U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CUTS MARSHALL AID
Fight in Senate. Expected (Rec. 9.30). WASHINGTON, June 4. The House of Representatives passed and sent to the Senate tonight the 5,980,710,228.d011ar Appropriation Bill to finance the Foreign, Aid Programme. This is 26.7 per cent, less than the Administration wanted, while the total approved by the House is 533 million dollars in cash less than President Truman asked.
The actual deduction was made far greater by spreading the period of spending over fifteen months instead of twelve.. In addition, the House directed that economic aid to Japan, Korea and the Ryukus come out of the general Foreign Fund, instead _of being set up as a separate 150 million dollar project under the Army. It was a double rebuff for Mr G. C. Marshall, the Secretary of State, who had protested that the scaled down spending over a longer period would convert the European Recovery Programme from “one of reconstruction, to one of mere relief’’. Backers of the bigger appropriation now pin their hope on the Senate, where they propose to put up a determined fight. Senator Arthur Vanderberg, the Senate President, and the Republican foreign policy leader, said he would lead the fight to restore, in the Senate. the cuts which the House had made. _____ *
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GRA19480607.2.30
Bibliographic details
Grey River Argus, 7 June 1948, Page 5
Word Count
212U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CUTS MARSHALL AID Grey River Argus, 7 June 1948, Page 5
Using This Item
Copyright undetermined – untraced rights owner. For advice on reproduction of material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in