President Truman. in his message. said that while the burden on the American people should not be ignored. it should not be exaggerated and should be kept well within our resources. for us to safely meet the demands and to bear in mind that such demands could not be supplied indefinitely and to be assured that the demands on our people would rapidly decrease. April 3. 1948: We passed the Foreign Assistance Act of 1948 "to promote world peace and our national interest through economic. financial and other measures necessary to the maintenance of conditions abroad in which free instiutions may survive and be consistent with the maintenance of the economic strength and stability of the United States. This .measure decleared its purpose to be "the -furnishing of material and financial assistance abroad In such manner as to aid them through their own individual and concerted efforts to become independent of outside assistance through the operations under this title." Now let me rapidly refer to the China .Aid Act of 1948. the Far Eastern Assistance Act of 1949. the Act for International Development. the Palestine Refugee Act of 1950. the Famine Relief Act of 1953. the Pakistan Wheat Act of 1953. the Refugee Relief Act of 1953. and so on and so on. Most of these acts were. in my opinion. justified. but they added to the drain on the American taxpayers which was inherent in the foreign aid policies which we had theretofore adopted. But I wish to call attention to the rapid transmutation of our purposes and policies from relief. rehabilitation. and economic stability abroad to the declared purpose of building purely military strength in other countries of the world.