Evening star., 1948-01-04
Marshall 10 Return
tomorrow and Open
Drive for His Plan
By the Ax.or;n,.., pr...

Secretary of State Marshall will
return to his post tomorrow to open
an administration driye for adop-
ton Of the $1,000, 600 900 European
recovery proposal bearing his name.
As a first move, Charles E. Bohlen,
State Department counselor and
Russian expert. scheduled an ad-
dress for tomorrow at Madison, Wis,
which is expected to be a reply to
some of the criticism voiced since
President Truman submitted the
program.
Gen. Marshall himself is due to
take active field command of the
campaign Wednesday when he testi-
fles before the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee. He has been tax
ing a brief vacation.
Three Aides to Appear.
Administration leaders are looking
to Gen. Marshall and to three aides.
who will appear with him at the
start, to give new push to the
proposal that the United States
underwrite the recovery of Is non-
Communist Western European ma
tions over the next four years.
In the two weeks since Mr.. Tru-
man submitted the proposal in the
closing hours of the special session
OF Congress, it's defense, with Gen.
Marshall absent from the Capital.
has been left almost entirely to its
congressional champions,
The administration silence over
the holidays otherwise has gone un-
explained, but some of Mr.. Truman's
top advisers have expressed the
view that permitting critics to have
the first inning might be sound
tactics. Advance indications are
that particular attention will be
devoted to criticism of the cost
voiced by Senator Taft, Republican,
of Ohio and other Republican
spokesmen.
Hoffman to RAISE He'll"
Representative Hoffman, Repub-
lican, of Michigan said yesterday
that he is going to raise help in
Congress against the program on
the grounds that the United States
is giving away it's shirt
He told a reporter that Congress
members who went home for
Christmas found out what the
American people really think" Mr..
Hoffman deemed "significant" the
doubt expressed by Chairman Eaton
of the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee that Congress can complete
action on the Marshall plan before
next June.
The administration contention is
that the alternative to the Marshall
plan is chaos, followed by Com
munist control of all Europe, COM
plete upset of the world balance Of
power, and the necessity for kthe
United States to spend uncounted
billions to build up American de-
fenses.
Gen. Marshall is returning from
rest spent mostly at Pinehurst,
N. c., following his return from the
Big -Four Foreign Ministers con-
ference at London. Facing him are
sessions of intensive briefing on de-
tails of the recovery plan.
Douglas Is Chief Aide.
The Secretary heads four-man
team named to carry the burden of
testimony at the opening of Senate
and House hearings. His chief aide
will be Lewis Douglas, Ambassador
to Britain, who has been mentioned
in speculation for the post Of Euro
pean rowing representative for the
recovery enterprise. Others are Will
lard Thorp, Assistant Secretary of
State for Economic Affairs, and
Paul Mite, deputy director of the
Division of International Trade Pol
icy, who has had an active part in
preparing the voluminous estimates
of European requirements.
Backstop witnesses are expected
to include Secretary of Commerce
Hartman and Undersecretary of
State Lovett.
Senator Connally of Texas. top
ranking Democrat on the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, told
reporters that overall direction of
the Marshall plan should be left in
the hands of the President and the
Secretary of State because they
have the prime responsibility for
foreign policy.