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Show Passage Of Marshall Plan Foreseen In Congress Attitude (Special to Roosevelt Standard) One of the most important questions in everybody's mind at this time is what we are fin: ally going "to do about certain Western "European nations notably England France and Italy! It-aly! And the' best place to find out is from the words of "those Congressmen whq have jvst re turned from personal investigations investiga-tions there, One Congressman on the special Herter conimittee which is now about ready to report its findings to the regular Foreign Affairs committee said that if the United States doesn't stand by these countries, in the next year, Communism would advance ad-vance to the English Channel. Such a development would be a grave turn toward the darker side for this country. Exports would certainly be reduced and the entire continent would surely be controlled by the Reds in Moscow. Mos-cow. Therefore it is probably accurate accu-rate to say that most Congressmen Congress-men favof the Marshall Plan in some form.' There were' excep-. tipns, such as Mr. Taber and others, but there were f iyc tfr vorjng aid to one who ji"ln t. And while many people Joked at thenumber of lawmakers heading head-ing for Europe this summer, it is probably a good thing they went. Had someone tried to ram the Marshall Plan down Congress collective throats without the personal knowledge they now possess, it could easily have been a failing proposal. Most Congressmen Congress-men back home now have expressed ex-pressed their belief that the Voice of America broadcasts should be stepped up instead of curtailed as most of them formerly for-merly believed. They saw the dangers of Communism Com-munism first-hand and are in the mpod to back the Voice of America as our greatest hope of penetrating the curtain of darkness dark-ness in eastern Europe. The yar-ious yar-ious tours pf our Congressmen no doubt "cgst ' the taxpayer plenty,' but if the Marshall plan could not have succeeded otherwise, other-wise, and if the VQice pf America would also haye been left to. wilt otherwise, the money was prg-baly prg-baly well spent, |
