EUROPEAN RECOVERY PLAN

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25391, 14 January 1948, Page 7

EUROPEAN RECOVERY PLAN

U.S. Ministers Reply To Critics

GAINS WILL BE WORTH THE COST” JN.Z. Press Association-Copyright) (Be Cabinet Ministering T °*’ JaDUary 12 ’ pean recovery plan among certain Rernnfr s,tl °? to the Eurotelling committees to-day that Con S r ® ss ™ en b y A..S "S. the powerful House Appropriations « c ‘} a ! rm n a " of (Republican, New M“Tab a er On as^ii r ed g ?h: P «u ding ? to the ™tedges’, policy planners, who would ‘Ceek he had n advan^ced S^ l th^e°'senate P Fore?gn I Relations le Committee. S ta eZe^d^st 6 £ additional Troporttor/ to thflnvestment already made—we can finish the job, we should do so in nor interest as well as that of the world at large.” *” UF ° Wn

Answering questions, General Marshall said that plans to aid China would be brtiught before .Congress very soon. “European recovery is first in order of importance and not be complicated now by in;troducing discussions of other parts of the world,” he added.

Mr Harriman told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: “We tnust frankly face the fact that the

European recovery programme will add to our difficulties in trying to control inflation. A programme of the magnitude contemplated will be costly and will mean sacrifices by the American people. The benefits to be gained, however, far outweigh the immediate sacrifices.” In London to-day a Foreign Office spokesman said that France and Britain had agreed to reconvene the conference of the 16 nations which met in Paris after the announcement of the Marshall Plan. Britain and France would issue invitations to the 14 other Powers concerned.