APPROPRIATION BILL FOR 1942 HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE SEVENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS 696810 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS EDWARD T. TAYLOR, Colorado, Chairman CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri J. BUELL SNYDER, Pennsylvania DAVID D. TERRY, Arkansas ROSS A. COLLINS, Mississippi VINCENT F. HARRINGTON, Iowa JOHN TABER, New York RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, Massachusetts WILLIAM P. LAMBERTSON, Kansas D. LANE POWERS, New Jersey J. WILLIAM DITTER, Pennsylvania FRANCIS H. CASE, South Dakota MARCELLUS C. SHEILD, Clerk SUBCOMMITTEE ON WAR DEPARTMENT J. BUELL SNYDER, Pennsylvania, Chairman DAVID D. TERRY, Arkansas II D. LANE POWERS, New Jersey ALBERT J. ENGEL, Michigan FRANCIS H. CASE, South Dakota MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT APPROPRIATION BILL FOR 1942 HEARINGS CONDUCTED BY THE SUBCOMMITTEE, MESSRS. J. BUELL SNYDER (CHAIRMAN), DAVID TERRY, JOE STARNES, ROSS A. COLLINS, JOHN H. KERR, GEORGE H. MAHON, D. LANE POWERS, ALBERT J. ENGEL, AND FRANCIS CASE, OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, IN CHARGE OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION BILL FOR THE YEAR 1942, ON THE DAYS FOLLOWING, NAMELY: MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1941. STATEMENT of gen. GeoRGE C. MARSHALL, CHIEF OF STAFF; ACCOMPANIED BY MAJ. GEN. G. H. BRETT, AIR CORPS; MAJ. GEN. C. M. WESSON, ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT; MAJ. GEN. E. B. GREGORY, QUARTERMASTER GENERAL; COL. A. E. BROWN, GENERAL STAFF; LT. COL. C. G. HELMICK, GENERAL STAFF; LT. COL. E. H. BROOKS, GENERAL STAFF; COL. F. W. BROWNE, FINANCE DEPARTMENT; AND MAJ. GEN. G. K. HEISS, GENERAL STAFF Mr. SNYDER. General, we are ready to go into the Department's 1942 estimates of appropriations. I might say at the outset, however, that I feel almost like apologizing to you for taking you away from your desk, because all of us appreciate the Herculean job you have. General MARSHALL. We are very happy to be here, Mr. Chairman. Mr. SNYDER. Of course, a budget well over $6,000,000,000 is a matter of very considerable importance to the Army and to the taxpayers, and I am sure you will agree warrants a general justification by no less a personage than yourself. Much has transpired since you last appeared before this subcommittee and very large sums have been appropriated for the Army through supplemental measures. The regular 1941 bill, as it became law, carried $1,499,322,322. That sum has since been swelled to $8,480,594,270. I am going to ask you, General, to give us a sort of recapitulation of the objects to which that sum is being applied, and then proceed with a general explanation of the 1942 submissions. GENERAL STATEMENT OF GEN. GEORGE C. MARSHALL, CHIEF OF STAFF, WAR DEPARTMENT General MARSHALL. Mr. Chairman, I am glad to appear before this committee in order to make at least a partial report on the progress made since my testimony last spring in the Army development of the 1 |