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Foreign Aid
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fund.
The United States already is pay
ing a pro rata share of what U. N.
Is spending for this purpose.
8. Rejected, SO to %, a substitute
bill sponsored by Senator Capehart,
Republican, of Indiana, to use the
Reconstruction Finance Corp, as
the agency for dealing with foreign
recovery. The plan called for an
outlay Of $1,000, 900, 900, of which
$4,000, ,O00, 900 would have been au-
thorized for relief only, and the
repnainder for economic phases Of
rscovery.. >,sse
ODsniei Move Defeated.
a. Defeated, 73 to 13, a move by
Senator O'Daniel, Democrat, Of
Texas, to raise the Federal share
Of State old-age pensions, as rider
on the E.R.P. bill. The Texan pro-
posed to, add $21 to the present
$20 per month maximum Uncle
Sam contributes to pensioners
under State laws.
During the long Saturday session
only 4 changes were made in the
bill, as follows:
/. BY Senator Taft. Republican,
of Ohio, to give the ER.P. admin
istrator discretionary power to
underwrite 10 per cent of any cred
its extended in cash or commodities
by any Western Hemisphere nation
or person, to any Marshall Plan
nation.
2. BY Senator Aiken, Republican,
of Vermont. and a group of farm
Senators, to encourage use of sur
plus crops in the program by allow
ing the Agriculture Department to
use in the foreign aid program
some of the funds it gets regularly
from Congress for disposal of sur
pluses.
Repatriation Date Set.
8. BY Senator Reed, Republican,
of Kansas, to require that Is per
cent of the wheat set aside for the
recipient countries be milled into
flour in this country.
4. BY Senator Mccarthy, Repub-
lican, Of Wisconsin, expressing the
understanding of Congress that
prisoners of war remaining in
participating countries shall be re-
patr1ated before January /, 1949,
If they so elect
Senator Pepper, the Florida New
Dealer, proclaimed his hearty ac-
cord with the basic objectives of the
Marshall plan, on which the bill
was based, but spent three hours
warning his colleagues that this
country and Russia are at a way
station on the road to war"
Senator Pepper said he would
vote for the bill, despite his fears it
may thrust us closer to war" un-
less the two major world powers re-
view their attitudes toward each
other. Several days ago he had
supported an unsuccessful move by
Senator Taylor, Democrat, of Idaho,
to turn the recovery program over to
the United Nations for distribution
to all parts of Europe.
Republican Senators Knowland of
California, Ferguson of Michigan
and Baldwin of Connecticut chal-
1enged Senator Peppers conception
OF the present foreign situation.
Byrd Announces Opposition.
But while the liberal Senator Pep
per was supporting the bill with mis-
g1vings, conservative Senator Byrd,
Democrat, of Virginia, announced he
would vote against it, on the ground
that the United States should use
this money to build up its own mill
tary defenses.
"Stalin," Senator Byrd said, "does
not fear American dollars to fight
communism, but he does fear Ameri-
can dollars going into the most mod
ern military preparedness"
When Senator Pepper spoke of the
need for both Russian and the
United States to review their rela-
tions, Senator Knowland interposed.
$50 far as I am concerned, if this
rapproacnement to which the Sena-
tor refers means surrendering the
liberties of people in Greece, Tur-
Key, Iran and Austria-if we have
to surrender their liberties as liber-
ties were surrendered at Munich