Evening star., 1950-03-26

tration requests for SO billion plus
to carry the program forward
for another year, the President
said the United States had to fight
World War II because it turned it's
back on the "rest of the world
I'VE will save nothing" he
added, "if we ignore the needs
of other nations now only to
find that the result is World War
III"
Recognizing reports to his vaca-
ton retreat here that the foreign
aid measure, just reported out by
the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee, was running into trouble,
the President wrote to Committee
Chairman Kee, declaring that
"the program called for by this
act is the minimum consistent
with the interest of the United
States to achieve peaceful
world. Failure to enact it in its
full amount would do irreparable
damage"
Point Four Plan Included.
The measure. on which the
Senate also must act, actually
calls for a total of S3,122,450, 900
of which the Marshall Plan would
draw the biggest share-$2,950,-
100000. Then there is 500 mil
lion for Korea: $27.450,000 to aid
Arab refugees in Palestine; and
$45 million for a start on the
Presidents Point Four program of
technical assistance abroad.
There is about sos million ad-
ditional in unexpended funds for
China which the administration
would like to see reappropriated
next year for use in that general
area.
In his two-page letter calling
for early passage of the bill, the
President explained just how the
expenditures were contemplated.
The Foreign Assistance Act"
he said, will authorize continued
economic aid to Marshall plan
countries in Europe and to the
Republic of Korea. to enable them,
through their own efforts, to es-
tablish self-supporting economies.
1t will authorize aid where needed
to those free countries in the gen.
eral area of China whose survival
is threatened by the imminent
danger of Communist infiltration.
This act will provide for a major
effort to assist the peoples of
Southeast Asia.
Will Help Palestine Refugees.
TT will provide for participa-
ton in the United Nations ef-
fort to solve the serious problem
of the Palestine refugees. Salts
factory solution of this problem
is fundamental to permanent
peace in the Near East.
THE act will authorize the car
rying forward of the vital pro-
gram of technical and other
assistance to under developed
countries which was the fourth
point in my inaugural address.
This will provide peoples in
under developed areas of Asia, the
Middle East, and other parts of
the world the hope and the tools
they need to achieve and main
tain real freedom for them
selves. :"
The President insisted that the
program is neither charity nor a
waste of this Nations resources;
that it will give the beneficiaries
hope and vigor and strengthen
all nations threatened with in
timidation. subversion or direct
aggression"
Applies for Referendum Ballot.
In getting into the foreign aid
fight, the President was moving
for the second time since he came
down here to inject himself into
legislative maneuvering. Earlier
he interviewed in the House strug-
gle over middle Income housing.
The President also attended to
one Of his duties as citizen to-
day by applying for an absentee
ballot that will let him partici-
pate in a Missouri referendum
April 4 when his home State de-
cides whether or not to boost the
gas tax from two to four cents for
better roads. He favors the
measure.