TRUMAN SEEKS MORE MONEY FOR AMERICAN DEFENCE
WASHINGTON, April 1. Authority from Congress to increase expenditure on defence bj 3,375.000,000 dollars was sought by President Truman today. In a letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives (Mr Joseph Martin) the President said that he. had authorised the Secretary of Defence (Mr James Forrestal) to prepare estimates for the expenditure of an additional 3,000,000,0000 dollars on defence establishments. He had also asked Congress to authorise an immediate addition to the defence budget for the next fiscal years of 375.000,000 dollars for. building reserves of strategic and critical motei'inls These additions to the defence budget would increase it to 14,000,000,000 dollars, providing for: (1) Three thousand more aircraft and an increase in air force personnel from 364,000 to 400,000. , (2) An increase in the Army s strength from 542,000 to 782,000 men. (3) An increase in the Navy s strength from 397,000 to 460,000 men and an increase in the Marine Coips strength from 81,000 to 92,000 men. (4) The improvement of radar and other warning systems along the Arctic perimeter.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 April 1948, Page 5
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