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Show Editorial . . , WHO DOES FOREIGN AID AID ? ? (Following is the full text of the telecast we made last week on the KSL-TV feature, "The Editor Speaks." We have received many requests for copies, along with favorable (and one unfavorable) comments, so we publish the script to make it easier to comply with the requests. Editor.) Americans are becoming awfully disgusted with foreign aid waste. More and more billions of your and my tax dollars are being poured into "unfriendly" nations na-tions to "buy friends," and the -only "aid" is to the communists. The latest slap in the face is news of the resignation res-ignation of "pink" President Quadros of Brazil with takeover by Vice President Goulart, who is more red than Quadros was pink. Although the U S higher-ups were not satisfied with Quadros' brand of thinking, they poured a billion dollars into Brazil trying to win him over to democracy. Each generation of Washington political planners, whether Republican or Democrat, seems to have one theory give away more American tax dollars to foreign nations, red, pink or whatnot, what-not, than the guys that were there before them. And after each giveaway those who had their hands out thumb their noses at us and turn to Moscow . . . and Krushchev pats 'em on the back and adds a small dole to the millions we gave 'em. America is ridiculed in many nations today, and we used to be the most respected nation on earth. Why? Because we make ourselves ridiculous. ridic-ulous. Can you believe a Washington or Lincoln or Teddy Roosevelt would have taken the guff we have taken from a puppet like Castro or an inhuman monstrosity like Krushchev? Our salvation lies in the electorate placing in office in Washington, our state capitols and our communities, men who believe that we have a great nation, the finest philosophy of government, govern-ment, and the type of men and women who will fight to preserve our heritages . . . and in a citizenry citi-zenry that will emphatically demand that before we give or loan one cent to any foreign nation that nation must unalterably and unequivocally pledge itself to a free, democratic form of government gov-ernment for its citizenry. We can't win friends and fight communism with dollars. We may have to do it with gunpowder. gun-powder. The more we seek to appease, the more certain it is that we will again see American blood spilled in defense of our way of life . . . and this ,time probably on our own shores and in our own hometowns. Strength of purpose, solidarity of national aims, determination that communism must and will be stopped, and an immediate channeling of "foreign aid" dollars into nations we know are friendly, are our only hope. Let's stop trying to buy friends and influence influ-ence nations with the Yankee Dollar. Let's get back to the Teddy Roosevelt philosophy of the Soft Voice and the Big Stick. Ad let's be ready to wield that Big Stick. |