CUTS IN U.S. AID TO EUROPE MAY BE RESTORED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22663, 14 June 1948, Page 5

CUTS IN U.S. AID TO EUROPE MAY BE RESTORED

(N.Z.P.A. —Reuter—Copyright.) (10 a.m.) LONDON. June 13. After a bitter five-hour wrangle, the Senate Appropriations Committee on Friday night voted to recommend the restoration of virtually all the House of Representatives cuts in the European aid funds. The full Senate is expected to accept the committee’s recommendation without. a major change and the struggle with the House economy block will then begin. Overriding heated objections that the appropriation is too high the_ committee on Friday recommended 5.055,000,000 dollars for the first year’s European aid alone. The House had voted the same amount to cover European, Chinese and Korean aid and wanted it spread over 15 months. The committee also voted to restore almost all the long-range European aid appropriations but postponed until Monday action on the House cuts in the funds for China, Korea, Greece and Turkey. It is believed that the vote assures that the committee will recommend the restoration of virtually all the House cuts in all foreign aid funds. The Senate decided on Friday to postpone until June 14 a vote on the legislation to extend the Foreign Trade Agreements Act. The delay caused the Act to expire, at least temporarily, at midnight thereby preventing the President negotiating new trade agreements until the extension is agreed upon. MR. BEVIN REBUKES MR. CHURCHILL (10 a.m.) LONDON, June 12. The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, said that Mr. Churchill made a great blunder in saying that Marshall aid was charity. “If war comes again there will be no sterling debts,” he said. “The defenders of the faith must throw their all into the pool from the first day to the last.”