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Memo for Mrs. Luce: Senator Morse’s troubles substantially antedate his encounter with the horse. In the future, please do not exaggerate. What do you want to do, lose the horse vote?

When Secretary of State Marshall launched the government’s foreign aid program at Harvard in June 1947, it contained a characteristically crosseyed proposal to ladle out the millions not only to our friends and allies but to the Soviet Union and its satellites as well. The 80th Congress scotched that. In twelve years the exponents of foreign aid have become more adept. Comes now the “Committee to Strengthen the Frontiers of Freedom,” the Eisenhower Administration’s official unofficial pressure group for its mutual security bill (now before Congress). This year, the ideological nature of foreign aid is being played down: the emphasis is to be on foreign aid as a weapon in the struggle against Communism. Has there been a change of heart, we hope; or merely a change of tactics? In any case, we welcome the reformulation of the rationale for foreign aid.

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Memo for Mrs. Luce: Senator Morse’s troubles substantially antedate his encounter with the horse. In the future, please do not exaggerate. What do you want to do, lose the horse vote?

When Secretary of State Marshall launched the government’s foreign aid program at Harvard in June 1947, it contained a characteristically crosseyed proposal to ladle out the millions not only to our friends and allies but to the Soviet Union and its satellites as well. The 80th Congress scotched that. In twelve years the exponents of foreign aid have become more adept. Comes now the “Committee to Strengthen the Frontiers of Freedom,” the Eisenhower Administration’s official unofficial pressure group for its mutual security bill (now before Congress). This year, the ideological nature of foreign aid is being played down: the emphasis is to be on foreign aid as a weapon in the struggle against Communism. Has there been a change of heart, we hope; or merely a change of tactics? In any case, we welcome the reformulation of the rationale for foreign aid.