U.S. Presidential
Intervention Urged WASHINGTON, Rec. 9 p.m. Oct. 27. Mr John L. Lewis, president of the American Mine Workers’ Union, urged to-day that President Truman should bring pressure to bear upon the French Government to “halt the shooting of French coal miners who are hungry.” Mr Lewis suggested that this should be done through Mr Truman’s control of expenditure of Marshall Plan funds. Mr Lewis said the future of France would be dark indeed if American money, guns, and bullets were used ” to shoot, starve, and oppress French citizens while bureaucrats and the financially powerful in France subsist on American resources and fight elements of the population not participating in the largesse of the Marshall Plan.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26915, 29 October 1948, Page 5
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117U.S. Presidential Otago Daily Times, Issue 26915, 29 October 1948, Page 5
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