Show FOREIGN AID hoover herbert hoover former U S president has urged congress not to commit this natio neven oven morally to a four year european recovery and advised a reduction of the 68 billion dollar outlay proposed to carry the tha M marshall a plan through its first 15 mori months thi in the word statement which he filed with the seriate sedate foreign re lations committee hoover expressed his opposition views to io the administrations foreign aid plans of greater significance however was the fact that hoovers own opinions amounted to a documentary of the hoover entire right wing conservative element of thinking which rejects an internationalist foreign policy on the grounds that U S resources should be concentrated at homo home decrying even a moral commitment for the four biarl year period contemplated tem plated in the th state estate departments proposals he asserted the U S should keep itself entirely tree free ito end our efforts without recrimination 11 he expressed too the fear that a lavish outpouring of aid would weaken the american economy to f the extent that all world recovery ery would be bo defeated the volume of af exports and funds proposed in the ahe marshall plan he opined opened might aggravate the already serious inflation draining pur our national resources and continuing high tax rates all of which might bring depression and thus destroy the strength of the one remaining source of aid toa to a world of chaos hoover recommended further that the marshall marshal plan ifft if it la Is ado adopted pled be run by a alpa i commission and suggested that up to three billion dollars in food coal fertilizers and cotton be labeled frankl frankly y a as j gifts because unsecured loans will not and cannot be repaid REFUSAL pr prediction edic tion about hii all the average U S citizen knows aboul abou gen dwight mellien D elsen hower bower Is thit that he either will orwill or will not get into th the campaign bor for the republican presidential nomination this year but roy A roberts president of 0 the kansas i city star end and leading promoter oi 0 pro sentiment now says he definitely will 1 not 1 roberts p prediction re diction was that the general soon would remove himself from a all 11 co consideration along those lines said roberts ill venture a guess that before june jun e the general baylake may take himself completely out of the political picture 1 I 1 am ai sure the message nies saga W will I 1 11 corple come when tie tais lay s aside his military uniform february 15 he emphasized though that he was not speaking for eisenhower bigenho Elsen hower er with alt alf tendon sn presidential nominee roberts iliad had been doing most of 61 tie tho political drum beating for eisenhower Elsen hower |