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U.S. Rearmament Programme Record Peacetime Appropriations For Services Soviet: Alarming Menace GLUBB
To Security Of Country PASHA'S
Washington, June 2.
was
record peacetime Army-Air Force Appropriation Bill passed by the House of Representatives today and sent to the Senate. The measure provides $6,509,939,000 for the two Services for the new fiscal year starting July 1.
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The House of Representatives is due to debate to- morrow another record peacetime defence money
$3,686,733,250-measure- financing the Navy for the next fiscal year, The funds included for the Army, Navy and Air
Force total $10,196,672,250.
The House Appropriations These Soviet military cap- Committee also called a meet-ubilities, even when viewed quite ing tontorrow morning to draft Inpart from their intentions, pre- mensure financing the foreign sent an alarming menace to the
security of the United States. aid programme.
"Never
been. have we
In n The debate on the Army-Air
Kreater need of a clearly defined Force bill tasted less than two
and
supported mil- adequately hours and fewer than 50 Memnitary policy for the United States." bers took the floor during 1- discussion, which was contined to explanations of the bill's pro- vions.
The bulget for $10,198,872,250 had been recommended to Con- grens-earlier today by the House Appropriations Cuenmittee.
the
General Bradley said that if war came, the forces provided in the bill would he "only a plug tut we rallied ἐπ the dyke suficient and effective reserves."
The Secretary Of Defence. Mr. James Forrestal, told the 'Committee the "international situation had deteriorated and "time flows against us."
more
Nazi Medical Men Hanged
Nuremberg, June 2. Beven former Gorman med. icel teaders, Including Dr. Kari Brandt, one of Hitler's personal physicians. were hanged today at Landsberg, near Munich, for murder, at- rocities and
other inhumane acte.
The charges arose from the Nazi genocide programme and so-called medies! experiments In high-altitude conditions, freezing, typhus and other "tests" at Dachau and other concentration camps.-Reuter.
of our country either on the us- sumption that war will not come f all or that it will be deferred for any particular number of
"
STATUS
London, June 2.
The status of Brigadier Glubb Pasha, the British Commander of the Arab Legion, was explained by Mr. Ernest Bevin, the Foreign in the House of Secretary, Commons today.
A Labour Member, Mr. Emrys Bevin's Hughes, n erltle of Mr. foreign policy, asked on what conditions Brigadier Glubb Pasha had been loaned or seconded to |King Abdullah, and what instruc- tions had been given to this officer recently.
The Foreign Secretary repiled that Brigadier Glubb Pasha was, up to May 15, an officer in the Colonial Administrative Service seconded to Transjordan from the Palestine Administration. At the
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He had chosen to sever his con- nections with the Service and had remained in the employment of the Transjordan Government. he Chief of the Army Field Mr. Hughes: Has the Foreign Forces, General Jacob Devers, Secretary any information whether bluntly told the Committee the this officer has been directing existing military strength was military operations in Palestine? Inadequate. "We have been Mr. Bevin replied that he must working on A shoe-string," have notice of thai question.- he said.
Reuter.
The total authorised strength is. 1,786,500 mien. This compares
Soviet mili with the reported
War Possibility iary strength of four million men, which the Army Chief of Staff, Many of the Army-Air Force General Omar N. Bradley, joid cuts were almed at civilian per- Committee represented an sonnet and the Committee insist- alarming mente to the security ed the reduction would not im- of the United States."
pair the military's efficiency. The The
recommendations were
Commilite pronised that contained in two separate appro- money would be provided later priation bills whose rombined necessary. total is $505 million greater than
General Bradley said the pre- the Services
1his are spending
of armed hostilities car Nation
The Committee also recom- year and more than three times either by a deliberate or accl-
a $301 million pro- As much as the regular budgets dental incident is a plausible pos-mended for the Armed Forces In 1941, sibily so long
armedgramme to build up the civilian DR GUT forces face each when the United States was pre-
on riserves of other
the Army and Air
National The haring for war.
opposing frontiers in this strain-Force. ed atmosphere of distrust and quota is $240 million, the organis- ed Other Ranks and Officers Re- tension."
serves $100 million, and the Re- serve Officers Training Corps $21 million
for
its courses in schools
Both Suns recommended were In 'addition to about $3,000,000 Congress recently gave the Ser- vices to buy aircraft,
New Ships
nan had asked.
bill
The Army Chief of Staff said that if the United States hud to "hop. skip and Jump every time the Soviets rustle a paper we shall place ourselves hopelessly at their feet while they call the (une."
Mr. Kenneth Royal, the Army
Air Training
Guard
and colleges.
The total is $133,075 larger
Congress voted
last year
than
for the civilian branches.
The Air National Guard is alm-
Must Go On Paying Debts
must
Washington, June 3. European countries continue to pay their debts to the U.S. even though they are
Secretary of the Treasury, John Snyder, said today.
