COMMUNIST AGGRESSION MUST BE STOPPED
Received Thursday, 6.40 p.m. A\ A8IIINGTON, Alareb 10. Military aid to •China would help to stop ' ' Itussian aggresaion. ' ' in Europe,
said Alajor-General Chennault in a testimony before tlie House Foreign Atlairs (Jommittee today. General Chen- ; nault, who tiew here from China at the Adiuini.xtrator's request to testify on the proposed 570,000,000 dollars aid to China, deelared that faflure to aid China would inevitably set the stage for a third world war. He said "It is mv firm belief that. thc Uominunists will not Jaunch an at- 1 lack in the west until they have seeured ; their eastern continental front, If China is eommunised we- will be eon-1 Front ecl immediatelv with the neeessity ror deeiding whether we will engnge i,n =1 tliii'd world war pr retire to the defence of .the American ertntinents. " General Chennault told the eommittee that he had not made a ca.refnl estimate of the tlid necessary for China but he was thinking of sometjiing like 1,500,000,000 to 2,000,000,000 dollars -in' the next thren years.
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 March 1948, Page 5
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