1952 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE J ames Odo Lay The following-named midshipman, United proclaim the 7-day period beginning May 18, Andrew Yves LeMoal States Naval Academy, for appointment in 1952, as Olympic Week. Edward Jones Leonard the Regular Air Force, in the grade indicated, Yll'illiam Gilmore Lept hien effective June 3, 1952, upon his graduation. The message also announced that the George William Lester, Jr. under the provisions of section 506, Public Senate agrees to the report of the com­ J ames Frederick Link Law 381, Eightieth Congress (Officer Person­ mittee of conference on the disagree­ Nicholas Arthur Liontas nel Act of 1947), subject to physical qualifi­ ing votes of the two Houses on the William Arthur Lusby, Jr. cation, with date of rank to be determined amendments of the Senate to the bill Richard Curtis Lyons by the Secretary of the Air Force:

bill on the floor, and 179 of our Mem­ present, the Federal share is one-half mum of $30 per ehild per month, where bers have signed the petition. I most of the amount in excess of .$20 and up there is only one ehild in a. home '.feceiv­ sincerely urge that every Member of the to$50. ing assistance, .and to a maximum of House interested in the welfare of these With regard to dependent children, $21 each for additional children in the elderly citizens sign this petition at once the Federal Government would be di­ same home. so that this legislation may be brought rectetal amounts The Senate amendments do not con­ .500 miles long. Today the housewife paid in to those the four ass1Sta.nee .cate­ stitute a yardstick .in respect tio the cost cannot find potatoes. Th-at has .cmeurred gories, the direet effect of these amend­ of living. Certa.mzy if we were to aoopt ments would be to increase the average slnce the Gutbr:ea.k of the war m K.orea. a yardstick it would provide for assist­ Many of the~e elderly-people need pota­ recipient's payment by only a littl~ more ance far greater in amou.nt tn_a,n that toes. At the same time, mo:re than 300,- 10 J)ereent. Also m the than included provided by these amendments, which 000,900 dozen eggs have 'been destroyed, classification of l'Ublic assistanee is g_en­ provide for a very meager sum to enable at a cost of millions of oollars to the eral assistanee, which is financed entire­ these people to eke out a ba;re existence. .American taxpayers. It is wrong. ly by state and local funds, and which We could not 1moperJ.y regard amend­ Those who do n@t wish to hav.e th~ gives aid to some 336,000 :persons per ments of this sort, providing for su.ch Federal Government take care Qf these month. If we take this into eonsi~era­ small increases in assistance, as a _yard­ needy persons can always find some tion. the Federal share Qf all public as­ stick. The 53-eent dollar has cut in half excuse. I eaU the attention -0f my col­ sistance is reduced to 46.6 pereent. old-age assistance. High living eosts leagues to the fact that before this -ses­ These amendments make no new re­ make their problem crii.tieal sion ends we will have an opportunity to quirements of the states, except to pro­ These elderly persons are "up against show by-0ur votes whether w.e are wim.ng hibit them from reducing their sha~ it " and something ,should be done at t;o have the Federal Government take of the load. We certainly should not olice. One assistance we -could give them care of the -aged and blind persons and wan~ to give them added Federal funds, would be to check some of the adnllnis­ dependent 'children. only to have them cut down theiT own tration's reckless-_spending policies Mr. Chairman, as shown by the fure- contributions. The Senate amendments wbich are deflating every dollar and are - go1ng observations made -0n the floor of also stipulate that, in determining need, putting these elderly people "behind the the Senate, the time is overdue for an the States need not take into consider­ eight ball." We must not forget that overhauling of the whole social-security ation the first $50 per month earned by those who are not covered by social se­ program with ref-erence to ol-d-age bene­ a recipient in agricultural or nur.si:ng curity are likewise suffering, and wou!d fits., and the enactment of a Nation-wide pursuits. This provision would apply get no assistance from these amend­ Federal plan giving equal consideration only for 1 year, and is designed to en­ ments. If we are to consider expendi­ to all elder citizens throughout the Na­ courage public assistance recipients to tures, the United States should .be will­ tion and thereby remov.e the restricti-0ns seek part-time work in these fields where ing to do its duty by these needy peo­ in the present program, which is ap­ there is a critical shortage of personnel. ple, regardless of what other ex_pendi­ pli£able only to a few selected groups. I The States should mateh this additional twes may be. urge that Petition No. '4, on the Speak.er~s money with funds of their own, thus I regret very much that this necessary desk. be signed at <>nee so that such leg.= giving the aged, blinrl, and disabled $10 increase in assistance has been delayed. islation may be considered by the House more. Twiee before we have raised the .so long, because these needy aged and without further delay. Federal share of public assistance by the blind persons and dependent emiidren Mr. WALTER. Mr. Chairman, I ask same method, namely, by -revising the should certainly be given increases now unanimous consent that the gentleman matching formula under which the proposed. How anyone could object to "from Pennsylvania CMr. FLOOD] may ex­ grants are computed and raising by $5 it, I cannot understand. tend his remarks at this :point in the the limit to which the Federal Govern­ During the past 18 months, since the RECORD. n1ent participates in the state programs. war in Korea began, and during whleh The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection Briefly, the effect of this amendment time the elderly people o1 our country U> the re

