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Show ' WALTER SHE AD t Key Figures in Aid Program y 'TWO men loom up in the house of representatives as important factors A in both the stop-gap aid legislation and the long-range Marshall plan ( tor European recovery. One is Congressman Christian A. Herter of Massa-jli Massa-jli chusetts, considered an expert on foreign affairs, and the other is Con- 4 eressman John Taber of New York, chairman of the house appropriations 0 committee. . K No matter what sort of aid congress votes for Europe It remains for Taber's appropriations committee to start the ball rolling for the actual 5 money. He's the man who didn't see any lack of food In Europe during y aij jojourn there this summer. A On the other hand. Congressman Herter saw plenty. Herter Is i playing the role of Vandenberg In the lower house. Although Con- gressman Charles A. Eaton of New Jersey Is chairman of the house ! foreign affairs committee and Herter Is only a vice chairman of a house select committee on foreign aid, Herter Is the leading authority author-ity and author of the bill likely to be Anally passed. Herter, who is from Boston, was born in Paris. His career .Inc. Harvard has followed diplomacy closely as an attache in American em-busies em-busies in Berlin and Brussels and service with the American peace commission and secretary ofthe European relief council. He believes the I bouse should play a more important role In foreign affairs and his biU , J advocates nearly all features of the Marshall plan carefully supervised 0J congress. j j, |