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...week. Truman stood firm for his reduced budget, then made a final concession by adding on $4 billion. And so, after long argument, Defense Secretary Robert Lovett settled for about $49 billion, $10 billion less than the armed services considered necessary to support the planned rate of U.S. defense buildup...
...yield, as others had. They expected an early peace; they could feel it in the air and in their bones. Another school of thought holds that the Communists never intend to reach final agreement, that they are using the truce conferences as a ruse to protect their buildup for a crushing offensive, just as the Chinese Reds, while fighting the Nationalists in the civil war, had made treacherous use of truces to gather strength for the next attack. The pessimists point to the Red buildup which is still going on. The optimists in high places at Panmunjom, at Tokyo...
...decision was sure to bring a protest from Russia & Co. against "unilateral treaty revision." In reply, the West would simply point to Russia's own little buildup of the armed forces of such ex-enemy nations as Hungary, Rumania and East Germany in defiance of treaties...
...military strength," writes MacArthur. "Only in rare instances have his views been sought or considered in the shaping of high policy governing the conduct of war or plans to secure the peace." MacArthur finds civilian control of the military especially important in the light of the present enormous peacetime buildup of the armed forces...
What did the Red buildup portend? There are two plausible deductions: 1) that the enemy expects a smashing U.N. offensive-if the truce talks at Panmunjom fail-and is readying his defenses against it; 2) that he is mounting an offensive of his own. Despite the talk at Panmunjom and in the world's capitals, all was not entirely quiet on the Korean front...