Evening star., 1953-04-29
About $6Bi||ion
To Be Sought
For Foreign Aid
Cut of SIG Billion
Made in Budget
Offered by Trumon

coming fiscal year has been ten
tatively approved by the Eisen-
hover administration.
The figure was set at a meet
ing of the National Security
Council yesterday. informed
sources said.
The exact size of the sum to
be asked of Congress is being
determined by President Eisen-
hover. Secretary of State Dulles
told the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee today that the
figure is still being polished"
The Truman administration
had set $76 billion as the mini
mum sum necessary to guarantee
Western security against COM
munism.
Announcement Due Soon.
It was expected an announce
ment of the new administration
proposal would be made shortly.
The aid figure would have to be
discussed with congressional
leaders before it is sent to Con-
gress, it was pointed out.
President Eisenhower is un-
derstood to have received wide
range of advice from his cab
met officers as to what sum
should be devoted to helping
Americas allies in fiscal 1854.
Mutual Security Administra-
tor Stassen was believed to have
proposed the highest figure-in
the vicinity of SOS billion. Budget
Director Dodge was low man in
the bidding. 1t was reported Mr..
Dodge may have suggested a
figure as low as 81 billion.
The various opinions as to
what the figure should be were
largely composed, however, at
yesterdays Security Council
meeting, it was said.
Congress, of course, may hold
out for a smaller sum that the
administration wants.
Without reference to specific
figures. Senator Bridges, Re-
publican, of New Hampshire, said
today foreign aid spending must
bear a "proportionate" share in
budget cuts. He indicated a
proper figure might be between
$5.1 and $50 billion.
A foreign aid program of $6
billion would represent consid-
erably more than top Republican
planners thought was needed a
week ago. Key officials then said
they believed the sum could be
held to about $50 billion.
President Convinced.
Intensive review of world con-
ditions in the past week, officials
said, convinced Gen. Eisenhower
Of need for a bigger sum.
Mr.. Stassen appeared yester-
day at closed session of the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, and Chairman Wiley in
dicated afterward that the ad-
miniStration would recommend
that less than 81 billions be cut
off the Truman recommendation.
Senator Bridges, who heads
the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee, said he won't be salts
fed if that happens.
One factor said to have in
f1uenced the tentative decision
for a larger program was a feel
ing that more aid should go to
the Far East.
Reflects 55 Leaders Views.
This partial shift in emphasis
away from Western Europe re-
fleets a recommendation made
by SIS American business and
financial leaders who surveyed
Americas foreign-ai operations
aboard. They suggested a cut
back in aid to Western Europe.
Senator Gillette, Democrat,
Of Iowa, said in an interview
he wants to know what such a
shift will mean in political COM
mitmentS.
There are recommendations
for a very definite shift of en-
phasiS away from Europe to the
Far East, to Indo- China, Burma
and other areas" he said. II am
concerned that this might mean
broadening of the area of the
war in Korea without action by
Congress-"