The fight between the President and the Pentagon over the next defense budget ended last week. Truman stood firm for his reduced budget, then made a final concession by adding on $4 billion. And so, after long argument, Defense Secretary Robert Lovett settled for about $49 billion, $10 billion less than the armed services considered necessary to support the planned rate of U.S. defense buildup.
The Navy gets $13 billion plus, the Army $14 billion plus. The Air Force, which is allotted $21 billion, took the biggest cut; they had asked $29 billion. That 8-billion-dollar difference will be chiefly reflected...
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