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... t'i^pwItd: -to" ;-•&• nation Tbarsdaynfehtto eop-£,M-9**t< Uf -f«!e^> *id program |f|U. §gain»t Mi election: y«a* economy iffe-saying fwJd bebetter«6 ; M" to *in the fight against Comma-••^;. niam th«».^,j^jwcj«&aiihlr 1^ tfsf&xn Earlier, Ime President formally •kited Congress to vote $7,900,->«. 000,000 in Oew foreign kid {ttpds. A ' H« wW «T«ry pennyof that is needed to meat • Rufaian threat •gainst the "eurvival of civilixation." ,• >.-• t,\j °~ In that messag*,"Truman said a.poiieyof "r«to , eat"-: -of concenti*fcing on defending.the Western Hemisphere and on building up 4M» and «ir ^nrtop-would ri»e an eventual threat of "bloody battie on onr own shores." This was obviously a reference to the policy advocated by former President Hoover. Many legislators of both parties immediately called for cuts rang ing np t^one-half the total. Chair nan Bicharda ;(D-SC) of the House Foreign Affairs Committee aaid the Administration would be "doing pretty, darn welT'to escape with • billion dollar cut. Senator Bridges of, New Hawipsbire, the Republican leader, predkted re dactions, though "not enough-to cripple the foreign aid program." Truman, in an addrtps broad cast from the White House Thursday night, in effect accused thoee_j who advocate reductions in the program of putting political a*o» twee above concern for the wel-*$* V ^ dlfc! m. Woolrich Asked *±-March Conference v On Ftdtoal Standards W. B. Woolrich, dean of the College of Engineering, will head a special committee of eighteen engineers to meet March 24-25 in Washington, D. C., to discuss standardization of federal hous-•iiy-and building facilities.