Connecticut. all members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. favoring the creation by the nonEuropean free countries and the free peoples of the Far East of a joint organization. consistent with the Charter of the United Nations. to establish a program of self help and mutual cooperation for that area and also favoring assistance by the United States to the free countries and free peoples of the Far East through such an organization. This resolution represents the views of its sponsors that broadscale economic and social development and improvement in the Far East will be. the greatest barrier to the spread of communism into southeast Asia and the islands of the Pacific. . The resolution Is a direct response to the suggestions implicit in the conference of Asiatic and Pacific States to consider the Indonesian question called by Prime Minister Jawaharla Nehru. of the Government of India. in January 1949 and the address of President Quirino. of the Philippine Republic. to the congress on Wednesday in which he urged the free countries of southeast Asia and the Pacific to start the movement for closer cooperation in furtherance of their common interests. President Quirino emphasized his feeling that the free countries of Asia still had to halt the advances of communism by nonmilitary means. He added. "Our problem is therefore basically economic." The policy upon which the European recovery program is based has been proved by time and by experience to be the most enlightened development in American foreign policy since the Monroe Doctrine.