HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS EIGHTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON FOREIGN OPERATIONS APPROPRIATIONS OTTO E. PASSMAN, Louisiana, Chairman COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri, Chairman GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas HUGH Q. ALEXANDER, North Carolina JOHN TABER, New York H. CARL ANDERSEN, Minnesota FRANK T. BOW, Ohio CHARLES RAPER JONAS, North Carolin MELVIN R. LAIRD, Wisconsin ELFORD A. CEDERBERG, Michigan JOHN J. RHODES, Arizona PHIL WEAVER, Nebraska WILLIAM E. MINSHALL, Ohio SILVIO O. CONTE, Massachusetts FOREIGN OPERATIONS APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1962 THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1961. STATEMENT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE WITNESSES HON. DEAN RUSK, SECRETARY OF STATE HON. JOHN O. BELL, DEPUTY COORDINATOR FOR FOREIGN ASSISTANCE, DEPARTMENT OF STATE WILLIAM P. BUNDY, DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS SEYMOUR J. RUBIN, PRESIDENT'S TASK FORCE ON FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE, DEPARTMENT OF STATE M. RICHARD BARNEBEY, PRESENTATIONS OFFICER, DEPARTMENT OF STATE JOHN R. MOSSLER, DIRECTOR, BUDGET DIVISION, INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ADMINISTRATION BROOKS HAYS, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR CONGRESSIONAL RELATIONS, DEPARTMENT OF STATE Mr. PASSMAN. The committee will come to order. We have with us this morning the distinguished Secretary of State, the Honorable Dean Rusk, and also our former colleague, the Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, the Honorable Brooks Hays, and other distinguished witnesses. We are happy to have you with us, gentlemen. Before we hear the Secretary, I should like to make this comment: It has been the policy of this committee for many years to receive 24 hours in advance of the hearing the prepared statements of our witnesses. I feel sure some of the witnesses from the State Department are familiar with that practice. When we receive the statements maybe an hour before the hearings, it does not give the members sufficient time to study the presentations and prepare properly for discussion and questioning. Therefore, if you will, please pass the word along to the other departments and ask them, if they can, to submit their prepared Satements to the committee 24 hours prior to the hearings. It is impossible for us to prepare adequately for our examination unless we have these statements in advance. Mr. Secretary, do you have a statement to make to the subcommittee? PREPARED STATEMENT Secretary RUSK. Yes, Mr. Chairman. Copies of the statement came down last evening, but I believe th were upstairs. I am sorry they were not here the first thing th morning. Mr. PASSMAN. We understand, and we did not particularly re to your statement, but I thought this was an appropriate time to state the policy of the committee. Secretary Rusk. Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of committee. Mr. GARY. Excuse me. As I understand it, that is the policy of the full committee as w as this subcommittee. Mr. PASSMAN. That is correct. Mr. GARY. It applies to all of the subcommittees. Secretary RUSK. We shall comply, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, I welcome this first portunity to meet with you, and to discuss with you the appropriati which are being requested for our foreign-aid program. The propriation requests which are now before you are central to entire foreign policy. At times we all have the feeling that our foreign relations a series of crises. There are, of course, always pressing events w which we must deal promptly. However, the broad stream of foreign policy must necessarily be planned and directed long in vance. Our economic and military assistance programs are very m a part of our longer term planning. What we do now will largely termine whether the future will be relatively stable or dangero chaotic. It is a truism that we are living in an era of great transition. neath the eddies of daily crises there is the swell of change. We st on the threshold of a new and turbulent era. Such a world involves many uncertainties and some grave dang It is sobering indeed to consider the hazards which an expan nuclear age brings to mankind. We must be daily conscious of relentless pressure of imperialist communism against all nations peoples still free from its control. We must understand the mea of the great revolution of rising expectations and of progress in less developed nations of the world. We must work with the n independent nations-40 since the end of the war, 19 in the last alone as well as with our stanch and traditional allies. The President has recently described the southern half of the g as the battleground of freedom. Here peoples, most of whom only just obtained nationhood, are hearing about the possibilit progress. They believe it is possible for them and they are detern to have it. They will no longer accept as a fact of nature the pov ignorance, and misery in which they have lived. They are detern to have for themselves and for their children enough food, d housing, the benefits of their own farming, an opportunity for e tion, the essentials of health, and government which represents erests. |