7560 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE SEPTEMBER 29 Mr. PITTENGER. And the gentleman 1941, at 10 o'clock a. rn. on H. R. 5336, other purposes; to the Committee on Banking supported the motion to include that in Fa.rm Credit Act. and Currency. By Mr. KOCIALKOWSKI: the omnibus rivers and. harbors bill? COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS Mr. VOORHIS of California. Yes. H. R. 5722. A bill to amend section 19 (a) Mr. PITTENGER. And the gentleman The Committee on Rivers and Harbors of the Philippine Independence Act of March will meet on Tuesday, September 30, 1941, 24, 1934, as amended by the act of August 7, did that because of his belief that the 1939, and to amend the act approved June projects in that bill will contribute to at 10:30 o'clock a. rn., to begin hearings 19, 1934, so as to authorize certain sugar the general welfare of all the people of on the project for the improvement of the excise-tax funds and othe1 funds to be used the United States? Beaver and Mahoning Rivers, Pennsyl­ for military and naval defense purposes in Mr. VOORHIS of California. That is vania and Ohio. the Philippine Islands; to the Committee on true, and I was informed by every person Insular Affairs. who carne there from any national-de­ EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. fense agency to testify that this move Under clause 2 of rule XXIV, executive PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS was very, very important at this time. communications were taken from the Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private [Here the gavel fell.] Speaker's table and referred as follows: bills and resolutions were introduced and EXTENSION OF REMARKS 948. A letter from the President, Board of severally referred as follows: Mr. CANNON of Missouri. Mr. Speak­ Commissioners, District of Columbia, trans­ By Mr. HENDRICKS: er, I ask unanimous consent to extend my mitting a draft of a proposed bill to authorize H. R. 5723. A bill for the relief of Anna remarks in the RECORD by printing there­ the Commissioners of the District of Colum­ Danielson and Betty Tiedeman; to the Com­ bia to acquire, operate, and regulate public mittee on Claims. in a statement from the Treasury De­ off-street parking facilities, and for other pur­ By Mr. SMITH of Ohio: partment on the total receipts and ex­ poses; to the Committee on the District of H. R. 5724. A bill granting a pension to penditures and the public debt, and also Columbia. Marjorie Johnson; to the Committee on I ask unanimous consent to include the 949. A letter from the Secretary of war, Pensions. same statement from month to month as transmitting a draft of a bill to amend sec­ it becomes available following the custom tion 602 (m) of the National Service Life PETITIONS, ETC. I.nsurance Act of 1940 (Public, No. 8C1, 76th heretofore followed by the chairman of Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions the Committee on Appropriations, from Cong.) to provide for a person in the military service to secure insurance, effective as of and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk the first of the year. date of application, by payment of the first and referred as follows: The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there premium within 30 days thereof; to the Com­ objection to the request of the gentleman 1837. By Mr. LAMBERTSON: Petition of mittee on Ways and Means. Sabra M. Kuhn and 99 other citiZens of from Missouri? Soldier Valley community in Kansas, re­ There was no objection. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUBLIC questing a just and adequate old-age pension Mr. HOOK. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan­ BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS system, urging that a uniform sy:o.tem in all imous consent to extend my remarks in the States would constitute our first line of the RECORD by including a resolution to Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of defense; to the Committee on Ways and petition the Federal Reserve Board to give committees were delivered to the Clerk Means. labor a voice in its regulation of consumer for printing and reference to the proper 1838. By Mrs. ROGERS of Massachusetts: credits. calendar, as follows: Petition of various citizens of Lexington, Ma:os., urging the enactment of Senate bill The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there Mr. MAY: Committee of conference on the 860; to the Committee on Military Affairs. objection to the request of the gentleman disagreeing votes of the two Houses. S. 1579. 1839. By the SPEAKER: Petition of the from Michigan? An act to authorize the President of the National Association of Coroners, Milwaukee, There was no objection. United States to requisition property re­ Wis., petitioning consideration of their reso­ Mr. WHITE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan­ quired for the defense of the United States lution with reference to drugs to be included imous consent to extend my remarks in (Rept. No. 1214). Referred to the Committee with the Harrison Narcotic Act; to the Com­ the RECORD and to include therein a state­ of the Whole House on the state of the Union. mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. 1840. Also, petition of J. C. Pennington, ment entitled "Food to Small Democra­ Lake Wales, Fla., petitioning consideration cies." PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS of their resolution with reference to Senate The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there Under clause 3 of tule xxn, public bill 860, relative to liquor and commercialized objection to the request of the gentleman bills and resolutions were introduced and vice affecting the men in the Army and from Idaho? Navy; to the Committee on Military Affairs. There was no objection. severally referred as follows: By Mr. MARTIN J KENNEDY: ADJOURNMENT H. R. 5716. A bill to rept>.al the Hatch Politi­ Ml·. MAGNUSON. Mr. Speaker, I cal Activities Act, as amend~d; to the Com­ SENATE mittee on the .Judiciary. move that the House do now adjourn. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1941 The motion was agreed to; accordingly By Mr. BLAND: H. R. 5717. A bill to extend the time within The Chaplain, Rev. Z~Barney T. Phil­ rring jurisdiction this place of secret fellowship our souls upon the United States Court of Claims to cast ofi their artificiality while' its deep The Committee on the Merchant Ma­ hear, examine, adjudicatC>, and render final and tender quietude lays bare the oft rine and Fisheries will hold public hear­ judgment on any and all claims which the concealed equivocation, the latent apos­ ings on the following dates at 10 o'clock Yakima Indian Trib.es may have against the tasy of each rebellious thought. a. rn. to consider the following bills: United States, ar.d ·for other purposes; to the Into this abode of secret fellowship Tuesday, September 30, 1941: Committee on Indian Affairs. with Thee the Master oft-times went, nor H. R. 5446, to establish a system of unem­ By Mr. ROBINSON of Utah: ployment insurance for the maritime indus­ H. R. 5719. A bill to abolish the Guilford remained there overlong, choosing rather try and for other purposes. Courthouse National Military Park Commis­ to live and work among men than to Tuesday, October 14, 1941: sion, and for other purpcses; to the Commit­ abide on the heights of contemplation; H. R. 3254, to safeguard and protect further tee on the Public Lands. and if a crisis :find us unready and in­ the lives of fishermen at sea and to place fish­ H. R. 5720. A bill to add certain public land adequate to its great demands because of ing boats under the supervision of the Depart­ to the Uintah and Ouray Reservation in Utah, our neglect of Thee, restore to us, we ment of Commerce, Bureau of Marine Inspec­ to establish a grazing unit within Utah graz­ beseech Thee, in these moments of our tion and Navigation, and for other purposes. ing district No. 8, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Public Lands. prayer the consciousness of Thine in­ COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE By Mr. STEAGALL: