Evening star., 1947-11-13
By Chalmers M. Roberts

The $597,OOO,OOO stopgap for
eign aid program will cause only
a relatively minor drain on our
national resources, human and
physical" although 1t will ag-
gravate current supply prob
lens for wheat and coal, the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee was told today.
The statement was made by AS
sistant Secretary of Interior Will
liam E. Warne, testifying in place
of Secretary Krug, who is i'll.
Mr.. Warne told the committee
the wheat supply problem is essen
TALLY one of equitable distribution
while the coal supply problem Is
one of transportation shortage and
bottlenecks.
The question Of obtaining ura-
mum, one of the key components OF
the atomic bomb, came up in the
Senate hearing in connection with
the subject of obtaining strategic
for stockpiling in return
for aid under the long-range plan
the Marshall plan-for helping
the recovery of Europe
Chairman Vandenberg Of the
committee remarked that before
this show is over some of us want to
know about uranium"
Hearings May End Tomorrow.
He also asserted that continued
lend-lease shipments to Europe
clearly are contrary to the will of
Congress.
Meanwhile, on the House side,
Secretary of Commerce Hartman
testified he would favor stopping at
once any American aid to nation
which might later come under Com
munist domination.
Mr.. Hartman. who yesterday ap-
oeared before the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, today testified
before the House Foreign Affairs
Committee. Later in the day the
House group was to hear Represen-
tative Herter, Republican, of Massa-
,husetts, who led special fact
finding House committee to Europe
.ast summer.
AS the Senate committee turned
% consideration of the Krug report
On the foreign aid plan, Chairman
Vandenberg announced that hear
ngs probably would be concluded to-
morrow.
Dulles to Be Heard.
Witnesses tomorrow will be John
Foster Dulles, unofficial Republican
foreign policy spokesman and dele
gate to the United Nations; George
Romney of the Automobile Manu-
facturers' Association, who recently
toured Europe, and Representative
Herter.
Mr.. Warne showed the committee
TWO charts indicating the extent and
of foreign trade.
One chart showed that in the first
FIVE months of 1947 total United
States exports to all of Europe ex-
cluding Russia totaled $2,306 900 900,
representing 81 per cent of our total
About l per cent Of the
world total went to the Soviet Union.
Quizzed on Oil Shipments.
Senator Vandenberg asked about
to Russia. saying he was
surprised" to read reports that
the United States still is making
lend-lease shipments to the Soviet
Union. He called this clearly con-
trary' to a congressional mandate
on lend-lease
Senator Lodge, Republican, of
Massachusetts asked Mr.. Warne
about exports of petroleum products
and shipments abroad. He said he
was worried over possible shortages
in New England and other areas this
winter.
"It seems to me you're on both
sides of the question-you're for
conservation and for exports, too"
Senator Lodge remarked. He said
he wanted to know if the Interior
Is still red hot for
conservation.
The answer is most emphatically
yes" Mr.. Warne replied.
One of Mr.. Warne's assistants,
Edward Swanson, then testified that
most of the petroleum going to
France, Italy and Austria under the
stapgap aid program will come from
the Middle East, Venezuela and
other areas outside the United
States. The program calls for ex-