182. Editorial Note
President Eisenhower was asked at his September 17 press conference about reports that he intended to suggest to Soviet Chairman Khrushchev, who was visiting the United States, that the two countries jointly assist the underdeveloped nations. He replied that “until there is some kind of peaceful solution of the political differences between ourselves and the Soviets, it is manifest that we couldn’t ask them to be partners in any exercise of this kind.” (Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959, page 669)
The President’s response substantively followed a suggested reply which Secretary of the Treasury Anderson had sent him the previous day, and which Eisenhower had initialed. (Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Administration Series, Anderson, Robert B., Secy Treasury, 1959(1))
Also on September 17, Secretary of State Herter addressed the 14th session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York, and summarized U.S. actions in the field of economic development. He concluded:
“Make no mistake about it: Wherever men despair of being able to meet their needs through peaceful means, there will be found the seeds of tyranny and conflict. If peaceful change is to be accomplished in the political and military field, it must also go forward at an increasing pace in the economic field.” (American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1959, pages 93–105)