dwelling in the heart of every one of us. The Committee on Agriculture will H. R. 5721. A bill to amend the United And do Thou send us forth armed hold hearings on Tuesday, September 30, States Housing Act, as amended, and for with the courage to declare that right- 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 7561 eousness and truth must needs prevail, PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS least giving the impression that oleo has for in· the Master's eyes of flame no fervor Petitions, etc., were laid before the the same food value as butter. I do not of cloistered devotion can atone for the Senate or presented and referred as indi­ believe such propaganda is a legitimate refusal to bear the Cross in the realm of cated: function of the Department of Agricul­ public duty. By the VICE PRESIDENT: ture. In His own dear name and for His own A letter in the nature of a memorial from Mr. President, I do not intend to go dear sake we offer our petitions. Amen. A. Ross, of the Newerking Cleaning Fluid into the details of the long dispute over THE JOURNAL Co., of New York City, N. Y., remonstrating the marketing of oleo and butter, but I against the imposition of taxes to cover all wish to say that I do not believe oleo On request of Mr. GREEN, and by above 6 percent of the profits of a business; should be regarded as butter nor mar­ unanimous consent, the reading of the to the Committee on Finance. keted as butter. It has a place; indeed, Journal of the proceedings of Thursday, The memorial of Leona Schriner, of De­ there is a very legitimate use for it; but September 25, 1941, was dispensed with, troit, Mich., remonstrating against repeal of and the Journal was approved. the Neutrality Act; to the Committee on oleo should stand on its own merits and Foreign Relations. not be represented as a form of butter­ MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT The petition of Eleanor F. Crosgriff, of certainly not by our own Department of Messages In writing from the Presi­ Brooklyn, N. Y., praying that American ships Agriculture. It is not the function of dent of the United States submitting keep out of war zones and that the United that Department to build up one farm nominations were communicated to the States keep out of war; to the Committee on product at the expense of some other Senate by Mr. Miller, one of his secre­ Foreign Relations. farm product, as I see the matter. taries. Letters from several citizens of the United There is something else involved here. States, relative to pending postal legislation; Right now the Government is engaged SENATOR FROM MISSISSIPPI to the table. in a national-defense farm program that The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the By Mr. BURTON: A petition signed by about 100 citizens of is diverting milk to the production of Senate the credentials of WALL DoXEY, Ashtabula, Ohio, praying for the enactment cheese for Britain. Much of it is going duly chosen by the qualified electors of of the bill (S. 860) to provide for the com­ there instead of into butter. If during the State of Mississippi a Senator from mon defense in relation to the sale of alco­ this war period, this war boom, the that State for the unexpired term of the holic liquors to the members of the land and Government succeeds in what looks like late Senator Pat Harrison, which . were naval forces of the United States and to a campaign to train the American con­ read and ordered to be filed, as follows: provide for the suppression of vice in the sumer to use oleo instead of butter, on MISSISSIPPI, vicinity of military camps and naval estab­ the ground that it has the same food lishments; to the table. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, values as butter, though oleo, I under­ Jackson. By Mr. CAPPER: stand, does not have certain saturated To THE PRESIDENT OP THE SENATE OF THE Petitions of sundry citizens of Crawford and Stafford Counties, Kans., praying for the fatty acids which are found in butter, UNITED STATES: what will happen to the dairy industry This is to certify that on the 23d day of enactment of the bill (S. 860) to provide for September 1941, Han. WALL DoxEY was duly the common defense in relation to the sale when the war is over? To the extent chosen by the qualified electors of the State of alcoholic liquors to the members of the the American consumers have been of Mississippi, a Senator from said State to land and naval forces of the United States propagandized by their own Government represent said State in the Senate of the and to provide for the suppression of vice in to use oleo, that market for butter will United States for the unexpired term of the the vicinity of military camps and naval have disappeared; and no one believes late Senator Pat Harrison beginning on the establishments; to the table. that Britain will buy cheese from the 27th day of September 1941. STANDARDS FOR OLEO IN COMPETITION United States after the lend-lease pro­ Witness: His excellency our Governor gram is over. Paul B. Johnson, and our seal hereto affixed WITH BUTTER-MEMORIALS at Jackson, this 27th day of September in Mr. CAPPER. Mr. President, I present Mr. President, I join in the protest the year of our Lord 1941. memorials from C. G. Steele, of Water­ against Government propaganda and By the Governor: ville, Kans.; H. E. Dodge, of Topeka, Government programs directed against PAUL B. JOHNSON, Kans.; and several thousand Kansas the dairy industry of this Nation, and ex­ (SEAL) WALKER WOOD, press the hope that the question will be Secretary oj State. dairy farmers, who are members of the Kansas State Dairy Association, protest­ reopened by Administrator McNutt and Mr. CONNALLY. Mr. President, in ing against the standards for oleo. re­ some agreement fair to all may be the absence of the senior Senator from cently issued by Administrator Paul V. worked out. I send the memorials to the Mississippi [Mr. BILBO], who would, of McNutt, as head of Food and Drug desk for reference to the Committee on course, have been delighted to perform Administration. The memorials state Agriculture and Forestry. this very pleasant function, I desire to that the standards so fixed "give manu­ The VICE PRESIDENT. The memo­ announce that Mr. DoxEY, the newly facturers of oleo liberty to sell oleo in rials will be referred to the Committee on elected Senator from Mississippi, is imitation of butter." The memorialists Agriculture and Forestry. present and prepared to take the oath of urge that Congress suspend these stand­ RESOLUTION OF IZAAK WALTON office. ards. LEAGUE The VICE PRESIDENT. If the Sen­ Mr. President, I desire to suggest that ator-elect will present himself at the Mr. GILLETTE. Mr. President, I have Administrator McNutt reopen this mat­ before me a resolution adopted by the desk, the oath of office will be adminis­ ter of changes in regulations covering tered to him. Izaak Walton League of America at the selling and labeling of oleomargarine, their annual convention, and, as it is Mr. DOXEY, escorted by Mr. CON­ and see if some regulations fair to the NALLY, advanced to the desk, and, the very short, I shall read it. It is as fol­ dairy farmers, the oleomargarine inter­ lows: oath prescribed by law having been ad­ ests, and the consumer cannot be worked ministered to him by the Vice President, out by agreement. Whereas the Izaak Walton League is com· he took his seat in the Senate. mitted to protection of public rights in I appreciate the fact that the new reg­ natural resources; and EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATION ulations, at least on their face, merely Whereas many bills now before Congress The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the attempt to strengthen the requirements under the banner of national defense com­ Senate the following letter, which was so that a higher grade of oleo will be pletely ignore these values while actually referrect as indic<. ted: placed on the ma:J;ket. That is a legiti­ contributing nothing to valid defense: mate function of the Food and Drug Therefore be It CLAIM OF Ln3BY, McNEILL & LIBBY Administration. Resolved, That the directors of the Izaak A