Department of Defense Appropriations for 1957: Office of the Secretary of Defense, Interservice Activities, Language Changes: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session |
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... question to- day . It is too serious a question for partisanship . PRESENT DANGER OF WAR Naturally , the total amount of the budget requested for defense indicates the degree of danger in our situation . Inasmuch as you have asked here ...
... question to- day . It is too serious a question for partisanship . PRESENT DANGER OF WAR Naturally , the total amount of the budget requested for defense indicates the degree of danger in our situation . Inasmuch as you have asked here ...
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... question - Is the United States outproducing Russia in airpower today ? Secretary WILSON . You have to tell me- Mr. CANNON . See , you will not answer the question . Say yes or no . Secretary WILSON . I cannot answer it . Mr. CANNON ...
... question - Is the United States outproducing Russia in airpower today ? Secretary WILSON . You have to tell me- Mr. CANNON . See , you will not answer the question . Say yes or no . Secretary WILSON . I cannot answer it . Mr. CANNON ...
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... question , If Russia attacks us , and that is the only reason why we are providing this money , how will she attack ? With what forces and from what direction ? Secretary WILSON . Actually , there is no way of knowing exactly what ...
... question , If Russia attacks us , and that is the only reason why we are providing this money , how will she attack ? With what forces and from what direction ? Secretary WILSON . Actually , there is no way of knowing exactly what ...
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... question . I see we are told in the press that you have been selling a large amount of surplus materiel and that about half of it is being sold abroad and is turning up in the hands of the enemy . It is going behind the Iron Curtain and ...
... question . I see we are told in the press that you have been selling a large amount of surplus materiel and that about half of it is being sold abroad and is turning up in the hands of the enemy . It is going behind the Iron Curtain and ...
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... question , a desperately important problem . I should like to have you comment on that , Secretary Wilson . Secretary WILSON . Well , we are pushing our technology in new weapons in all kinds of ways to strengthen our defense . Your ...
... question , a desperately important problem . I should like to have you comment on that , Secretary Wilson . Secretary WILSON . Well , we are pushing our technology in new weapons in all kinds of ways to strengthen our defense . Your ...
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activities Admiral BURKE Admiral RADFORD Air Force aircraft appropriation Army atomic budget BURGESS capability carrier Chairman Chiefs of Staff civilian combat command committee Congress contracts correct cost DEANE Department of Defense Discussion divisions effective enlisted equipment feel field figures fiscal year 1957 fleet FLOOD FORD going guided missiles improved increase inventory Joint Chiefs June 30 Korea Korean war MAHON manpower Marine Corps ment military departments military personnel MILLER million mobilization National Guard naval Navy nuclear officers operations overseas PATE percent present problem procurement question recommendations record reduced reenlistment request requirements research and development Reserve Forces responsibility RIDGWAY SCRIVNER Secretary BRUCKER Secretary of Defense Secretary QUARLES Secretary THOMAS Secretary WILSON SHEPPARD ships SIKES situation Soviet statement stock fund strength submarines talking TAYLOR thing tion United weapons WIGGLESWORTH World War II
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Page 387 - General as totalitarian, fascist, communist, or subversive, or as having adopted a policy of advocating or approving the commission of acts of force or violence to deny other persons their rights under the Constitution of the United States...
Page 387 - I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion : So help me God.
Page 261 - Group and assure its responsiveness to the needs of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Office of the Secretary of Defense for operations analysis.
Page 285 - We affirm, in the interests of world peace, that if there is a renewal of the armed attack, challenging again the principles of the United Nations, we should again be united and prompt to resist. The consequences of such a breach of the armistice would be so grave that, in all probability, it would not be possible to confine hostilities within the frontiers of Korea.
Page 39 - Staff, the Chiefs of Staff of the Army and Air Force, the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps in overseas areas on attache or mission aircraft.
Page 309 - When questioned, should I become a prisoner of war, I am bound to give only name, rank, service number, and date of birth. I will evade answering further questions to the utmost of my ability. I will make no oral or written statements disloyal to my country and Its allies or harmful to their cause.
Page 223 - State, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Air Force, the...
Page 432 - I will not add here to the testimony that the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have...
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