FOREIGN AID AND FOREIGN POLICY

by Herbert Feis ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

Since Pulitzer Prize-winning economist and historian Herbert Feis began to amine the ""vibrating connections"" between foreign aid and foreign policy, public and official opinion have changed colors completely, and, as he admits, he has had to rite ""in the clutch of whirling circumstance"". But he is convinced that this state of affairs only makes a clear, positive policy all the more essential. Surveying irst the ""historical aura"", present-day political aims, and the many hindrances to achievement of these aims, he then turns his attention to the matter of what can and should be required of the recipients of aid, and to some of the greater dangers well as the benefits for which we must be on the lookout. One absolute necessity, maintains, is that we convince the needy nations that our assistance will continue, independent of any shift in East-West relations. Coordination is the watchword: diplomats must be economic judges and economists must be political prophets"". Mean, the American people must learn to take a long-range view and cease to be ""so lated by sporadic successes, or dejected by sporadic disappointments"". A responsible eckoning.

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Publisher: St Martin's Press

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1964

Categories: NONFICTION