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we ought to get out of it in the long run is an effective demand abroad. 

 We are trying to build up the EGA countries so they will be trading 

 countries and we are hoping that in the interim now we can get them 

 in the habit of buying some of these good commodities out of the 

 United States so tliat we can have an effective demand for them after 

 the period of ECA. 



Mr. AxDRESEx. They are not doing that. 



Mr. Pace. Pardon me a minute. In the interest of time, I am 

 going to have to ask that questions be confined to ]Mr. Kline's state- 

 ment. We cannot possibly get off on ECA in an hour, if the gentle- 

 man from Minnesota does not mind. 



Mr. Andresex. I do not mind except that here we have the Secre- 

 tary proposing now that he is to put his plan into operation on pork. 

 I think Mr. Kline has expressed himself on that. 



Mr. Hope. Will the gentleman yield to me for one moment '. 



Mr. AxDRESEX. I will be glad to yield the floor. I do not want to 

 take any more time. 



Mr. Pace. I do not mean to take the floor away from the gentleman, 

 but I am sure that the gentleman appreciates that if each of us is 

 to take time to go into the ECA, we will be unable to finish. 



Mr. Axdresex. I have one more observation. 



Mr. Hope. I would like to have the gentleman yield to me before 

 he yields the fl.oor for otlier questions. 



Mr. Axdresex. I will do tiiat. I want the record to show that 575.- 

 000,000 dollars of ECA money was given to the 19 Marshall j^lan coun- 

 tries to buy wheat, flour, and other food products in Canada since April 

 3, 1948. That program is being continued at a time when we have a 

 surplus of wheat in this countrj', when the price is being supported by 

 support loans on wheat, and when our flx)ur mills in the United States 

 are running only about half time and people are not able to work in 

 those mills. The cost to the American taxpayers is staggering. 



I am afraid, Mr. Kline, that under your suggestion, the benefi.t of our 

 price support is being shifted to other countries where they are all 

 producing surpluses at the expense of the American farmer and the 

 American taxpayer. • 



I yield to Mr. Hope. 



Mr. Hope. A few moments ago, Mr. Kline, in response to a question 

 by ^Ir. Andresen about the matter of hogs, you read the j)rovision 

 relating to subsidy payments in the resolutions adopted at your an- 

 nual convention, I believe. 



Mr. Klixe. On December 16. 1948. 



]Mr. Hope. That resokition expressed disfavor for that method of 

 price support. You have offered in the statement you made the other 

 day a number of suggestions for amendments to the Aiken bill but 

 nothing was said at that time about the provision in the Aiken bill 

 relating to payments, which apparently your organization does not 

 approve. 



I would just like to have that matter clarified. Do j^ou favor con- 

 tinuing in the Aiken bill, if it continues to be the law of the land, a 

 provision for paj^ments? Further, if that provision is retained, what 

 is your idea as to how it should be administered? 



Mr. Klixe. Let me answer the first queston first with regard to the 

 attitude of the organization. I could also read from the resolutions 

 a concrete statement of support for the Agricultural Act of 1948. It 



