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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1947
A Vital Date In American History
By Daniel Bishop, St. Louis Star-Times.
Resolved; that the United States must provide immediately $597 million worth of stop-gap aid to France, Italy, and Austria and a total of $8.897 million to western Europe by the end of 1949.
World Is Watching Congress
That will be the question before the house as congress convenes today in the long-awaited special session. Will it be too little too late, and if not will the aid be administered correctly when it gets to the destination?
Inflation Curbs Take Back Seat
1. $597 million for stop-gap aid, most important of all at the present time.
Those are the major issues. Two obstacles have already been removed. President Truman has reversed a previous announcement that he would ask for inflation curbs before European aid is taken up. And Republican leaders have expressed agreement that some aid is needed.
Testifying Monday before a joint session of the International Affairs committees of both houses, Secretary of State Marshall asked for immediate and separate consideration of emergency aid. A few hours later Sen. Robert A. Taft told a New York audience that congress cannot separately consider stop-gap aid, long range aid, and domestic inflation. Stop-Gap Consideration First?
2. $4^{1/2}$ billion to start the main program under way. It would last from March, 1948 to July 1, 1949, which is the beginning of the 1949 fiscal year.
Therefore, it appears now that the issue will be joined immediately as to how much precedence the consideration of stop-gap aid will hold over long range aid and inflation.
Reports of the amount of proposed aid seem to vary with every publication you read. The most reliable figure is the amount named by Secretary Marshall Monday after examination of the overlapping findings of the State department, the Herter committee, and most important, the Harriman committee.
The requested $8,897 million, to last through 1949, would be broken down as follows:
3. $6 billion, which is the bulk of
4. $300 million for aid to China through 1949. This would be extended to the Nationalist government and is a reversal of Marshall's former policy of neutrality between the Communists and Nationalists.
The staggering immensity of these figures leads us to wonder whether congressmen will ever get past the "We'll see" stage of discussion. They are anxious to make sure the money is used wisely. That's only good business, and critics of such precautions display a naive confidence in European systems of distribution. State Department Solicitude
5. $500 million for deficits incurred by the United States army in Europe. It does not include army occupation costs for the fiscal year starting July 1st.
The state department has been overzealous in what it calls "solicitude for the dignity and sovereignty" of the 16 recipient nations. It has already led one congressman to say, "Let them eat their sovereignty if they don't like the way we help them." Such an attitude reveals the danger that congress may react against state department "solicitude" and decide to "let them eat cake."
The Union cafeteria was filled with "storms of protest" on the first eggless Thursday. It's strange that we can be self-sacrificing in war time and thoughtlessly greedy in time of a shaky peace. Europeans are eating less of everything—every day.
It will be the most crucial decision that congress has ever made. Too little, too late, or too blindly given will mean "pouring it down the rat-hole."
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