Word: eca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indirection. Earlier in the week, Vandenberg had rushed to the rescue of ECA itself. Appearing at his own request before the Senate Appropriations Committee, he sharply and eloquently denounced the House's $2 billion slash in funds for European recovery (TIME, June...
...said Vandenberg, would brand U.S. policies as "capricious, unreliable and impotent." Its effect would be "to repeal by indirection" the whole intent of ECA. Said Vandenberg...
...ECA cut? "A great setback to our bipartisan foreign policy." The reciprocal trade agreements? "I think the reciprocal trade act should be extended [for three years]. The draft? "I should have been much happier [with] universal military training . . . [But] if Congress believes that the time is here to have conscription . . . I'm for it and I'm willing that my boys should take their place...
...approved aid to Greece and Turkey, authorized ECA by overwhelming majorities. It took the major inconsistencies out of the Truman Doctrine and placed it within the framework of U.N. It insisted that China should receive at least a small share of anti-Communist aid. Both Senate and House members took their responsibilities seriously; over 200 of them abandoned vacations to trudge over Europe on their own investigations...
...protectionism which the President properly vetoed. The Senate's bitter fight over confirmation of AEC Chairman David Lilienthal had been no credit to the 80th Congress. The House had dragged its feet on foreign aid, twice had almost upset the applecart (with its vote to include Spain in ECA, its slash in ECA appropriations). No one was proud of the 15% "voluntary" rent-control bill. Action on housing and admission of D.P.s was long overdue. Congress' investigations had yielded more publicity than malefactors, had sometimes seemed to be planned that...