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Just as the urmans and Japanese went out of their way to cultivate the small people in backward areas before the war, so also the Communists today approach the problem from the bottom while we work from the top. Here we see illustrated the weakness of democratic Capitalism in world affairs. When it comes to developing trade in foreign lands we will invest private money only when it brings in big returns. Only totalitarian powers will go in for small trade for small profits in the hope of gaining access to the sympathies of those people who in the long run really count in these so-called "backward areas", With a program of supervised farm loans hooked up with adequate technical assistance applied with all possible speed we could out-compete the Communists for the affection of the poorer people in nearly every country in the world. The question is whether the people of the USA will allow themselves to be taxed for what I believe to be the only program which in the long run will bring us security. I do not urge that we do away with or greatly reduce our military program until Such time as the UN has an armed force greater than the armed might of either Russia or the USA. But I do urge that every nation in the Free World build up a fund for the end-of-starvation by devoting a vertain percentage of the present armament expenditures for this purpose- only one per cent would be helpful, From a log range point of view I hope we in the USA, Canada, Australia and Argentina can get away from the practice of giving food to countries which are afflicted with reourring famines. We should help such countries to build their om ever-normal granaries. India in particular should get in position to produce her own food and set up her own storage system. India must expand her food production 1 per cent annually to take care of the 4 million new mouths which come each year in that country. We must furnish India technical assistance and help her to industrialize so that the farms can be increased in size and labor may have a better opportunity to produce than is possible on farms less than two acres in size. In this connection I note a press dispatch from Washington a week or so ago about the visit of Sudhir Ghosh to the USA in response to the invitation of Senator Brewster of Maine. It seems that Ghosh has been directing the rehabilitation of 250,000 Indian refugees in what is known as the Faridabad Project. According to the New York Times Brewster when visiting India last winter was so impressed by the progress of the Faridabad community that he urged Ghosh to come to the US, Ambassador Bowles agreed. Here we have an example of bi-partisanship to end misery in India. Ghosh wrote Brewster last February as follows:- "IT recently visited Hyderabad in South India and tried seriously to under- stand the growth of Communist disruptive forces there. I personally met the young man who leads the Communists in this State and some of his lieutenants, They represent a real and live force which cannot be extinguished by the use of physical force. The only effective way of meeting such a force is to produce more food, more clothes, more houses, better education and health facilities for the millions in the villages of India and give the villagers all that they have been looking forward to getting out of India's independence", It seems that it took about a $5 million loan to get the Faridabad area set on the road to self support agriculturally and industrially with roads, water supply, power facilities, etc. Ghosh estimates that to do the job for all of India would take $2 billion of which India herself can furnish half. Ghosh has considerable importance because of the posts he has held in the New Delhi Government and because he was a close associate of Gandhi. Apparently he is trying to combine Gandhi's spiritual force with modern technology in the service of the Indian People. I understand the Ford Foundation is preparing to cooperate with the Indian government in setting up an Extension Service. In this connection I trust that both the Ford representatives and the Indian government realize that the new technology oH