The President's News Conference
04/20/1949
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The United States must supply this assistance.
We are the only country able to provide that help.
The assistance that I am recommending for Greece and Turkey amounts to little more than 1/10 of 1 percent of this investment.
Greece is in desperate need of financial and economic assistance to enable it to resume purchases of food, clothing, fuel and seeds.