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Truman budget $40.7 billion Wilson budget 35.7 " Appropriations Committee budget 34.4 The committee's proposed allocation of funds : Army $12.9 billion Navy 9.3 " Air Force 11 " Taber's committee applauded as "sound and reasonable" Wilson's plan to reduce the Air Force buildup goal from 143 to 120 wings. But where Wilson had concentrated primarily on cutting the Air Force, Taber's men divided their attentions among all three services. They proposed to take another $689 million away from the Army, $398 million from the Navy and Marine Corps and $240 million from the Air Force...
First to testify was Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott, who put up a dutiful but unenthusiastic* defense of Wilson's decision to cut the Air Force buildup target from 143 to 120 wings. The goal of 120 wings by December 1955 was only an "interim" matter, he emphasized, and it might well be raised once Eisenhower's appointees to the Joint Chiefs of Staff had completed their planned review of the whole U.S. military position. And while the Air Force is to be allowed only the manpower and air bases necessary for the 120-wing "interim" goal, aircraft...
...McNeil opposed the program to build the Air Force up to 143 wings by 1956, and advanced the late Admiral Forrest Sherman's arguments that the U.S. should divide defense appropriations among the three services without establishing a specified date when any one of them should complete its buildup...
...member of the party's Politburo, Central Committee and Secretariat, Dahlem headed the East German military buildup, and was East Germany's liaison man to the Cominform. Only two German Communists were bigger: Party General Secretary Walter Ulbricht, who toppled him, and Security Boss Wilhelm Zaisser, who arrested him. His crimes: "Political blindness." He was also charged with having supported Czech Communist Leader Rudolf Slansky, executed as a traitor last year. Warned the official announcement: "The investigation is not over yet." The hyena was still hungry...
...proposition that the only way to prevent or to meet a Soviet atomic attack is to build up U.S. air power with particular emphasis on a strong retaliatory force, i.e., the Strategic Air Command. The Eisenhower defense budget, by striking sharply at plans for the Air Force buildup, seemed to imply either 1) some reservations about that strategic concept, or 2) a decision that, while the concept is right, its execution is unrealistic. The decision to cut back air power would be militarily justified, for instance, by solid evidence that the Soviet threat had never been great enough to warrant...