Britain Gets Biggest Share of Second-Year Marshall Aid
(9 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. Britain is tentatively scheduled to receive 940,000,000 dollars—largest ahare of all—in the second full year of the Marshall Plan beginning on July 1, Mr, Paul Hoffman, Economic Cooperation Administrator disclosed yesterday. Mr. Hoffman was testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which is examining the E.C.A. allocations.
He said this was the approximate share tentatively allotted to Britain out of the 4,280,000,000 dollars requested for the period. Britain was allotted the exact amount she asked for but France, which receives the second largest allocation, asked • for 890,000,000 dollars and received 875,00Q,000. Italy’s allocation of 555,000,000 was the third largest. Italy had asked for 610,100,000.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22868, 11 February 1949, Page 5
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