Acheson Urges More U.S. Aid To Anti-Reds

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23218, 1 April 1950, Page 5

Acheson Urges More U.S. Aid To Anti-Reds

WASHINGTON. March 30. The Secretary of State. Mr. Dean Acheson, yesterday emphasised the need for increasing the funds to combat communism in the Far East. Mr. Acheson and Dr. Philip Jessup, the United States Ambassador-at-Large, gave their latest appraisement of the Far Eastern situation to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Both supported President Truman s request for 45,000,000 dollars for "Point 4” of the programme for the world’s under-developed areas. It is .understood that Mr. Acheson and Dr. Jessup stressed the need for authority to spend in the “general area of China" about 100,000,000 dollars in funds left over from last year’s China aid programme. Following Mr. Acheson’s conference with the committee, a Senator reported that Mr. Acheson was planning to make a strong plea for a united policy in the Far East when the Foreign Ministers of Britain, France and the United States meet in London in May. Officials said that one of the proposals now under discussion for resistance to Communist penetration in Asia and, particularly in South-East _ Asia, was for a joint statement of policy. They said this did not involve a Joint programme of economic and military assistance to the countries of South-East Asia. The Associated Press correspondent said the general tenor of the meeting appeared to indicate that the administration had made a start in healing the breach between the State Department and a segment of Congress critical of the department's handling of foreign policy. Mr, Acheson and Dr. Jessup were said to have showed a spirit of willingness to take a bipartisan approach to the Far East problems and appeared more agreeable than formerly to the idea of including Formosa in the general Asian programme.