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...N.M.U. called it limited war, applied it only to American-registry freighters and passenger ships (making up about 650 of the 1,350 in the U.S. merchant fleet). It excluded those that carry military cargoes, relief supplies and some economic aid. Ships with EGA cargoes could sail, the N.M.U. decreed, in cases where the Government labeled them "defense cargoes." Foreign-registry ships were free to come & go. Principal victims: U.S. passenger ships, just now gliding into the main rush of the annual tourist traffic...
...EGA aid would stop temporarily...
...civil conflict in China . . . will not provide military aid or advice to Chinese forces on Formosa. In the view of the U.S. Government, the resources on Formosa are adequate to enable them to obtain the items which they might consider necessary for the defense of the island." EGA help would continue...
...Noodle. In his effort to avoid World War III, the President added a new noodle to the federal alphabet soup: MSP. The letters stand for Mutual Security Program, which will combine in one three-letter bundle all U.S. foreign aid, including EGA, MDAP and Point Four...
...Senator James P. Kern thought he had a way to discourage them: "Not one gun, not one barrel of gasoline, not one ton of rubber has been withheld from Marshall Plan countries which were shipping [war] materials ... to Russia and her satellite nations." He wanted a law forbidding EGA to send raw materials or financial aid to any Marshall Plan nation which continues trafficking with Communist countries...