AID TO GREECE & TURKEY PASSED
SENATE BACKS TRUMAN’S POLICY WASHINGTON, April 22. The Senate, by 67 votes to 23, passed the bill authorising the United States to spend 400,000,000 dollars in aid to Greece and Turkey, thus backing President Truman’s momentous new venture in foreign, policy. The measure is expected to be debated in the House of Representatives next week. The final stages of the debate to-day were characterised by the chorus of charges that the measure was tantamount to a declaration of war against Russia which the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator A, H. Vandenberg, described as “inflammable” and an invitation to the precise disaster that the bill sought to prevent.
Military Aid Retained The Senate rejected an amendment designed to remove military assistance from the aid programme and to limit aid to Greece.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22313, 24 April 1947, Page 5
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