PEACEFUL REVOLUTION IN UNITED STATES a number of responsible officers who have My further reaction is that so far as AGRICULTURE since returned from Korea. possible we should fight the Reds in Ko­ In these 20 years, we have brought about But, Mr. Speaker, the State Depart­ rea with our Asiatic allies. Gen. Chiang a real revolution-a peaceful revolution-in ment-of all peoples-has developed a Kai-shek's troops could largely replace American agriculture. new military strategy. It has decided our ground forces. Eventually Chiang's Some people have never approved of what that we will hold a line in Korea until troops should be able to hold the line in we set out to do-and have been doing. someway, somehow, our enemy will Korea and free our ground force from its They have fought against us every step of the way. They are still at it today. And their naively conclude that the war is futile 2-year-old, arduous assignment. favorite cry has been "socialism," "regimen­ and then beg to come to honorable Our major effort could then be made tation," Government "control" and "domina­ terms. in the air and on the sea where we are tion" of the farmer. Cease-fire conversations have been peculiarly qualified to be most effective. Actually what we have been doing is the going on nearly 10 months. The argument that the use of Chiang very opposite of socialism. We've been get­ What has happened in the meanwhile? Kai-shek's troops would lead to war with ting the means of production back into the Red strength has been increased Red China is fatuous. We are already hands of the individual free enterprisers. enormously. We are outnumbered 2 or 3 at war with Red China. Listen to this. In 1932, less than 58 per­ to 1 on the ground; nearly 2 to 1 in air­ While we followed Secretary Ache­ cent of the Nation's farms were owned by the people who operated them. Today, after craft; our Sabre jet fighter is outnum­ son's policy of "waiting for the dust to 20 years of what the mossbacks call social­ bered 5 to 1 by the Red MIG-15. settle," we lost China. ism, that figure has gone up to 75 percent. The Reds have recovered from their Are we going to be foolish enough now. There are 250,000 more farmers who own precarious supply position; in the cease­ to continue Acheson's leadership of hold­ their own farms today than there were in fire conversations we are confronted ing a line in a war of attrition while the 1932. That doesn't sound like socialism to with stalling and lies; Red prisoners Reds build up the striking potential to me. It sounds like real free enterprise. So have kidnaped their commanding gen­ destroy us? far as I know, there is nothing in the free Mr. Speaker, I want to go on record as enterprise system that requires half the Na­ eral. tion's farms to be owned by absentee land­ But, Mr. Speaker, the alarming thing warning that the present drift of things lords. about this increased Rec! strength is not in Korea could lead to a class "A" mili­ All this talk about socialism is just plain its actual present level, rather it is the tary debacle. hokum. What we have actually been work­ fact that there is a constant and progres­ The American people have a right to ing for is to extend and strengthen private sive increase. It is not only in Korea, definite assurance that if the Red forces farm ownership. And we have been trying it is in China also. should strike, American boys now in to make it possible for all farm families­ Airdromes, underground hangars, Korea will survive with minimum losses. whether they own their farms or not-to hard standings, runways, modern anti­ Are we justified in our present allocation grow good crops and sell them for decent prices. We have been trying to make sure aircraft are mushrooming up in critical of strength for Europe-where there is that we will have a. strong agriculture as areas in Korea, Manchuria; and China. no war-while our forces in Korea face part of a strong economy, and good farm Red submarines are being sighted in a possible annihilation? living as part of a good life for all Americans. Korean waters. Mr. Speaker, if not administration and That has been our goal these 20 years. For the Red forces Korea is a testing military leaders have answers to this That has been the motive power and the laboratory and back of this testing Korean problem, the American people inspiration behind your fine work in the ground real inescapable, sinister power are entitled to those answers, now. If Department of Agriculture. is being amassed. they do not have the answer, the Con­ And it is still the goal-still the inspira­ A third of our entire defensive Air gress itself must take a hand. tion-still the reason so many men and women are giving their best efforts to the Force is tied down defending our ground forces; half of all American combat di­ public service in our agricultural programs. WHAT ABOUT K03EA? we must keep it that way. I hope