Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Careful Course. The committee bill steered a careful course between what Europe could accept and what the U.S. felt it needed as assurance that ERP would not be a running drain on the U.S. taxpayer. The bill did not attempt to ram conditions down Europe's throat. It simply expressed "the hope . . . that these countries through a joint organization will exert sustained common efforts which will speed the achievement of that economic cooperation which is essential for lasting peace and prosperity...
...bill strengthened that hope by making continuing U.S. aid conditional on "continuity of cooperation" abroad. It called for a multi-lateral treaty, with the U.S. binding participants to the pledges of self-help and mutual aid laid down in the Paris report. Bilateral pacts with individual nations would commit each participant to 1) increase production (particularly in steel, coal, transport and food); 2) stabilize its currency; 3) cut tariff walls; 4) dig up hoarded assets; and 5) make strategic raw materials available...
Changing Tune. The bill would not answer all objections to ERP. Bob Taft still thought the size of the appropriation should be cut. Indiana's Homer Capehart wanted to handle all foreign aid through an international RFC. Nevada's George Malone was still laboring doggedly to kill ERP outright. House committeemen were still to be heard from...
...last week ERP's fidgeting parents were feeling almost as good as Arthur Vandenberg. Looking over the committee bill, State Department advisers happily agreed that it would...
Then the Times's Bill Lawrence wrote that Dimitrov's congress made Bulgaria "a one-party state today, her internal and foreign policies openly modeled on and wedded to the Soviet Union." That was too much for the Bulgarians' experiment with freedom of the press. They rolled up the red carpet and clanged down the portcullis...