Secretary of State Dulles told a press conference this week-end that United States aid to Middle East nations would continue along the lines worked out by Special Ambassador James P. Richards in his tour of the area last year for the Eisenhower Doctrine. Mr. Dulles made the statement in reply to a question as to whether the State Department was contemplating any expansion in present aid program to offset recent Russian announcements for increased economic aid.
“We are carrying on in the Middle East along the general lines that were laid out last year when Ambassador Richards went to the area and mapped out certain programs supporting the Middle East resolution,” Mr. Dulles said, He added that there were “certain situations where somewhat more aid is called for, in such a place as Jordan for example, but in the main the order of magnitude we contemplate is along the lines laid out by Ambassador Richards.”
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