letter from the Co_ ,: ptroller General of A greater objection which I myself Walton League of America in meeting at the United States, transmitting, pursuant to Chicago on September 20, 1941, petition the law, his report &nd recommendation con­ have to what is going on is that the De­ President and the Congress to call a mora­ cerning the claim of Libby, McNeill & Libby partment of Agriculture apparently is torium on these unessential projects as a against the United States (with an accom­ lending its name to a Nation-wide cam­ serious sabotage of real national defense panying report); to the Corr mittee on paign to encourage consumers to use oleo through their immense diversion of money, Claims. instead of butter, and by implication at manpower, and material. _7562 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE SEPTEMBER 29 I ask that the resolution be referred H. R. 2310. A bill to amend section 2 of I do not presume to comment on the to the Committee on Co111merce. the act entitled "An act granting pensions accuracy of these newspaper stories. If and increase of pensions to eertain soldiers the charges are true, they indicate, of The VICE PRESIDENT. The resolu­ and sailors of the War with Spain, the Philip­ tion will be referred to the Committee on pine Insurrection, or the China Relief Expedi­ course, a thoroughly undesirable situation Commerce, as requested by the Senator tion, t.o certain maimed soldiers, to certain which must be remedied. If they are not from Iowa. widows, minor children, and helpless children true, -it is equally important that the of such soldiers and sailors, and for other fact be demonstrated. AID TO BRITISH LABOR AND SUPPORT OF purposes," approved May 1, 1926; with an At the present time, a subcommittee DEMOCRACY amendment (Rept. No. 686). of the Senate Judiciary Committee has Mr. WILEY presented two resolutions, ADDITIONAL FACILITIES AT UNION RAIL­ been considering the problem of a revi­ which were referred to the Committee on ROAD STATION-REPORT OF THE COM­ sion of administrative procedure. It is Foreign Relations and ordered to be MITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF CO­ apparent that the questions raised with printed in the RECORD, as folloW'S: LUMBIA · reference to the activities of former Gov­ Whereas American labor is of the convic­ ernment employees before administrative tion that world domination by totalitarian­ Mr. BURTON. Mr. President, on be­ agencies and bureaus involve a problem ism is the ultimate objective of the murder­ half of the Committee on the District of which might well be considered in con­ ous, wanton, and unwarranted attacks upon Columbia I report back without amend­ nection with any discussion of a re-vision the free nations of Europe and upon the ment House bil15682, to amend an act to of the set-up of our administrative British people by Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, provide for a Union Railroad Station in agencies. Communist Russia, and Imperialist Japan, the District of Columbia, and for other with consequent £nslavement of all the free I am introducing today a bill which, if purposes, and I submit a report tNo. enacted, would provide publicity with re­ people of the world; and 687) thereon. I give notice that I shall Whereas the American Federation of Labor spect to the compensation paid to attor­ has always had the most fraternal relations ask for the early consideration of the bill neys and agencies handling: matters be­ with the British Trades Union Congress; and by- the Senate, inasmuch as it provides fore the executive and legislative Whereas the American labor movement ' for additional track facilities at the branches of government. knows that the cause of labor is inextricably Union Depot to care for the Christmas I ask that the bill be referred to the bound up with the cause of democracy: Now, mail. therefore, be it Judiciary Committee so that it may be The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will considered in connection with any dis­ Resolved, That the Waukesha Trades ·and be placed on the calendar. Labor Council declare its solidarity with and cussion relative to administrative pro­ its sympathy for our British fellow workers; ASSISTANT CLERK, COMMITTEE ON PUB­ cedure. and be it further LIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS I do not present this proposal as a final Resolve.d, That the appeal of tho American Mr. LUCAS. Mr. President, from the thought or even as an answer to the Labor Committee. To Aid British Labor be problem oi former Government em­ ·endorsed by this body as our expression of Committee to Audit and Control the Con­ solidarity, sympathy, and support; and be it tingent Expenses of the Senate, I report ployees exerting influence before Gov­ .further back favorably, without amendment, ernment agencies. If it is demonstrated Resolved, That a committee be appointed Senate Resolution 170, and ask unani­ that such a problem ·actually exists, it is for the purpose of cooperating in every way mous consent for its present considera­ apparent a solutio_n· will call for consid­ with the American Labor Committee To Aid tion. ered, mature thought and will undoubt­ ·British Labor in its drive for money, clothing, There being no objection, the resolu­ edly require correlation with other sug­ bandages, medications, and other supplies tion (S. Res. 170), submitted by Mr. gestions on the revision of administrative sorely needed by our British fellow workers agencies. in their struggle against the totalitarian MALONEY on September 25, 1941, was con­ countries. sidered and agreed to as follows: I present this measure ·in an effort to Adopted by the Waukesha Trades and Labor Resolved, That the Committee on Public stimulate -comment and suggestions on Counc.il May -28, 1941. Buildings and Grounds is hereby authorized this matter. · to employ for the remainder of the Seventy­ The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob­ Whereas the democratic principles upon seventh Congress an assistant clerk, to be jection, the bill will be referred as re­ which these great United States have been paid from the contingent fund of the Sen­ quested by the Senator from Wisconsin. founded have enabled American citizens of ate at the rate of $1,800 per annum. The bill (S. 1934) to provide for pub­ south Slavic origin and their descendants to BILL INTRODUCED pursue and enjoy life, liberty, and happiness licity with respect to the compensation in a measure unknown to the peoples of any Mr. GUFFEY introduced a bill May 18, 1936, supplementing twice by its title and referred to the principles and preserve them for thein and Committee on the Judiciary. their posterity; and the War Materials Relief Statutes, was Whereas the South Slavic Benevolent read twice by its title and referred to the POPPIES FOR SEED PURPOSES-BILL Union "Sloga" is composed of American citi­ Committee on Cl~ims. INDEFINITELY POSTPONED zens of south Slavic birth and descent: Now, ACTIVITIES AS ATTORNEYS OF FORMER Mr. McNARY. Mr. President, on May therefore, be it GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES 23 last I introduced a bill known as Sen­ Resolved, That the South Slavic Benevolent Union "Sloga," through the delegates of its Mr. WILEY. I introduce a bill for aP­ ate bill 1546, relating to the production membership at its eleventh regular conven­ propriate reference and I ask at this time of poppies for seed purposes only, which tion duly assembled at Milwaukee, Wis., do that I may b~ privileged to comment for was referred to the Committee on Agri­ hereby pledge their unequivocal allegiance about 2 minutes in relation to the pur­ culture and Forestry. I ask unanimous and devotion to the policies of the Govern­ port of the bill. consent that th~ committee be discharged ment of the United States in the present from the further consideration of the world crisis; be it further The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob­ jection, the Senator from Wisconsin may bill and that it be indefinitely postponed. Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there ob­ sent to the President of the United States proceed. and to the United States Senators from Mr. WILEY. Mr. President, I rise to jection? The Chair hears none, and it Wisconsin. comment very briefly on recent news­ is so ordered. REPORTS OF A COMMITTEE paper accounts charging that former ASSISTANT CLERK, COMMITTEE ON prominent Government employees are • FOREIGN RELATIONS The following reports of the Committee utilizing their in:fiuence and their former Mr. CONNALLY submitted th-e follow­ on Pensions were submitted: associations _on behalf of their legal ing resolution prohibition of travel in to the Inter-American Conference for the January 10: Ambassadors Kennedy and ships of belligerent nations. Maintenance of Peace. · Bullitt warned joint congressional committee September 12: Secretary Hull reminded both July 9: The United States agreed to ex­ on military affairs of imminent European war. Italy and Ethiopia that they are bound by the chf).nge gold for China's silver. January 27: President Roosevelt revealed Kellogg Pact. October 5: In Chicago, President Roosevelt that he had authorized purchase by France September 16: The United States Govern· pledged his administration to a concerted o-f a large number of most modern American ment withdrew its tariff concessions to Ger· effort with other peace-loving nations to fighting planes. many. quarantine aggressor nations. January 31: America's frontier is in France, October 26: Moral support was pledged to October 20: Secretary Hull and wife ar­ President Roosevelt reputedly told senate the League of Nations by Washington. rived at Ottawa, Canada, for a visit. Military Affairs Committee. November 15: A commercial treaty is signed November 3: A conference called under February 1: Roosevelt's declaration of sup­ between Canada and United States. New the Nine Power Treaty, to consider the Ja­ port for European democracies provoked bit­ constitution came into force for Philippine pan-China warfare, opened at Brussels. ter debate in the Senate. · November 18: Preliminary announcement February 3: President Roosevelt denied Islands. of the United States Government's intention December 5: Secretary Hull invoked the published reports that he had declared to negotiate a reciprocal trade agreement America's frontier to be in France. William covenants guaranteeing the political and with Great Britain. territorial entity of China. Phillips, United States Ambas&ador to Italy, December 9: Five-Power Naval Conference December 12: Japanese bombed U.S. gun­ protested invective in Fascist- press against opened in London. boat Panay in Yangtze River. President Roosevelt. December 19: Toyokeko Kagawa, a Japa­ 1938 March 4: Laurence A. Steinhardt was ap­ nese Christian evangelist, was shut out by the January 7: Joseph P. Kennedy was ap­ pointed United States Ambassador to Russia. Immigration authorities of United States. pointed United States Ambassador to Britain. ·.March 9: United States-Brazilian commer­ cial agreements concluded at Washington. 1936 Janu!try 10: United States House refused to take out of committee the Ludlow resolution. March 17: United States refused recognition February 15: President Roosevelt sent a February 5: United States, Britain, and of German protectorates over Bohemia, pro~osal to the Latin-American states for an France demanded Japan to reveal whether Moravia, and Slovakia. Inter-American conference. she was building beyond 35,000-ton treaty April 1: United States recognized govern­ February 18: Senate passed the House tem­ limit on battleships. ment of General Franco and lifted arms porary neutrality law extending it to May 1, February 8: In response to a Congress reso­ embargo against Spain. 1937. . lution of inquiry, Secretary Hull wrote to April 8: Secretary Hull denounced Italian March 14: United States gave formal recog­ Senator Pittman denying that t1iere was any invasion of Albania as "threat to the peace nition to the new Government of Paraguay. agreement; understanding, or other arrange­ of the world." March 25: At London, Britain, United ment with any other government for the April 15: In id~ntical notes to Hitler and States, and France signed a naval treaty. prosecution of a joint policy. Mussolini President Roosevelt asked for as­ : May 6: A reciprocal trade agreement is February 12: Japan declined to give infor­ surance that neither would invade the 31 in­ signed between United States and France. mation on her naval plans. dependent nations of Europa and Asia for at July 11: United Stat es and Russia extended March 7: United States signed reciprocal least 10 years. their mutual trade agreement to July 3, 1937. trade treaty with Czechoslovakia. May 1: _cash and carry section of United July 31: President Roosevelt conferred with March 18: Mexico expropriated property of States Neutrality Act of 1937 expired. Lord Tweedsmuir and Prime Minister Mac­ 17 United States and British oil companies. June 13: United States signed agreement to kenzie King of Canada at Quebec. March 30: United States Department of extend loans to Paraguay for 2 years. August 3: The United States State Depart­ State demanded compensation from Mexico June 20: United States Department of ment warned all Americans to qui· Spain. for the seizure of American-owned oil prop­ State announced additional protests to Japan August 14 : President Roosevelt, speaking erties. over bombing ·of American property and the at Chautauqua, N. Y., denounced war and June 9: The United States protested the occupation of Ku-lang Su Island. those nations which raise the threat of it. bombing of Lingnan University by the Jap­ June 23: United States signed an agree­ The United States Treasury-removed counte·r­ anese on June 8. ment· with Great Britain to barter 600,000 vailing duties on imports from Germany fol­ July 6: The Refugee Conference, convoked bales of surplus United States cotton for lowing the official notification by the Ger­ 85,000 tons of rubber to be used as a war by President Roosevel~ opened in Evian, man Government that all subsidies on prod­ France, representing 32 countries. reserve. ucts exported to the United States had been August 6: Soviet Russia trade pact with July 14: .President .Roosevelt asked arms abrogated. the United States wa's renewed for _anothet· embargo repeal. August 25: 1:-resident Roosevelt named Wil­ year. July 26: United States denounced Japanese liam C. Bullitt Ambassador to France. trade treaty of 1911, thus making possible ap­ August 9: United States A~b~ssadot· M. T. September 25: The United States Treasury johnson and staff arrived at Chungking and lication of arms embargo after expiration of ~nnounced it had joined France and Great established headquarters there. 6 months' notice. Britain in a plan to link the franc, the pound, August 18: President Roosevelt, at Ivy August 24: Roosevelt appealed to Hitler and the dollar on a stable basis of exchange. Lea, Ontario, declared "the United States an~ President Moscicki of Poland to settle · November 18 : President Roosevelt left will not stand idly by" if Canada is atta(lked. their controversies by direct negotiation, Charleston, S. C.; on the cruiser Indianapolis, August 22: Unit~d Sta~es again . asked arbitration, or conciliation. fer Buenos Aires to attend a peace conference. Mexico to a~range to pay for. seized Ameri­ August 29: President -Roosevelt repeated .. November 27: Presiden~ Roosevelt was wel­ can-owned land. Arbitration or prompt and his belief that the failure of Congress to comed to Brazil. adequate compensation was urged. modify United States Neutrality Act encour­ December 1: Opening of the Inter-Ameri­ September 26: Roosevelt appealed to Hit­ aged Hitler to provoke the war crisis. can Conference for the Maintenance of Peace l~r and President Benes, of Czechoslovakia, September 3: President Roosevelt pledged at Buenos Aires," Aigentina. to settle their controversy peacefully. effort to keep America at peace. December 28: At Washington the State De­ October 6: United States notified Japan to ' September 5: Secretary Hull proclaimed partment issued a license for the shipment to preserve the "open door" in China and to American neutrality. the Spanish leftists of airplanes and engines. cease any int~rference