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SENATE,
HOUSE APPROVE HUGE AID BILL
Washington, September 29.-
The Senate tonight passed a $5,809,990,000 bill for foreign aid; already approved by the House, and sent it to President Harry Truman for signature.
Of the total, $4,852,380,000 is second-year ECA
aid for Marshall Plan countries.
The remainder is for US spent their money on a welfare Army relief and recovery work state."
military Turkey.
in Germany, Austria, Japan and Maintaining that ECA spend- the Ryky Islands and
nosing should be dropping now, Mr. aid for Greece and Taber said ECA shipments in the first 17 months averaged $235,- In its present form, the mea-000,000 a month He said the sure was the result of a compro-new appropriation would mean mise agreement reached yester- shipments averaging $323,000,000 day between the committees re- per month. Presenting the Senate and the Mir. Tabe said he was satis- fied that top officials of the ECA During the House debate. Re- and in the US government of presentative John Taber (Re- occupied Germany realised that publican) futilely sought to delay plant dismantling ought to halt the appropriation on the grounds and Germany put on a self-sus- that it represented more spend-taining basis as soon as she pos-
House.
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Supporting Socialists - "We are just running ourselves into a deficit to support the So- cialistic party in power in Bri
Within Bounds
House-Senate "watchdog" com- He gave credit to the joint mittee for keeping ECA spending within bounds" and for initiat- ing the investigation of German steel plants which had resulted in a Cor
a Committee study and the recommendation that dismantling He declared that Britain had be slowed down. "not in good faith rehabilitated However, Mr. Taber failed to its industry." He charged fur-move the House from its in- thee that the British Goveen-sistence that the watchdog · com→ ment was spending U$$2,000,-mittee be liquidated by June 30, 000,000 a year on food sub-1950.
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sidies and $1,000,000 a year on Representative Vaughan Gary, socialised medicine which show-one of the leading supporters of ed up indirectly in the Unites the amendment to force liquida- States' budget deficit, now run-tion of the committee, said the ning at the rate of US$5,500,- dismantling problem was a vers 000,000 a
a year.
difficult one which must be left
He warned the House that the to the ECA chiefs, the High Com- only
way of wiping out the demissioner (Mr. John McCloy) in ficit was by reducing spending Germany and the State Depart- or increasing taxes and that tax ment to work out with the Bri- increase would fall most heavily tish and the French.
the poor people."
certain
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can bleed the rich, to extent, but to meet a deficit of $5,500,000,000 you have
to bleed the poor."
As for other committee fune- tions, he said, they had been of no particular value. He added Paul Hoffman, head of the ECA that he was satisfied that Mr.
Mr. Taber centred his fight on was spending aid funds in "the the amendment, inserted by the best interest of the United States
Senate, providing for $150,000,- and world recovery and is doing 006 in Reconstruction Finance Corporation and other oversea: loans.
Voice Vote
3p-
The House accepted th: amendment 177-123, then proved the bill in its final form by voice vote.
Asked how devaluation of the Dound sterling would affect ECA expenditure, Mr. Taber said
magnificent job."-United Press and Associated Press.
NEHRU'S VISI
Washington, September 29. The Indian Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru will visit most of the historic shrines in the Wa- shington area during his forth- Coming tour of the United States, the State Department announced
people of Europe have got here today. to 'come to
and not increase honour at dinners given by Pre- He wil also be the guest of costs. Britain is the manufac-sident Truman and the Secretary turer of the world's finest tex-cf State, Mr. Dean Acheson, tile machines, but they have not equipped their own plants wit today by the State Department, The detailed programme, issued own plants to run down and have earlier-Reuter, them. They have allowed the was similar to that forecast
Autumn
General
Election Hint
1
.London, September 291 Forecasts of an autumn general election were streng- thaned front-page
article 1п the weekly Tribune, an unofficial Socialist pager.
here tonight by
The Tribune. which is generally
regarded 23 the mouthpiece of the left wing, in the Labour Party, came out in favour of an immediate elec- tion.
i
It declared: We do not be Ilave that the margin of La bour's victory will be elthar greater or smaller whether the- election takes place at the end of October, or In April ar June
The paper argued that the public was becoming "election* conscious."
