Long before "The Ugly American" was concocted. our aid administrators and technicians had done a superb job in South Vietnam. But it is characteristic of the spirit of the authors of this book that although they consistently deride the works of our foreign aid administrators in southeast Asia they do not acknowledge the fine work done by these men in South Vietnam. There. our program is similar to that which we have been pursuing in Thailand. with this exception: Considerable sums were necessarily spent to repair the countrys wardamaged transportation system and for refugee resettlement occasioned by the Indochina war. This reduced the money available for small projects. Yet when we turn to the Ellender report. we find that of 63 projects described by it. at least 50 are small by any standardthat is. less than $300.000 over the 3year period. 1954 to 1956.