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768 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 30 6306. Also, petition of the State camp of Pennsylvania, Pa The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the triotic Order Sons of America, Philadelphia, Pa., petitioning gentleman from Tennessee? consideration of their resolution with reference to the ap There was no objection. pointment of Mr. Taylor to the Vatican; to the Committee Mr. DuNN asked and was given perm1sswn to revise and on Foreign Affairs. extend his own remarks in the RECORD. 6307. Also, petition of LeeR. Rist, of Jacksonville, Til., peti Mr. CELLER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to tioning consideration of his resolution with reference to the extend my own remarks in the RECORD in four instances: Dies committee; to the Committee on Rules. (1) A tribute to the late Representative Willi~m I. Sirovich; (2) the foreign-trade zone at New York; (3) on the subject Recovery, Not Higher Taxes; and (4) on loan to Finland. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1940 gentleman from New York? There was no objection. The House met at 12 o'clock noon. The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D. D., PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE offered the following prayer: Mr. DICKSTEIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that I may address the House for 1 minute. 0 Lord God, our Heavenly Father, we entreat Thee to meet The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the with us, transforming and ennobling our aspirations, our gentleman from New York? thoughts, and our endeavors. We thank Thee for our spir There was no objection. itual privileges and pray that we may have a fuller apprecia Mr. DICKSTEIN. Mr. Speaker, I had the honor to address tion of our indebtedness to Thee. Grant us in the utmost this body last Wednesday, January 24, on the subject of the de simplicity and childlike confidence to consecrate our time struction of human life in Poland. You will find that address to Thee and our homeland. Thou art our hiding place; Thou on page 621. Today, I have introduced a resolution, House shalt preserve us from trouble; Thou shalt compass us about Resolution 369, which has been referred to the Foreign Affairs with songs of deliverance. Do Thou hear our prayer for all Committee, and I hope that the committee will give it an early those in sorrow; for those who have been forsaken of the hearing and favorable consideration. I also trust that Con best and the dearest; for those who have been evilly treated; gress will adopt this resolution since I feel that as a Govern for the poor who are struggling with poverty and the winter's ment which was instrumental in the creation of the Polish blast; and for those whose hearts have been invaded by state in the year 1918 it is our duty to express our sympathy tragedy and cannot tell the world their thoughts. 0 Thou with the suffering and unfortunate people of that state. who art sufficient for all things, be pleased to hear us. In Without burdening this House with any further statements I our Saviour's name. Amen. want to call t}J.e Members' attention to a press release of the The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and New York Times of January 29, 1940, which gives a very clear approved. picture of the happenings in· Poland. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT [From the New York Times of January 29, 1940] A message in writing from the President of the United MAss SHOOTINGS IN POLAND LAID TO NAZIS BY CARDINAir-MEMORAN States was communicated to the House by Mr. Latta, one DUM, PRESENTED TO POPE, ACCUSES GERMANS OF BREAKING UP of his secretaries, who also informed the House that on the FAMILIES AND JAILINt; "SCORES OF THOUSANDS" following dates the President approved and signed bills of (By Camille M. Cianfarra) RoME, January 28 .-Details of mass shootings, man hunts by the House of the following titles: German Gestapo (secret police) agents, plundering and persecutions On January 25, 1940: conducted with cold-blooded brutality and ferocity are contained H. R. 7171. An act to amend section 22 of the Agricultural in a memorandum published today describing what is held to be the situation of the Catholic Church and of the Polish people in Adjustment Act. the archdioceses of Gniezno and Poznan. On January 26, 1940: The memorandum, which is authorized by August Cardinal Hlond, . H. R. 2953. An act authorizing States owning lands or in Primate of Poland, was presented to the Pope last week. On it the terests therein acquired from the United States to include Vatican based several of its recent broadcasts of Polish atrocities in German-occupied Poland. The 11,000-word