BAN ON FRENCH AID URGED
Move To Force E.D.C. Ratification
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 10 p.m.) ' WASHINGTON, June 14. The United States State Department reversed its policy today and urged Congress to ban foreign aid funds for France and Italy until they ratify the European Defence Community Agreement. But Mr Livingston Merchant, Assistant Secretary of State, and General Alfred Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, agreed that'the chances of French ratification are good In spite of the fall of the Laniel Government.
The Defence Secretary (Mr Charles Wilson) joined Mr Merchant dhd General Gruenther in urging Congress to approve President Eisenhower’s 3,497,000,000 dollars foreign aid request.
Last year, the State Department opposed any coercion to obtain ratification of the integrated European Army agreement.
The acting-chairman of the committee (Senator H. Alexander Smith, Republican, New Jersey) said that a great many committee members favoured using foreign aid as a “lever” to force ratification. He said Mr Dulles was “entirely willing” that aid should be withheld.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27377, 16 June 1954, Page 11
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