Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after the last testimony was taken, the State Department sent Congress an updated tabulation of what the Administration hopes to spend on all foreign aid programs through fiscal 1949. The jolting total: $9,333 million. Major items in addition to ERP: $1.4 billion for government and relief in occupied areas; $570 million for aid to China; $430 million for Greek-Turkish aid, Japanese-Korean reconstruction, Trieste aid and inter-American military cooperation; $133 million for Philippine war damage...
...chairman yet to be named, an executive committee of ten was empowered by the meeting to seek official public support of a "broadly representative" faculty and student group roster. Fundamentally the committee holds that the Marshall's Plan's original purpose of "reconstruction rather than mere short-range relief" has been endangered and must be realized through an active public opinion...
...Committee's ideas concerning the general line the influence should take is equally clear cut. The legislation, it feels, must provide for enough money to make the program one of recovery rather than one of relief. The legislation must provide a positive program for European aid, not a negative anti-Russian economic weapon. It must not be used as a lever to influence the internal politics of the European nations involved. Finally, it must be implemented as much as possible through the United Nations. This program has deliberately been exempted from rigorous technicalities. The Committee, again displaying sanity...
Believing it "appropriate that the University which was the birthplace of the Marshall Plan should give impetus to the movement to save the Marshall Plan," the letter called for public action to fight for the "original purpose" of Marshall's proposals, which, it says, was "reconstruction," not "mere relief...
...possible that Lou Little, crafty professor of football at Columbia, may be holding up the works at the H.A.A. offices. Here's why. Like a baseball manager juggling pinch hitter against relief pitcher or vice versa, Bingham may be waiting to see what happens at New Haven, where Little is supposed to have the inside track. "We want to make certain," he said yesterday, "the man we choose for the Harvard job will match the ability or potential ability of whomever Yale picks...