The Committee recommended a eut of 8.1 per cent or $047,903, 800 for the Army and Air Force from the amounts President Tru-Secretary, professed an "abiding ing at 341,000 ron in receiving E.R.P. aid, the
The Navy
furnished faith that in some honourable The money approved for the Re- Omeers Training Corps money to start work on'a 65,way our nation can avoid war." serve
But he added a warning that would allow of 30,000 students to the 000-ton aircraft carrier,
training largest in the world, and on under the present world condi- take advanced officer "kliler ship"
tions "we cannot risk the safety work.-Reuter. to combat sub. marines, two high-speed sub- marines, and two "entirely nows aubmarines.
Also pruvkled were funds to convert a carrier and two sub- marines into vessels whose no- ture was kept secret,
The Committee was told that Russli hod at least 250 sub- marines.
ADMIRAL FRANK ON FLEET MOVES
The $6,500,930,000 recommend- ed for the Army and Air Force The is intended to support a military |force of 1,234,500 men (exclusive of the Navy and Marine Corps) and to finance a. Air Force for which Congress has already this
year provided approximately
$2,300,000,000.
Washington, June 2.
United States Fleet now in the Mediterrancan is there for the dual purpose of warning "would-be trouble makers" not to try to over- run any of the free countries of Europa and to be ready to remove American forces if the worse come to the worst.
This was disclosed today in possess, whereby
to re-
we
may act
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Snyder told the Senate Appro priations Committee that it "would not be wise to declare a debt moratorium, **
Such a movohe sald, "would Impair the
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He estimated that after 1952, countries "should the European be able to operate their economies without extraordinary assistance from the United States."
Snyder appeared before the committee to ask for an at ap- propriation of $4,245,000,000. The full E.R.F. progranume will call for expenditures estimated at $5,300,000,000-Associated Press.
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Coupled with the funds re- maining from previous appro- priations, today's action makes available to the Army and Air testimony released by the House swiftly to prevent the overrun- Force for the year starting July of Representatives, which was ning of critical areas by
by
the enemy. given two weeks ago 1 & total of $12,438,731,829.
"All the ships we have in Iron Fist
Chief of Naval Operations, Ad-
the forward areza ord manned with sufficient men to act. In The Army experts to have a miral Louis E. Denfeld, who
Any
The reason emergency. men by said the Mediterranean Fleet of strength of 540,000
we have this task force in the July 1 and the Air Force 392, one carrier, three cruisers and
Northolt, June 3. be nug- Mediterranean is to be avail- 508. reaching their peak 10 destroyers could
able in the event that our so-
Two fair-haired boys, left in atrength a year hence,
mented quickly.
cupation A 12-ship task force headed by
forces have to be Prague by their parents, told The estimates of Soviet Rus-
evacuated.
their grandfather, who Was sis's armed strength were given the carrler Kearsage left Norfolk,
"We have, In Europe, occupa- looking after them, that they to the Committee by General Virginia, iate yesterday
forces in Germany, Bradley, who said: "The Soviet lleve the vessels now on fluty in tion armed
we have forces,
Trieste; ap- the Mediterranean.
missions in took sandwiches and walked a with on proximate total of four
"Not only is the presence of Greece and Turkey; and million
these long way-as far as the United ships in men and 14,000 planes, provide a
there to be able not certain troubled ships are substantial iron first for the ag-spots of the world today a clear only to evacuate these personnel States zone frontier of Ger-
다 gressive policies of Moscow.
indication to would-be trouble in case of an emergency, but many.
There Mila, aged 10 und Jan, These forces are capable of makers of our determination to also as a show of force 10 pre-aged eight, said "We want to go
pence," swiftly overrunning most of Eu- maintain the
Admiral vent any nation from also the any action which they rope, the Near and Middle East, Denfeld said. "It is
might to mum and dad. They have left Korea and even China.
means, and the only means, we take if our ships were not there," us and gone to England."
Other testimony showed the The American authorities put and last Army planned to use 272,000 them into an aircraft
arrived at Northolt men. Overseas and 318.000 at right they
and were met by their parents Its mobile striking force here Their father, a major with the would include three Infantry free Czech forces during the war, divisions, an armoured division, and their mother cried with joy an airborne division, two regl when they saw them tumbling out the plane. "We still have re- monta armoured cavalry,
four of regimental combat teams, 12 field latives in Prague and it would be artillery. battalions, 40 anti-air- most unwise to give my name," craft battalions, two chemical said the father-Reuter. mortar battalions, and support-
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Industrial menopoly concerns. It averely criticised the "unfair at titude" of the Amariean counsel at the International War Crimes Costrt in Tokyo and said the 28 defendants now on trial did not London, Juns.2. exhaust the chief Japanese war The Russian news agency, Tass, criminala. reported tonight that the Hun- "It is quite obvious that many garian Government today recognia of the chief war criminals, have ed Israel The report was distri-been hidden from trial and are at bulpd in London by the Soviet large instead of being in the monitor-Associated Press, Bock-Reuter,
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