AMERICA “MUST ACT WITH CALM DETERMINATION”—Mr. Marshall

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22588, 17 March 1948, Page 5

AMERICA “MUST ACT WITH CALM DETERMINATION”—Mr. Marshall

(10 a.m.) "Washington, March 36. Declaring that “the hour is far more fateful now than it was a year ago,’"the Secretary of State, Mr. George Marshall, yesterday toll the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the United States must act “with calm determination’’ to prevent the further spread of communism in Europe.

He was urging Congress to vote 275,000,000 dollars military aid to Greece and Turkey to which 400,000,000 dollars were voted in 1947. Mr. Marshall said: “By intimidation and frank terror, Communist regimes have been imposed on Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Totalitarian control has been tightened in other Eastern European countries and these States have been linked in a network of alliances. Threat to Other European States “Other European peoples face a similar threat of being drawn, against their will, into the Communist orbit.”

Mr. Marshall said the United States should avoid “hasty action which could lead to the dissipation of our resources or fear which could lead to sterile inaction.” He then said: “With calm deliberation, we must pursue the policy confirmed lsfst May by Congress.” (Congress last May first approved of aid to Greece and Turkey in response to the “Truman doctrine” message promising aid to peoples resisting totalitarian pressure). Mr. Marshall said yesterday that the Greek situation was serious but not without hope. He declared that the latest exampie of Greek guerrillas’ ruthlessness was the planned removal of 12,000 or more Greek children to the countries of Eastern Europe “in connivance with foreign Powers.”