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In die budget, of course, the President was dealing with spending plans for a fiscal year which will not begin until July 1.
Not everyone in offical Washington, and, from their guarded statements, not even all of our defense chiefs in the Pentagon, are satisfied that we are doing all we can and should do to deter the Kremlin from the rashness of attack, or to counteract such assult, should it come. These critics, with varying credentials as defense experts, contend that, (a) we should be spending more on Argent research toward more powerful and accurate guided missiles! (b) we should concentrate on I building more at the missiles we now know how to build; (c) we should concentrate on building up our so-call ed ‘^conventional”, or non-nuclear, forces because the chances are greater for a limited war than for an all-out atomic battle, or, (d), t}i|t we should do several of these things plus some others.
Be that'as it may, we shall have to depend on what we have if we are forced *nto the eventuality we pray against.
Published data ii to the effect that the United States has five divisions of troops in West Germany and that 16 other divisions, composed cf West German, British, French, Dutch, Belgian aand Canadian forces, are available there. . In East Germany there are said to be 22 Soviet divisions and 7 East German divisions.
Oiir main deterrent to general
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