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In the same week the U.S. looked to its military power. Defense Secretary James Forrestal urged one of the biggest defense budgets the U.S. has ever had in peacetime. Despots, he warned, move only when they detect weakness in their neighbors. Hitler had once said: "Our enemies are little worms...
The rearmament program which Defense Secretary Forrestal laid down before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week was described by him as a "minimum necessity" of U.S. military strength. Its immediate objective was to boost the armed forces to a new total of 1,734,000 men. The breakdown:
On top of that had come the report of Defense Secretary James Forrestal. Returning from his conference with top military strategists in Key West (TIME, March 22), Forrestal had gone to the White House to present two sober conclusions, which added up to one & the same conclusion: the U.S. must...
The other conclusion was that even U.S. support of the Brussels pact (see INTERNATIONAL) would not prevent the rape of Western Europe unless U.S. military strength were increased sharply. Like Smith, Forrestal urged passage of U.M.T. He added a request for selective service, to fill the ranks until U.M.T. could...
Forrestal's urgent report was the final pressure behind the President's call for selective service and U.M.T. The decision had been taken after long consultation between White House, State Department and Defense heads. The decision was to commit the U.S. to full military support of Western Union...