AID TO SOUTH ASIA
AMERICANS APPROVE BRITISH PLANS NEW YORK, January 20. In a speech at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Mr George McGhee, an Assistant Secretary of State, expressed approval of the British Commonwealth Foreign Ministers’ decision to help Communist-threatened countries south of China. This was the first official American comment on the conference of Commonwealth Ministers at Colombo. Mr McGhee, recalling that the Commonwealth Ministers had agreed to work out a programme of economic aid to South-east Asia, said: "The United States applauds this decision and finds hope in the spirit of humanity with which it was adopted. Many elements must combine to bring success for an undertaking of its magnitude. “The United States wishes the Commonwealth of Nations success in the high endeavour upon which they have embarked on their own initiative. We, on our part, are ready to adapt our own efforts'in furtherance of this endeavour.”
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26018, 23 January 1950, Page 7
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