the time visions are required in Korea and Japan; will never come when the good fight, the good our allies continue with token forces Mr. BENDER. Mr. Speaker, I ask spirit, the sense of real public purpose and only. We are not only sadly short of unanimous consent to extend my re­ real achievement goes out of this great De­ equipment in Korea; but we are so sadly marks at this point in the RECORD. partment. short of ammunition that it is being ra­ The SPEAKER. Is there objection to For there is still a lot to do. There are tioned. Meanwhile, the American pro­ plenty of problems still to be solved-plenty the request of the gentleman from Ohio? of improvements still to be made. It's a big gram of NATO support continues, so far There was no objection. Job-and a great challenge. as I know, on schedule. Our home de­ Mr. BENDER. Mr. Speaker, the I know that you will meet this challenge fenses are sadly neglected. American people are not forgetting about in the same spirit and with the same devo­ Our defense and foreign-aid budgets Korea. No matter how much the na­ tion that has marked the work of the men have pushed us deep into deficit spend­ tional administration tries to push the and women we honor here today. ing in spite of the fact that taxes are war into the background, it is still the higher than during the war. The lives most important single problem before of American_youth are completely dis­ our country. For the first time in Ameri­ WHAT IS OUR PROGRAM IN KOREA? rupted. By 1954 every eligible lad will can history, we appear to be engaged in Mr. REECE of Tennessee. Mr. have been drafted into the military a war which the Federal Government re­ Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ad­ service. fuses to recognize. dress the House for 3 minutes and to re­ Mr. Speaker, never before in all his­ It is fantastic to watch the way the vise and extend my remarks. tory has a first-rate power succeeded so White Hous·e is treating this tragic strug­ The SPEAKER. Is there objection to effectively in th'l complete global diffu­ gle. On every occasion when the issue the request of the gentleman from Ten­ sion of its entire military resources. has become embarrassing, Mr. Truman nessee? What every real American wants to refuses to call the daily warfare in There was no objection. know is: What is our program for Korea? Korea by its right name. Instead, he Mr. REECE of Tennessee. Mr. How do we end Mr. Truman's war there? insists upon using the sugar-coated Speaker, it is time we faced the facts in What is our long-range military pro­ phrase he invented 2 years ago, a police Korea. More than a year ago General gram; where is it leading us? action. But notice this. In the Supreme MacArthur was relieved from command. Obviously, in Korea, there are three Court of the United States last week, our Since then our position in Korea has alternatives: Admit defeat and pull out; Solicitor General tried to justify the seiz­ steadily deteriorated. continue a war of attrition; reinforce ure of the steel industry by saying that When he left Korea, the Red forces and win. "we are at war." He spoke the truth. were suffering heavy losses, their supply The American people have a right to We are at war, and it is time we decided position was precarious and their air know what to expect. My reaction is if on the measures necessary to bring it to support negligible. Had MacArthur we do not intend to win, it is better to a successful conclusion. been given a free hand, with air restric­ pull out and admit defeat than to con­ I believe that the motives governing tions lifted, with Asiatic reinforcements tinue the sacrifice of American lives and our conduct in Korea are political, not made available, he would have given us treasure with no hope of a military deci­ military. They are directed by unseen a victory. "'vVe have this assurance from sion. factors. In my judgment, the blueprint 5388 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-· HOUSE May 16 which would have brought this conflict to Department propose to do. We ought that it was not the Germans, but the an end months ago was drafted by Gen. to know if they intend to perpetuate this Russians, who massacred the Poles, the Douglas MacArthur. Mr. Truman and stalemate or fight the war to a decision. Voice of America kept silent. This si­ his State Department do not choose to If the Korean war is being fought only lence was all the more difficult to under­ follow this program because it came from to prop up the American economy, to stand in the light of the fact that that MacArthur. No military leader has of­ keep the Nation in a state of tension, to agency had available to it complete evi­ fered any alternative to the MacArthur influence the outcome of the coming na­ dence in the Katyn case as assembled plan of action which promises victory to tional elections, we ought to know that. by a well-known writer for the New York the U. N. What has been presented to us Our people believe in responsible ac­ Herald Tribune. Not only did the Voice is a strategy of delay. It is not a blue­ tion, intelligently planned and boldly of America fail to publish or broadcast print for victory. It is a reduction of carried into execution. American mili­ this evidence, but it failed to protect the American arms from our tradition of tary commanders must share the feel­ efforts of public-spirited citizens and valor to the ignominy of stalemate. ing of frustration and shame at the con­ good American patriots, some of them There is no doubt of our incredible duct of the war in Korea. I challenge former high officials of the Government, predicament in Korea. Here we are, the the administration to take us into its to try to bring out the facts. Despite strongest nation in the history of man­ confidence and put its cards on the table. the fact that there was intense interest kind,· pinned down on the field of battle Let us fight the way we must fight to in it all over Europe, where front-page by a nation which has never been able to win. Or if we cannot win, let us stop the feature stories appeared in the European unite in its own defense. The country useless waste of American lives and serve press concerning the incident, our own which was the arsenal of freedom in notice on the U. N. that it must build foreign publicity and propaganda agen­ World War II finds itself frustrated by an honest international force to preserve cies were as silent as the tomb. a lack of adequate planes, munitions, world peace instead of relying on us to Are we to assume, according to the and material. America, never defeated do the dirty work. views of the writer mentioned above, in any war, is being hamstrung by petty I have spoken plainly and clearly. It that the Voice therefore decided to bickering in a tent. This is the sorriest is time to ask the Democrats in Wash­ play down Katyn because it would spectacle in our history. We have been ington to do th~ same. create too much hatred against Stalin made fools of on the biggest stage in all among the Poles. It is indeed appro­ the world, and we do not like it. priate to ask, as he has, whether any­ I do not for a moment suggest that The SPEAKER. Under the previous one connected with this Government de­ our national vanity should determine our order of the House, the gentleman from sires to create love for Stalin among the policy in Korea. But I do believe that Massachusetts [Mr. PHILBIN] is recog­ Poles at the American taxpayer's ex­ the 125,000 American casualties-dead, nized for 30 minutes. pense. wounded, and sick- must determine our Moreover, it should be noted that the policy. Our prisoners who will ultimately POLAND -AND HUMAN · LIBERTY Voice censored the speech of Count Jo­ be returned and our missing who will Mr. PHILBIN. Mr. Speaker, it has seph Czapski, one of the few survivors of never return are more important than been my custom since I have been a Katyn, when he was permitted to ad­ any other concern. Their sacrifice must Member of this body on the anniversary dress the Poli~h people through the fa­ not be made in vain. Yet every sign of Poland's Constitution Day to join oth­ cilities of the Voice. He was not per­ points to the most shocking of all sacri­ er Members of the House in commemo­ mitted to mention the mere word of fices-those that achieve nothing. rating that great event in world history. Katyn. I am at a complete loss to un­ Have we stopped communism? Have I think that Poland's Constitution Day derstand such a policy. Why was it pur­ we checked its advance in the Far East? has new significance this year, because sued? Have we succeeded in our objective in already there are signs that the indomi­ If we are interested in helping the Korea? Or have we fallen into a trap table Polish people and other people sim­ Polish people to liberate themselves designed to pin· us down in one area while ilarly oppressed in Western Europe and from oppression, why was the truth Communist gains were being consoli­ in other parts of the world are at last, about Katyn suppressed for more than dated throughout China and central after many years of persecution and suf­ 8 years? Why did the officials of this Europe? fering, prepared to move in order to Government consider it proper to tell the The war in Korea is being fought un­ throw off the shackles that so cruelly truth about Katyn in May 1951 when the der U. N. banners, but it is being fought bind them. same truth was unfit to be produced in by American soldiers, sailors, and avia­ There is another reason this year why 1949 and 1950, not to speak of the years tors. Our allies are making a token those of us dedicated to democratic prin­ before that? contribution, but the decisions are being ciples of self-determination and justice Now that a House committee, under made every day in Washington. They should make special efforts to keep the the leadership of our esteemed colleague are not being made in Tokyo or on the great issues of human freedom alive in from Indiana [Mr. MADDEN] is currently battlefields of Korea, and the result is diplomatic and political circles and that investigating all aspects of the Katyn clear. American prestige is being de­ is the current investigation of the out­ massacre, we may at least expect to get stroyed throughout the Far East, not rageous massacre at Katyn. the full truth as it is available from wit­ U. N. prestige. American influence in Since this frightful mass slaughter oc­ nesses and documentary evidence. the councils of the world is undermined, curred the world was led to believe that In order to document the foregoing not the influence of the United Nations. the Germans were responsible for it. remarks that I have made in behalf of Is it not time for decisive action? We Even the publicity agencies of our own Poland and especially my references to have been engaged in a bloody war for Government, such as OWI and the Voice Katyn, I desire to set forth in the REC­ almost 2 years. The only positive for­ of America, either by their silence or by ORD a portion of an article entitled "The mula ever suggested to the American implication, have given the impression OWI and the Voice of America," by Ju­ people for bringing this war to an end that the Germans perpetrated this hor­ lius Epstein, experienced foreign corre­ has been ruthlessly ignored. rible and indescribable blood bath. It is spondent, former language editor of the We have fallen back into a habit which interesting for me to note that even OWI and a well-known newspaperman. we should long ago have abandoned­ though the OWI and later the Voice of It is very difficult for me to understand the habit of too little and too late. America had, or should have had, access the tenderness found in many high This time, there can be no excuse for to the facts of this.cold-blooded slaugh­ places for the welfare of persons who are the performance. Our President took ter of 15,000 loyal Polish officers, who the known enemies of this Nation and its persor.. al responsibility for the use of were massacred on Soviet soil in the institutions. American troops. He has never asked spring of 1940, the evidence unhappily We are engaged in a war, call it a po­ Congress to this day for a declaration of shows that these agencies apparently ac­ lice action if you will, but it is one of the war on North Korea or on China. cepted the Russian version of the horri­ bloodiest wars in American history. I say that it is high time for Uncle ble incident, namely, that it had been What is happening in Korea is only a Sam to demand a bill of particulars. We perpetrated by the Germans. Sunday School picnic compared to what ought to know what is going on inside All the more distressing is that after can happen elsewhere if patent instiga­ Korea. We ought to know what the the war, when a large number of unde­ tion from the Kremlin succeeds. The men in the White House and our State niable facts became available indicating world is afiame. Insurrection and revo- 1952 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 5389 lution are raging throughout the world lant little Poland, it is appropriate that dom-minded peoples who are entitled by through conspiracy and base plots, in all true Americans should pause once every warrant and right and by many which traitorous Americans in this Na­ again to pay tribute to the valor, gal­ of our solemn declarations to their God­ tion have played a part. lantry, and indomitable will of the Polish given rights to live as free men and Much of Asia has fallen into the hands people. It is an occasion also for all of women. of Marxist Communists, who are not only us to rededicate our purpose with moving I have heard it said many times that stealing a way the liberties of the Chinese and more vigorous determination to the compromise is a prerequisite of the po­ and other peoples of Asia, but actually campaign for the liberation of Poland litical process. It may be true that ~om­ planning and plotting to steal away, and the other small, helpless nations that promise is often justified to reconcile destroy, cancel, and nullify for all time have been dragged in behind the iron conflicting viewpoints of various groups the liberties of the American people. curtain by a combination of bestial vio­ within our Nation and also in the in­ They say: "Be patient. If you say too lence, unconscionable diplomacy, and ternational sphere. But there are some much you are likely to precipitate a war; subversive infiltration. things one can never compromise. if you do too much you are likely to bring We should not delude ourselves about Foremost among these is the right of this Nation into another holocaust.'' this situation. We should not indulge in nations desiring to be free, the right of Personally, I want to say that the sanctimonious feelings of satisfaction each individual to be free, the right of American people are not only outraged with the unwise, unsound, unjust diplo­ the human soul to find expression in by such talk but disgusted to think that matic settlements in which we had an free institutions, to achieve that measure any American opinion or leadership unfortunate part and which led to the of freedom bestowed by the Creator, the would follow such a spineless, cowardly infamous, unconscionable result of the right of the lowly and the weak to be co:.irse when the clear interests, safety, suppression and domination of the God­ protected in their choice of life and in and welfare of the Nation are at stake, fearing, liberty-loving, peace-seeking their desire and intention to walk as they are from this great active world Polish people and other democratic­ humbly in the ways of the Lord seeking conspiracy seething with anti-American minded Christian peoples under the and enjoying the privilege that can come sentiment, with anti-American designs ruthless heel of the Soviet Union. only from free government to order their anj with every purpose of conquering Let us not deceive ourselves or the own lives and to be liberated from the this Nation and subjugating it to the will American people. If these mistakes bondage and the slavery which selfish, of world communism. wer ~ made in a spirit of compromise rapacious tyrants impose upon them. Let us be Americans, whatever we are, that has since been received with such No, my fellow Americans, there can and let us not be afraid to stand on our cynical ingratitude and which has