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was influenced particularly by testimony that it will be physically impossible for us ito actually deliver to our allies during the current fiscal year much more than five billion dollars of military supplies. There is an unexpended balance of ten billion dollars of MSA funds in addition to this year’s appropriation and even allowing for the need to let contracts long in advance, I felt there Would be no Shortage of essential funds as a result of the cut I advocated._:_
At our luncheon the Presdent apologized for bringing up a business matter on such an accasifen, saying this was the first time he had done so. He said he had no desire to put pressure on any member of the Senate but wanted us to hear General Gruenther explain the progress made in forming a NATO Army and the vital importance of that program as part of our effort to prevent another world war.
General Gruenther said that while Russian land and air forces still had numerical superiority in Europe, the forces provided by the twelve nations which signed the Nato Treaty have developed to a point where they would not be a “pushover” if attacked. He also spoke of developments in, our favor including the almost unparalledel revolt of unarmed workers in East Germany, ithe purge of Beria in Russia and other evidences of domestoic trouble in Russia and her satellites.
We were told that although thej
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