with American fights september 8: Limited national emergency The neutrality law was held inapplicable to there. · was declared by President Roosevelt. the civil war. October 7: The United States asked Italy september 13: President Roosevelt call'ed 1937 not to discriminate against American Jews. special session of Congress to meet september January 8: United States embargo on the October 10: In South America the Chaco 21 to consider revision of neutrality bill. shipment of arms and munitions to Spain Paraguay-Bolivia boundaries were announced September 14: United States warned all came into effect with President Roosevelt's by the arbitration commission representing belligerents not to violate its rights .as a neu­ signature to a joint congressional resolution. the President of the United States, Argen­ tral. April 18: Mexico and United States signed tina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay. September 21: Repeal of United States a treaty terminating article 8 of the Gadsden November 14: United States called Berlin arms embargo was asked by President Roose­ Treaty of December 30, 1853, regarding fron­ Ambassador home for "report and consul­ velt in a message to special session of Con­ tiers, cession of territory and transit of the tation." gress. Isthmus of Tehuantepec. November 17: Secretary Hull signed trade September 28: Foreign Relations Commit­ May 1: President Roosevelt signed the neu­ pacts with Great Britain and Canada. tee of the Senate voted approval of the Pitt­ trality bill replacing the act of 1935. December 9: Eighth Pan-American Confer­ man resolution to repeal arms embargo, 16 May 8: United States together with other ence opened in Lima, Peru. to 7. nations signed the convention which pro­ December 24: Lima conference adopted dec· October 2: United States did not recognize vided for the abolition of capitulations in laration of American solidarity. the Polish conquest but continued relations Egypt. December 31: United States State Depart­ with the new Polish Government in France. _June 29: United States Senate :ratified two ment rejected Japanese program for "new October 3: Conference of 21 American re­ treaties, five conventions, and one protocol order in China." publics closed at Panama City after estab- 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 7565

lishing "sea safety zones" for neutrals in May 11: President Roosev~lt ordered · the October 26: President Roosevelt notified Western Hemisphere. application to Belgium, Holland, and Lux- · Vichy government that close military co­ October 11: President Roosevelt dispatched emburg of all provisions of the neutrallty operation with Germany would bring abOut personal note to President Kalinin urging law. the occupation of Martinique and French Union of Soviet Socialist Republics not to May 28: Council of National Defense es­ Guiana by the American nations. disrupt its friendly relations with Finland. tablished by . the President. November 15: President Roosevelt pro­ October 19: United States Ambassador J. June 3: Resolutions were introduced into claimed the neutrality of the United States C. Grew, in a speech at Tokyo, sharply criti­ both Houses of Congress declaring that the in the Italo-Greek war. cized Japanese infringements of American United States would not acquiesce in the December 17: Plan to lend arms to Great rights in China. transfer of any geographical region in the Britain without immediate payment was an­ October 26: Release of City of Flint de­ Western Hemisphere from one non-American nounced by the President. manded of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics power to another. _ by the United States State Department. June 10: President Roosevelt, in an ad­ 1941 October 27: Repeal of arms embargo voted dress at the University of Virginia, pledged January 6: President Roosevelt, in annual by Senate, 63 to 30. the United States to give all pos&ible mate­ message to Congress, declared that the Amer­ November 2: House of Representatives rial assistance to the Allies. ican people would not acquiesce in Axis­ voted repeal of arms embargo, 243 to 181. June 11: President Roosevelt extended the dictated peace; outlined peace based on four November 4: Bill repealing United States Neutrality Act to Italy. freedoms. arms embargo and substituting cash-and­ June 22: Secretary Hull announced that January 8: Mr. Roosevelt appointed tour­ carry trade with belligerents was signed by 20 American nations had accepted the in- ; man Office of Production Management to President Roosevelt. Proclamation forbade vitation of the United States to attend a coordinate defense. United States ships to enter waters around conference to consider economic and po­ January 10: Lease-lend bill introduced in Great Britain and Ireland, English Channel, litical problems arising from the _Eu:ropean Congress. North Sea south and west of Gergen, Baltic war. ·, : March 11: President Roosevelt signed lease­ Sea, and Bay of Biscay except n9rthern coast June 27: President Roosevelt declared the lend b1ll. of Spain. . . , existence of a national emergency_ to ,enable April 10: United States announced it had City of Flint released to American crew by the Government to control American . and taken over protection of Greenland. • Norway. foreign shipping in United States territorial May 21: American freighter Robin Moor November 7: Transfer of United States waters and around the Panama Canal. sunk. ships to Panamanian registry to evade pro­ June 29: The President signed a bill pro­ May 27: President Roo3evelt proclaimed an visions of new neutrality law upheld by viding for the registration and finger printing unlimited state of national emergency. Roosevelt. of all aliens. June 16: United States ordered the closing November 10: Americans advised by United July 23: Under Secretary Welles announced of German consulates in this country. States consulate to leave the Netherlands. that United States would continue to recog­ July 7: . The President announced Amer­ December 1: President Roosevelt de­ nize the ministers of Lithuania, L:ltvia, and ican occupation of Iceland. nounced Soviet invasion of Finland as wan­ Estonia as envoys of sovereign government July 25: President Roosevelt ordered the ton and lawless. under duress. "freezing" of Japanese assets in the United December 9: United States protested to July 25: The President placed an err.bargo States. Great Britain against seizure of German ex­ on the export of scrap metal, petr.:,leum, and July 26: Philippine armed forces are ports on American ships. petroleum products without a special license. placed under United States military and December 23: Roosevelt named Myron C. July 30: Pan-American Conference at Ha­ naval control. Taylor his personal representative at the bana adjourned after adopting plans for deal­ August 6: United States and Britain Vatican with rank of Ambassador without ing with European possessions in the New warned Japan to keep hands off of Thailand. portfolio. World, for combating "fifth column" activi­ August 14: President Roosevelt and Prime December 23: All American republics pro­ ties, and for economic cooperation. Minister Churchill issued a declaration of tested jointly to France, Great Britain, and July 31: Embargo on export of United peace aims evolved during a series of meet­ Germany against violation of 300-mile safety States aviation gasoline outside the Western ings aboard war vessels in the Atlantic. zone around the hemisphere. Hemisphere proclaimed by President Roose­ August 15: Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Church­ velt. ill sent a message to Stalin proposing a 1940 August 6: Annual trade agreement between meeting in the Kremlin with high Anglo­ January 2, Secretary Hull made a formal Russia and the United States renewed. American officials. protest to Great Britain against the removal August 10: The United States announced it August 16: It is announced that Amer~n from Briti.sh an~ neutral vessels on the higli would reopen its consulates in Dakar and civilian pilots would ferry war planes to Brit­ seas of American mail addressed to neutral on the French islands of St. Pierre and ish