How to spend your money for the rest of your life, I'll tell you what kind of a house you're to buy and where; what kind of a suit you're to buy; what movie to see. And I'll let you spend your money on your wife—if I approve of your wife."—I think I know what your answer would be.
But why do we do this, you ask? If this joker is really in the cards, why do we play it that way? The committee which helped write the present plan for Congress gave us one clue to the reason. A group, headed by Allen W. Dulles, suggested that among the uses to which such a fund might be put would be the purchase of local firms by American monopolies and to facilitate the control by American business of strategic materials in the colonies of the nations within the plan. Speaking of the work of these economic supervisors, the State Department plan points out that "in Greece, where a special United States Aid Mission already exists, these functions will be appropriately integrated."
Such integration in the past caused Greek heads to fall under the axe of the Greek monarchy. Greek homes to burn, Greek fields to blaze into battlegrounds.
We hold a mortgage on the world and we threaten to foreclose unless the peoples of the world forfeit us their liberty, their lives, their honor, and their future. And we have the breathtaking, staggering, unprecedented gall to say that we give to the world!
I should not say "we." For this is not our policy, not our plan, yours and mine. Whose plan is it then? Who wrote the document, who worded its clauses? Where does it come from, anyway?
We once had a program for alleviating the suffering of the world. It was created by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and destroyed by the man who succeeded him but who did not follow him. The program which President Roosevelt launched was UNNRA. Men like Fiorello LaGuardia fought to realize the full objectives of that plan. LaGuardia repeatedly denounced the Truman administration's inaction as "sheer madness." Then bipartisan hatchet men murdered UNNRA.
In Fulton, Missouri, the President sat on the platform and applauded Winston Churchill's call for war, ostensibly against Russia but actually against people everywhere who wished to free themselves of ancient political tyranny or modern economic tyranny. And at about the same time, Herbert Hoover was calling for an end to "charity as a basis for widespread food distribution."
The voices then rising had been speaking for some years, but earlier they had not been listened to very appreciatively by the man in the White House. Now they were called in and given the attention that a new office boy gives to a boss.
Back in December, 1940, Virgil Jordan, President of the National Industrial Conference Board and an accepted spokesman for Big Business said:
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