Plan To Stop Reds In East Asia

Chronicle (Levin), 31 October 1949, Page 5

Plan To Stop Reds In East Asia

LONDON. Oct. 30. The 'Asfiociated Press's Paris correspondent says American experts are working on a plan to help stop Gommunism in Asia. The strntegy so far planned is to put the projeet to Congress next summer with a request for 1,000,000,000 to 1,250,000,090 dollars for the following vear. Smaller figures would be asked for tjre next. two or three years as has bexgfedone under the Marshall Plan. An American official, disclosing that the preliminary work had hegun. said the new programme would be designed largelv to help Routh-east Asia. The experts think the following countries should be invited to take part: Tnclia, Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma, Australia, New Zealand, The Philippines, aud perhaps Indonesia and Yietnam (IndoChina). The basis for large-scale airl to Asia was laid down by the now famous "fourth point" in President Truman 's inaugural speecli. Tt called for help for countries whose material development is not up to western standards. The official said the "Asiatie E.C.A." was still in the discussion stage, and by the time it got to the point of concretcplanning the. awkward politieal question of whether to include Nationalist China might no longer exist. He added that manv of the dollars given to Asia would also help Europe's dollar shortage. Rome of the dollars would be spent in the Tmited Rtates, but some would go to Europe for goods that could build Asiatie farms and factories.