in Near East. countries. Miquelon. as listening posts. THE ENEMY IS HITLER-EDITORIAL BY January 8: United States and Australia August 18: President Roosevelt announced announced establishment of direct diplo­ that a permanent joint board of defense for RT. REV. JOHN A. RYAN, D. D. matic relations. Canada and the United States would be estab­ Mr. GUFFEY. Mr. President, I ask to January 26: United States-Japanese trade lished. treaty expired at midnight. have printed in the RECORD at this point, September 3: The President informed Con­ as part of my remarks, a very able edi­ February 4: United States entered into gress that he had made an agreement with diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia for Great Britain under which the United States torial from the magazine, the Voice of the first time. obtained the right to lease sites and build Austria, written by the Right Reverend february 9: It was announced that Under air and naval bases in the Bahamas, Jamaica, John A. Ryan, D. D., head of the National Secretary of State :Welles was going to Eu­ St. Lucia, etc., in return for 50 over-age de­ Catholic welfare movement in the United rope for the purpose of advising the Presi­ stroyers. dent on conditions. States. March 1: Congress increased the capital September 4: Secretary Hull told Japanese The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob­ of the Export-Import Bank by $100,000,000 that any change in the status of French jection, it is so ordered. to enable it to make loans to friendly coun­ Indo-China would have an unfortunate effect The editorial is as follows: tries to buy nonmilitary supplies. Loans on American public opinion. of $20,000,000 to Finland, $15,000,000 to September 7: Secretary Hull announced [From the Voice of Austria of August 1941) Sweden, and $10,000,000 to Norway were au­ that 20 Latin-American nations were free to THE ENEMY IS HITLER thorized by the Federal Loan Admlnistrator. use the naval-and air bases which the United March 7: The Federal Loan Administra­ States obtained under lease from Great (By Rt. Rev. John A. Ryan, D. D.) tor authorized loans of $20,000,000 to China, Britain. Immediately after the invasion of Russia $10,000,000 to Denmark, and $1.000,000 to September 14: United States Congress pass­ June 22, the German news-propaganda Iceland. ed the selective-service bill providing for the agency, D. N. B., asserted that the bishops March 20: Under Secretary of State Welles registration of all men between the ages of 21 in Germany had notified their respectfve sailed for home from Italy with his report to and 35. flocks that the new fight was for the salva­ the President on the state of affairs in September 16: President Roosevelt signed tion of Christianity throughout the world. Europe. selective-service bill and called on all men The falsity of this report was sufficiently in­ April 9: Secretary Hull published a note within the prescribed age limits to register dicated July 6, when a joint pastoral was pres.:lnted to the Mexican Ambassador April October 16. read in all the Catholic pulpits of the Reich, 3, proposing that all outstanding disputes September 25: United States loaned $25,- strongly condemning the continued perse­ between the two countries be settled by 000,000 to China to be secured by $30,000,000 cution of the church by the Nazi Govern­ arbitration. worth of tungsten to be shipped to the United ment but saying not a word about commu­ April 25: United States neutrality laws States of America. nism. On June 29 the Holy Father delivered were applied to Norway by Presidential proc­ September 26: . President Roosevelt placed a very important address on certain aspects lamation. embargo on shipment of steel and iron scrap of the war which has been raging since 1939, May 10: President Roosevelt denounced outside this hemisphere, except to Great without even mentioning the new crusade the invasion of Holland and Belgium. Britain. tor Christian civilization. . No Catholic, 7566 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE SEPTEMBER 29 therefore, is under any obligation to support If Hitler conquers Russia, hie power w111 contains a certain mystical element· adapted· or sympathize with Hitler against Stalin. be immensely increased to carry through the to satisfy in some measure the human crav-· May a Catholic desire that Stalin shall be: devastating outrages which he has already ing for religion. In his encyclical on the victorious? Those American Catholics who planned: First, to defeat Britain and then. church in Germany, Mit Brennender Sorge,· answer this question in the negative seem inflict immense damages upon the . United Pope Pius XI exhorted the bishops of that to be divided into two classes, those _who States; second, to continue in subjection the country to be "especially alert when fun­ quote a statement by Pope Pius XI in his various peoples that he has already ·enslaved; damental religious conceptions are robbed of encyclical Atheistic Communism, and those third, to destroy Christianity and Christian their intrinsic content and made to mean' who assert that we should be completely civilization. something else in a profane sense" (par. 26). neutral between these two enemies of Chris-­ - No intelligent and well-informed person On this question the judgment of the dis- · tianity. The papal declaration reads thus: can seriously doubt that, following his de­ tinguished writer, Sigrid Undset, tt ·worth "See to it, venerable brethren, that the feat of Britain, Hitler would continue to pur-_ quoting: faithful do not allow themselves to be de­ sue the second and third of these purposes "Personally I think that communism is-· ceived. Communism is intrinsically wrong, and would deliberately undertake the realiza­ or was, for the face of communism has and no one who would save Christian civili­ tion of the first. Would he be successful in changed considerably since it came into zation may collaborate with it in any under­ an attack upon the United States? Probably power over a gieat people-the least detest­ taking whatsoever" (par. 58). he would not attempt to invade the country able. form of this new religion. It tries to To construe these words of warning as for­ by armies in the near future. Undoubtedly- do- away with the notion of divinity, but it bidding sympathy with or support for the . he would promptly extend his economic pen­ does not attempt to bestow divine attributes Russian Government and people in their etration and domination to South America. to . corrupted humanity or blabber sancti­ resistance to the Nazi attack is to be guilty· : Thus the Nazi government would be in a po• monious blasphemy about the beautiful of unprecise, even slovenly thinking. Pius . sition to inflict upon -our country enormous strength of criminals. · This new religion XI was speaking of communism, not of the economic hardship by destroying most of our becomes all the more revolting the more it Government nor of the people of- Soviet Rus­ foreign commerce or compelling us to trade dabbles in mysticism. When the Nazis speak sia. In other words he had in mind a doc­ with the conquering tyrants on their terms. of themselves as appointed by their God or trine in which, as he said in an earlier para­ As a further consequence we should have to' by Providence to murder any nation that is ' gTaPh of the same encyclical, "There is no spend billions of dollars a year fqr the defense numerically weaker or has -possessions that room for the idea of God;· there is ·no differ­ of our homeland. We should have become they covet, one gets a shuddering sense that ­ ence between matter and spirit, between completely isolated in a hostile world. they are 'truly in communion With a spiritual soul and body; there is neither survival of Americans who look upon these injuries . reality, namely, the one we Christians call the soul after death nor any hope in a . and calamities as of little or no importance Satan." (America, December 28, 1940.) future life" (par. 9). 