Civil servants and manage- ments were tending to "ge until they saw which
Blow
and Conservative propaganda had impaired the Labour Government's strength. In the International Reid-Reutar,
SLIM TO VISIT 'NEW DELHI
New Delhi, September 29. The Indian goverment said tonight that Field Marshal Sir William Slim, Chief of the Im- perial General Staff, will arrive at New Delhi on October 16 dur- ing the course of a tour of the Far East
The Field Marshal will stay and October 19 as guest of the Government of India before con- tinuing his tour.--Associated Press
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BERLIN AIRLIFT ENDS
Berlin, September 29.
The Berlin airlift, the supply line that cracked the Russian blockade, will grind to o final stop tomorrow after 15 months of, spectacular operation.
The U.S. Air Force announced, today the lift would be "phosed out" a month ahead of the original target date because Western Berlin now is fully stocked with supplies for the Winter.
the US, was more than US$3,- 000,000 weekly,
The British spent £8,500,000
on the first year's operation
Since the blockade ended Ger Din rail, road nd barge trafic
from the West brings in sometimes dally. The city never required
as much as 20,000 tons of supplies
Biore than 15,000 tons,
Smuggling Charge.
น
ittle-blockade at one time, The Russian's slapped on alleging that the Western lorries were engaged in smuggling. They slowed down the traffic to such
The last four-engined cargo The combined British-American plane will leave Frankfurt's Rhein airlift brought 2,323,733 tons of main airfield for Berlin at 630 food, coal machinery and other Rm today and land with 10 tons commodities to Berlin of supplies at Templchof, pro- Wednesday.
up to bably an hour and a half later.
It started in the last week of a Colonel W. T. Babecek, Deputy June, 1948, when General Lucius
paint that
that it hardly existed at sall Commander of the American sec-9. Clay decided to fight the it down again at the Helmstedt On Wednesday they slowed of Berlin, said the city's strangling Soviet blockade tacties zonal border pojat and at mid- warehouses now have more than with the same air power that de-night there were huge lorries Eve months' supply of csal and feated the Germans only three strung out for several miles. about 66 days food reserves. years before.
tor
Each family in the American, British and French sectors is as- sured at least 500 pounds of coal; for home heating. There is a gen- erous supply for all industrial purposes, including electric light- ing and illuminating and cooking gas,
Balanced Dict
Col Babcock asserted that the] food reserves guarantee a balane a diet far better than the Ger- mans had in past years.
Safety Record
was
British soldiers at their nearby checkpoint said the Russians had apparently started an all out drive aratist illegal shipments Ta The joint effort established the big roadside loading sheds were best air safety record in history, but flanking the barrier and each However, crashes were inevitable Cargo
-being
examined and they took the lives of 31 minutely. Americans, 39 British Efers and. The work was done with dis- German civilians. The patch, but there is now such a Germans were being evacuated heavy flow of lorries from the on a special flight.
West that the slightest delay at The
pear the barrier piles them to quickly. average of 8,000 tons daily when Associated Press. the Russians finally gave in and the blockade of land routes was lifted on May 12.
Seven
lift reached а
During last winter's blockade each Eastern Berlin family strug
Melbourne, September 29, In July the Air Force disclosed Sir James Bisset, retired war- gled along on a maximum of 25 that a gradual reduction of the time commander of the Queen pounds of ecal for the entire exert would be made with Octo- Mary and the Queen Elizabeth, period and at times the
food: ber 31 as the estimated date for received the US. Legion of Merit situation was touch and go. After it to cease altogether. the airlift's new radar system
in recognition of his safe conduct Wher
several hundred big of half a million American troops conquered snow and fog, the food planes were pouring into Berlin during the war, Commander A. H. supply was asured but it never on a one every three minute Perry, 15. Naval Attache, de- schedule, the minimum cost to corated Sir James-United Press.
permitted luxuries.
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