been be no compromise on these great issues feet and proclaim our rights and uphold fraught with such deep anguish and which mean life or death to the demo­ our liberties, protect our interests, and suffering for millions of democratic cratic way of life in this world. Some maintain and assert our belief in the peoples, let us admit the errors of our tremble before the thought that strong philosophical, ethical and moral validity ways and move to correct and ameliorate policy in behalf of the free way of life of human freedom throughout the world. them. will result in war. Some are unwilling The Polish outrage at Katyn and the In my opinion, this can be done in to risk the chance of war. Some believe rest are just incidents. There are even only one way and that is the way which tha~ as Americans we can hide safely in worse, more dastardly and more danger­ I have alluded to on many past occasions our ivory tower if only we yield and ap- ous events taking place in the world of in this House, namely, the immediate, . pease and surrender everything that is whir,h we must take immediate note. forthright, and complete renunciation necessary to satiate the lust of the So­ Time is on the side of those conspiring of the agreements bartering the liber­ viets for world dominion. In my opin­ for our overthrow. Will we wait until ties of small nations entered into at Yalta ion, such an attitude and such a policy they have strengthened themselves so and Tehran and confirmed at Potsdam will spell doom for America. It is that they can defeat us? Will we wait but never ratified by the United States craven. It is cowardly. It can lead until they have implemented the atomic Senate according to law. only to further encroachments, ad­ bomb and other horrible modern weapons If ~e choose to pursue a policy of vances, and aggressions by the Soviet of destruction to accomplish our undo­ honor, decency, and justice we are in Union. It will ultimately lead to the ing and destruction? conscience bound to notify the Soviet destruction of all free values in this Whatever the consequences be, let us Union and the United Nations of our world and, in short, the physical de­ face these issues now. If it is necessary, intention to renounce and repeal these struction and conquest of this great mobilize this country morally, physically, agreements. By this means, the way Nation. and economically without further delay. will be paved for the opening of the iron Let us be true to our glorious heritage Eliminate the confusion among our peo­ doors which now confine so many of the of freedom. This heritage was not won ple. Give direct, affirmative leadership helpless, innocent struggling peoples of through fear and trembling, appease­ to the aspirations and desires of our peo­ ment and cowardice. It was won ple to retain their freedom. Mobilize central Europe in the suffocating at­ mosphere of Soviet control. through bitter sacrifices, bloodshed, and our strength and be ready to check this suffering by millions of people, past and great enemy as we can do if we harness As I have stated so many times, there can be no compromise on these great present, who were willing to give every­ ourselves to the task. Let the enemy thing they had-their honor, their know that we are indeed in earnest about human questions of the destiny of free protecting our heritage and our liberties. peoples. It is a grotesque and cynical possessions, their material resources, Away with all these smooth-talking con­ exhibition, contradictory and incredible, and their lives to protect and sustain spirators fostering cowardice and weak­ that our own great Nation, which has our liberties. This heritage was ness. The time has come to def end our contributed so much to the building of won through determination, through country and the truths that underlie it. democracy here and abroad, should be strength, through courage, through If we do not act soon, believe me, it will an instrument and the means of per­ fearlessness, and it can only be pre­ be too late. petuating the ruthless oppression of bil­ served and protected by the same means. At this time, therefore, once again I lions of helpless people by the Godless Russia is a strong, powerful nation. hail and salute the indomitable Polish and brutal forces of organized Marxism It has resources, it has manpower, it people, who, perhaps more than any and world communism. If we mean to has military organization, it has fierce other, symbolizes the issue of freedom be true to our heritage of freedom, of aim of world conquest, it has hostility to versus slavery. They still fight courage­ truth, of democracy, of justice, of the democracy, it has hatred of religion, it ously for liberation from serfdom, for the most elementary principles of represent­ has contempt for free institutions, it has return of their freedoms. Let us send ative government, of international fair dealing, we must without delay, not only designs on our way of life, it seeks our them the encouraging word that they destruction and the destruction of na­ are not forgotten or forsaken-that this unequivocally declare ourselves on these issues, but take affirmative, uncom­ tions like us. Nation still believes in their right to be Russia would be a formidable foe. It free and will do its best to help them promising action to resolve them in ac­ achieve that great aim. cordance with the just deserts and the has puppet allies coerced into its system On the thirteenth anniversary of the basic rights to life, liberty, and the pur­ which will be forced to fight with the iniquitous and infamous attack on gal- suit of happiness of the millions of free- forces of the Soviet Union. 