Detroit evening times., 1945-08-25
GEORGE R.
BROWN
Political
Parade

WASHINGTON Is reellng &
w under the impact of foreign
demands for continued Ameri-
can financial contributions on a
scale even exceeding the lavish
ness and generosity OF lend
lease.
There is scarcely a single
country on earth that is not
looking hopefully toward. Uncle
Sam. with the tin-cup extended.
Hopes are obviously high among
people who have long regarded
the United States as a land OF
unexhauStible wealth.
Many of these hopes are going
to be shattered against the
granite walls of economic fact:
the United States Treasury cam
not much longer heed the plain
tive plea of the international
Oliver Twist, with his intermi-
nable cry. please. Sir, want
more"
With the end of Lend-Lease,
which was to keep us out Of
war. but proved one OF the main
factors in getting us in, the
heads of expectant foreign gov
ernments turn 10 the lnterna-
tional bank and monetary fund,
under Breton Woods, to the
Export-Import Bank. and to
RFC and its subsidiaries.
DUT the resources of I h e s e
~ lending agencies-and they
are not, theoretically, at least,
giving agencies-are inadequate
to the demands that are being
made, or that are lust around
the corner"
1t so happens that Congress
will have 10 re-eXamine the
whole question of foreign aid and
assistance. since ADDITIONAL
APPROPRIATIONS Of astro-
nomicai proportions would have
TO be made.
The few gentlemen of Senate
and House who are still in
Washington, and with whom
this writer has talked. are of
the opinion that Congress will
ga very thoroughly into the
whole question as soon as it
comes back to the job on Sep
tember ). 4
For example, take the request
of Soviet Russia for an outright
gift of S700000,00O from
UNRRA, for relief. This sum
could not be granted immedi-
ately for the reason that there
is not sufficient balance at
the command of the relief and
rehabilitation organization.
Congress would have to pro-
vide this money by a direct APP
preparation from the treasury.
Before 1t. does so it Will 60 very
thoroughly into Russian postwar
ambitions.
CINCE Chairman Bloom of the
- House foreign affairs COM
mittee, which handled the
UNRRA legislation, has eX-
pressed the opinion that $780,
100000 should be given this
winter to Italian relief, it is
clear that the total appropria-
tion of S1,0OO,O0O,0OO he speaks
Of, would be entirely made
quate.
DR.. Soong and De Gaulle speak
for China and France in Wash
ington where their mission is
largely financial as well as po-
litical.'
Reliable information reaching
this writer via the House ways
and means committee indicates
that in addition TO the $780,
100000 desired by Russia under
UNRRA. the Soviet govern
ments hope for. an American
loan is closer to S10,000,000,- :
600 than the $4,000, 100000
which has been reported.
On top of Premier Stains
disclosure that Russia is going
10 build a great navy, comes the
announcement from Moscow of
the instructions issued by the
Communist partys central COM
mittee, and the council of
peoples commissars, to the
state. planning commission, for
a new "five-year plan which
includes a vast industrial eX-
panSion.
CONGRESS will have to de-
- eide whether the new Rus
sian navy, and an expanded
Communist industrial pl a n t.,
highly competitive with Ameri-
can industry, shall be financed
in large part from the United
States Treasury. to the detrl-
ment Of our own reconverSlon
and full employment program.