The Protracted Conflict

THE DOMESTIC AID PROGRAM

A number of normally separate currents converged to produce the Senate wave that swamped the Administration’s foreign aid bill. Liberal senators had a chance to express their distaste for military aid grants included in the omnibus measure. Professional internationalists want the U.S. to channel aid funds exclusively through UN and other international agencies. Conservatives object to foreign aid as a giveaway from which the nation gets nothing but trouble in return. All the senators feel the isolationist mood that has been spreading throughout the country. And all of them were in one degree or another indignant at the “ingratitude” just displayed by so many foreign aidees in the UN’s Taiwan showdown.

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THE DOMESTIC AID PROGRAM

A number of normally separate currents converged to produce the Senate wave that swamped the Administration’s foreign aid bill. Liberal senators had a chance to express their distaste for military aid grants included in the omnibus measure. Professional internationalists want the U.S. to channel aid funds exclusively through UN and other international agencies. Conservatives object to foreign aid as a giveaway from which the nation gets nothing but trouble in return. All the senators feel the isolationist mood that has been spreading throughout the country. And all of them were in one degree or another indignant at the “ingratitude” just displayed by so many foreign aidees in the UN’s Taiwan showdown.