Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-15
Republican Gov. Duff
0fPennsy|vania Backs
Full Marshall Plan
By Gould Lincoln

Oue uuuQreo per cent support
Of the Marshall Plan for Euro
pean recovery and insistence
that the United States must &C
cept world leadership were con-
tanned ip a politically significant
addresss by Republican Gov.
James H. Duff of Pennsylvania
last night at the Founders Day
Dinner at Temple University.
Had the address been written in
the State Department, it could not
have been a stronger argument for
the full measure of expenditure for
European aid.
During the war, Gen. Marshall
(now Secretary of State) proved
himself one OF the great military
leaders Of history said Gov. Duff
Then we were willing to give him
freely and without stint any number
of billions he thought necessary to
win the war. He understands as well
as any living man the underlying
background of the worldwide mill
tary situation. He knows the neces-
stiles of the nations of Western
Europe and ourselves with respect
to that background.
"In insistently recommending a
strong aid plan for Western Europe,
Gen. Marshall is not speaking as a
politician nor as candidate for
ONCE. He is speaking as a greatly
informed and greatly non-political
American. He has given his sincere
appraisal of what he believes is
necessary to rehabilitate the free
peoples of Western Europe and to
keep them united. He has stated
what he believes to be the ire
ducible minimum necessary to &C
complish that purpose"
Cites Wisdom of Course.
Secretary Marshall, Gov. Duff con-
tinued, realizes as few do the sig
nificance of the presence of the Red
Army in the heart of Europe today.
I'm the light of these. facts" he
said, would it not be wise for us to
follow the course of the mar, whose
plans, more than any other, made
possible the victory in the last
WARP"
Coming from a man who will
have great influence with the sec
ond largest delegation, in the Re-
publican National Convention, Gov.
Duff's frank back turning on isola-
tionisn in any form is seemingly
advance notice to candidates for
the Republican presidential nomi-
nation who look askance at Ameri-
can leadership in world affairs and
the Marshall Plan that they need
not apply to Pennsylvania dele
gates. Indeed, 1t is a slap at the
hard boiled" proposals for dealing
with the Marshall Plan urged by
Senator Taft Of Ohio in his present
Western speaking tour.
Dewey Speech Follows Line.
The Boston speech of Gov Dewey
Of New York, going all out for
American aid to Western Europe, is
In line with the Duff pronounce
ment. However, there has been in
the past a lukewarmness on the
part of the Pennsylvania Governor
to the Dewey candidacy. His speech,
therefore, is being interpreted as
meaning that Pennsylvania might
swing back of Senator Vandenberg
of Michigan. Gov. Warren of Cali
fornia or former Gov. Stassen of
Minnesota, If stop Dewey" move
ment should be successful when the
national convention meets.
Pennsylvania will have Is dele
gates in the national convention.
New York, with it's block Of 81,
alone heads the keystone State in
delegate strength. Gov. Duff, it is
reported. is determined that Penn
sylvania shall have real voice in
determining the Republican presi-
Dental nomination this year. At the
last Republican National Conven-
tion held in Philadelphia-When