Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-05
Nationsin Trade
With RedstoGet
More U. 5. Aid
President Says Deals
By NATOCountries
Won't Bar Help
By Gornett D. Horner

to Congress today that he has
decided to, continue American
aid to Denmark. France. Italy.
Norway and Great Britain de-
spite shipment of some strategic
goods from those countries to
Russia and other Eastern Euro
pean Soviet bloc countries.
The Battle Act forbids Ameri-
can economic or military aid to
a nation that permits shipment
Of items embargoed under the
act to Soviet bloc countries I'M
less the President decides that
stopping aid would be detri-
mental to American security.
The President reported the
finding regarding the five North
Atlantic Treaty Allies in a letter
to the chairmen of key congress
sional committees made public
by the White House today.
Stassen Report Enclosed.
The letter enclosed a report
from Harold Stassen. Foreign
Operations Administration di-
rector showing that:
l. Denmark delivered to Rus
STA last october 81 $2,l31, SAT
tanker. the second of two in
cluded in a 1948 Danish Russian
trade agreement.
2, France recently has shipped
to Poland $76.972 900 worth of
ball bearings. plus $57,095 worth
of miscellaneous machinery. An
additional $1.494 in parts for
materials previously supplied
were shipped to Poland and
Hungary.
3. Italy sent $1,098. 70l worth
OF ball and roller bearings and
rolling mill parts to Czechoslo-
vakia. Hungary and Poland.
4. Norway shipped Russia
5000 metric tons Of aluminium
lngots, valued at $1,770.0OO, I'M
der a barter agreement under
which Norway gets Russian
manganese ore. phosphate rock
wheat and rye in return.
S. Great Britain shipped 1893
643 worth of locomotive equip
ment, strip mill parts, copper
wire. compreSsors and miscel-
laneous equipment to Poland,
Hungary and Czechoslovakia-
mostly to Poland-under COM
mitments made prior to passage
Of the Battle Act. An additional
$1O.199 worth Of embargo-type
items were shipped in small lots
to Eastern Europe.
Turkey Sends Copper.
Mr.. Stassen also reported that
a strategic cargo of 500 tons of
copper. valued at $45O, 900, moved
from Turkey to Czechoslovakia
although he did not consider this
"a case where a government
knowingly permits a shipment
within the meaning of the Battle
Act He said the facts of the
case do not require a decision
on whether to continue aid to
! Turkey. His report added that
Turkey has taken steps to pre-
vent a repetition of the Incl
dent"
Mr.. Stassen emphasized that
most of the shipments behind
the Iron Curtain from the other
five NATO allies resulted from
commitments that were made
before the Battle Act embargo
provisions took effect on Janu-
airy "a. 1852.
Some Shipments Needed.
Those shipments not listed a:
prior commitments, he said, were
considered necessary by the
Western countries involved as "ir
the long run beneficial to them
selves and to the free world be-
cause of the tWo-way trade that
was made possible by the stra-
tegic shipments"
The State, Defense, Commerce
and Treasury Departments con-
CURED in the decision that the
United States lin its own inter-
est cannot afford to use these
shipments as a basis for termi-
mating United States assistance
to any of the five countries in
volved because such termination
would clearly be detrimental tt
United States security"
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