Speech #870107041

I am glad those two countries. Cuba and Poland. are named in the amendment of the junior Senator from Connecticut. because I think one thing we must remember is that this legislation should appeal to the American public to a degree that it will regain on the publics part some confidence in the foreign aid program. The people of my State. who are looking almost every day at the 60.000odd Cuban refugees. many of them miserable and pitiful. know that Cuba is communistic. They know something of the results of communistic Cubas actions on her expatriates and refugees. They know Cuba has had aid from Poland and the United Nations. which in both cases originally came from our taxpayers. I think it will strengthen the attitude of Americans toward the foreign aid program if we call a spade a spade here. and make it clear that we shall not allow any of this foreign aid money to be given either to Cuba or to Poland. who as Communistruled nations have operated against our interests and with our own money.