But many Americans continue to believe that we provide a large part of our budget and our GNP for international affairs. Americans are still generous. Now that the Europeans and the Japanese are back on their feet. and sometimes racing ahead of us. we still proyide large amounts of money for international affairs. Of the $9.5 billion in outlays provided for in the committees recommendation. $3.8 billion is for development assistance. Public Law 480 food aid. and refugee assistance. and another $3.1 billion is for international security programs. Two things have changed since 1949: Spending for international affairs has dropped from 2.3 percent of the GNP to threetenths of 1 percent. Mr.