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French Oust 20 More Members of Russian , Repatriation Group By the Associated Press PARIS, Dec. 13.—The Ministry o the Interior announced tonight tha “about 20” Russians attached to thi former Soviet repatriation missioi were expelled from Prance yesterday This action brought to approxi mately 56 the number of Russians ejected since November 25. The Foreign Ministry said tonigh in reply to a Soviet protest that tht latest group should have left Franci last Tuesday when 12 of the 16 mem bers of the mission were put aboarc a train for Berlin and the Sovie * zone. The expulsions began November 2i when 19 Soviet citizens were taker to the frontier under armed guarc for allegedly mixing in Frenci affairs during the wave of interna upheaval and strikes. Between then and last Tuesday December 9, seven others were or dered to leave for the same reason The Interior Ministry said two re fused to go back to their homelanc and were permitted to remain ir France, however. Four members of the repatriation mission could not be found when 11 of their comrades were expelled last Tuesday. The four were believed tc have been in the group escorted out of France yesterday. Members ol this group were attached to the mis sion as secretaries, chauffeurs and -• other minor capacities. Arrest of 8 Protested. Soviet Charge d’Affaires Alex andre Abramov protested the “ar rest” in Marseille and Paris of eight f of the group of about 20 this morn ing. But the French Foreign Office flatly rejected the Soviet note. The Soviet note demanded their Immediate release and exDressed 'profound indignation.” The French reply attacked the “inadmissible character, in the eyes of the French government, of cer tain of the terms” of the Soviet note. “The French government has even more right to complain,” the note added, “in that the Soviet nationals in question were not arrested but expelled. These expulsions were made necessary by the fact that these persons should have left French territory December 9 at the same time as Col. Filatov and the other members of the Soviet re patriation mission.” The note said the Soviet nationals "remained in France without paying the slightest heed” either to the French government's order for them to leave or the instructions to their one Russian government to come home. Earlier this week, the French gov ernment refused to receive a Soviet protest over the expulsion of the 19 Russians November 25 and a French raid on a Soviet reparti tion camp. The French said they ■would not receive the Soviet note because of its language and because it was made public before it was given the French government. Pact Talks Terminated. A later French note charged the camp at Beauregard had been used to send French citizens to Russia. The •Soviet note broke off negotia tions for a trade pact with France by which France hoped to get 300, 000 tons of wheat, and carried a hint that the Russians might dis avow the 20-year mutual assistance ' pact that was negotiated by Gen Charles de Gaulle In 1944. The De Gaullist newspaper Paris-Presse tonight declared “the U. S. S. R. Is trying to find a waj of denouncing the Franco-Soviet pact.” Premier Robert Schuman said to night in a communique that the Soviet protest this morning also wa; communicated to the press before ' it was presented to the Foreigr : Ministry. Moscow dispatches said Lt. Col i Raymond Marquie, a Communist ol . long standing who headed the French repatriation mission in Rus sia, was leaving by train for Berlir tonight. Ordered to leave Russia several days ago by the Soviet gov ernment, his departure was de , layed reportedly by bad weather The French officials said, however he was not anxious to come home because he faces disciplinary ac tion for having taken the Soviet’; j side in the quarrel. Stockpiles Reduced. The recent strike wave reduced I stockpiles so much that France wil be forced to appeal for more Ameri ! can interim aid if Marshall plai: help is delayed beyond March 1, a government source said. The government source, who re quested anonymity, said Rene Mayer, minister of economic affairs, estimated that interim aid now before Congress would carry the nation through January and pos sibly February, depending on the rate of production in coal mines and industry. The Communist-led strike's cost France the equivalent of $830,000, 000 in salary losses to strikers, lack of output in industry, particularly capital production, and lower tax revenue. Sources close to Mr. Mayer in dicated that the balanced budget for 1948, promised by former Pre mior Donl DomnWiaf mac nnt window, mainly because of the strikes. A deficit of about 250,000, 000,000 francs was forecast. Approx i m a t e 1 y 100,000,000,000 francs in salary raises, offered state employes to end the strikes, was ex pected to provide the largest single item in the deficit. Mr. Mayer is scheduled to take the budget to the National Assembly for approval next Friday. Foreign Aid (Continued From First Page.! because China needs its own bill. We recognize that China is com pletely eligible for consideration and the House having- once opened the door, it would be unconscienable to slam the door lest the total elimina tion be totally misunderstood. The problem was to translate those mingled emotions into a bill.” Committee Stumped. The Senator said that “we have a specific plan for the other three na tions—an adjudicated criterion—but we don’t have it for China and that’s what stumped the commit tee.” Other major points of agreement by the conferees: 1. A provision was inserted to as sure this Nation of an adequate carry-over of grain. The House amendment to this affect was modi fied to correct “obviously erroneous dates, as Senator Vandenberg put it. Effect of the rewritten key pro vision he described this way: “The President must determine the wheat carry-over and must protect a carry-over of 150,000,000 bushels from this crop year (ending next June 30 i to the next for domestic consumption unless his estimate next March 1, justifies the inclusion of an amount for export which safely preserves the domestic re quirement with a lower carry-over.” This compromise is a much more elastic provision than the one in serted during debate on the House floor. Last year’s carry-over in wheat was only 84,000,000 bushels, although the normal figure is close ' to 150,000,000 bushels. Strong Language Abandoned. 