U.S. SENATE’S BAN

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22582, 10 March 1948, Page 5

U.S. SENATE’S BAN

GOODS FOR SOVIET NEEDED FOR EUROPE RECOVERY PROGRAMME (N.Z.P. A.—Copyright.) GO a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 9. The Senate yesterday amended the European recovery programme bill to provide for an embargo on the United States exports to Russia and her satellites of many goods required to meet the needs of 16 European nations participating in the Marshall Plan. Senator William Knowland (Republican, California), who moved the amendment, said it would affect many products now shipped to Russia and which, he declared, were being used to build up the Soviet war machine. Some scarce goods could, however, still be sent to Russia if authorised by the Secretary of Commerce, as a means of securing vital chrome and manganese which The United States requires to make steel. Senator Kenneth McKellar (Democrat, Tennessee), urged the united States to use force, if necessary, to prevent the Communist seizure of more European nations. Senator McKellar said that the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia and pressure on Finland had caused him to reverse his opposition to the European recovery programme. The Senate Armed Services Committee today voted unanimously to begin hearings immediately on universal military training after a top military spokesman said that such training was "not only necessary but mandatory.”