A tabulation of emergency aid which the State Department has recommended for Israel for the fiscal year of 1953, to relieve the plight of refugees in the Jewish State, was made known today.
The largest proportion of this aid includes basic foodstuffs, fodders, raw materials for clothing and footwear, and fuel. The proposed emergency aid is intended to provide 99,000 tons of wheat and wheat flour, costing approximately $10,000,000.
In addition, $5,000,000 worth of other basic foods, including sugar, meat, milk, egg powder, and beans, are to be supplied.
Other categories of proposed assistance include funds for housing, seeds, fertilizers, farm buildings, farm tools, livcstock, medical facilities, transport, power, irrigation, new machinery and industrial raw materials, fishing boats, deep-freezing plants, and refrigeration equipment.
It is proposed to finance a certain amount of medical supplies and equipment, including materials for the construction of additional hospital facilities. The emergency program seeks to facilitate highway and port construction, provide spare parts and maintenance facilities for existing equipment, and permit the acquisition of some new vehicles.
In outlining the bill, a State Department spokesman said: “It is believed that the program will provide, with a minimum of expenditure, an essential share of the foreign aid support necessary to a sound and vigorous foreign policy in the Near East.”
SENATE GROUP MAKES RECOMMENDATIONS ON AID TO ISRAEL
The Administration has been urged by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in a report on Mutual Security legislation, “to end relief operations as soon as possible and concentrate on economic development, with the purpose of helping Israel to become self-supporting in the quickest time possible.”
The Committee said it “wishes to emphasize that it regards this (Israel) program as a short-time emergency operation to be terminated as soon as practical.”
Commenting on proposed aid for Israel for the fiscal year 1953, the Committee said that it notes “that the amounts to be devoted to refugee relief are decreased while those to be devoted to resettlement are increased. The committee favors this change of emphasis in the program.”
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