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Harry Truman had to sign two important bills, one providing anti-inflation controls (see above) and one providing funds for interim aid. Otherwise, about all he had to do last week was to take things easy, bask in the family circle warmth of holiday time and indulge his fancy for gadgets...
...time General Wedemeyer had finished, most committeemen seemed convinced. Committee Chairman Styles Bridges promptly wrote into the interim aid bill a $20 million appropriation for China, as "a gesture to show Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government that we are interested," settled for $18 million in the final version (see The Congress). The State Department had already admitted that the U.S. is prepared to grant export licenses to China for U.S.-made arms and ammunition.*For almost-forgotten China, it was not much. But it was a start...
Such a friendly, nonpartisan act was a rarity in the session's frantic final week. Both parties played furious and sometimes shabby politics. There were parries and thrusts-over the listing of grain speculators (see Investigations), over interim aid for Europe and China, and over inflation controls...
Sacred Dance. On interim aid, New York's hot-tempered John Taber, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, caused a gnashing of teeth, even among his fellow Republicans. To go with a $597 million authorization, John Taber brought out an appropriation bill providing actual cash of only $509 million. For France, Austria and Italy, this meant $88 million less than the "irreducible minimum" set by the Administration and approved by the G.O.P. foreign-policy leader, Arthur Vandenberg. For China, which the House had insisted on including among the aid recipients, the Taber bill provided not one cent. The State...
...flurried, waning minutes of the session, the Senate Appropriations Committee repaired some of John Taber's ax-work, boosting interim aid to $570 million, occupation expenses to the original $490 million. When the bill went to conference, the Senate committeemen were adamant on providing something for China. Said one House conferee: "They just sat and looked and waited, and if we hadn't agreed to the China money, we wouldn't have had any Christmas." The weary wrangling ended in the usual compromise: $522 million for France, Italy and Austria, a token $18 million for China...