Resolution Adopted by the CCAR
POINT FOUR PROGRAM
Digests of resolutions adopted by the
Central Conference of American Rabbis
between 1889 and 1974
1. See International Relief, Sec. 4 (1951).
2. See International Relief, Sec. 5 (1952).
3. We agree with President Eisenhower that "trade not aid" is a most
effective means
of promoting the wider distribution of the world’s goods The need for a
liberal policy
of trade on the part of the United States does not in any measure lessen the
significance of the basic philosophy of our nation’s history-making Point Four
Program of
aid to the underprivileged peoples of the earth. There is a mood of revolution
abroad
in Asia, in Africa, and, indeed, wherever the masses of the people have been
oppressed
and enslaved We, therefore, reaffirm our previously stated position favoring a
widespread
implementation of the Point Four Program, and taking cognizance of its
accomplishments
once again vigorously urge that the benefits of the program be extended to the
peoples of the countries we seek to help and not alone to the economic and
political
leaders of those nations. (1953, pp. 122-23)