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E.C.A. ATO STOPPED TO N.EA
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-The
United States has halted aU
Marshall Plan aid te the Neth-
erlands East Indies, sending a
settlement af hosttttUcs be-
tween the Dutch and the Re
pubUe et Indonesia, This action
' was stoles** ta a cable by Mr.
Pael Hoffman, the E.C.A. ad
ariBlstrator, te the chief of the
'E.CA. mission ia the Nether-
lands.
A leading' E.CA. official said that
the move came after "full consul-
tation" with the State Department
The text of the cable was not im-
mediately made public, but it waa
Known that th* action cuts off, for
the present, any E.CA. aid granta
to the Netherlands East Indies. The
E.CA. official said: the reason for
catting off the aid was that in the
.present f^n^ttlon in TndfHtf1*. any
adequate distribution and use of
S.C.A. goods there could not be
guaranteed. The Netherlands East
Indias so far had bean allocated
.1.7S0JM dollars aid.
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