Page:Pentagon-Papers-Part V. B. 3. a.djvu/189



France will be enabled to adopt in Europe the active role which her weakness has undermined in the preceding period.

9. Accordingly it is recommended that the National Security Council agree to an increase in aid to France in the current fiscal year by an amount not exceeding $400 million above that already committed, provided only that (a) the Joint Chiefs of Staff inform the National Security Council that in their view the French plan holds the promise of military success; and (b) the Director of the Foreign Operations Administration ascertain the available sources within currently appropriated funds and, the extent to which a special supplementary appropriation will be necessary when Congress reconvenes in January 1954. TOP SECRET Rh