AMERICAN AID TO EUROPE
PRESIDENT’S SPEECH TO CONGRESS
MESSAGE TO BE SENT THIS WEEK (Rec. 7 p.m,) WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. President Truman will send a message to Congress either on Wednesday or Thursday op the long-range Marshall programme for Europe. It is expected that his message will call for the expenditure of between 16,000,000,000 dollars and 18,000,000,000 dollars over four years, with proviv sion that Congress pass each year the amount required for the following year. A 6000-ton cargo of food gathered across the United States will be shipped to Le Havre to-day as the first “Friendship Train” shipment abroad. The cargo is from a stockpile of 885 freight carloads of foodstuffs —265 carloads more than was expected—collected by the “Friendship Train’’ .through the United States. It is ex< pected to furnish three more shiploads.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25362, 9 December 1947, Page 7
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