Show fair Warning The American Legion l believes that Americans Amerl ans should emulate th too the Highest Auth Authority ity and finds Its Golden T Text on un th the foreign aid question In the Words of Benjamin Franklin God helps them In its foreign policy statement re re- that help themselves s. s leased by the National Executive Committee Committee Com In Indianapolis this month this should be ho predicated on the fact that wl we w l Legion gion declares Our foreign policy polley wish to help through military aid tho the free nations of the world who have and andare andare are ure demonstrating their willingness to help maintain their dignity Independence and integrity No stop gap program can continue forever continues the tho Legion resolution resolution- especially when the basis Is give away Even the tho US with all its Us wealth and resources resources re re- re sources can cnn not survive such a load We can not continue continuo to spend what spend what we do not have to to do so will have havethe havethe havethe the effect cUed of placing an economic millstone millstone mill mill- stone around the necks of our people for generations to come Freedom Is something we can cannot cannot cannot not create for other nations nor can we buy friendship People must create their own freedom and be at liberty to decide for themselves their own friendships and enmities Most Americans we wo think will regard regard re re- re gard the Legion position as both fair and generous It offers more than this nation ever asked of its foreign friends in the th offers this continuing aid after we have darkest hours of the Revolution devolution And it has already given and anchor lor loaned more than billions of our substance abroad and at a time when our national debt per capita capita- is higher than that of any of the nations we have been helping It is time as the Legion strongly infers in- in Infers infers In in- fers to face up to the fact that a prostrate prostrate prostrate pros pros- America can help no one |