Evening star., 1947-11-24
Allied Unity Has Fallen Apart
Vondenberg Warns in Aid Plea
Opening Debate on Stopgop Bill
Asks Quick Passage
To Halt Aggression
By Communists
Partial Tert of Vdndenberg
Speech on Page A.
BY the Assoeioted Press


The international unity which
won the war has fallen apart,
Chairman Vandenberg of the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee declared today in strong
appeal to the Senate for speedy
approval of the $597 100000
emergency aid for Europe to de-
feat lurking tyranny" and
Communist aggression"
Senator Vandenberg left his pre-
siding officers chair to open debate
on the legislation to authorize winter
relief for France. Italy and Austria.
He told the Senate he,regrets that
President Truman coupled a re-
quests for anti-inf1ation measures
with the requests for emergency aid
and regrets that Mr.. Truman did
not also ask stopgrap aid for China.
The aid proposal, he said, must
not be taken as "a declaration of
economic war between Western and
Eastern Europe, unless Moscow per-
sists in its apparent pathetically
mistaken purpose to make it such
to its own everlasting detriment."
Stresses Need for Trade.
There is grievous need for the
restoration of East-West trade and
friendship in live and let live
world" he declared. Nothing pro-
jected in our short or long range
plans will interfere-except on
Soviet initiative"
The stopgap aid measure simply
approves the principle of aid up to
S597 100000 worth. If Congress ap-
proves it, separate bills appropriate
ing the money will have to be passed
before aid becomes an actuality.
"A new type of communism is
on the march," the Republican
leader said in a prepared address
I'm the United Nations, which is
still the worlds best bridge across
the ominous gap, this new aggres-
sion boycotts what it cannot defeat
or veto.
Regrets Imitation Link.
ut operates not only through
ruthless pressures on often terror
ized satellites. 1t operates through
internal subverSion and sabotage in
other lands where its trained and
disciplined minorities faithfully con-
tribute to the chaos and confusion
which encourage communistic con-
quest
In Offering the bill, forerunner of
a proposed long-range European re-
covery program, Senator Vanden-
berg told his colleagues that he
shares the "disappointments" Of
some other Senators that previous
relief projects in some instances
have gone wrong
He said he wants the Senators to-
understand that they can support
this bill without any sort of COM
mitment to any other relief pro-
grams which Congress may subse-
quently confront"
Senator Vandenberg said, too, that
he regrets that President Truman
saw fit to tie this interim aid pro-
gram into his anti-inflation mes
age"
1T invited an erroneous public re-
action" the Michigan Senator de-
clared.
Then he added that the United
States must "be eternally vigilant in
respect to conditions on the home
front" or it might ruin the world"
by the sort of economic collapse
"prayerfully prophesied from Mos
cow
War Won by Cooperation.
Senator Vandenberg, whose views
as an adviser at various internation-
al conferences have come under fire
of the Kremlin. told his colleagues
that the stopgap aid bill is designed
to help France, Italy and Austria
lin their battle against winter hun
ger and winter cold and against the
lurking tyranny which feeds upon
such disaster"
He said the war against the Axis
was won in close cooperation with
our brave allies, emphatically in
scluding Soviet Russia which rem
dered heroic effort to the common
cause
All fought under pledge to
bring about "a just peace that would
insure maximum elf-determination
for free men in a free world" he
continued, adding:
There were no vetoes and no
abstentions. Those who violate or
evade this pledge will repudiate the
most sacred obligation ever written
in the blood and tears of martyrs.
Worse, they will dissipate the vic
tory, lose the peace and hazard their
own destiny.
That goes for every capitol on
earth. 1t goes for Washington. It
goes equally for Moscow"