Exporting and Training Experts

Abstract

The Democratic Party platform adopted in Los Angeles, July 1960 promised:To the non-Communist nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America: We shall create with you working partnerships, based on mutual respect and understanding.In the Jeffersonian Tradition, we recognize and welcome the irresistible momentum of the world revolution of rising expectations for a better life. We shall identify American policy with its values and objectives.To this end the new Democratic administration will revamp and refocus the objectives, emphasis, and allocation of our foreign assistance programs.The proper purpose of these programs is not to buy gratitude or to recruit mercenaries, but to enable the peoples of these awakening, developing nations to make their own free choices.As they achieve a sense of belonging, of dignity, and of justice, freedom will become meaningful for them, and therefore worth defending.Where military assistance remains essential for the common defense, we shall see that the requirements are fully met. But as rapidly as security considerations permit, we will replace tanks with tractors, bombers with bulldozers, and tacticians with technicians.