U.S. AID FOR EUROPE

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25328, 30 October 1947, Page 7

U.S. AID FOR EUROPE

Plan “Beyond AB Reason” SENATOR TAFT’S CRITICISM

(Rec. 11 p.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 28. The Marshall plan in its present form was beyond all reason, said Senator Robert Taft,. Republican leader in the Senate, addressing the National Association of Cost Accountants. He said that the Marshall plan should be considered by Congress with the understanding that in the form and amount presented by the 16 European nations which are participating in it, it seriously threatens the anti-inflation programme in the United States. Senator Taft particularly questioned proposals for the shipment of coal, oil, and steel and the provision of dollars to purchase Argentine and Canadian wheat for Europe. President Truman has received regorts ’on the Marshall plan and has egun the drafting of his message to the special session of Congress on November 17. State Department officials are working at high pressure to complete reports for Congress. Mr Charles Luckman, chairman of the Citizens’ Food Committee set up by President Truman, said to-day that the objective of saving 100.000,000 bushels of wheat grain for Europe might be achieved before January 1. He said that he could not predict when meatless Tuesdays and eggless and poultryless Thursdays would end. In Louisville, Kentucky, a Circuit Judge (Mr Scott Miller) ruled to-day that the Citizens’ Food Committee had no authority to halt the production of whisky to save grAin for Europe. He issued an injunction ordering Heaven Hill Distilleries, of Bardstown, to supply 179 barrels of whisky a day to the Heaven Hill Company, of Los Angeles, a sales concern which brought court action to force production and delivery on the ground that the Citizens’ Food Committee was nothing more than a voluntary association without legal sanction or power.