Relief Expenditure Should Be Loon
(Rec. 1.30.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. Recently returned from an inspection tour, Mr Herbert Hoover today told the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which is holding hearings on President Truman’s request for funds for European relief, that the United States should cut its foreign relief expenditure to an absolute minimum. He added that it was in the world’s interest that should stop, look and listen before approving further relief grants.
Mr Hoover expressed the opinion that relief expenditure should be regarded as a loan and that all recipients should agree to repayment by a tax ol five or 10 per cent, on all exports, beginning in two or three years. Mr Hoover also proposed that nations due. to receive reparations from countries on relief should be asked to defer such claims until relief costs had been’ repaid. He further suggested that relief should be restricted to food, medicine, seed, fertiliser and some clothing. (UNRRA relief included locomotives .and other machinery.)
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Northern Advocate, 1 March 1947, Page 5
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