Evening star., 1950-05-24
Whery and Taft Lead Western Move to Reorm Reich
Senate 6. Q. P. Attack Seen if Reds Ignore Protest
On Point -Four Plan
BY the Asseeiased Press

NcPuUlICdu OcIlaIe leaOerS OIL
rected an attack on President
Truman's Point Four plan today
which threatened to delay fina,
congressional action on the s3,.
120.550,0 900 foreign aid authorize.
ton bill.
Republican Floor Leader
Wherry and Senator Taft of Ohio
Republican Senate Policy Com.
mittee chief. led the assault.
Senator Wherry said a majo,
effort would be made to send the
aid bill back to conference for q
revision of the $35 million Point
-Four program to aid backward
areas Of the world. The confer.
ence report was approved yester.
day by the House, 247 to 88.
This Is a toe-in- the-door pro-
gram to open up world wide aid
after the Marshall Plan ends, y
Senator Wherry told a reporter.
Democratic leaders deny that
Point Four would be used as the
basis for another huge aid pro-
gram after 1852.
Wherry to Furnish List.
But Senator Wherry said he
would furnish the Senate with a
list Of A irrigation. power and
road projects "all over the world
that the State Department in
tends to start under the language
of the Point -Four amendment,
He noted that the Senate voted
81 to 36 last month to knock
Point -Four entirely out of the aid
bill.
But Chairman Connally of the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee said he was confident he
had enough votes behind him to
sidetrack the Wherry-Taft move
Senator Connally was none toe
enthusiastic himself, however
about the Point Four program
He told the Senate late yesterday
he didn't have much faith in it.
Approved by House.
The House gave quick approval
to the Senate House conference
agreement on the aid program
which contains:
$2.849,100,00 for the European
Recovery Program;
500 million for the Republic of
Korea;
$94 million for possible use in
China and the China area;
$27,450,000 for aid to Palestine
refugees;
SIS million for the international
Children's Emergency Fund;
$35 million for the Point Four
program.
The China funds include $40
million for possible use inside
Communist China-presumably to
aid guerrilla forces holding out
against the Red regime-and Sa
million earmarked for direct re-
lief to the famine areas of Red
China.
These funds would be spent at
the discretion of the President.
Taft Leads Attack.
The bill ran into trouble as soon
as 1t was brought before the Sen
ate in midafternoon. Senator
Taft led of the attack by an
nouncing he would try to per-
suade the Senate to reject the
measure.
Senator Taft directed his crit
icism at the House language in
the Point Four program as adopt
ed by &he Senate conferees last
week. He said the wording ex-
pands President Truman's au-
thority beyond the limits of tech
nical assistance.
The Ohioan argued the pro-
posal includes a deliberate plan"
to promote United States invest
ments in backward areas.
Yesterday the House Rules
Committee refused, 5 to 4, to
clear for House action legislation
to encourage American invest
ments in undeveloped areas Of
the world.
The bill proposes to guarantee
American investments against
certain risks, up to $3.50 million,
encountered under the jurisdic-
tion Of foreign governments. It is
part of the Point Four program.