Government legal experts had under study today the possible effect of three amendments to the Foreign Aid Bill that would, with the exception of certain specified countries, bar aid to states using their own resources to buy arms. The amendments, two by Rep. Silvio Conte, Mass. Rep., and one by Sen. Stuart Symington, Mo. Dem., would prevent United States aid beneficiaries from using American funds, either directly or indirectly, to finance unnecessary arms purchases.
The Conte amendments would exempt Israel, Greece, Turkey, Iran, Korea, the Philippines and Nationalist China. Aid could be continued to other countries if the President justified to Congress that continuing aid to arms buyers was “vital to the national security of the United States.” The Symington amendment would oblige the President to sever aid to any country which used either American aid or its own resources in military purchases that “materially interfere with development.” It provided for no exemptions.
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