ALTERNATIVES FACING THE UNITED STATES
1 Reeeived Friday, 7.0 p.m. WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. 3 The Secretary of the Army, Mr. i Kenneth Royall, warned the Senate r Foreign Relations Committee today that United States had a choice hej tween the Marshall plan and irnmedi- > ate peacetime conscription to rehuild . the fighting forces. Giving evidence on the European ; | recovery programme, he told the com- . j mittee that he would he lacking in j candour if he faiied to put those ; alteraatives squarely hefore Congress 'j in its consideration of the European . | programme. Voluntary enlistments I i and the present 11,000,000,000 dol- ! j lars annual rate of Ameriean military , j spending, . would he inadequate to i i meet the situation if the United ■ 1 States let the European nations col- ; 1 lapse into Communism. f The Secretary of Defence, Mr. j James Forrestal, told the House [ Foreign Affairs Committee that if the Marshall plan were rejected, the United States might have to spend 17,000,000,000 doilars yearly ror ; arms — the sum originally asked by ' the administration for the full period j of the European recovery programme. i Mr. Forrestal emphasised that the j plan's purpose was to prevent war. and not restrain 'or dominate any group of nations.
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Chronicle (Levin), 17 January 1948, Page 5
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