U.S. MILLIONS TO RESTORE EUROPE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22356, 14 June 1947, Page 5

U.S. MILLIONS TO RESTORE EUROPE

four-year plan to curb communism BRITAIN MAY SPONSOR CONFERENCE (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (10 a NEW YORK, June 13. The United States is drafting a plan envisaging an expenditure of up to 24,000,000,000 dollars, mostly from the United States, in the next four years to revive the economies of democratic European •nations and to check communism, reports the United Press correspondent in Washington.

Plan Rapidly Growing The plan has been rapidly developing since the report of the Secretary of State, Mr. George Marshall, at Harvard ■.June 5, when lie urged the European nations to get together in some way to restore Europe’s economy. Mr. Marshall said the proposal, at least on a geographical basis, included the Soviet Union but it is recalled he had promised “any Government which manoeuvres to block the recovery of other countries cannot expect help from the United States.” Hence, in the absence of the reversal of Soviet tactics Mr. Marshall’s formula would establish an anti-Communist line in Europe. The Associated Press correspondent in Washington says that the United States expects Britain to take the initiative in calling European countries together to formulate proposals in accordance with Mr. Marshall’s suggestions. _ , Mr Benjamin V. Cohen, who was one of the chief advisers to the Secretary of State, Mr. George Marshall at the Moscow conference, in a speech at Longbeach, California, last night, said: “The United States must make it

I clear it is determined that the law of the United Nations should prevail and I it is prepared to use all its power and ! resources, “veto or no veto," to defend ! the basic law of the Charter.” i Mr. Cohen added that as the Ameri- ] can contribution to . world economic I security, the United States would probj ably have to export as much as 15.000,000,000 or 6,000,000,000 dollars in goods and services to Europe, including Britain, in the next three or four years. The Chicago Tribune in a leader on I “What To Do With Russia.” says: “It is possible that we ought to destroy the Stalin Government while we can. It could be done within 48 hours with terrifying results. We should fire the incongruous United Nations off our territory. To build it a home here, to be responsible for its inanities, the duplicities for which it is used, would be a reflection on Yankee commonsense. “We can polish off the Stalin regime. Is it the thing to do? Have we the stomach for it? “We have the means. Should we withhold our hands, withdraw to a hemispherical frontier and take a chance that time will effect a cure? “The man who has the courage and •intelligence to answer these questions will be one of the greatest statesmen the world has ever known.”