Since. succeed -in persuading. us to -abandon. it provides a real.saving of. $7.000.000 and. China. then Russia- will have satellites all. makes possible the allocationof $60.000.-. along her. Asiatic frontiersand. can con.. 000 of the remaining. appropriation- for: centrate all her efforts with far.greater China.- our. committee- is.now in substanboldness and aggressiveness on inflltrat-. tial agreement that the. - appropriation.-ing and undermining. the. free.. govern-. herein proposed- is the proper amount.-to. ments of Europe. Should that come do the -proposed.task. and.I hopeit is ap-. about. the Marshall plan. as proposed.. no- proved .without- furtherreductions ..... . matter. how. much we -put into it. could The second major. difference "is: the. have no hope of success. Do you think fact that we have made available imthat the Italians and the French can mediately on the passage of this legislahold out. against. such pressure from: tion. without waitingfor the long and Russia?