document contains the same in certain agreements for the conservation of oil seven reports covering conditions up to the 30th of December 1939. and gas resources; and · It charges Germany with deliberately wanting to destroy the H. R. 3931. An act for the relief of Charles H. LeGay. Catholic religion and depopulating of all Polish nationals in the territories of Pomerania, Poznan, and Silesia, which she has an MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE nexed. To carry out this policy, the memorandum says, the Ger A message from the Senate, by Mr. St. Claire, one of its mans have closed the churches in several districts and are deporting clerks, announced that the Senate insists upon its amend Poles from every walk of life, be they of the nobility or of the lower classes, to concentration camps in Germany. ments to the bill (H. R. 7805) entitled "An act making sup They are sending young Polish boys and girls still in their teens plemental appropriations for the Military and Naval Estab to Germany, it is asserted, in order to imbue them with Nazi ideals. lishments, Coast Guard, and Federal Bureau of Investigation, Older persons are herded into railroad cars and dumped after sev for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other pur eral days' journey in towns within the area called "Government General Poland," where they are kept in unsanitary overcrowded poses," disagreed to by the House; agrees to the conference barracks and where they sleep on vermin-ridden straw mats. asked by the House on the disagreeing votes of the two Families are broken up, it is charged, the father usually being Houses thereon, and appoints Mr. ADAMS, Mr. GLASS, Mr. deported to a concentration camp, the mother abandoned to her fate with no money or belongings, and the children, if they have McKELLAR, Mr. HAYDEN, Mr. BYRNES, Mr. HALE, and Mr. survived the hardships, sent to Germany. TowNsEND to be the conferees on the part of the Senate. The memorandum makes clear that inasmuch as the forced The message also announced that the Senate disagrees to Polish emigration from the German-annexed districts must end by the amendment of the House to the bill (S. 1036) entitled April 1, millions of Poles are expected to be packed into the Gouvernement General territory in a few weeks. They will be com "An act to authorize the purchase of certain lands adjacent pletely destitute and therefore, the document says, famine and to the Turtle Mountain Indian Agency in the State of North decimation by epidemics are expected. Dakota," requests a conference with the House on the dis "It will be a true extermination, conceived with diabolical cun agreeing votes of the two Houses thereon, and appoints Mr. ning and carried out with unequaled cruelty," says the memoran dum, which then appeals for Red Cross aid and foreign relief com THOMAS of Oklahoma, Mr. WHEELER, and Mr. FRAZIER to be missions in Gouvernement Poland, where it stresses "the last act the conferees on the part of the Senate. of the unbelievable tragedy is about to take place." Many of EXTENSION OF REMARKS those sent there, it adds, will die of hunger in the spring. The number of l?oles shot up_ .to December 30 runs Into several Mr. COOPER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to thousands and those jailed into scores of thousands, according to. extend my remarks in the RECORD, and to include a very able one of the reports. and splendid statement of Hon. Edward O'Neal, president of "The Polish population is barbarously persecuted," it says. "The number of people shot runs into several thousands, those in jail the American Farm Bureau Federation, at a hearing before number scores of thousands. In the jails appalling things take the Ways and Means Committee on January 25, 1940. place. At Bydgoszoz, for instance, prisoners were forced to lie full 1940 CONGRESSIONAL -RECORD-- HOUSE .769 length wfth their faces on tile tce-c:old stone fioe>r-, beateh till they At Gniezno, tt· was said, a Catho!ic convent has been seized by were unconscious, and threatened continuously with death. the Germans to hold imprisoned Jews and the convent fathers YOUTHS SENT TO REICH. turned out. "Raids are being carried out to get hold of the- youth, which is "The principal church in the parish of the Holy Trinity has been exported to Germany. profaned, the parish house invaded, and its funds stolen," it was "There are at present mass deportations of Poles to the Gouverne said. ment General Poland, and in this case the victims lose all they "In the archdiocese of Gniezno the German authorities, especially own-land, houses, furniture, shops, clothes, lingerie, and money. the Gestapo, persecute the Catholic clergy, which is terrorized and People are suddenly turned into beggars.