MARSHALL PLAN STRONGLY SUPPORTED

Chronicle (Levin), 17 November 1947, Page 6

MARSHALL PLAN STRONGLY SUPPORTED

Reeeived Sundav, 8.50 p.m. WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. The Republiean Foreign Aft'airs speeialist (Mr. John Poster Dulles) has given his eomplete support to the interim aid for Europe and a "reaiistic, imaginative and adequate ' ' long-range programme for the recomstruetion or Europe, but he cited the loan to Britam as " a good example of how not to proceed. ' ' Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mr. Dulles said: "The gra'nt of , 8,250,000,000 dollars solved nothing because it created nothing. Today we have to make a fresu start. " Mr. Dulles insisted that the UniteU Stales when it completes its loug-tenn plan should lay down a delinite course of policy. "The l'iuted States eannot, of course, impose its ideus ou Western L'urope as the Soviet is imposing its ideas on Kastern Europe. Dietation is not our way. We can, however, deelare the policy whieh our programme is designed to serve and then diseontinue any part of our procramme whicli "in

operation seems to nuilify our policy." Mr. Dulles urged that if at the corning London meetiug Mr. Molotov continues to sliuii the proposals for a 40yeay German pact Britain, Franee and the l nited States should go ahead with it on a three-Power basis. Representative Christian Ilerter, ehainnan of the House ('ommittee on Foreign Aid, urged that the interim aici programme would best and most rapidly be imp l.eineiited by merely amending the post-Unrra legislation passecl earJier this year. .The committee closed thetopen he:a,r-- ' ings in the interim aid progi-anlhie'.'dn^ will resume its sessions in seeret next week. President Truman has deeided 'to subniit the long-range Marsliall Plan tor European recovery to a speeial session j of Oongress beginning on November 17 | instead of eontining the session to the j eonsiderati.on of interim relief as bfig-,| inal ly planned, . AfU .TruPyan-.Itas; ndw J decided to. delrVei' t\V6 speeial-, tuesSages. j The first will be delivered- otu the I7tii when Mr. Truman will "ask Oongr cSs- toprovide 597,000,000 dollars for interim

elmergfency relief for Franee", Austi'ia:; aaxd Blaly; to\ eliablg those; crtuntries to keep going wliiie awaiting aid froni the long-rangje plan. The second message, -tclrieh', p-i'R be delivered . a week of two later, -nnll eontain the President 's fnll proposal for the four-year Marshal! Plan. It is not expected that Congress will- act-dn- the • fu'U proposal until the regular session of Congress in January,

"but his second message will enable C'on- . gress to assess the interim aid programme .in relation to the Marshaii Plan as a wliole.