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Show CRISIS AGAIN : Transfusion? Life these days,- Secretary of State George Marshall has discovered, discov-ered, is bounded on all sides by one crisis after another. No sooner had he returned to the U. S. from Brazil with the mutual American defense treaty tucked safely under his belt than he was beset with calls for succor from debilitated Europe which apparently, appar-ently, was sliding swiftly down the ways toward utter ruin. Insiders said the European situation really was desperate. Undersecretary of State' Robert Lovett had sounded the first alarm shortly before Marshall's return when he said that Europe's Eu-rope's economic structure was cracking up faster than anyone had expected. The fear blowing in on the winds from Europe intensified. Precariously Precari-ously balanced Britain remained at the heart of the trouble, but more grief was added by the news that bad weather had struck hard at crops in many European countries this year. Most nations had been forced to use their meager produce for domestic consumption rather than for export. There was no profit in that, they said. In the V. S., it began to appear more likely that a special session of congress would be called this fall to study the situation and perhaps set up the apparatus for another economic transfusion to give strength to the weakening old world. |
