U.S. MILITARY AID PROGRAMME

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25936, 17 October 1949, Page 7

U.S. MILITARY AID PROGRAMME

1,314,010,000 Dollars Voted By House SENATE APPROVAL AWAITED WASHINGTON, October 14. The Un.led States House of Representatives tc-day authorised the appropriation of 1,314.010.000 dollars for the Administration’s Foreign Military Aid Bill. The measure, which provides for 814,010.000 dollars in cash to help friendly nations, now goes to I the Senate for approval. The House to-day made public some of the testimony given at a secret session of its Appropriations Committee. The Assistant-Secretary of State (Mr James Webb), in his testimony, said that Russia could not be trusted, and that the strengthening of the United States’ friends was common sense, not charity. Mr Webb said: “Specious professions of love for peace no longer deceive the civilised world. The hard facts of international life for us, for the nations of Western Europe, and even for such of the Soviet Union’s more recent allies as Jugoslavia, stand forth in stark reality from the record of the Soviet Union’s broken promises, threatened aggression and subversive fifth column activities on every continent, and in every country.” The Appropriations Committee reported that it expected the military aid programme to continue for four or five years, but at a reduced cost.