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2 Thi Newa-Review. Roieburg, Ore. Wed., Aug. 3, 1949 Military Assistance Nothing New To United States Foreign Policy By PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON. Effort! to oppose new Military Assistance Pro gram as a radical departure In U. S. foreign policy won't itand up. Anyone who will lake the trouble to look at the record since the end of the war will find half a dozen precedents for doing what It Is now proposed to do under the MAG legislation. When the House Foreign Af fairs committee was considering Marshall Plan legislation last fall, the Idea of hacking up the European Recovery program with some military assistance was presented by Rep. John M. Vorys, Ohio Republican. The State department was then asked to draw up legislation to carry out such a program. A draft bill was submitted and considered. But It never saw the light of day. Ever since the end of the war, the U.S. armed services through the State department have been sponsoring three bills to facili tate military assistance to for eign countries. The first was a request that Congress grant authority to transfer surplus U.S. arms to Latin-American countries. Another version of this same idea would have provided for standardiza tion of arms in Western Hemis phere countries. This would have been achieved by permitting the U.S. to give its surplus equip ment to Latin-American coun tries In "exchange for similar equipment that might have been furnished by another foreign gov ment. For Instance, a German-built destroyer might he traded In for a surplus U.S. de stroyer. The German-built ship m.i.N .Vtan haufl Kj n n-rnnrtfil The second bill proposed was ; van age to the government In to author!? the detailing of U.S. having all these loose ends wrap milltarv advisory missions to for-iped up in one omnibus bill, with eign countries. The third bill was original cost of Sfi8O.000.0O0 were transferred to the Philippines un der the Rehabilitation Act of 1946. The new Military Assist ance program would continue this effort to spt up the now In dependent Islands on a firm ba sis. There has been less publicity about U.S. aid to Iran. But be ginning with the sale of U.S. sur pluses in the Middle East to Iran, there has been continuing aid through police and military train ing missions. This aid would be formalized under the Military As sistance Program. What the Military Assistance program legislation would do. In summary, is put into one law a number of related activites which have been proposed or which the United States has ac tually been carrying on In one form or another ever since the davs of World War II. The legislation would cover as sistance to other countries than those mentioned above, if that should be found necessary. In ef fect, passage of the Military As sistance program would extend the Truman Doctrine originally propounded for the benefit of Greece and Turkey- to the whole non-communist world. The ad- to authorize the training of for eign military missions in the U.S. All these things were done dur ing the war. They are still car ried on to a limited extent par ticularly In Latin America un der hemisphere defense and the 1948 Rio de Janeiro Reciprocal Assistance Pact plans. The new Iv proposed Military Assistance Program would merely extend this authority for peactime oper ations and wran the whole busi ness up in one bill. me same principle wouia ne applied to continuing postwar military assistance to liieece, Turkey, Iran. Korea and the Phil ippine Islands. Aid to Greece and Turkey has of course been supplied under Iglslatlon since May. 1947. To date about $.100,000,000 worth of such aid has been furnished. The new Military Assistance Pro gram bill would add another $50, 000.000 or more previously re questedto that endeavor. In cluding the new aid for the Phil ippines, Korea and Iran, the to tal of new money under the Mil itary Assistance I'rngram for these countries would be $300, 000,000. Military surpluses having an a clear statement of policy and authority, is obvious. Aeronautics Head Declines Talk On Charges Of Waste SALEM, Aug. 2 -JPl W. M. Bartlett, state director of aero nautics, refused to comment to day on charges against him and the State Board of Aeronautics. He said it's up to the board to make any statements. Oregon's Flying Farmers and other aviation enlhuslasts charg ed that the hoard was wasting money, and that Bartlett is not qualified for his job. Former Governor Charles A. Sprague, Salem publisher, wrote In his newspaper column today that he thinks the board should be abolished. He said many states don't have such boards be cause the lederal government does a competent Job through the Civil Aeronautics authority. Civil Aeronautics Authority. When Sprague. was governor, he also had his troubles with the board. He fired all five members because they hired an employee WE'LL COME BACK. WITH SHOVELS ANP BURV THAT BUT BOY, AIKJ'T IT GREAT TO LIVE-A WHOLE WEEK. OF C AMPIN SO COMPLETELY OUT OF CIVILIZATION? JUST SO YOU POM'T AV I IVIM' V COMPLETELY Krj UY-f Up NATURE swum JP?.WILlWM THE REINFORCEMENTS OUT OUrf WAY By J. K. William Iran-. lximms i No matter what you want to paint, you'll get outstanding reaultt with ooysen high quality paints. There'i a Boyten Paint ior every use end pur pose. Let ui help you choose the beat one ior your needs. BOYSLEM 100 PURE PAINT Lasting beauty and protection (or all exterior walla. Unsurpassed in quality. 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Bradley, Vandenberg and Den feld arrived In Germany Satur day for a 10-day study tour under the Atlantic pact. They will leave todav for London to con tinue discussions with British de fense chiefs and other European leaders. MOSCOW, Aug. 2 i.Vt The Communist party newspaper, Pravda, today headlined the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff's visit to Europe as "American Pressure on Countries In Western Eu rope." PEELED POTATOES IN A PACKAGE Ed Hughes checks bags of potatoes peeled in Chicago and treated to keep fresh without rofriKerHtion. Clyde Miller, who's developed the idea, hopes to have the skinless spuds in groceries all over the country within the year. who was offensive to Sprague. Governor Douglas McK'av said he has turned all the c'nrgos against board. the board over to the Bartender Gets Biggest Surprise Of His Career PETERSBURG, Alaska, Aug. X (.D-After 50 years in Alaska. Bartender Jim Rrennan says he Is seldom surprised by any of the 'strange haptxMiings under the midnight sun. 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