The Key West citizen., 1954-07-13
By 6. MILTON KELLY

WASHINGTON R-The Senate
Foreign n Relations Committee,
yielding to State Department ap-
peals, reversed, itself late yester-
day and struck out of its $780,
100000 foreign aid bill a proposed
notice to France and Italy to join
proposed European army or fore.
go US. help after Dec. 81.
With two top Republican leaders
voting against the move, the COM
mlttee substituted less stringent
language already approved by the
House in a move to prod the two
nations to approve the projected
European Defense Community.
Now the bill goes to the Armed
Services Committee, perhaps for
further changes. That group con-
siderS it because much of the over
seas program is arms aid.
Voting on the losing side in the
Foreign Relations Committee for
the virtual ultimatum to France
and Italy were Sen. Knowland of
California, the Senate Republican
leader, and Sen. Ferguson of Mich
igan, chairman of the Senate COP
Policy Committee.
The votes of five Democrats and
three other Republicans gave the
administration the 8-5 margin
which deleted from the bill wording
which would have ordered shutoff
OF all foreign aid, military and
nonmilitary, to France and Italy
Dec. 81 if they had not joined edo
or an acceptable substitute. The
provision had been tentatively ap-
proved Saturday.
Contributing to the reversal were
hurry-up visit to Capitol Hill by
Secretary of State Dulles before
he departed for diplomatic talks
in Paris, and a warning from Gen.
Alfred M. Gruenther, supreme Al
lied commander in Europe.
Gruenther, telepho on in 6 from
Europe, termed the Senate version
dangerous a term Dulles also
repeatedly had used.
Sen. Wiley (R-Wis), Foreign Re-
lations Committee chairman, said
the reversal restored House-ap-
proved language which would allow
delivery to the two nations of
equipment and materials on order
from the 1851, 1852 and 1853 foreign
aid programs, but will deny them
any share in funds from the 1854
and 1855 programs unless they join
edo, proposed Six-nation army
including West German troops.
The allowable deliveries would
keep the aid flow going to both
countries for an undisclosed period.
Wiley announced that those vot-
ing for the milder language were
Senators H. Alexander Smith (R-
ND, Aiken (R-Vt),, Wiley, George
(D-Ga), Green ORD, .Fulbright
DARK, Sparkman (D-Ala) and
Gillette (D-Iowa). =. :.2Iss
Voting mo" in the closed ses.
sion, Wiley said, were. ,Knowland,
looper (R-Iowa), LANCER. .lR-ND)
and Mansfield (D-Mont).
BY a 7-6 margin, Wiley said, the
committee adopted an amendment
by Mansfield ordering the Foreign
Operations Administration abolish
ed next June 80 as the official dis
penser of foreign aid.
Mansfield's amendment, Wiley
said, would transfer handling of all
military phases of foreign aid to
the Defense Department, and nom
military to the State Department,
over objections voiced by Dulles.
Wiley said the bill itself was ap-
proved 11-2, with LANCER and Gil
lette casting the ''no" ballots.
Wiley delayed an announcement
Of the specific cuts under the
House version, estimated to total
some 348 million dollars The ad-
ministration asked for 31S billions.
The bill is only an authorization.
Actual funds will be voted later,
perhaps after further cuts.