John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “The construction of urgently needed facilities for training physicians, dentists, nurses, and other professional health…”

I just say that there's no sense having a program if a man who is innocent of any intelligence mission, which is true in this case, is subjected to arrest without means of defense.

This is the worst attack on foreign aid that we have seen since the beginning of the Marshall plan.

I regard it as serious.

I think it would be unwise to attempt to negotiate it out here.