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Chester Bowles, no less, has Said the Administration’s foreign aid program is “wasteful” and that “nations you can buy never stay bought.” Therefore, he adds, it is obvious that the country’s economic aid program should be doubled.

The United States Information Agency, founded to make Americans beloved abroad, is not too well beloved by the House Appropriations Committee. Director Arthur Larson pointed out that without the $140 million it wants from Congress, the USIA would be unable to publish Latin American translations of sixty-seven books (whose titles he would not divulge), or to hire a “television officer” for a TV station in Morocco (which has been off the air for a year), or to give subscriptions to the New York Times to a thousand “leading Englishmen” (who prefer not to be identified). As we go to press, a certain sales resistance is developing in Congress, and it may take an entire editorial in the New York Times to bring Congress back into line.

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Chester Bowles, no less, has Said the Administration’s foreign aid program is “wasteful” and that “nations you can buy never stay bought.” Therefore, he adds, it is obvious that the country’s economic aid program should be doubled.

The United States Information Agency, founded to make Americans beloved abroad, is not too well beloved by the House Appropriations Committee. Director Arthur Larson pointed out that without the $140 million it wants from Congress, the USIA would be unable to publish Latin American translations of sixty-seven books (whose titles he would not divulge), or to hire a “television officer” for a TV station in Morocco (which has been off the air for a year), or to give subscriptions to the New York Times to a thousand “leading Englishmen” (who prefer not to be identified). As we go to press, a certain sales resistance is developing in Congress, and it may take an entire editorial in the New York Times to bring Congress back into line.