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  Hearings on the President's request were conducted by subcommit-
tees of the .House Appropriations Committee between December 1
and December 14. On December 1, Secretary of Defense Marshall,
Deputy Secretary Lovett, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff testified be-
fore the Special Subcommittee on National Defense Appropriations.
General Omar N. Bradley, Chairman of the JCS, presented an ex-
tensive statement off the record. For the open portion of these pro-
ceedings, see Second Supplemental Appropriations Bill for 1951"
Hearings Before Subcommittees of the Committee on Appropria-
tions, House of Representatives (81st Cong., 2nd sess.).
  Between December 9 and 19, the Senate Committee on Appropria-
tions also held hearings on the request for additional funds. Marshall,
Lovett, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff again testified; see' Second Sup-
plemental Appropriations Bill, 1951: Hearings Before the Commit-
tee on Appropriations, United States Senate (81st Cong, ,2nd sess.),
  Following its Christmas recess, Congress approved the funds re-
quested. President Truman signed the Second Supplemental Appro-
priations Act, 1951, on January 6,1951 (64 Stat. 1223).



Menwrandum by the Ambassador at Large (Jessup)- to the Executive
         Secretary of the National Security Council (Lay))2

 SECRET                            WASHINGTON, December 1, 1950.
 Subject: Proposed NSC Study of Manpower
   It has perhaps long been apparent to all of us that manpower
 resources, their availability and utilization, pose a, problem of greatest
 importance to our national security. Because of the importance of
 this problem, I have attempted to put down in this memorandum a
 'few random thoughts which I hope may elicit further discussion by
 the Senior Staff with a view to the preparation of a report to the
 Council on this subject.
   Any consideration of -the manpower problem at the present time
 immediately brings :to mind our needs for military manpower. It
 seems quite obvious that we may not be as fortunate in our sources
 of military manpower in any future conflict as we were in the past.
 I am led to believe, therefore, that we should plan to make the best
 possible use of such manpower as may be available to us. In all likeli-
 hood we may not in time of war have available large contributions
   Department of State Representative on the Senior Staff of the National
 Security Council.
   2Circulated to the members of the Senior Staff by Lay on December 4.
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