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MR. ACHESON: In connection with the testimony for the bill for 1951, there is
this interesting incident which I spoke about last night. On the
2nd of June I was being questioned before the Committee, and was
asked whether I thought- what the expenses would be in the future.
I said that I thought the only honest answer to the question was
that the cost of NATO and the Military Assistance Program would
rise in the years ahead. On the 5th of June, Louis Johnson appeared,
and said that that was an error; that hewas responsible for the
military estimates, and that he could say that they were going to
decline (he had special
).
Exactly sixty days after
that, Louis and I appeared before the same Committee and asked
for four billion dollars more than. (laughter). Now, that's a
little unfair, because in the meantime Korea had happened, but
it isn't altogether unfair.
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MR. ACHESON:
Korea got him off the hook, yes. At this point, I think it is
important to talk, not about Korea, how that happened - we'll do
that at some future meeting - but the effects of Korea on this
whole program. I think we can sum it up this way: that Korea
moved a great many things from the realm of theory and brought
them right into the realm of actuality and the realm of urgency.
I think it gave to the whole planning a sense of urgency, and
a sense of quantity which, in the future, were going to cause us
some trouble, but which was very important to get the thing moving
at that time. The attack in Korea, I think, meant several things
to those of us who were dealing with this matter in the State
Department, and I would like to state what I think they were,
and the n ask Paul to talk about them for a moment before we
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