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Greece and Turkey, and for Persia, Korea, China and the Philippines. Next day, both houses approved the final appropriation of $4,852,380,000 for the second year of the European Recovery Program, $45 million for economic assistance to Greece and Turkey and $912,500,000 for U.S. occupation costs in Germany, Japan and Austria. Still to be considered were another $45 million to get the President's Point Four program under way (see BUSINESS) and $150 million to help bolster the economy of Korea. Total outlay for U.S. foreign aid since the end of World...
...with the Polish government in exile to permit Poles in Russian camps to join the Polish forces then being formed in Russia. Again in boxcars, Josepha and her son, following Anders' army to the Middle East, traveled to the Caspian Sea, across it in a cattle boat to Persia. Then a British transport took the Olechnys and other Polish refugees through the Persian Gulf, around Arabia and down to Mozambique. From there they went by train to a camp in Southern Rhodesia. Later they were sent to a new refugee camp near Mount Kilimanjaro in Central Africa...
Supreme Court Associate Justice William O. Douglas, vacationing in Persia with his son, was merely enjoying an innocent holiday. The Justice, said a Russian broadcast to Persia, was in reality "an arrogant speculator" who, with "a dozen devils . . . that is, U.S. Army officers in mountaineering outfits," was climbing Persia's mountains to spy on the Soviet border...
...allotted to the pact countries-$938,450,000 in military equipment and technical assistance (half to come from surplus stocks) and $155 million in materials and machinery to help Europe's own arms production. Another $300,580,000 would go for military help to Greece, Turkey, Korea, Persia and the Philippines...
...fabulous riches of Anglo-Iranian's fields, in Persia and neighboring Iraq,* have been the focus of almost endless bloody struggles. The eastward-thrusting Kaiser coveted them in 1915 as did Panzer-probing Rommel in 1942. Between times and since, there have been such threats to meet as the overthrow of the Ottoman Empire and tribal revolts provoked by Soviet Russia. Through all, Britain and Anglo-Iranian, bending but never breaking in the storm, have kept control. Now Anglo-Iranian has assets of ?76,753,472, is the third largest crude-oil producer in the world; only Standard...