Since last June, five U.S. allies in Europe have shipped strategic material worth some $6,000,000 to Communist countries, President Eisenhower told Congress last week. Under the Battle Act, the President could have cut off U.S. aid to all five nations—Denmark, France. Italy, Norway and Great Britain. He decided not to do so. Reasons: 1) many of the shipments were contracted before the Battle law went into effect, and 2) cutting off U.S. aid would "clearly be detrimental to the security of the U.S."
The President also:
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