mwisennower: frapers, (Ann Whitman file) L755-OL which Mr. Cutler had used, that the matter of greatest concern to the United States in the future vas where emphasis shouldbe placed as between military and economic assistance. In the first place, said the Vice President, it seemed clear to him that the Soviet Union was now placing much more emphasis on economic prosrams than it had previously done. From our own standpoint, we must not allow ourselves to be so obsessed with the patterns of the past that we were incapable of changing the pattern and changing the emphasis. The Vice President believed that we must give much more thought and attention to economic assistance and, wherever possible, less to military assistance. He edded that of course in certain countries, like Korea and other areas where the Chiefs of Staff felt that military aid ves needed at a high level, we could not chanse this emphasis. On the other hand, there seemed to be areas where we could increase our economic assistance, and in general economic assistance was less costly than military assistence. Admiral Burke commented thet the Joint Chiefs of Staff would agree with the point made by the Vice President. The latter went on to observe thet if we were not very careful in our analysis of the facts and figures which had been presented today, there was danger that we would continue in our old ruts and be unwilling to try out any new peths. The economic side, he said, was the wave of the future. Mr. Allen Dulles confirmed the view that the Soviets were shifting emphasis to economic from military assistance. He added that in many underdeveloped countries--such es Exypt and Syria--the receipt of armament hed reached, so to speek, the scturation point. Such countries had already received larger armaments than they could effectively support or use. Secretary Guerles cormented that, along the lines sugges- ted by the Vice President, and as one snalyzed our military assis- tance progrems, one finds that a larse vart of the pressure for military essistence from foreign countries derived from local tensions and local conditions rether than as a response to ovr sreat problem of containing Ccamunism. To Secretary Quarles this mzent that the United States should make a sreater effort to quiet doin local tensions. If we succeeded in doing this we wonld be able to cut dow on our military assistence vrorvrens end increase the amounts aveilable for economic assistance. The Vice President commented that another factor which had alvays tended to emphasize our military assistance prosrams over our REPRODUCED AT THE DWIGHT. D. EISENHOWER LIBRARY economic assistance programs, was the romperetive ease of selling our policy of military assistance to the American people end the Congress, and the difficulty of selling our program of economic eid. -~T- a taiEkak aM peeee nae mT ee te TOF SEO..-