Chart attached to page (533) was submitted and referred to by General Ford in his testimony on page 533, but the comments in small type commencing on p. 533 and running through the conclusions on p. 535 were those of the chart by General Ford, the Department of Defense in rebuttal of the claims made and set forth in 2. On Page 669 Exhibit N was submitted to the Committee in a letter from the Acting (1) Memorandum from Mr. B. A. Monaghan, Department Counselor to the (2) Memorandum summarizing the applicable provisions of law on the authority and responsibility for procurement of ammunition, HEARINGS BEFORE THE PREPAREDNESS SUBCOMMITTEE NO. 2 OF THE EIGHTY-THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON AMMUNITION SHORTAGES IN THE ARMED SERVICES 32501 APRIL 1, 8, 9, 10, 13, 15, 16, 17, AND 20, 1953 Printed for the use of the Committee on Armed Services UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1953 COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, Massachusetts, Chairman STYLES BRIDGES, New Hampshire RALPH E. FLANDERS, Vermont JOHN SHERMAN COOPER, Kentucky RICHARD B. RUSSELL. Georgia PHILIP K. ALLEN, Chief Clerk PREPAREDNESS SUBCOMMITTEE NO. 2-AMMUNITION SHORTAGES IN THE ARMED SERVICES MARGARET CHASE SMITH, Maine, Chairman ROBERT C. HENDRICKSON, New Jersey HARRY FLOOD BYRD, Virginia ESTES KEFAUVER, Tennessee FRED B. RHODES, Chief Counsel II CONTENTS Page Alexander, Hon. Archibald S., former Under Secretary of the Army.. Almond, Lt. Gen. Edward M., United States Army (retired). Collins, Gen. J. Lawton, Chief of Staff, United States Army. 589 403 companied Maj. Gen. E. L. Ford). McNeil, Hon. Wilfred J., Assistant Secretary of Defense Comptroller Medaris, Col. J. B., special assistant to the Chief of Ordnance (ac- 455 Reeder, Maj. Gen. William O., United States Army (retired), (ac- companied Lt. Gen. George H. Decker and Lt. Gen. Williston B. Stevens, Hon. Robert T., Secretary of the Army. Van Fleet, Gen. James A., United States Army (retired). |