The House of Representatives voted approval today of President Eisenhower’s Middle East Doctrine which gives him a free hand to send American troops to the Middle East to check Communist aggression. The vote was 355 to 61. Some members of the House expressed grave reservations during the debate which preceded the voting. (For Senate developments see Page 2.)
The measure now proceeds to the Senate, where the Eisenhower Doctrine is still in committee. In reporting on the Eisenhower proposals, the House Foreign Affairs Committee pointed out that the Eisenhower plan does not deal with the Arab-Israel dispute or other intra-area problems. The Committee asked the Administration to present to Congress and to the United Nations comprehensive measures dealing with those problems.
The House measure, incorporating only minor changes in the Eisenhower plan, would grant the use of an already authorized $200, 000, 000 for economic and military assistance in the Middle East, but would limit the amount of dollars spent in any one country to $30, 000, 000. The House also asked that the President work through the United Nations “to the realest extent deemed practicable” if and when he should employ the use of U.S. troops in the area.
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