July 2, 1953

Sen authorizes $5,318,732,500; orders end of econ aid in '56 and mil aid in '57; approves yr longer for mil after Saltonstall plea; rejects Long move to recommit bill and cut funds; approves McClellan proposal to use offshore procurement funds for farm surplus removal; rejects Kennedy-Goldwater move to condition aid to France; program's unpopularity seen in Mansfield and George stands for early end; Taft, Ferguson, Maybank and Schoeppei reserve right to vote for cuts in final appropriation; aid breakdown

top USSR officials, E Ger, to attend; Zarubin and Malik in Berlin; speculation on agenda

$30-million Cross-County Center planned, Yonkers; leading NY dept stores, chains, and 2 banks lease sites; S G Atlas comments; map

Robertson mission disclosed to have been assured shortly after arrival that Eisenhower pledges met all SK requests, later confronted with old 'unreasonable demands; mission makes clear to Rhee that US will not be deterred from trying to reach truce with Communists, that mission is final one to conf with Rhee before truce is signed, that Robertson is authorized to spell out final and full US terms in return for SK cooperation; Pyun denies Rhee changed stand on Eisenhower terms; Robertson reptdly offers terms essentially same as those in Eisenhower lr; Rhee, in note to Robertson, reptdly asks 90-day limit on pol conf, resumption of war if conf fails to reach accord; Robertson reptdly rejects Rhee demands but assures SK that US would weigh resuming war if Communists fail to bargain in good faith or if Communists use pol talks to screen mil build-up and infiltrate SK with agents; Robertson delivers new note to Rhee

heir presumptive Prince Azzedine Bey assassinated; was Bey's cousin and pro-French; death linked to Neo-Destour bid for talks