5390 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE May 16 But the United States of America is Voice of America have sometimes exactly The reader will now understand the ques­ also a formidable foe. We are not a the same eifect as if they had been designed. tion: If Stalin had a powerful paid agent in weak, helpless nation although some of and carried out by a well-paid Soviet agent the Voice of America, could he have done than the way the Voice treated Stalin's cold­ better than those gentlemen who so success­ our leaders would have our people so be­ blooded. murder of 15,000 Polish officers who fully suppressed the substantial truth about lieve. We have strength too, we have were massacred. on Soviet soil in the spring Katyn? The answer, of course, is: No, he military striking power and second to of 1940. As I already mentioned, the OWI could not have done a better job. All that none, we have an incomparable produc­ accepted Stalin's big lies on Katyn (that the happened at a time when President Truman, tive machine, a free economic system Germans had murdered the Poli.sh officers) General Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, and that can out-produce and out-distance at face value and disseminated those lies all many other American leaders categorically the whole world. We have millions of ovef the world. When, after the war, a large called for a "Truth Campaign" and the Voice brave, fearless young men who are will­ amount of irrefutable evidence became avail­ was supposed to deliver the "T-Bomb." able, evidence to the effect, that not the It was not before .May 1951 that the Voice ing to fight for our country if need be Germans but Stalin's own NKVD had mas­ reversed its policy with regard to Katyn. and willing to defend it against all peril. sacred the Poles, in order to get rid of the However gratifying that ehange of policy We have some allies, we hope, in the free most valuable future anti-Stallnists in Po­ was, lt did not answer the question why our world. land, the Voice of America kept silent. To Government's propaganda agency so obsti­ In the face of these terrible dangers. make sure that this silence was not acci­ nately suppressed the truth about Katyn for instead of talking about our weakness dental, I offered on February 10, 1949, the more than 8 years. Why did the officials of and the fear and horror of atomic attack complete evidence in the Katyn case to the the Voice consider it opportune to broadcast Voice. After 10 weeks of waiting for an the truth about Katyn in May 1951, when and the power of our potential adver­ answer, I got it on April 20, 1949. The an­ the same truth was unfit to be broadcast in saries, let us talk about our own strength, swer was very brief, indeed, just one sen­ 1950 and 1949, not to speak of the years be­ let us dwell upon the powerful forces we tence. It read: "We have decided against fore that time? can marshal, the power we can mobi­ making use of the material at this time." lize, the terrific c.ttacks we are capable of The letter was signed by Charles W. Thayer. making from the air upon any nation ·No reasons whatsoever were given, no ex­ planations advanced why the Voi.ce did not SPECIAL ORDER GRANTED that dares to commit an aggres.sion want to avail itself of the tremendous ma­ Mr. MEADER asked and was given against us or against the free world es­ terial gathered in a long and thorough re­ permission to address the House for 30 sential to our security. It is a time for search. minutes on Tuesday next following any American leadership of strength, of When I published 1n July 1949 a series of special orders heretofore entered. positivism, of unflinching courage, and articles on Katyn in the New York Herald I hope that on this day devoted to the Tribune, containing new evidence of the Soviet guUt, the Volce kept silent although Polish cause we will rally to the call of EXTENSION OF REMARKS country against the dangers of the mo­ it daily broadcast press surveys. ment ·by reaffirming our determination. When on September l7, 1949, the New By unanimous consent, permission to to face up boldly to these dangers and Leader carried my article "Murder at Katyn,. extend remarks in the Appendix of the to develop and organize our resources In a special section, the Voice kept its silence. RF.cORD, or to revise and extend remarks, When, as a result of those publications, was granted to: and fighting power in such ways that we the American Committee :for the Investiga­ can back up and support our demands tion of the Katyn Massacre, Inc., was "formed Mr. KEARNEY. for freedom in this Nation and through­ under the presidency of Arthur Bli.