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...able to do all of the things it wants to do at the same time." The Soviet economy may well be strained beyond capacity in attempting simultaneously to produce nuclear weapons, keep five million men under arms, provide China with the tools and talent for a grandiose industrial buildup, and raise its own living standards...
Partial answers can be found by examining the effect of cutbacks made since the end of the Korean war. From the peak of the Korean buildup to the post-Korea low last fall, the annual rate of Defense Department military spending dropped from $46 billion to $32.8 billion; it is now running at a rate of $36 billion, and will probably drop to $34 billion in fiscal 1956. Yet despite the $13.2 billion drop...
...sold the valuable Charbonnages du Tonkin coal mines to the Communists for the mere promise of 1,000,000 tons of coal- to be mined and delivered later on. Sainteny is talking with the Communists about electrical and rail equipment, cloth, cars, drugs and food; he advocates an economic buildup for the new Communist state, in token of what he calls "a shining example of coexistence...
...agency, called the International Cooperation Administration, should be created within the State Department to handle the details. ¶ Heard "a general roundup of world developments" by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who flew to Augusta for lunch. Dulles said that one subject discussed was the recent buildup of military power by the Chinese Communists opposite Formosa. Questioned by reporters, Dulles said that the buildup is "more intensive and more broad in its scope than anything we have recently known . . . This indicates a higher degree of [Communist] capability than we anticipated a few weeks...
Unpleasant Alternatives. The estimate of Communist intent is based on an observable military buildup and on corroborating intelligence from top-secret sources. On the China mainland facing Quemoy, the Reds are moving into revetted positions heavy artillery of 155 mm. and up. There are some 250 observable positions along a semicircle at point-blank ranges of from 2½ to five miles. At Foochow, the jump-off point for a Matsu invasion, the buildup is also apparent...