Evening star., 1952-06-01

For Senate Approval
OF West German Pac1
| By J. A. 0'Leoy
Chairman Connally Of the
Foreign Relations Committee will
press for Senate ratification ot
the peace contract with Western
Germany before Congress ad-
journs. he said yesterday.
President Truman is planning
to send to the Senate tomorrow
the newly signed contract and
the document extending United
States guarantees against Soviet
aggression to West Germany. He
is expected to ask for the quick
est possible approval by the SEN
ate.
I AS q preliminary step, the
Senate and House Committees on
Foreign Affairs will confer with
Secretary of State AcheSon in
closed session tomorrow morning
He will report on the signing OF
the agreement with the Bonn gov
Iernment, which paves the way
for bringing Western Germany
into the unified defense plans for
Western Europe.
Will Deter Communists.
Senator Connally doubts that
Congress will be able to adjourn
before the political conventions
open in Chicago on July Z. In
any event, he thinks it is impor-
tant to obtain early Senate rati-
f1cation of the German agree
ment.
Prompt ratification will encour-
age the other free nations and de-
ter the Communists from further
retaliatory moves, the Senator
believes. If ratification is delayed
the Senator thinks it will encour-
age continued Communist dem
onstrationsa Senator Connally
does not look for a long debate
or any serious opposition to the
Bonn agreement.
Meanwhile, Senate Majority
Leader Mcfarland held to his pre-
diction yesterday that the progress
the Senate makes in the next two
weeks will determine whether Con-
gress can adjourn before the con-
ventions.
Ambitious Schedule.
Senator Mcfarland has pre-
pared an ambitious schedule fol
the coming week, which includes:
Monday, the $1.2 billion Fed
eral-aid highway bill, and the call
Of the miscellaneous calendar;
Tuesday. independent Offices ap-
preparation bill; Wednesday, COM
|plete action on the extension OF
price, wage and rent control;
Thursday, the agriculture appro-
priation bill.
This schedule would leave al
least nine more appropriation bill.
awaiting Senate action. Although
the House has passed most of the
money bills, none has gone to the
President for signature yet.
This means that all of the bud.
get bills that have passed ar<
still awaiting conference agree.
ments and action by both house.
on conference reports.
Defense Bill in Committee.
/ The big defense appropriation
bill. which the House cut drasti.
cally. is still the subject of hear.
ings before a Senate subcommit.
tee headed by Senator O'Mahoney
Democrat. Of Wyoming. The
House put an arbitrary ceiling oi
$46 billion on defense spending
next year, although the Pentagor
had expected to expefld about $51
billion.
/ Senator Young of North Da.
kota, Republican member of the
subcommittee. said yesterday hi
expects to oppose the SAG billion
ceiling as too low. If it is retained
he said, the production of new
weapons would be severely cur.
tailed and at a time when we are
fighting the Korean war almost
entirely with World War II wea-
Ipons."
Senator Young also indicated
he and other Senator's have been
Impressed by the necessity for
faster expansion Of air power.
i Critical Period Ahead.
| Senator Mcfarland agreed that
4 the Senate is going to want the
Air Force to be strong. He saiC
the next few months will be 8
critical period. and that any indi.
cation this country is ''lettins
down" on defense would handicar
the United States. At the same
time, he said, Congress mus
. squeeze out any water that may
be in the defense budget. &
Senator OMahoney, in charg,
lof the defense bill. long has beer
an advocate Of building up nj
: power.
: The foreign aid appropriation
: bill cannot even be drafted unit
q House-Senate conference com.
mittee agrees on the separat,
authorization measure. The Hous,