Short Shots: A New Switch On Foreign Policy
P., H.
A New$witch On Foreign Policy H AS RICHARD NIXON BEEN CONVERTED by some radicals? Has the Administration been infiltrated by Communists? It sounds unbelievable, but here the President proposes...
...Is American industry no longer interested in the additionality clause...
...It sounds unbelievable, but here the President proposes to Congress a radically new foreign aid program, abolishing all bilateral transactions and with it the obnoxious Hickenlooper Amendment and other "strings attached," the vicious tie-ins and other symbols of "aid imperialism...
...the underdeveloped countries have raised a hue and cry about the (continued on page 10) SHORT SHOTS (continued from page 8) additionality clause far beyond its real importance, and our foreign aid program as a whole, which was supposed to cast our image in the mold of generosity, has been bad public relations in recent years...
...This is exactly what President Nixon has proposed: to channel all economic aid through multilateral, international institutions...
...we don't dare to penalize a country by withdrawing our aid...
...we don't even dare to reduce the amount given to any particular country in the second year once we have granted it in the first year...
...Will Republican senators vote for grants to international institutions without making sure that the money does not benefit some unworthy expropriator of American companies...
...A New$witch On Foreign Policy H AS RICHARD NIXON BEEN CONVERTED by some radicals...
...The biggest "benefit" of the switch, however, is elsewhere: we don't know how to stop development aid once it has been given...
...Nixon has been unable to use it in the case of Peru, although Velasco has no intention of indemnifying the International Petroleum Corporation...
...What has happened...
...In the future, we shall just refer any caller to the World Bank and wash our hands...
...The unsophisticated may wonder where the gimmick is-and they are right: the Hickenlooper Amendment has been a source of unending embarrassment...
Vol. 18 • February 1971 • No. 1
