AMERICAN FOREIGN AID
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Fight Against Cuts In Plan Commences
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Received Thursday, 10.40 a.m. WASHINGTON, June 9. Senator A. H. Vandenberg, Republican leader on foreign affairs, began the fight today before the Senate Appropriations Committee against the cuts in the ioreign aid funds made by the House of Representatives, which reduced expenditure on the European recovery programme and other foreign aid by 26.7 per cent. Senator Vandenberg called the House cut a "dangerous and improvident decision, which guts the enterprise." He added that if the House proposal was finally passed, "it would multiply the terrified confusion of a world in which the forces of aggression and subversion thrive upon confusion." Insisting on the total restoration of the original 5,300,000,000 dollars for the foreign aid programmes, he said that anything else would "inevitably undermine that confidence and morale abroad on which recovery was dependent, and on which freedom and peace so heavily lean." While Senator Vandenberg was speaking, Mr. John Taber, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, issued a statement saying: "I will fight to retain this reduction and resist all the special measures which are being mustered to make a treacherous raid 011 the American taxpayer."
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 June 1948, Page 9
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198AMERICAN FOREIGN AID Chronicle (Levin), 10 June 1948, Page 9
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