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"/Such aid should be provided on the following
pasis:/* ‘
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Through and after FY 1958 provide France
with grant aid, in an amount determined in acce-dance
with the criteria established in paragraph 17 of NSC
5707/8, for advanced weapons systems from the NATO
regional program./#*
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Through FY 1958 provide France conventional
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military assistance on a grant basis./*
After FY 1958 provide France conven-
tional military assistance on a reimbursable basis
(possibly including payment in francs) to the max-
imum extent practicable. If such reimbursable assistance will not meet essential French requirements, be prepared, in the light of the availability of U. S. resources and over-all demands upon
them, to provide France with a limited amount of
grant aid for the above purpose./*
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Unless by the end of FY 1958 France has
denonstrated that it will redeploy its NAT0-comaiitted forces from Algeria to continental Europe and
will provide substantially for the maintenance and
nodernization of its conventional forces, review
U. S. aid policy toward France./*"
"® State proposes deletion.”
Mr. Cutler pointed out that the Department of State had sug-
gested that the bracketed portions of paragraph 41 be déleted, and,
further to illustrate the significance of the bracketed sections, referred to the Firanciel Appendix. He seid that the majority of the
Planning Board believed that it was essential, in order to provide
appropriate guidance in formilsting Military Assistance Frograms for
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FY 1959, that the detailed guidance to which the State Derertzant ob-
jected should be included in the paper. He also pointed out that the
Joint Chiefs of Staff agreed with the Department of State in proposing deletion of the bracketed sections of peregraph 41. He gave the
reasons set forth by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but said he felt it
was his duty to the majority of the Plenning Board to point out that
the ergument of the Joint Chiefs--that it would be inadvisable to make
a@ precise determination of aid requiremznts over this extendedperiod
of time--seemed to overlook the fact that the policy guidance beyond
FY 1955 was valid only in the event that France demonstrated, by the
end of FY 1958, that it would redeploy NATO-committed divisions from
Algeria to continental Europe and would provide for the maintenance
of its conventional forces.
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