Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-11
Senators Vote to Stop Delivery
Of Arms Aid to France and Italy
Unless EDS is Ratified by SIS
Committee Acts
To Pressure Allies
Into Signing Pact
By J. A. O'Leory

The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee voted yesterday to
stop delivery Of military assist
ance to France and Italy on
December 81, unless the Euro
pean Defense Community treaty
or q suitable alternative is agreed
to before that date.
The Senate proposal puts more
teeth in the so-called Richards
amendment, which was first
added to the Foreign Aid bill
last year in an effort to hasten
action on EDO. That amend
ment also was designed to punish
nations which failed to sign up.
Senator Smith, Republican. Of
New Jersey, acting Foreign Re-
lations chairman, explained,
however, that the Richards
amendment has no effect be-
cause it applied only to 1854 and
1885 funds, which have not yet
been converted into equipment.
To give the amendment more
immediate effect as an induce
ment I'd France and Italy to act
on EDO, the Senators decided to
apply the restriction to whatever
is in the pipeline at the end of
this year, even though it came
from 1852 or 1858 appropria-
tions.
Foreign Aid il Target.
The Senate committee viii
take one more look at this and
all other changes it has made in
the House bill tomorrow morn /
ing before formally reporting it
to the Senate. Senator Smith
said he would ask Secretary Of
State Dulles over the week end
for the administration reaction
to the more drastic Richards
amendment. He said it would
stand unless the State Depart
ment thinks it would cause
some dire trouble"
The committee also viii act
tomorrow on proposal by SEN
ator Mansfield, Democrat, OF
Montana, to abolish the Foreign
Operations Administration on
December 81.
Senator Mansfield was repre-
sented as having no objection
to continuing the foreign aid
program beyond that date. But
Senator Smith said the Montana
Democrat wants to get rid Of
the independent agency headed
by Harold E. Stassen by trans
ferring military aid to the De-
tense Department and technical
assistance to the State Depart
ment.
Senator Smith said ne would
not want to approve such a step
without hearings. which implied
he wants to put of the proposal
until the next session for study.
AS it virtually completed re-
writing the House foreign aid
bill, the Senate committee also
confirmed its earlier tentative
approval of the Knowland
amendment, re-Stating this
country's opposition to seating
Red China in the u. N.
Knowland Adamant.
The amendment contains no
advance threat to withdraw from
the u. N. if the Chinese Commu-
nists are seated over United
States opposition. 1t merely re-
quests the President to recon-
mend a future course If and when
that happens.
But Senate Republican Leader
Knowland told reporters that,
despite statements to the con-
trary by newspaper columnists,
II have not changed my position
one iota as to what should be
done if Red China is seated.
IT intend TO move at that time
to take us out Of the U. NJ" the
Californian added.
The Red China issue, which
stirred Senate debate last week.
was overshadowed by what the
committee did yesterday in an
effort to jog France and italy
into reaching q decision on edo,
AS originally drafted last year
by Representative Richards,
Democrat of South Carolina, the /
amendment proposed to earn1ark
part of the European defense
equipment obtained with 1854
funds for delivery only to the
European Defense Community.
This meant that all six edo
countries had to ratify the treaty
to get delivery Of that equipment,
but thus far nothing has been
ready for thu. pipeline out of the
1854 funds.
Since four of the countries
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