Evening star., 1947-11-06
Dewey Supports Aid
To Europe, Demands
Bipartisan Direction
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Nov. Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey threw his full
support behind an aid to- Europe
program last night, urging
prompt and effective help for
free nations abroad, but de-
manding that it be administered
on a businesslike basis under
genuinely bipartisan" direction.
Asserting that the errors of the
past" must be avoided, Gov. Dewey
proposed that the program be ad-
statement of policy to be written by
Congress, made so clear as to this
Nations aims that nobody could
misunderstood them, not even the
men in the Kremlin."
Gov. Dewey, possible candidate
for the 1948 Republican nomination,
outlined his position-his first pub
lie pronouncement on the Marshall
plan-at a dinner given by Forbes
Magazine in honor of so men named
as the Nations top-ranking busi-
ness leaders.
The statement by Congress, the
Governor, said, which might well
be Endorsed by the leaders of both
parties, will make it clear that the
United States has a settled policy
and the means of carrying it out:
That we will not suddenly or ca
priciously abandon those in other
countries who risk their lives to
uphold the principles of freedom
in the face of the menace of
police state"
Program Outlined.
To help assure effective aid, Gov.
Dewey suggested this six-point pro-
gram:
/. Emergency aid should not be
repayable in dollars. It's proceeds
should be used by government recip-
tents to develop productive resources
so the aided countries might be-
come self-supporting and that later
there may be return in part in
the form of strategic materials.
2. Reconstruction aid should be
on straight loan basis for busi-
ness purposes, administered by
American businessmen.
3. Foreign aid should be super
vised by a special authority, a gen.
timely bipartisan board.
4. Nations aided may properly
be required to specify in detail the
measures they will undertake to-
achieve the major objectives OF
self-help and mutual help under
the Marshall plan, and aid should be
given in installments and continued
only on the condition of adherence
to their own programs.
Clear Policy Urged.
5. Congress should adopt clear
and settled definition of policy,
which might take the form OF de-
claring 1T to be a basic policy OF
the American nation to assist free
dom loving peoples elsewhere in the
world who are ready to work with us
to find a way back to economic
stability"
6. The story of American achieve
ment should be told to the world
but not as In the past, by shipping
around the world modernistic paint
ings done by Communists at the
expense of the American govern
ment."
America, he said, is in Geld
war" because it is being attacked
by Soviet Russia "by all means
short of war" Russia's objectives,
Gov. Dewey added, are to intimidate
free governments everywhere, into
accepting Soviet leadership and to
mislead or intimidate Americans
into- refraining from giving aid toI
those who need it.
The Republican leader expressed
the opinion that the only risk OF
war stemmed from Soviet policy
and not from the United States
foreign aid program.
Among the so named as top
ranking businessmen were Ernest
E. Norris of Washington, president
of the Southern Railway System;
Chatles Luckman, now head OF the
President Truman's food conserva-
ton program; Charles E. Wilson,
president of General Electric Co.,
who was a member of President
Truman's Civil Rights Committee;
Glenn L. Martin, president of the
Glenn L. Martin Co., Baltimore,
and Eric Johnston, president OF the
Motion Picture Association OF
America.