The House Foreign Affairs Committee today took formal action in the new foreign aid bill to urge the Administration to adopt a firmer stand against the anti-Israel blockade of the Suez Canal. The committee included in the bill a section stating that “the United States favors freedom of navigation in International waterways” and that aid policies should be set accordingly.
The committee said the Act’s purposes “are negated and the peace of the world is endangered when nations which receive assistance under the Act wage economic warfare against other nations… including such procedures as boycotts, blockades, and the restriction of the use of international waterways. ” The Act directs that the aid program be administered to give effect to these principles, and in all negotiations. These principles shall be applied, as the President may determine, and he shall report on measures taken, ” it emphasizes.
The committee report on the bill “leaves to the President full responsibility for the determination of the application of the policy and of such action as is to be taken in these matters, but requires that the President report to the Congress on the implementation of this section. “
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