"Businessman's View"

Critics of the Truman Administration have often complained that U.S. foreign aid agencies are overstaffed and duplicate each other's work. Last week this familiar charge was raised again in a report giving a businessman's view of the situation. Said the report: "We have too many people and too many agencies in Western Europe . . . There are at the moment four men each with the title of 'Ambassador' in Paris . . . We still have Mutual Security Agency missions in some countries to which we are not now and for some time have not given aid." Said the report: It was time to start cutting off aid to Europe and let Europe improve its economic position by trade, not aid.

The interesting fact about this report was that it was signed by Charles Sawyer, Harry Truman's Secretary of Commerce.

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