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94. Memorandum From the President’s Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Rostow ) to President Kennedy

h our help, they have qualified under the new criteria. Most important of all, we must promptly expand our commitments to those countries which now have the capacity to absorb capital productively in a reasonably short period; e.g., India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela. 5. It will take some time and the greatest discipline in our whole establishment to bring this turn-around about; but it is the only path that makes sense. And it can be promptly begun. 6. More concretely, the program we must devise should have these technical characteristics: —Military aid should be…