The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-20
Inquiry Into Bans On Trade
With Red China Will Be Made
Bv JACK BELL

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WASHINGTON On - Chairman
Bridges (R-NH) said today the
Senate Appropriations Committee
win make a searching inquiry"
into the extent to which free world
allies have agreed TO relax bans
on trade with Red China.
Bridges plan for an inveStiga-
ton of this issue came after Sen.
Mccarthy (R-Wis) told the Senate
yesterday it would be criminal
folly" not to cut off U. S. financial
aid 10 nations which ship the 1.-THE
sinews Of military and economic
strength" to the Communists.
Mccarthy had barely finished
his floor address before Foreign
Aid Administrator Harold E. Stas-
sci shot back with statement
that what the senator said was
fantastic, unbelievable and un-
true.
Stassen, who has tangled with
Mccarthy before, said, 1--WE are
Iteadily building for peace under
President Eisenhower's leader
ship" And in an obvious reference
to McCarthy's televised tangle
with Army officials, Stassen de-
clared, "Sen. Mccarthy is fran
ically reaching for diversionary
headlines after the sorry spectacle
Of his record in recent hearings"
Mccarthy, in what he said was
a painful and unpleasant" dis
cussion of Republican "shortcom-
ings," called for the listing by
Stassen of "every type of material
which we have agreed that our al
lies can ship to our enemies"
Bridges said in AN interview to-
day that the appropriations group,
which passes on foreign aid funds,
already has taken cognizance Of
Stassen's statements indicating a
weakening of the ban on trade
with the Reds"
Eve viii want to 60 into this
matter very thoroughly and see
that the aid we are giving, or its
equivalent, is not directly or in
directly filtering into Communist
hands," he said.
StaSSen's statement said a full
accounting of the administrations
successful administration of trade
controls" was given in a report
to Congress made public Sunday.
In that report Stassen portrayed
free world trade with the Commu-
mist bloc as whole as declining
in 1858. While commerce with Red
China crept up at least temporar-
lily, he said, 1.-THE glittering pros
pect of vast and lucrative trade"
which traders envisioned with the
Chinese mainland twas not ma
teriahzing."
Mccarthy told reporters his Sem
ate speech was no "one-shot af-
fair 80 that he intends, to pursue
the subject further.
He said Congress should with
hold foreign. aid funds until the:
administration enforces what he
said would be practical "block-
AIDE" on the coast of China by
telling American allies s'they will
not get one cent of American mon
ey so long as they either ship goods
10 Red China or allow their ships
to be used to c"r-
China" The United States has
barred its I'D,
to the Chinese Communists.
In response to a pquestion by Sen.
Chavez (D-NM), Mccarthy said it
was correct" that he was criticiz-
ing policies of the COP administra-
ton. He said Eisenhower had
taken many steps in the right
direction but hadn't gone far
enough.
at may be painful and unpleas-
ant to discuss the shortcomings Of
ones own party" he said, ''but
as long as I am in the Senate,
I'm never going to refrain from
exposing what is wrong merely be-
cause it might be in my party"
He said that while he disagreed
with some policies, he had sup
ported Eisenhower in 1852 and
would do SO eff he were running
now, because ! think his batting
average is high"
II am painfully aware-very
painfully aware-of the facts that
today's suggestions for a general
plan Of action by the United States
in the Far East will be hailed by
some as IAN attack upon the Eli
senhower administration" Nc
earthly said.
However, with the world going
UP in flames and our civilization
facing the imminent threat of fur
Their Communistic enslavement,
every senator and every congress
man has a duty to add whatever
contribution he may have-hoping
that if all suggested courses of
action are freely discussed and
carefully considered we may ar