Evening star., 1947-08-28
u. s. Advises Europe
Plan for Aid Must Be
Reasonable, Realistic
Ey the Assoeieted Press

The 16 nations drafting a
blueprint for Europe's economic
recovery received official Amer
lean advice today that to win
United States acceptance the
plan must be both reasonable
and realistic.
=. Undersecretary of State Robert A.
Lovett coupled this admonition with
the further stipulation that de-
mands on American aid must di-
minish by next year.
Mr.. Lovett tossed out these ad-
ditional ideas as the Paris confer
ence on the Marshall Plan neared a
deadline for further estimates on
what American assistance Europe
must receive to regain its economic
health:
/. This Government is more in
terested in a plan of self-help and
mutual aid which will really work
than in the dollar estimate of costs.
No Comment on 29-BiIlion Cost.
He left unanswered a question
whether the State Department
deems TOO high the calculation re-
portedly reached at Paris that
Europe will need $2s 900 ,000, 900 or
more from the United States over
the next four years.
2. In screening the estimates be-
fore submitting them to Congress
for approval, American officials will
give first consideration to needs at
home.
3. The United States is ready now
to extend friendly aid at Paris in
completing the European estimates.
although until now American Of
ficials on the scene have kept hands
off.
Two top State Department ex-
perts. George F. Kennan and Charles
Bonesteel, are en- route to Paris to
advise Will L. Clayton, Undersecre-
tary of State, for Economic Affairs,
and Ambassador Jefferson Caffery
The friendly aid" Mr.. Lovett
mentioned at news conference late
Yesterday was preferred by secre-
tary of State Marshall in his orig
inal June suggestions that the
European nations take the initiative
in working out jointly schedule of
their urgent needs.
Throughout the early stages of the.
Paris planning American officials
have kept on the sidelines while
Communist critics were charging the
United States actually was debating
to the conference which Russia and
her satellites boycotted.
A deadline of September l has
been set for the final estimates, but
officials here look for detailed plan
ming abroad to continue possibly
until September Is.
BY then it is hoped major con-
clusions will be known from a sep
arate study of European needs and
American aid possibilities being
made by the 19-man nonpartisan
survey group headed by Secretary
Of Commerce Hartman.
Under an administration time
table, voluminous mass of data
and recommendations from other
Official and congressional groups is
due in time to permit congressional
hearings by mid-October or soon
thereafter.
One governmental committee
named by President Truman to try
to gauge this couptry's ability to
continue large-scale foreign aid ex-
poets to complete its findings earlier
than that.
James Boyd. new director of the
Bureau Of Mines, said the inventory
he has been conducting at the di-
rection of Secretary of the Interior
Krug should be completed by next
week
Still other independent studies
are being made by governmental
committee headed by DR.. Edwin G.
Nourse, chairman of Mr.. Truman's
, Council of Economic Advisers, and
within the State Department by a
policy group directed by Mr.. Ken
nan.
Mr.. Kennan and Mr.. Bonesteel
left Washington by plane almost at
the same time that q 19-man spe-
cial House committee sailed from