-Secretary of State. Mr Douglas Dillon, who will be Secretary of the Treasury in the new Administration,, had recommended a request of roughly 5500 million dollars, but this had been trimmed to 4000 million dollars for the Budget to be submitted to Congress, a “New York Times” Washington correspondent said. This 27 per cent cut in the State Department recommendation was regarded as extremely sharp, the newspaper said. However, the Budget submitted by President Eisenhower does not bind the new Administration and President-elect John Kennedy will submit revisions bv early spring. _ “The hope tn the State Department and the two aid agencies—the Development Loan Fund and the International Co-operations Administration —is that he will recommend appropriations more in line with what Mr'Dillon thinks necessary, the New York Times” said.