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discussion at my house in October of '60. I think it was a two-day meeting between Stevenson, George Ball, David Bruce, and I think Richard Gardiner and several others, who met with Jones and Lloyd and some other staff people that were working with them.

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At the same time I think we should also include the memo on food surpluses.

Lasker:

Yes. Here it is. It was written by Bo Jones with ideas of Lloyd incorporated and some of mine in connection with the use of some surplus funds for medical research and education in countries where there were substantial surplus funds, especially India.

In addition to these areas, Senator Johnson, then the Majority Leader in '59, was interested in getting some help with the establishment of an East-West University at Hawaii, which I'll discuss. And in 1961 we developed a pamphlet written largely by Bo Jones on “One Hundred Countries, Two Billion People,” Which were the basic ideas of Paul Hoffman and which gave for the first time an estimate of how much money he felt was necessary in foreign aid from all sources, including the United States and other Western countries, for their contribution in voluntary loans and aid, so that the countries which had a potential of development could get off the ground. His estimate was a total of about six billion dollars that was needed, and of which there was about 4 and one half billion, so the differential was only about a billion and a half, which didn't seem terribly much when you





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