£:: Lane. Mr. BUTLER and to include a copy of a out the world. former American Ambassador to Poland, and resolution. Poland is an incident in this great under the vice presidencies of Max Eastman Mr. LANE in four instances and to in· struggle between communism and de­ and Dorothy Thompson, the Voice kept silent elude editorials and extraneous matter. besides briefiy mentioning the fact of the mocracy, but it is an important keystone formation of the committee. It neither Mr. VINSON and to include a very able of policy because it marks a situation broadcast Mr. Lane's speech at the inaugural address made by the Honorable HowARD which we, in part, brought about, a sur­ press conference of the American Katyn W. SMITH, of Virginia, when he accepted render of democratic values and demo­ Committee nor his letter to Vishinsky by the Democratic nomination to the cratic sovereignty which must be cor­ which Mr. Lane invited the Soviet Foreign Eighty-third Congress from the Eighth rected if the ideals we profess are to Minister to appear before the comm1ttee and Congressi-0nal District of Virginia. enjoy the respect and confidence of other to tell the truth about Katyn. (The fm-­ ma.tion of the Katyn committee as well as Mr. SMITH of Mississippi in four in· nations. Mr. Lane's speech and letter to Vishinsky stances, in one to include an address by Let us pursue these three steps: First, were front-page features 1n the European Gov. James R Byrnes, of South Carolina. an immediate demand for the liberation p~ as well as in many American news­ Mr. SECREST. of Poland and other small helpless na­ papers.) Mr. PRICE in two instances and to in· tions that were assigned to the Soviets When I inquired with my friends at the elude extraneous matter. by agreement or taken by force or infil­ Voice's foreign language units, why the tration; second, demand on the United Voice was still engaged in a rather total Mr. Woon of Idaho in three instances. · Nations that appropriate measures be conspiracy of silence as far as Stalin's erlme Mr. AUCHINCLOSS and to include a taken to implement these objectives; at Katyn was concerned, the answer was: citation. .. We did not get the green light from Wash­ Mr. Pout and to include an American third. the continuance of building and ington." mobilizing of a tremendous armed When I went to the high officials in the Legion essay by Mr. Jim Blair, of the strengk'l and force to meet any possible New York and Washington offices of the Voice Wheelersburg (Ohio) High School. eventuality that may arise from aggres­ to find the puzzle's solution, the almost iden­ Mr. MILLER of New York insurance benefits, to preserve ture to an enrolled joint resolution of and perquisites"; to the Cdmmittee on Armed insurance rights of permanently and totally the senate of the following title:. SerVices. disabled individuals, and to increase the 1442. A communication from the President amount of earnings permitted without loss s. J. Res. 20. Joint resolution to confirm of the United States, transmitting proposed of benefits, and for other purposes; with and establish the titles of the States to supplemental appropriations for the fiscal amendment (Rept. No. 1944). Referred to lands beneath navigable waters within State year 1952. in the amount of $20,000,000 for the Committee of the Whole House on the boundaries and to the natmaJi resources the Department· o1 Agriculture and t25,000,- State of the Union. within such lands and waters, anq to pro­ 000 for the Department of Defense for civil vide for the use and control of sai,d lands functions, Department of the Army (H. ~· and resources. No. 469}: to the Committee on Appropria­ REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PRI­ tions, and ordered to be printed. VATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of · BILLS PRESENTED TO THE REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUB­ committees _were delivered to the Clerk PRESIDENT LIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS for printing and reference to the proper Mr. STANLEY, from the Committee Under clause 2 of rule xm, reports of calendar, as fallows: on House Administration, reparted that committees were delivered to the Clerk Mr. McMILLAN: Committee on the District that committee did on this day present for printing and reference to the proper of Columbia. H. R. 6943. A bill to fix the to the Presidentp for his approval, a bill calendar, as follows: seniority rights and service of Albert 0. and a joint resolution of the House of Raeder as sergeant in the District of Colum­ Mr. MORRIS: Committee on Interior and bia Fire Department; without amendment the fallowing titles: Insular Affairs. H. R 1631. A bill to set (Rept. No. 1941}. Referred to the Committee H. R. 5715. An act to increase certain pay aside certain Iands in Oklahoma, formerly a of the Whole House. and allowances for members of the uniformed part of the Chej'enne-Arapaho Reservation, services, and for other purposes; and and known as the Fort Reno Military Reser­ vation. for the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of H. J. Res. 445. Joint resolutton authoriz­ PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS ing the President of the United States to Indians of Oklahoma. and for other pur­ prociaim the 7-day: period beginning May 18, posmr; with amendment (Rept. No. 1935). Under clause 3 of rule xxrr. public 1952, as Olympic Week. Referred to the Committee of the Whole bills and resolutions were introduced and House on. the State of the Union. severally referred as follows: Mr. HARRIS: Committee on the District of Columbia. S.1342. An act to amend acts By Mr. COLMER: LEAVES OP ABSENCE relating to garagekeepers and liverymen's H. R. 7888. A bill to amend the Legislative liens a,nd the enforcement thereof in the Reorganization Act of 1946 to provide for By unanimous consent, leave of ab­ District of Columbia, and for other purposes; more e1!ectlve evaluation of the fiscal re­ sence was granted to: without amendment (Rept. No,. 1936). Re­ quirements o! the executive agencies of the Mr. O'TooLE