ABSTRACT
Chapter I already made it clear that governments do not give aid without expecting to achieve something which is in the interest of the donor country. Private charity is different, and it may be presumed that the motive is solely sympathy for the recipient. It may be true that there would be considerable public support for governmental programmes of aid for purely humanitarian motives. But most ob servers take the view that much less than the present level of aid would result if its sole support came from a simple desire to help poor people in other countries. Certainly, representatives of the people oppose aid when they can see no national interest in it, and the main support comes from exporting interests which may benefit.
