AMERICAN AID TO EUROPE

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26117, 20 May 1950, Page 7

AMERICAN AID TO EUROPE

REQUEST BY FRANCE AND BRITAIN

INTEREST OF U.S. IN EUROPE

D .. . , _ LONDON, May 18. Britain and France to-day asked the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation to invite the United States and Canada to associate themselves with its working as soon as possible.

This decision is thought to foreshadow i some form of continued American financial and economic aid to Europe after 1952, when Marshall aid ends. It is one of the most important concrete decisions to rise from the current series of Foreign Ministers conferences.

A statement issued to-day by the Foreign Office said: “During the talks last week by the Foreign Ministers of Fh r f n ?T a + n s S 1 ® United Kingdom and the United States, the Secretary of otate of the United States emphasised toe great value of the existing relationship between O.E.E.C. and the United States, and said he believed that it would be helpful to broaden this relationship to provide for regular discussion and consideration of problems requiring co-operative action in the xi?h?i 1 r g t J ,er^ d ' He p° inted out that while the European Recovery Programme terminates in 1952. the interest of the United States in Europe will necessarily continue.”