Speech #820124118

I desire to point out that the senior Senator from Illinois offered an amendment on page 48. line 16. to add $37.500.000 for economic and technical assistance in Africa and the. Near East. In connection with that amount there is authorization to make available $10.000.000 for payment by the United States to the United Nations. under the provisions of the United Nations Palestine Aid Act of 1950. and another $10.000.000 to * assist in the relief of refugees coming into Israel. At the time the Senator offered the amendment to increase the amount by $37.500.000. he assured those who would support his amendment that he planned subsequently to offer an amendment to deduct that amount from another section of the bill providing economic aid or military aid. so that the total amount of the bill would not be increased by $37.500.000. I am offering this amendment because I think many of the Senators who voted for the amendment of the Senator from Illinois were under the impression that in doing so they could approve the transfer without increasing the amount in the bill.