ALLIES SHORT OF AMMUNITION
Findings Of Senate Committee (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) (Rec. 10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. A Senate Armed Services Subcommittee said today that the allies of the United States were faced with a shortage of ammunition, primarily because of too little production and failure of the off-shore procurement programme of the United States to measure up to expectations. The sub-committee, of which Senator Margaret Chase Smith (Republican, Maine) is chairman, called for corrective action and recommended a frank discussion between spokesmen for the United States and the allied governments. “Our study warrants the conclusion that our allies’ battlefield expenditures would far surpass their ammunition production if war should come,” the sub-committee said in a report. “We spend thousands of millions of dollars annually to assist our allies to recreate their economies and to strengthen the sinews of their military machines. It is utterly inconsistent that we overlook the key element in this entire defence effort, namely, adequate amounts of ammunition.”
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27556, 13 January 1955, Page 7
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