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dated February 27, 1958: Building peace

President Eisenhower declared on February 23 that the foreign aid programme and the expansion of world trade were “iron imperatives of security and the building of true peace.” In a speech prepared for a conference in Washington called to mobilise public support for foreign aid, he said that a strong programme of foreign aid was as urgent as expenditure for the United States’ own missiles development.

The President criticised Soviet economic assistance to under-developed countries as gaining “economic, and ultimately political, control of the countries she pretends to help.” “We on the other hand want these countries to stand on their own feet as proud, robust friends and partners with whom we can live in mutual respect,” he declared. President Eisenhower said that the success of the efforts of the United States for peace depended heavily on its relations with the Soviet Union. “We urgently want these relations improved,” he said.

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