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etc., to justify it in recommending
the appropriation requested" for
American-occupied zones. The
amount provided, it said, will be
adequate until at least next June 80.
Lovett's Testimony Disclosed.
The committee gave the House
with its bill a report on testimony
it took in secret from Undersecre-
tary OF State Lovett.
The report disclosed that Mr.
Lovett told the committee this about
the emergency foreign aid:
you will not get any of this
back, in my opinion. I think you
might just as well face up to that"
Mr.. Lovett told it, too, that the
aid program was no guarantee of
European recovery. but "the very
hard, ugly choice between two
risks"
The first risk" Mr.. Lovett told
the committee, sis the risk that if
we undertake the long-term pro-
gram it may not work out"
Against that risk, he said, I'VE
have to weigh, from the standpoint
of national security and our eco
nomic welfare, the incalculable risk
of what happens if we do not take
this step of an attempt at recovery"
"At some point" Mr. Lovett said.
that incalculable risk becomes an
absolute certainty that those coun-
tries slide over under the iron cur
tain. and the iron curtain then rolls
500 miles from the Oder river on
to the Atlantic seaboard."
Statistics Questioned.
The committee said it was wholly
unsatisf1ed as to the reliability of
the statistics" presented by the ad-
n1inistration in support of the inter-
i'm aid program and has "misgivings
as to whether the plans are we'll
thought out and are practicable in
their approach to the problems to
be met"
1t said "the cornerstone of eco
nomic recovery in Europe is
stable monetary system and unless
and until stable recognized currency
is in circulation in the various coun-
tries of Europe, efforts toward eco
nomic recovery will be fruitless"
After the House votes on the
appropriation bill, the Senate APP
preparations Committee will get a
chance to change it. and may put in
funds for China.
AS the authorization bill went to
the White House it specified that
China, too, should be cut in for
emergency assistance before next
March 81.
Bridges Plans Inquiry.
Mr.. Truman had asked no such
provision, but it was inserted by
the House and agreed to by the
Senate after an understanding that
today's appropriation bill would not
specify any funds for that country.
The issue, however. was kept alive
on the Senate side when Chairman
Bridges of the Senate Appropriations
Committee announced his group will
seek full data on that country's
needs at hearing tomorrow
| Senator Bridges said that in adj
dition to State Department wit
nesses, he has invited: 1t. Gen. Al
bert c. Wedemeyer, author of a
never published report on the
Chinese civil war: William C. Bull
lit. former Ambassador to Moscow,
who has been critical of Communist
operations in China and elsewhere,
and Representative Judd, Republic
can, of Minnesota. sponsor of the
China aid amendment in the House
The authorization bill, plus the
measure, are forerun-
ners to the Administrations long
range program for European recov-
cry.
Mr.. Truman told Congressional
leaders yesterday he will send a
message on this plan to Capitol Hill
before Fridays scheduled adjourn
ment.
The compromise emergency relief
bill was passed in the Senate by a
voice vote and adopted by the House
two hours later by a roll call vote
of 313 to 80.