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...were two other events last week in Washington: the move to arm the Atlantic community, and the Senate's authorization of full ECA aid to Europe. Ernest Bevin, hurrying back to London, called it "a great week's work in the history of the world...
Arms for Europe, he explained, was a logical extension of ECA and the Atlantic pact, the final peg in a policy. But arms assistance was not directly "a product of the pact-an instrument which is not yet in effect." On the contrary, said Acheson, "even without the existence of the North Atlantic pact, the need for assistance and the recommended response of this Government would be the same." So, he concluded emphatically: "These requests and our replies therefore in no sense represent a price tag to be placed upon the pact...
Funds from ECA will be made available to Chinese students in American universities who are specializing in certain scientific and technical fields, the State Department has announced. Grants to individuals may be large enough to cover tuition, travel, room, and board...
...Fascist government just when we are trying so hard to encourage democracy in western Europe. It would give Russia a fine propaganda point; one which the Communists have already used effectively. The refusal of U.S. help may make things temporarily more tough for the Spanish people, but ERP or ECA or recognition or alliance will serve very nicely to indeterminately prolong their suffering...
...European Economic Cooperation. Through OEEC and its subcommittees, the 19 participants are correlating their plans and EGA requirements for economic stability by 1953. In so doing, they have broken precedent. They have frankly exchanged economic information once regarded as state secrets. They have agreed to continue OEEC after ECA's demise...