NEW CARE PROPOSAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01634R000100110001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 7, 1957
• Content Type: NSPR

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'ASI:IINGTON DAILY NEWS, MONDAY, dtTOBER 7, 1957-
New CARE Proposal
EGYPT and Poland today offer two tough
tests on how far American private re.
ief agencies should go in furri-ring aid
o people in countries under g.,vernments
of cooperating with the U. S. or under
omm'unist domination.
The State Department now has before It
proposal from CARE-the Cooperative
for American Remittances Everywhere-
o resume shipment of food parcels to the
underfed Egyptians.
There was a $45 million CARE program
for Egypt up to the time the fighting
started In November 1956. Some relief
shipments were ntinued for the Jewish refugees in Alex-
andria and the ( rza strip. Otherwise, no U. S. relief sup-
plies have gone i to Egypt for nearly two years.
President Nass r wants most desperately to have Ameri-
can relief. shipme is resumed. There is no question of need.
Having one of th lowest living standards in the world, with
more population than Egypt's arable land can support,
millions of her ople go hungry and sick, particularly the
children.
What Is propos d is a new $70 million program for Egypt.
The supplies wo d come from U. S. farm surpluses. 't'hey
would be donated by the government, which would also pay
ocean transporta on costs,
CAR:t's part c the program would be packaging and
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supervising distribution, at a costa $1 a parcel, to make
sure that supplies were not diverted to say-feeding Egypt's
army.
On strictly humanitarian grounds, there are reasons for
approving this program. The one great drawback Is a fear
that Col. Nasser would exploit this program to build him-
self up politically. Furthermore, If Col. Nasser's govern-
ment was not using so much of his country's resources for
military purposes, it would have more left to develop food
supplies at home.
This situation is similar in some respects, different In
others, to the CARE program just approved for Poland.
An initial shipment of $11,000 worth of trade tool kits,
Braille devices and machinery to make artificial limbs is now
being distributed In Poland under American supervision.
A second, $108,000 shipment of food, blankets, cotton and
woolen sultings will reach Poland in mid-October. A third
shipment of $2000 worth of antibiotics is on the way.
Practically all of this aid, and more to follow, will go to
the 500,000 repatriates from former East Polish lands seized
by Stalin in 1939. The Russians are now releasing the Polish
Inhabitants of this area at the rate of 10,000 a month. Most
of them are poverty stricken, many sick and crippled.
The aid which CARE will provide supplements the U.
for the purchase of food, half for machinery. The Pol(/sb
government has guaranteed that none of these supplies fill