CUTS IN E.R.P.

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25517, 10 June 1948, Page 5

CUTS IN E.R.P.

REPUBLICAN LEADERS REBUKED CRITICISM EXPRESSED BY PARTY PAPER (N.Z. Press Association-Copyright) (R ££ NEW YORK, June 9. The Republican “New York Herald Tribune” to-day prints on its ,front page a leading article headed: “Saving the Republican Party.” The article says: “The action of the House of Representatives in cutting the total of the European Recovery Programme appropriation has compromised the pledged word of the United States, undermined the structure of the Marshall Plan, and thereby threatened the safety of the United States in the years that lie ahead. .. in a Presidential year, with tne Republican convention only a few days away, the vote threatens even greater danger to the Republican Party.

Tne action last week in the House, we regret to say, went far to destroy tne party s achievement of establishin.<> a , distinguished record in dealing with foreign affairs. By an unrecorded vote and through the ingenious manoeuvring of the Republican leadership the Lower Chamber went on record as ready to walk out on its earlier resolve. and to abandon the El ?s^ ean Recovery Programme. The power displayed by the leadership was ominous. The same leadersnip could nominate a weakling and an isolationist. Such a result could S?L, but fat ?l to the Republican Party whether the candidate won or lost in November.”