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WILUS ROBERTSON
FRENCH RATIFICATION IS ESSENTIAL TO EDC
During the past week our Appropriations Committee has been ^conducting two sets of hearings at the same time—one on the foreign aid bill and one on a supplemental appropriation bill of approximately two billion dollars, about onehalf of which is for the military establishments.
A tabulation by our staff of all types of foreign aid since fiscal ‘41 indicates total appropriations of one hundred and fifteen billion dollars. At present time, there is an unexpended balance in the foreign aid program of approximately ten billion dollars to.which the President has asked us to add another three and a half billion dollars. The present type of foreign aid was authorized by the Act of 1949 and first called the Marshall Plan. Since then it has had a variety of names but all meaning substantially the same thing. Total net expenditures, for all purposes, in that program have been $25,852,000,000. While the expenditure of those vast funds has undoubtedly helped to stem the tide of communism in Western Europe it did not stem it in Asia and even the most ardent supporter of the program must admit that net results have been disappointing. Naturally, therefore, a major point of discussion both in the Foreign Relations Committee, ins authorizing a continuation of the mutual aid program and in the Appropriations Committee, where a breakdown of the inquest was submitted, has been “What allies
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