United States Foreign Aid Programs in Europe: Report of the Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations on United States Economic and Military Assistance to Free Europe

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1951 - 46 páginas
 

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Página 3 - In order more effectively to achieve the objectives of this Treaty, the Parties, separately and jointly, by means of continuous and effective self-help and mutual aid, will maintain and develop their individual and collective capacity to resist armed attack.
Página 1 - Act to maintain the security and to promote the foreign policy of the United States by authorizing military, economic, and technical assistance to friendly countries to strengthen the mutual security and individual and collective defenses of the free world, to develop their resources in the interest of their security and independence and the national interest of the United States and to facilitate the effective participation of those countries in the United Nations system for collective security.
Página 1 - Act of 1951 amended the earlier law: ... to maintain the security and to promote the foreign policy of the United States by authorizing military, economic, and technical assistance to friendly countries to strengthen the mutual security and individual and collective defenses of the free world, to develop their resources in the interest of thensecurity and independence and the national interest of the United States and to facilitate the effective participation of those countries in the United Nations...
Página 19 - Italy which impose limitations upon the military strength of Italy and prevent the performance by Italy of her obligations under the North Atlantic Treaty to contribute to the full extent of her capacity to the defense of Western Europe; 9. it is the sense of the Senate that consideration should be given to the revision of plans for the defense of Europe as soon as possible so as to provide for utilization on a voluntary basis...
Página 18 - ... radically alter our obligations under the pact, the committee examined article 10 very carefully. The question arose whether any United States decision respecting new members would be based solely on Presidential action or would require Senate approval. Consequently, the committee was fully satisfied by the commitment of the President, delivered by the Secretary of State, that he would consider the admission of a new member to the pact as the conclusion of a new treaty with that member and would...
Página 19 - ... to resist armed attack. In the European mind, these two concepts have been, I feel, inseparable.
Página 11 - The probability of death per passenger carried is about 100 times as great in the United States as in the United Kingdom, and the English employee stands about a third as great a chance of being killed as the American.
Página 27 - It expressed the belief that it is — "* * * most important that east-west trade shall not be permitted to increase the war potential of the Soviet Union at the expense of Western Europe." Language in legislation, the subcommittee observed — "• * * must be carefully fashioned so that it will not only make congressional intent clear beyond doubt but also so as to enable the Administrator to interdict such trade with tact but certainty.
Página 22 - Europe's wardamaged plants has been achieved and that in the future economic aid is to be primarily for the purpose of assisting friendly countries to strengthen their individual and collective defenses. This is our main purpose in the United States. We find it necessary to give up plans for domestic economic development and to concentrate on building our defenses. We expect our allies, within the limit of their capacities, to do no less.
Página 28 - The fact that it is in the enlightened self-interest of the United States to support the Asian people in their actions for a more secure and better life needs no repetition.

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