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1 Blow For
I Soviet Plans' |
| HOFFMAN Help
| HOFFMAN
EUROPE ON
ROAD
10 RECOVERY
3 Australian Associated Press
| W A S H I N GTON,
fsunday. - — Western
SEurope's drive for
recovery under the
iMarshall Aid plan is
tsucceerditig ' "adiriii-ab Jy, ' j
Idespite Soviet !
iiesistance.
Hit Paul Hoffman, adntinis-
B trator of America's .
B foreign aid programme, '
H reported this tonight. ,
Be said that In the first six
'i months of the programme
the 16 Marshal Plan coun
tries had increased their
output of coal, steel, elec
tricity, manufactured goods
and fertilisers.
Russia exposed her position
with horrible clarity when
she and her satellites with
drew from the recovery
1 programme at its incention
1 Mr Hoffman stated. "Russia
wants no' European rei,ei
programme. She wants
confusion and chaos as the
oasis for the advance of
totalitarian dictatorships."
v'estern Europe's crops were
better, not only because of
good weather, but because
of the million tons of fer
tiliser being produced In
Europe this year, com
pared with 750.000 tons be
fore the war.
taking History
Ty, Marshall Aid nations
would soon have a currency
clearance programme oper- .
| ating. Barriers to the 1
| movement of goods, ser-
1 Jices and people among 1
a ivi . natl0ns were gradu-
8 ally reduced
?LH(;?n"n atlted' "Finallv
I «« .nrst tlmp 111 mod-
I «( h'story representatives
I p,ri. rep nations of
IbX sat around a con-
|'e„rSn5e 'able for months
I oil out with an over-
eiy Ptofffamme for
i western Europe."
Britain Out Of
Red By 1953
I dtuir altan Associated Press
IJ»N', Sunday. -
Irlro'. i?e he,p of Ame-
| European rcepvery
If'3"' fie Government
isf f. "lat Br''ain would
l?o-, "J »' the red" by
lit iL «e ,'ort, President
iL he Council (Mr Morri-
I'onl said tonight.
BSi that P.Y August
I Oer Sr ts. w?re up 10 140
S 0/.Tthe M38 level.
! feel ft?' think we can
g,'"' lastly proud."
I casth"i£?n' who was broad-
IWcaL,? America, said:
1 «e u?ino 'Mf"cSds ln Europe
1 coverv Prn European Re-
1 or 53J P'PRrommc to get out
1 that tn, !l?n vo" consldei
InnU"',,1,? Marshall Aid
1 Vears „f V i! hundreds pf
1 'Ivalrv h 'n.'ieuendencc and
igat'ff bchbid them hnve
I Eve i? h in,tlie way we
I think if. J e lasl Year. I
I think thit cvlr'v rlRht t0
well have done
Feht Tyrants'
I long,nexneriaDln have had a
I 'ng lltertl f ? ?' ,defend-
of tv ftiv against all kinds
Wen th„.We have not, for-
a'sn knrm? exPer|cnce. We
f llbp-tv " hmr von nrt7.e
I ai'i'nkl'.rt '"'"T think ol
free n-ri . , '""d Into the
I r- Hie, uL ' v oppressed
(if.'s bBr ""'ions inrl.
t6<5nCmsuf!). l.1 neileve in
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