United States Proposes Aid To China
NEW YORIv, Feb. 4. The State Department has reconintended to Ihe National Advisory Council, a China relief and assistance programme totalling 10,000,000 dollars, says the New York Times's Washington correspondent. The programme hus been diseussed by members of cabinet and top advisory rouncil ollicers an-.l although the inlpression.among them m that the new plan may injure Europe'an recovery progr'amuie i'noi'e tli'an it would 1 help China, the general opinion is that it should be setit to Coilgi'ess for approval. Under the programme funds would be allocated to" China for wliekt, COtton, petroleum products, rice, eoarse graitts. tobacco and some flour. Tlic eorres poudent adds that most of tlvese itent* pre precisely those in short supply fo the Marshall plan and the main argu ment (leveloping inside tiie Goveriiment is whether it is possible to ineoi the domestic demands, alloCations fo Europe and -the .China programme '.imultaueously.. The State Department 'describes jthe China plan as a "holding iperation'' to prevent Chinese econonn oecomiug eveit worse than it is.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 February 1948, Page 5
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