1 so long as actual invasion is not i~minent . NATIONAL. UNITY-ADDRESS BY SENA­ To be sure, a doctrine is helpless and harm­ may consider themselves patriotic, but they less unless it is professed and propagated by. ' are not intelligently patriotic. Americans TOR MURRAY human beings. Therefore, the Pope forbade who assert that we should await the near - [Mr. MURRAY asked and obtained leave to collaboration with men who are engaged in menace of invasion before we use military h-ave printed in the RECORD ·a radio address : spreading the -evil doctrine and who would' measures against Hitler may consider them­ delivered by him at Helena, Mont., on July · utilize for that purpose the cooperation of selves patriotic. Americans who oppose mili­ 29, 1941, on the topic National Unity Is Christians who might themselves be seeking tary aid to Britain, even as a means of avert- Essential to National Safety, which appears ends that are entirely legitimate. The aid ' ing the danger of actual war on our own soil, in_ the_Appe~dix.] which such Christian collaboration gives to may consider themselves patriotic, ·but they ADDRESS BY SENATOR TAFT ON INFLA- ' communism is the thing specifically forbid­ are not intelligently patriotic. American 1 den by the Pope. He surely would not con:. Catholics who assert that we have no moral TION, ITS DANGERS ~D REMEDIES demn a Christian for helping a Communist 1 obligation to use military measures outside [Mr. DAVIS asked and obtained leave to to put out the fire that threatened a neigh­ the United States in order to prevent the de­ have printed in the RECORD. an address de­ bor's house, when this was the only end­ structio~ of the Christian religion and Chris­ Ii'vered by Senator -Taft to the P~!msylvania sought by both and the only effect produced. tian civilization by Hitler in Europe are, wit­ , Savings and Loan League, Harrisburg, Pa., - The foregoing interpretation is confirmed tingly or unwittingly, subscribing to one Jof on September 26, 1941, on the subject Infl.a- · by the sentence which immediately follows the propositions condemned by Pope Pius IX tion, Its Dangers and Remedies, which ap- the one in question. Here it is: in the Syllabus of Errors ~ Proposition 62 as­ ' pears in the Appendix.] "Those who permit themselves to be de­ serted that the doctrine of nonintervention SMALLER BUSINESS LOOKS AHEAD- · was universally valid. Pius IX declared that peived into lending their aid tcwaid the ADDRESS BY SENATOR.BURTON triumph of communism in their own country, proposition to be false. will be the first to fall victims of their error" Such Catholics, again-unwittingly, no doubt . [Mr. AIKEN asked and obtained leave to (par. 58). repudiate Christ's gospel of universal love of have printed in the RECORD an address de­ Evidently the Holy Father had in mind the neighbor. They deny that the command­ liyered by Senator BURTON at Cleve1and, Ohio,, the practical situation, not in Russia, but in ment of brotherly love applies between na­ on September 23, 1941, on ths subject any and every country where Christians tions, even though our Lord never said that Smaller Business Looks Ahead, which appears might be tempted to collaborate with com­ His commandment of love was confined in the Appendix.] ' munism or Communists. Hence, his use of w-ithin the boundaries of one's own country. ·STATEMENT BY SENATOR BRIDGES ON the phrase, "in their own country." It is "America first," as interpreted by the more CLOSED-SHOP· DRIVE significant that those Catholics who use--or vociferous exponents of the slogan, seems to rather misuse--the first sentence ignore en­ ' mean "America only"-American indifference [Mr. BRIDGES asked and obtained leave­ tirely the second. To the intellectual defect to all obligations of international charity. to have printed in the RECORD a statement of unprecise thinking, they add the moral Suppose that Stalin repels the Nazi in­ by him on the closed-shop drive, which ap- . pears in the Appendix-.] - fault of misrepresentation. vasion and remains compJoetely victorious in 1 . Am~rican Catholics are fully justified in his own country. What menace would that EDUCATION IN A DEMOCRACY-ARTICLE situation hold for the United States and for adopting the formula employed by the Cath­ BY SENATOR ROSIE~ olic Times of London: "Russia's enemy is Christian civilization in Europe? The dan­ our enemy, but Russia's cause is not our ger to the United States would obviously be [Mr. GUFFEY asked and. obtained leave cause." very much le5s than that which would fol­ to have printed in the RECORD an article by Those Catholics who hold that we ought low a victory by Hitler, mainly because of Senator RosiER, entitled "Educatio~J in a De­ to be neutral between Hitler and Stalin as­ ' the difierences of distance and of equipment mocracy," published in the West Virginia sert that nazi-ism and communism are equal­ for attack. For the same reasons, a' Stalm School Journal of September 1941, which appears in the Appendix.] ly reprehensible, consequently -that we are i victory would probably be cor.. siderably less - not justified in favoring one above the other . . threatening to Christianity than a Hitler STATEMENT BY HON. ADOLPH SABATH This conclusion does not follow. If the out­ victory. ANNOUNCING ACCEPTANCE OF co-­ come of the c.onftict involved nothing more Moreover, there are some reasons for think­ than defeat for either Hitle:: or Stalin, or for ing that Communist rule in western Europe CHAIRMANSHIP. OF NATIONAL "AMERI­ either nazi-ism or communism, and if its would be less harmful to Christianity than CANS ALL" WEEK effects were to be confined to Russia, this Nazi rule: First, Stalin openly avows his [Mr. THOMAS of Utah asked and o-btained attitude of neutrality would be as reasonable hatred of religion; hence, Christians would leave to have printed in the RECORD toe state­ as the detached indifference which a person~ not be deceived as they have been 'in Ger­ ment issued by Representative ADOLPH might exhibit toward a contest between two many; their religion would not be stolen SABATH :lnnouncing his acceptance of the co- , unknown thugs. Unfortunately the present from them by the diabol1cally clever methods cllairmanship of the national "Americans . conflict in Russia holds issues of much greater of Nazi deceitfulness. In the second place, All" Week, which_a~pear~ i:r:_l the Appendix.] importance than mere victory or defeat for Stalin has no religious substitute to offer one or the other contestant. The wider the people whom he would deprive of their ADDRESS B'l MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS AT- effects are the supreme consideration. From Christian faith. He could hold out to them SOUTHEASTERN WORLD'S FAffi this point of view, let us try to evaluate the only stark materialism, whereas the Nazis [Mr. MALONEY asked 'and obtah:lect leave situation honestly and adequately. insinuate and set up a substitute creed which to have printed in the RECORD the address 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 7567 delivered by Mr. Justice William 0. Douglas CERTIFICATION OF' NATIONAL-DEFENSE I do not know of any agreemerit that no at the Southeastern World's .Fa;ir, Atlanta, FACILITIES AND CONTRACTS FOR business would be taken up this week. Ga., September 26, 1941, which appears in the AMORTIZATION 'PURPOSES I thought that agreement applied to last Appendix.i · . Mr. GEORGE. Mr. President, I ask week. However, I am not desirous of ADDRESS BY HON. JOSEPHUS DANIELS ON unanimous consent to report during the raising any controversy. CONTINENTAL SOLIDARITY day, from the Committee on Finance, Mr. McNARY. Mr. President, I do • (Mr. CONNALLY asked and obtained leave House Joint Resolution 235, to amend not want to imply that there was any to have printed in the RECORD an address on section 124 of the Internal Revenue Code such agreement. The statement was Continental Solidarity, delivered by Hon. by extending the time for applications, made by the Democratic leader that dur­ Josephus Daniels, American Ambassador to e.nd changing the procedure, for certifica­ ing the next 2 weeks no business of any Mexico, at the convention of the American tion of national-defense facilities and substantial nature would be transacted. Legion at Milwaukee, Wis., September 17, The matter in question may not fall 