Evening star., 1947-02-06

and provide for tariff ruling ar.
|pea1s TO the President. Thus the
President, and not Congress, woulc
retain final authority, point some
House members have Indicated the,
don't like.
The reciprocal trade program
aimed at building up world trade
permits the State Department to cui
tariffs as much as SO per cent ir
return for similar concessions from
other countries.
Senator Vandenberg is said by
friends to regard the Republican
decision on whether to retain or re.
peal the trade program as likely te
determine whether the bipartisan
foreign policy he advanced as an
adviser to former Secretary of State
Byrnes will continue.
Apparently involved, too, is a de-
sire by Senator Vandenberg to keeL
the Republicans from laying them.
selves open to probable Democratic
attempts to tab them as isolationists
in the 1948 presidential campaign
Senator Vandenberg has been men.
toned as a possible COP presiden-
tial nominee then.
Millikin Had Fought Program.
The Michigan Senator, chairman
of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, enlisted Senator Milli-
kin, who has fought the reciprocal
program in the past, in the compro-
mise effort. Chairman Taft of the
Senate Republican Policy Commit
tee has indicated he will go along.
But Senator Vandenberg report
edly has run up against a stone wal
of House demands for Congress te
reclaim at once the tariff altering
rights that otherwise will remain
with the State Department unit
1948. Some Western Senators art
demanding the same thing.
If the House should force through
a measure drastically changing the
program, Senator Vandenberg re.
portedly is ready to try to block Sen.
ate passage of such a bill. That i,
one of the pricipal reasons, friend.
say, that he doesn't want to go tt
Moscow with Secretary of Stat
Marshall for the opening of the For
eign Ministers Conference there
next month.
Gen. Marshall has agreed tenta'
lively to discuss the whole field o1
foreign policies with the Foreign
Relations Committee at closed
meeting next Tuesday. He probably
will be asked then for his views on
the reciprocal trade proposal, as well
as other matters he has notified
Senator Vandenberg will be laid be-
fore Congress.
Johnston Backs Program.
Meanwhile, Eric Johnston, calling
for continuation of the reciprocal
trade program. said today "the tariff
is no longer the chief regulator of
international trade"
Mr.. Johnston, president of the
Motion Picture Association, outlined
his views in statement for the
Committee on Reciprocity Informa-
ton which is assembling data on
trade and reciprocal agreements.
Devices even more drastic than
the tariff have been invoked to
restrict trade in its flow between
nations" he said.
"An expanding world trade with
a minimum of governmental in
reference is essential to our system
of competitive capitalism. We must
recognize that freer trade is en-
dangered by the trend toward the
socialist state"
Topping his program for Con-
gress, Gen. Marshall said in letter
to the committee chairman, will be
a request for new foreign relief
program to pick, up where UNRRA
leaves off March 81.
Gen. Marshall also listed among
forthcoming urgent requests for
action the Balkan peace treaties,
the Anglo2American oil agreement
and legislation providing for the
entry of war-displaced persons into
this country.
In a less urgent category, he listed
such things as the st. Lawrence
Seaway agreement with Canada, a
commercial treaty with China, and
legislation for peacetime control of
the import and export of war
weapons and ammunition.
Other Proposals.
Other proposals listed included:
Legislation to permit cultural re-