Evening star., 1948-03-28

By ia. oLeoy
A ratio of more than to / In
favor of continued American
help to western Europe, China,
Greece and Turkey is expected
when the House votes early this
week on its omnibus $6,205, ,000,-
900 foreign aid bill.
Chairman Eaton of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee and Rep
,resentative Bloom of New York, the
ranking Democratic member, believe
there may not be more than 80 votes
against the measure.
The House has 432 members, with
8 seats vacant, but about 400 is
usually a good turnout for roll-call
vote, when allowance is made for
abSentees and their pairs.
The bill is intended to aid coun-
tries still outside the Soviet orbit
to resist what Speaker Martin last
night called this march of the
Kremlin despots across Europe and
the Orient"
Preliminary Skirmish Seen.
"We must stop them-we intend
TO stop them" Mr.. Martin said in a
speech at a civic mass meeting in
Toledo, Ohio.
Before reaching a final vote, how
ever, the House is in for a series of
preliminary skirmishes tomorrow
and Tuesday over amendments. The
Foreign Affairs Committee will hold
q closed session tomorrow morning
for a last minute look at these pro-
posed changes, to determine how far
it should go in opposing or support
ing them.
Chief among the issues to be
fought out as amendments are:
|. How far should the United
States go in stopping trade with
Russia. either from this country,
or from the 16 cooperating nations
of Western Europe?
2. Should the bill be broadened
to include economic rehabilitation
in zones of American occupation,
including not to exceed 1920, 100000
for Japan, Korea and the Ryukyu
Islands?
Would Curb Aid to Satellites.
On point No. /, the bill already
contains an amendment by Repre-
sentative Mundt, Republican, of
South Dakota which would prevent
the cooperating countries OF West
ern Europe from using American
supplies in the manufacture OF arti-
cles for shipment to Russian satel-
lites, if United States bars shipment
of those same articles to the sater-
lites.
There are some who feels this
amendment goes too far in restrict
ing trade in Europe, and others
who want to go even further IN
stopping shipments to Russia and
her satellites. 1t is not clear how
the House as whole will go on
this issue.
Az to point No. 2, Senate hackers
of the aid program hope the House
will not include the needs of the
Army's occupation zones in this
measure. Their reason is that funds
for the occupied zones have not
been handled in the past by the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee.
Need for Separate Bill Seen.
Since the final adjustment of diff
ferences between the House and
Senate will have to be worked out
by conferences chosen from the For
eign Relations Committee, they do
not believe they would be in po-
sition to pass on the merits of the
funds for the occupation zones.
They believe these funds could be
handled in a separate bill.
The Senate has passed as separate
bills the $1,000 100000 European Re-
covery Program, and S275, 100000 OF
additional limited military aid for
Greece and Turkey. BY the middle
of this week, the Senate is expected
to pass another separate bill carry
ing S463,0O0,00O for II months of
economic and military aid for
China.
The House has bundled all three
of these programs into its omnibus
bill, with the same totals for West
ern Europe and Greece and Tur-
key. For China, the House bill al
lows $510,0O0,000 for IS months. 1t
also contains S60,OOO.o00 additional
(See FOREIGN AID, Page A-6D