Senate Approves Foreign Aid Bill
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 2. The Senate tonight approved President Eisenhower’s global Foreign Aid Bill, after rejecting all attempts to cut the 3,408,000,000 dollars programme. The vote was 59 to 18. The bill, authorising military, economic and technical aid io allies in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East, now goes to the House of Representatives for action there. Its passage unscathed through the Senate was achieved by a preponderance of support by Democrats for the Republican President that overwhelmed attempts to slash the funds by an economic bloc, supported by the small isolationist wing of the Republican Party. The few isolationists wanted to kill the whole bill.
One of the amendments that was defeated was that aid be banned to any nation that traded with Communist China so long as the Communists held Americans as prisoners. It was submitted by Senator Joseph McCarthy (Republican, Wisconsin). The whole programme is designed to check Communist aggression and subversion by strengthening the armies and the internal economies of the Allies.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27676, 4 June 1955, Page 7
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