America Is Sending Military Supplies To Assist Greece

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 July 1947, Page 5

America Is Sending Military Supplies To Assist Greece

(Rec. 11.10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 11. Thirty-five million dollars worth of military supplies have already been bought and are moving to ports for early shipment to Greece. Mr Dwight Griswold, leader of the 300,000,000-dollar aid programme mission to Athens disclosed this today. He said 7,000,000 dollars worth of relief supplies—wheat, flour, peas, beans and milk—was now on the way to Greece. The relief supplies •were bought from Greece’s 50,000,000-dol-lar share of the 350,000,000 dollars post-UNRRA relief funds recently approved by Congress. Mr Griswold said the equipment now moving to United States ports would be used to’equip the Greek Army and Navy on an “anti-bandit basis.” It included light mountainpack artillery, mules, food for troops, ammunition, trucks and jeeps. Giving the first details of how the Truman doctrine money will be spent Mr Griswold declared that 48,000,000 dollars would .he spent on industrial reconstruction, in which high priority would be .given to rebuilding roads, bridges and irrigation facilities. A total of 19,300,000 dollars would be spent on agricultural equipment, 75,000,000 on essential consumer goods, 3,000,000 on the fight against tuberculosis, malaria and on other health problems. One million dollars would be set aside for educating Greeks on modern government, and some Greeks would be sent to the United States to study. He added that some military equipment would be bought from

Britain because the Greek Army was now almost entirely..equipped. with British material,