2. The President is directed to end aid to afiy nation “whenever he finds [that because of changed conditions i aid under this act is no longer [consistent with the national inter est.” This is a substitute for the stronger anti-Communist language adopted by the House which spe cifically banned aid to Communists or former Communists or to any nation falling under domination of Communists or of the Soviet Union. Senator Vandenberg, discussing the new clause, said "It’s entirely obvious to us and to the world what the language means.” He explained that it would be embarrassing for such a nation as Prance, where the Communists are the largest single party in the legis lature, to sign a bilateral agreement on the aid program if that agree ment specifically mentioned the Communists or Russia. 3. Aid may be delivered any time after the bill becomes law and funds may be allocated under it up to next March 31. The House had added an amendment permitting what Senator Vandenberg called “retroactive authorization’ ’of pur chases made since December 1 in anticipation of the act but before it actually becomes law. 4. Incentive goods to encourage production—such as cigarettes for j coal miners—may be included in aid ShiDments tin to 5 nor font of tho value of the aid sent to each nation. Agreed to As Experiment. On this point Senator Vandenberg said the Senate conferees felt strongly that the bill should be confined to relief and should not Include measures to aid reconstruc tion. However, they agreed to a small amount of incentive goods “purely as an experiment” in stimu lating production. 5. Poods and other commodities purchased by the Government under the price-support program may be used for relief abroad if they are "appropriate” and in excess of do mestic needs. Similar provisions were adopted by both houses. The intent here is to let the Com modity Credit Corp., the Govern ment’s buying agency, take a book keeping loss and transfer food items to the State Department at a figure less than they cost the Government. Dried fruits, dried eggs, sweet and Irish potatoes and'tobaccos are the chief items which thus could be shipped, even though they yield less calories per dollar cost than wheat and other grains. 6. A Senate provision was ac cepted requiring that local cur rencies paid by citizens of the foreign nations for the aid they re ceive go into a special fund. This fund may be spent only as agreed on between the United States and the foreign government involved, once the relief under this bill is all expended. Vital to Nations’ Economy. Senator Vandenberg explained that this clause “may well be a very important factor in the domestic economies of the recipient nations.” He said (the fund no doubt would, be of “considerable size” but that “we don’t want the sole responsibility for deciding” how it can be spent to increase local production and curb inflation. 7. A general statement was ac cepted under which such commit, tees “as may be authorized” by Con gress can observe, advise and report on how the aid is being handled abroad. The new language generally follows the Senate proposal rather than enumerating the specific com mittees involved as had the House clause. 8. A provision to establish a Na tional Pood Conservation Commit> tee, inserted by the House, was eliminated because it was felt that the size and complexion suggested by the House was too unweildly and months would be necessary even to set it up. Senator Vandenberg explained that, of course, the conferees were not opposed to food conservation but thought this particular plan would be useless. The Citizens Pood Committee drive launched last month is currently being carried on chiefly by the Agriculture Depart ment. RFC Advance Agreed On. Two other important amendments were agreed to on Friday. One permits the Reconstruction Finance Corp. to advance up to $150,000,000 to get the aid flowing even before an appropriation bill is passed. The other permits purchases of food and other items outside the United States up to 10 per cent of the total amount of the bill regardless of the high* cost per item. This second provision would, for example, make possible purchase of Argentine wheat at the current Buenos Aires price of around $5 a bushel compared to the domestic price of just over $3. Of the discussion during the 10 hours the conferees put in over a two-day period, the China question took up the most time. Senator Vandenberg said that in addition to the $30,000,000 now just beginning to be spent to aid China there is an unused authorization for an additional $18,000,000 in last May’s post-UNRRA relief act. No funds were voted to carry out this latter authorization, however. Arrangement on China. The presumption of the conferees, he explained, was that the adminis tration would set aside $60,000,000 from the $597,000,000 for use in China. If the $18,000,000 should be appropriated, it would be subtracted from the $60,000,000 and that much more money could be used in Prance, Italy or Austria. Also, if China's needs can be handled by the $30,000,000 currently being spent until the State Depart NEWLY ELECTED OFFICERS—Mrs. Alice L. Wolfe, 2525 Thirty third street S.E., was elected Worthy Grand Matron of the Grand Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, and George M. Rowzee, 3514 Thirtieth street N.W., was chosen Worthy Grand Patron at a meeting in Masonic Temple last night. —Star Staff Photo. ment submits and Congress approves a new China program, then the full $597,000,000 could be used in Prance Italy and Austria alone. The $30, 000,000 is not chargeable against China’s share of the $597,000,000 however. The State Department originallj asked for $328,000,000 for aid tc Prance, $227,000,000 for Italy and $42,000,000 for Austria. Senator Vandenberg told reporters the conferees first tried to work out i plan, known to have been sug gested by the State Department under which China would have been taken care of entirely under an imendment to the post-UNRRA relief bill. The House parliamenta rian, however, said such an amend ment to a previous bill could not be mserted in the present bill under House rules and this approach had to be abandoned. Tomorrow President Truman will meet at the White House with a bipartisan group of congressional leaders to discuss the whole prob lem of European relief. The discussion will include, the long-range Marshall plan but will not be a preview of it, according to Mr, Truman’s press secretary, Charles Ross. The long-range plan is expected to go to Congress before the Christmas recess begins, prob ably Friday. The measure will not be considered until the January ses sion, however. The four-year program is expected to have a much harder time clearing the congressional hurdles than did the stopgap aid bill. The stopgap bill was designed to make sure that none of the 16 Marshall plan na tions runs out of funds for food and fuel before next April 1. By that time, the administration hopes, funds for the first 15 months of the long-range plan will have been approved. 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