WHAT CAN U.S. AFFORD?
Press Assn.
Help For Europe Under Marshall Pian
By Telegraph
"Covyright
Received Friday, 7.50 p.m. WaSHINGTON, July 24. The "Secretary of (Jommerce (Mr. Averill Harriman), announced today that'October I had been set as the deadline for tlie delivery to the PrOsident of a complete report on how much „ne United States can afl'oi'd to contrioute to European reeonstruction ujider che Marshall plan. The report will come from a bonpamsan commitjee appointed by President Truman and will be put alongside the report expectfid' in September from he European * countries meeting m Paris. The final blueprint will be pronuced from the two reports. Thus the Inal plan probably will not be ready for congressional action before November at the earliest. i\lr. liarrimaii said the survey would Jetail the products the United States jould spare not only for Europe but aiso for ordinary trading with areas such as iouth America, the Far East, and even the foreign trade requirements of na tions which rejected the Marshall plan. including' Russia and its sateiiites, .would be eonsidered. The committee would eonsider, for example, what Russia could seil or eontribute through the regular trade channels to the European reeovery project. Mr. Harriman, who recentiy returned from a trip to the wrest of Europe, added that food and coal were the .najor requirements of overseas help — food to strengthen the people and coai to prime the pump of industry.
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Chronicle (Levin), 26 July 1947, Page 5
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