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...hour and a half with G.O.P. legislative leaders, urging passage of the refugee bill, foreign aid and ratification of the three NATO treaties. The next morning House Appropriations Chairman John Taber and members of the House Foreign Aid Subcommittee sat at the White House mess for talks about the MSA money bill...
Setback: Foreign Aid. A few days after Congress authorized $5,157,000,000 Mutual Security aid in fiscal 1954, the President, keeping well below the ceiling, submitted a request for $5,124,000,000 in specific MSA appropriations. But the House committee, led by New York's John Taber, knocked $705 million off the request...
...ships cited for 1953. The British, said the report, have done nothing to crack down on Hong Kong shipping firms, which operate 68 vessels as fronts for their actual owners, the Chinese Communists. Next in line for the subcommittee's strictures were the State Department and MSA. Charged the investigators: "Since the beginning of the Korean war, our Government has had no clear-cut policy on China trade by our allies; they had inadequate factual information as to the kind, extent and effect of the trade; they lacked the forcefulness and vigor necessary to convince our allies that they...
There were other indications of restiveness about aid, on both sides of the aisle. Prodded by Montana's Democratic Senator Mike Mansfield, a onetime champion of foreign aid, the Senate handed MSA two new deadlines: all economic-aid speeding must end by June 30, 1956, and all spending for military assistance must be wound up a year later. The deadlines demonstrated that the U.S. Senate (and U.S. citizens) has not forgotten that the MSA program was, indeed, meant to be temporary. Said Senator Mansfield: "I believe . . . that the MSA as such has reached a point where the returns...
Could they sell much more if all strategic restrictions were lifted? Switzerland, which gets no MSA assistance, is not affected by the embargoes. Yet its total Soviet-bloc trade last year was only $57 million, also only about a third of the prewar level...