despite the postwar bipartisan consensus for foreign aid, martin hammered away at hill's backing for such programs. he decried subsidies to foreign manufacturers and workers at the expense of alabama's then large force of textile workers: "these foreign giveaways have cost taxpayers billions of dollars and turned many areas of alabama into distressed areas." martin also condemned aid to communist countries and the impact of the united nations on national policy. he questioned hill's congressional seniority as of little use when troops were dispatched in the fall of 1962 to compel the desegregation of the university of mississippi.