Evening star., 1953-06-12
Senators Fight Plan
To Tie Foreign Aid
Fund 10 Unified Army
By J. A. O'Leoy

A senate nght began to de-
velop today against the House
move to make 81 billion of fu-
ture foreign aid contingent upon
Western Europe's adoption of
the European Defense Com
munity treaty, under which an
tntegrated army is to be organ
lied.
The House Foreign Affairs
Committee, which voted the re-
striction late yesterday, an
nounced last night that in addi-
ton to this limitation, it has
voted to cut $476 million from
the $5.4 billion total of new for
eign aid authority the adminis-
tration asked for.
Bill Reported in Senate.
Today the Senate Foreign Re-
lations Committee relented and
put back $6 million of minor
cuts it had made two days ago.
This brought the Senate reduc-
tlon down to $156 million and
made the total of the Senate bill
approximately $5,318,000,0O0.
The Senate group then re-
ported the bill favorably with
only two dissenting votes-Sen-
ators Gillette, Democrat, of
Iowa, and LANCER, Republican,
of North Dakota.
The senate committee did
not discuss the House groups
amendment on ratification of the
EDO treaty. Senator George,
Democrat, of Georgia, and Sem
ator Sparkman, Democrat, of
Alabama. earlier spoke out
against the House provision.
If each branch approves the
figures recommended by it's COM
mittee, Congress probably will
compromise finally on a foreign
aid total of about $5.1 billion.
That would still be SIS billion
under the original January esti-
mate of former President Tru-
man.
Sparkman Opposes Move.
Senator Sparkman was the first
to come out today against the
House committee amendment
which states that half of the ST.
079 ,689.870 earmarked for mill
tary aid to Western Europe shall
be available only to the European
Defense Community. This is an
other way of saying about 81 bill
lion of Europe's defense fund will
be withheld if the EDO treaty
fails of ratification by the six
nations party to it.
Il would oppose such a propo-
sition." said Senator Sparkman.
I'VE don't know what will hap
pen, and we will need mutual de-
fense in Europe with or without
the edo pact. The House propo-
sal might be interpreted as a
threat"
The author of the amendment.
representative Richards, Demo-
crat, of South Carolina, defended
1t, however. as a move that will
help Secretary of State Dulles
and the leaders of Western Eu-
rope in getting the treaty rati-
ned. Mr.. Richards pointed out
that those leaders all say they are
for the treaty and. in his opinion,
the House limitation would give
their parliaments an added in
centive for speedy approval.
Only One Ratification.
Up to now. however, only the
parliament of Western Germany
has approved the treaty, and
even its action is still subject to
a court review. The other five
nations, which have not ratified,
are France, Italy, Belgium, the
Netherlands and Luxembourg.
Since most of the new funds
now being authorized will not
be spent until 1855, the House
rider would not affect the foreign
aid ear-marked for Europe in
the next II months. The 1854
foreign aid outlaw of more than
$6 billion in all areas of the
world will come largely from
balances of past appropriations.
The rider, however, would pre-
vent MSA from entering into
contracts for more than half of
the new European money until
the edo treaty is ratified.
One influential Senate Repub-
lican, who asked not to be quoted.
indicated today he thought the
administration would have some
thing to say about the House
limitation.
A breakdown of the $476