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tions display a differentiated ap-
proach to individual countries
of the capitalist world. It is the
interests of business that largely
determine the scope and char-
acter of the aid rendered to
them. At the same time a close
connection exists between the
aid given through the founda-
tions and the overall political
aims of the American capital.

Just because of that, the foun-
dations render the greatest aid
first to those countries which
are a source of high profits to
the monopolies that subsidize the
foundations, second to countries
tied to the United States by
military and political commit-
ments, and third to neutralists
states whose policy they would
like to change. This applies
specifically to the developing
countries.

Funds provided by the founda-
tions are used to create scien-
tific institutions which later are
employed in the interests of the
USA. An example is the project
jointly sponsored by the Rocke-
feller and Ford foundations in
establishing the International
Rice Research Institute at Los

Banos, 40 miles south of Manila —

(the Philippines). At present,
six countries are members of
the Institute’s Board (India,
Japan, Thailand, the Philippines,
Taiwan and the USA).

Set up on the territory of a
country which is an ally of the
United States in military blocs,
the Institute; according . to
Rockefeller Foundation spokes-
men, is one of the most advanc-
ed rice farming research centres
in the world. Propaganda hand-
outs of the American informa-
tion service claim that the main
goal of the Institute’s activities
is to help solve the food
lem. In reality it is the Ameri-
can military who profit from the
Institute’s research work, and in
the first place, from the results
of studies on the resistance of
rice to various diseases. Relying
on scientists’ findings, the Ame-

rican military are increasingly
resorting in South Vietanam to
barbarous methods of destroying
rice crops with various che-
micals.

As far as the political conse-
quences of the activities of the
charitable foundations are con-
cerned, it may be said that they
substantially hinder the struggle
of the peoples and the consolida-
tion of all the anti-imperialist
forces. Often the foundations
directly support internal reac-
tionary circles in those countries
and take an active part in the

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struggle. against the national
liberation movement.

In Burma, for example, the
Ford Foundation spent a good
deal for extensive imperialist

* propaganda and for intensifying

subversive work against the new
regime. In its time, the Bur-
mese press carried numerous re-
ports exposing the activities of
the foundations. Soon after the
coming to power of the Revolu-
tionary Council headed by Gen-
eral Ne Win (March 1962) a
decision was passed imposing a
ban on the activities of Ameri-
can and British charitable foun-
dations in Burma.

Of particular interest are the
secret links between the charit-
able foundations and the Central
Intelligence Agency of the USA
and also the latter’s relations

with a number of big American
universities. According to infor-
mation which leaked into the
New York Times, the American
intelligence service co-operates
with the charitable foundations
and uses the universities sub-
sidized by them for espionage.

Special mention should be
made of Michigan University
which received generous bounty
from the foundations. Its multi-
million dollar program of tech-
nical aid to South Vietnam has
served as screen for a CIA
operation aimed at bolstering up
the puppet regime. However, not
only Michigan University, but
also a number of other higher
schools of the USA, particularly
the Pennsylvania and Stanford
Universities, . financed by the
foundations and by some gov-
ernment institutions for many
years, have been connected with
the CIA.

The Massachusets Technolo-
gical Institute with its Interna-
tional Research Centre also for
a long time has been linked up

with the American intelligence :

service. This centre was: estab-
lished in 1960 with money given
by the CIA. According to its dir-
ectors, at present it covers two
thirds of its expenditures with
subsidies granted by the Ford
and Rockefeller foundations and
other private organizations,
while the remaining third is
provided by the CIA, Pentagon,
and other government agencies.

Not only does the American
intelligence service use some of
the existing foundations, but
also creates: some of its own. As
reported by the Wall Street
Journal, the CIA systematically
donated large funds to the
Caplan Foundation which was
its own creation. Between 1951
and 1963 $16 million was re-
mitted to the bank account of
this foundation. Being a secret
channel of the CIA, the Caplan
Foundations directed these mil-
lions for subversive activities in
other, specifically developing

countries.

