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Shocked at the discovery that the Navajo Indians face starvation and even death this winter (TIME, Nov. 3), the nation suddenly began sending them relief. The American Red Cross appropriated $100,000 for "immediate stopgap aid," rushed disaster relief workers to the barren Navajo country. A Navajo Trail Relief Caravan Association gathered up food and clothing in California, started seven truckloads on the way to the reservation. Utah citizens helped too. Congress, conscience-stricken after neglectful years, voted a $2,000,000 relief fund for the Navajo and Hopi tribes...
...cost of U.S. aid can be kept under the State Department's estimated $8 billion if Congress will vote the stopgap aid for France, Italy and Austria before their economies deteriorate. That means immediately. If Congress comes through, the committee estimates that the first-year cost to the U.S. in appropriations and investments will be $7 billion...
These points were for ERP, the long-term program. Once again Marshall pressed upon the congressional committeemen the Administration's plea that ERP should not stand in the way of the stopgap program for France, Italy and Austria. His latest figure for it: $597 million. "The urgency of the situation is so great that I recommend that no new agency be set up to handle this interim program...
...Legislation authorizing a $642 million stopgap for France and Italy (TIME, Nov. 3), and an added $30 million for Austria, to keep those three nations solvent until April...
...Administration schedule called for action, during the special session, only on the France-Italy-Austria stopgap aid bill, and possibly the Army funds bill. G.O.P. Senate Boss Bob Taft saw some hope, "if faint," that the entire legislation could be finished by Christmas...