868.00/9–447: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Embassy in Greece
Gama No. 168. War Dept has asked our concurrence Livesay cable No. L155, USAGG Athens, dated August 29, proposing with your approval increase Air Force expenditure of $4,500,000.
Dept prepared on receipt your advice to approve on understanding that proposed increase will be effected within $135,000,000 now allocated to military portion of program and increase of 1,000 Air Force personnel within presently approved ceiling on overall strength armed forces.
Please advise whether proposal has your approval on this basis and how it will modify balance of military program.1
- Governor Griswold, in telegram Amag 191, September 6, approved the proposal provided that the increase in air force personnel would be over and above the present ceiling for the armed forces. The Department, in telegram Gama 187, September 9, concurred. (868.00/9–647)↩