The programs of the chari-
table foundations give high
priority to ideological struggle
in the young states of Asia, Af-
rica and Latin America. The
main emphasis is made on eco-
nomic aid, since it brings Ame-
rican business not only economic
but also political dividends. Giv-
ing great publicity to this aid,
the foundations extol the Ame-
rican way of life and spread
the ideas of anti-communism.
This work is done through vari-
ous exhibitions and _ libraries,
conferences and seminars and
special broadcasts arranged by
numerous advisers and consul-
tants.

Another field of activities of
the foundations in Asian, Afri-
can and Latin American coun-
tries is via aid in training skilled
national personnel. The person-
nel training program is used for
intensive brainwashing of vari-
ous sections of the population of
the developing countries. The
United States is trying to em-
ploy a section of-its intellectuals
for its own ends, as a channel
for its influence, so as to direct
the development of these coun-
tries along the road. that suits
the ruling quarters of the USA.

Between 1962 and 1965 the
Rockefeller Foundation alone
granted annual scholarships of
difierent types to 3,183 persons
from 69 countries, to the tune
from 69 countries, to the tune of
$16,300,000 (of these 351 persons
received scholarships from the
Foundation indirectly through
several international organiza-
tions). The ideological edge of
this aid is expressed in the fact
that more than a third of the
Rockefeller Foundation scholar-
ships. were in the humanities
which means the recipients were
being trained for work on the
ideological front. Thus, contrary
to publicity claims, the mono-
polies have converted charity in
developing countries into a tool
of neo-colonialism.

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Canadians, who are encourag-
ed to spend more money on
booze and cigarettes than on
hospitals and training centers
for the physically handicapped
and summer camps for kids,
aren’t quite sure how to treat
a cry for help. Should you give
the accordian player a dime,
How do you feel just walking
past? If you gave the dime—or
more—are you helping anyway?
Who should send Cynthia to
summer camp?

There’s the Cancer fund, the
Heart fund, Easter Seals, Christ-
mas Seals, Community Chest,
pitches for every possible dis-
ease—for children, handicapped,
chronically ill and even the
SPCA. If that isn’t enough, you
can give more for CARE over-
seas, adopt a Korean orphan,
feed the hungry Indian children
a cup of powdered milk a day
or a hundred ‘private’ projects
organized by churches, societies
and citizens’ committees.

A line of thinking is sold
which claims that it is the res-
ponsibility of the individual —

you and I — to dig into our
pockets for “our favorite chari-
t¥- 3p ey hint that you’re

not concerned unless you give
and give and give.

A number of things ring pho-
ney: Why is it up to the indi-
vidual to choose his “favourite
charity”? Which one is most im-

portant? Is your concern for ill-_

ness, hunger and children’s wel-
fare measured by the cheque-

book? Do these people want
charity? Should they be forced
to depend on it? Is it not the
individual’s right through society
to ensure that-the sick and
handicapped are provided with
the means for rehabilitation by
society? Where the hell do the
_taxes go anyway?

There is something sick about
our society which pillages for-
eign countries economically,
breeds poverty at home, at the
same time piously prodding its
citizens to give. The rich turn
the whole charade into a pro-
fitable business. It must be fine
to sit around at $100-a-plate din-
ners, showing off your spring
attire, chatter to one-another
about the unfortunates you are
helping—and know the whole
thing is tax-deductable. It also
helps keep the wealthy house-
wives busy during the day.

Each society has its problem
of the handicapped. Cancer,
tuberculosis and heart disease
strike everywhere. What differs
is the way in which a given So-

ciety deals with the problem;
from a medical, organizational,
financial and __ psychological
standpoint. A socialist society,
recognizing the entire responsi-
bility of everyone to this prob-
lem, provides every necessary
facility—by the community—for
medical care, rehabilitation and
research. A socialist child does
not beg through the pages of a
daily paper for help.

The poor children of the pil-
laged, underdeveloped countries
will not see their problems solv-
ed by the _ cup-of-milk-a-day
theory. They will grow up heal-
thy when the lands they live in
belong. to them and the riches
now stolen are theirs. Let the
charity organizations busy them-
selves with the real answers to
illness, hunger and poverty.

Should you drop a dime in the
accordian player’s cup? If you
do, don’t stop there. Let’s abo-
lish charity as the degrading
spectacle it is, in favor of pro-
viding for everyone’s welfare
through social action.

September 15, 1967—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5