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...been tiny, compared to Marshall Plan expenditures for Western Europe. The total to date: 1) roughly $60 million worth of military equipment, mostly U.S. surplus; 2) a $25 million loan from the Export-Import Bank, not yet drawn by Iran; 3) $500,000 under Point Four, mostly for locust-fighting equipment. A major development plan for Iran designed by a private-enterprise group of U.S. experts, Overseas Consultants, Inc. (TIME, Oct. 24, 1949), fizzled out because the Iranian government did not have the money to pay for it and the U.S. State Department did nothing to help the Iranians...
...enemy was already threatening to occupy a hundred times that area. Iran's Premier Hussein Ala called the plague the worst in 80 years. Several other Middle East countries were suffering from the locust invasion, which might bring widespread famine in its train. The Israeli government announced over the Jerusalem radio that every adult and every vehicle in that country would be mobilized if locust swarms headed in that direction. In Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripoli, in the Sudan, the Gold Coast, French Equatorial Africa, locust-control officers had been warned...
Last July London's Anti-Locust Research Centre forecast the coming locust cycle and urged the countries concerned to raise funds to fight it. Two international anti-locust conferences (New Delhi, November 1950; Cairo, March 1951) have discussed the problem. One obstacle to effective anti-locust action is that some groups have a pro-locust attitude. When the locust swarms entered India, a group of Jains, whose religion demands strict respect for animal life, built a causeway across a stream to help the locusts on their...
From London: When the appalling reality of Red China's intervention in Korea first came home to Britons, they were struck with two fears. One was that rash American action would lead Britain into war with the locust-like Chinese masses-a war for which this country was as unripe psychologically as it was ill-prepared militarily. The other was that U.S. power would bog itself down in the bottomless quagmire of China, leaving Europe an unprotected plum to be plucked by the Russians at will...
...scarcely settled back into private business before he got a call from George Marshall. Within a matter of days, he was back in Washington again as Marshall's Under Secretary of State. Last week Washington was on the wire again to the Lovett home at Locust Valley, N.Y. This time the caller-at the hearty hour of 7:30 a.m.-was Harry Truman himself. Now that George Marshall was back in harness as Secretary of Defense, Marshall wanted his old teammate to join him again...