"General Marshall's proposals are indeed to be supported," said Seymour E. Harris, professor of Economics, in a statement released yesterday, "even if the total expenditures are $25 billion a year for a period of five years.

"That is a small price to pay," he went on, for stopping the spread of Communism and reducing the chances of war." The last war, Harris said, cost this country 100,000 lives and $350 billion.

Professor Harris asserted that it will be "especially necessary to help the countries of Western Europe, for they are the ones that can still be saved from being pulled into the Russian orbit and from turning to Communism as the only way out."

The low economic state of Europe, he emphasized, is a threat to peace. "When people are hungry they naturally turn to the government for help. That means that the chances of larger government control and ultimately communism are greater the hungrier people are."