Attack & Rebuttal

Spokesmen for the world's two great powers presented their briefs last week on the Greek-Turkish loan. Spokesman for Russia was U.N. Representative Andrei Gromyko, speaking at Lake Success; for the U.S., Arthur Vandenberg on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Excerpts:

Gromyko: The United States Government has ignored the United Nations and disregarded the authority of this organization.

Vandenberg: Far from bypassing the United Nations, this amended bill is the greatest act of voluntary allegiance to it in the whole story of the United Nations.

Gromyko: The United States did not approach the United Nations . . . informing it of the planned measures only postfactum.

Vandenberg: I frankly regret that when the President spoke to Congress he did not simultaneously advise the Secretary-General at New York.

Gromyko: The "aid" which the United States Government intends to render . . . provides for not only economic aid, but military and other "aid" as well.

Vandenberg: Aid to Greece must include means to develop adequate Greek defense in behalf of lawful peace.

Gromyko: The Greek people have deserved that they be given the opportunity to decide their internal affairs.

Vandenberg: Greece appeals to us to save her political and economic independence. We are not bailing out the British Empire. We are not perpetuating Greek monarchy. We are making it possible for the Greek people to survive in stability and self-determination.

Gromyko: Turkey has no right to receive aid from the outside. . . . Turkey profiteered during the war from the help to the Hitlerite Germany.

Vandenberg: Turkey, long mobilized against a Communist "war of nerves" . . . requires assistance to bulwark its national security.

Summing up, Senator Vandenberg said: "The problem involved in this bill--like the problem involved in every other phase of languishing peace--is the persistent controversy between what we loosely call Eastern Communism and Western Democracy. ... It involves hostility to Communist expansionism and infiltration. . . . We are not hunting world dominion. We are not seeking dictation anywhere. But what we deny to ourselves as a matter of morality we also must deny to others as a matter of conquest."

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