Speech #850084170

I read with a great deal of interest your excellent speech of July 11. 1956. relative to the American taxpayers inability to forever support the foreign countries. It seems to me that recent developments have more than ever conclusively shown that we purchase for ourselves only contempt. hatred. and trouble when we continue to spend our money among supposedly friendly foreign peoples. The uprisings in Formosa and the tense feelings in the Philippines and other Asiatic countries which we have supported for so long indicate that. and the continued betrayals of American citizens and other freedomloving peoples of the world by Tito of Yugoslavia while enjoying so much of Americas foreign dollars should point up to any rightthinking man the ridiculousness of continuing extensive foreign aid of that kind. It also comes to my mind that when this Nation of ours was on the threshold of real trouble in 1933 and when President Roosevelt proposed a program of $4.800.000.000 in public works to furnish a bare living for many of our citizens. the Republican Party and the Republican press in this country hurled all manner of vile epithets at the suggestion and continue to ridicule it even to this day. Again.