ELLIOTT URGES CREDITS FOR NEEDY EUROPEANS

Taking with him the first draft of his report on the overseas findings of the Congressional Committee on Post War Economic Planning, on which he was a consulting expert, William Yandell Elliott, professor of Government, left for Washington last night.

"To disclose any specific proposals in the report would now be premature, however," Elliott stated yesterday before boarding his train. Its content must remain largely a mystery until official release.

Elliott did urge, however, "that we offer immediate, short term, small recovery loans to those countries which are discharging their political commitments according to the Yalta agreements. Whereas we should not make loans of food a political weapon of coercion, we certainly cannot afford to aid any country whose internal affairs are dominated by non-democratic elements."

Professor Elliott's previous wartime position with the War Production Board had obliged him to travel frequently through European countries during hostilities.

With the committee and some high ranking military men, he left for Europe once more last August 31. He had planned to be back in Cambridge for the fall term opening. "But our travel schedule broke down on Russian plane service almost as badly as our digestion did on Cairo water," said Elliott, by way of explaining his late arrival two weeks ago on the Queen Elizabeth.

The daily diet as well as the industrial prosperity of almost all of Europe may depend on the recommendations contained in Elliott's report. The fate of UNRRA of our financial policy to Britain, and of our industrial rehabilitation or demobilization of Germany may all lie between its leather covers.