HERBERT C. BONNER, North Carolina, Chairman HAROLD D. DONOHUE, Massachusetts JOHN F. SHELLEY, California SIDNEY A. FINE, New York WILLIAM C. LANTAFF, Florida CECIL M. HARDEN, Indiana CHARLES B. BROWNSON, Indiana THOMAS B. CURTIS, Missouri Assigned Staff THOMAS A. KENNEDY, General Counsel RAY WARD, Consultant (Bureau of the Budget) HERBERT ROBACK, Staff Member HERBERT SMALL, Associate Counsel LOUISE HARRIS, Clerk 1 Name changed to Committee on Government Operations. July 4, 1952. II CONTENTS VI Page Bedford, Clay, president, Chase Aircraft Co., Inc., member, Advisory Committee on Production Equipment, Office of Defense Mobilization, Finletter, Hon. Thomas K., Secretary of the Air Force; accompanied by Lt. Gen. O. R. Cook, Deputy Chief of Staff, Matériel; and James T. Hill, Jr., general counsel, Air Force_. Hill, James T., Jr., general counsel, United States Air Force--- Lovett, Hon. Robert A., Secretary of Defense; accompanied by Hon. Charles A. Coolidge, Assistant Secretary of Defense; and Roger Kent, general counsel, Department of Defense--- McNeil, Hon. Wilfred J., Assistant Secretary of Defense (Comp- Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by— Bedford, Clay, president, Chase Aircraft Co., Inc., member, Advisory Committee on Production Equipment, Office of Defense Mobilization, consultant to the Secretary of Defense: Changing the relationship of the Secretary of Defense to the Statement on functions of the Munitions Board__. Aircraft Committee Case 55 (spare parts provisioning document Alameda Medical Supply Test (H. Rept. 2330, 82d Cong., 2d sess.) - Excerpts from Federal Supply Management (Overseas Survey) Excerpt from hearings held on the National Security Act of 1947- Excerpt from order of Brig. Gen. Alfred A. Kessler, Jr., United 71 124 Letter from Brig. Gen. Alfred A. Kessler, Jr., United States Air Excerpt from hearings on Federal Supply Management------ 69, 70, 71 Excerpt from hearings on Federal Supply Management (Overseas Excerpt from remarks by H. R. Askins, Assistant Secretary of the 37 Excerpts from Public Law 216_. 34 Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by-Continued Finletter, Hon. Thomas K., Secretary of the Air Force: Chronology of the interchange of the queries, directives, and messages sent between Headquarters, United States Air Force, Estimate of surplus property at hand now and at the peak_ Hill, James T., Jr., general counsel, United States Air Force: 101 93 104 78 72 Excerpt from directives issued by General Kessler, Director of Supply Service, Office of Deputy Chief of Staff of Matériel, Excerpt from July 17, 1951, directive of the Secretary of Defense__ Excerpt from testimony of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower__ Lovett, Hon. Robert A., Secretary of Defense: Department of Defense Directive: May 5, 1952, Charter of the Research and Development Board_ 21 Schedule of actions for activation of the Armed Services Excerpt from Eberstadt committee report_- Excerpt from July 17, 1951, directive‒‒‒‒‒ 170 172 Statistics as to savings effected by the O'Mahoney amendment__ Amendments adopted by the House, April 9, 1952__ Excerpt from House Report No. 1994, Federal Supply Manage- |