1941, which appears in the Appendix.] contracts for amortization purposes. The report is not now ready, but will be within the category of substance. I do ADDRESS BY JOSEPHUS DANIELS AT ready and will be filed this afternoon if not know whether it does. If it does not, CONVENTION OF WOMAN'S AUXILIARY, unanimous consent is given. In this con­ that is a different proposition. But .I AMERICAN LEGION nection, I should like to give notice that think we would have a cleaner slate if [Mrs. CARAWAY asked and obtained leave on Thursday the joint resolution will be we would leave the transaction of busi­ to have printed in the RECORD the address taken up for consideration by the Senate, ness of that kind until a week from today delivered by the Honorable Josephus Daniels, if it is agreeable to the leadership. and thereafter. American Ambassador to Mexico, at the con­ I now ask unanimous consent to file Mr. GEORGE. Mr. President, I be­ vention of the Woman's · Auxiliary of the lieve that permission has been granted American Legion, at Milwaukee, Wis., on the report of the Finance Committee on the joint resolution, with certain amend- to file the report. September 17, 1941, which appears in the The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob­ Appendix.] ments. • The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there ob­ jection, the request of the Senator from ALL OUT FOR DEFENSE-ADDRESS BY jection? Georgia is granted. WILLIAMS. KNUDSEN Mr. McNARY. Mr. President, I may Mr. McNARY. Just a moment, Mr. (Mr. McKELLAR asked and obtained leave add that I am willing to discuss the mat­ President, the Senator couples his request ter with the Senator from Georgia. It to have printed in the RECORD an address on with the statement that he wants to take the subject All Out for Defense, delivered by may be that we can take up the joint William S. Knudsen, Director General, Office up the joint resolution for consideration resolution on Thursday. I do not wish of Production Management, before the Union on Thursday. to consent to such action at this time. League Club at Chicago, Ill., September 22, Mr. GEORGE. Yes. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Senator 1941, which appears in the Appendix.] Mr. McNARY. I am not sure that that from Georgia is not asking for consid­ JOSEPH ROSIER, TEACHER-SENATOR­ conforms to the statement made by the eration of the joint resolution at this . ARTICLE BY MEDORA MASON able Senator from Kentucky [Mr. BARK­ time . LEY] before his departure from the city Mr. GEORGE. No; I am not at trus [Mr. GUFFEY asked and obtained leave to last week. At that time he implied that time asking for such consent. 11ave printed in the RECORD an article entitled , no important, substantial, or significant Mr. McNARY. I appreciate that. I "Joseph Rosier, Teacher-Senator," written by legislation would be considered during Medora Mason, head of the department of appreciate what is going on now, but it journalism, F airmont State Teachers Col­ this week. I do not know how contro­ is very apparent that it is the intent of lege, and published in the West Virginia versial the joint resolution is ," nor do I the Senator to do so later, and I wish School Journal of September 1941, which ap­ know the nature of the proposal; but I to apprise him of my position with re­ pears in the Appendix.] shall not at this time consent to having spect to the matter. it taken up on Thursday. Mr. GEORGE. Mr. President, the point FATHER OF PUBLIC POWER-EDITORIAL Mr. GEORGE. I was not asking for FROM WASHINGTON SENTINEL is not worth arguing. The joint resolu­ consent to take it up at that time. I tion ought to be considered at an early [Mr. NORRIS asked and obtained leave to gave notice of my intention to request its date, because it is well known to the nave printed in the RECORD an editorial from consideration then. I do not believe it whole country that certificates, both of the Washington Sentinel of August 29, 1941, will be highly controversial. The joint entitled "Father of Public Power," which ap­ necessity and of nonreimbursement, un­ pears in the Appendix.) resolution has been approved by the Sec­ der section 124 of the Internal Revenue retaries of War and Navy and other Code, have not generally been issued be­ NEUTRALITY REPEAI.r-ARTICLE BY MARK agencies of Government. It is an effort cause of complications growing out of SULLIVAN to make workable section 124 of the In­ original provisions put into the law. The [Mr. BRIDGES asked and obtained leave to ternal Revenue Code relating to amorti­ purpose of the joint resolution is to sim­ have printed in the REcoRD an article by Mark zation of national-defense projects. plify and expedite procedure. However, S\lllivan, published in the Washington Post Mr. McNARY. Why will not that I am not pressing the matter. I do not of September 26, 1941, entitled "Neutrality matter keep until Monday a week from recall the suggestion made by the ma­ Repeal-Dodges Make Law Meaningless," today? jority leader, and having in mind my whi9h ~ppears i~ the Appendix. j Mr. GEORGE. Probably it will, but I departure from the city for 2 or 3 weeks, EMERGENCY POWERS RELA'l'ING TO wanted to leave washington Thursday. beginning on Thursday, I had hoped that BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY-COMPILA­ I can have some other Senatnr present I might have the joint resolution con­ TION BY HON.-HARRY B. HAWES the matter. sidered. But it can be left in the hands [Mr. TYDINGS asked and obtained leave Mr. McNARY. Mr. President, I be­ of some other Senator. to have .printed in the RECORD a compilation lieve I am carrying out the spirit of the Mr. McNARY. I do not want to re­ of emergency powers relating to business and suggestion made by the able D('mocratic peat, but I wish to say that I will be glad industry, prepared by Hon. Harry B. Hawes, leader, the Senator from Kentucky [Mr. to confer with the Senator, and discuss whi9h appears in the Appendix.] BARKLEY], which was made here in open the proposal, and see if the matter does ORDER DISPENSING WITH C,#\LL OF session and which was carried home to not come within the rule. CALENDAR many of the Senators who are absent. Mr. GEORGE subsequently, from the I think I would object to taking up the Committee on Finance, to which was re­ The VICE PRESIDENT. Morning joint resolution this week. I should like ferred the joint resolution

Second Lt. Ansley Watson, Air Corps. are subject to the examination required by FOREIGN SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES Second Lt. Edward Gerald Hillery, Air Corps. law. To be Foreign Service officer of class 2: X Second Lt. Thomas Ewing Margrave, Air MEDICAL CORPS Corps. Lloyd V. Steere Second Lt. Bela Alan Harcos, Air Corps. To be captains To be Foreign Service officers of class 3: Second Lt. Henry Ovide Bordelon, Air Corps. First Lt. Alonzo Bee Christie, Jr., Medical Don C. Bliss, Jr. Harry F. H~wley Second Lt. Edward Lewis Reid, Air Corps. Corps (temporary captain), with rank from Austin C. Brady William R. Langdon Second Lt. Clyde Charles Harris, Jr., Air October 1, 1941. Edward S. Crocker 2d Alfred T. Nester Corps. First Lt. Robert Farris Loughmiller, Medi­ Walter J. Donnelly Albert F. Nufer Second Lt. Jean Rogers Byerly, Air Corps. cal Corps (temporary captain), with rank HomerS. Fox FrankS. Williams Second Lt. Herman Francis Lowery, Air from October 1, 1941. · To be Foreign Service officers cf class 4: Cor.r:s. First Lt. John Beardsley Wallace, Medical Second Lt. Boyd David Wagner, Air Corps. Corps (temporary captain), with rank from Clayson W. Aldridge Curtis C. Jordan Second Lt. Edward George Kiehle, Air October 22, 1941. Wllliam H. Beach David McK. Key Corps. Donald F. Bigelow Renwick S. McNiece Second Lt. Earl Eugene Bates, Jr., Air DENTAL CORPS John Corrigan Marcel E. Malige Corps. To be mators Allan Dawson Warwick Perkins Second Lt. Arch Graham Campbell, Jr., Air James Orr Denby J. Bartlett Richards Capt. Tyler James Walker, Dental Corps Lynn W. Franklin Corps. (temporary major), with rank from October Second Lt. David Wade, Air Corps. 16, 1941. To be Foreign Service officers of class 5: Second Lt. J. Francis Taylor, Jr., Air Corps. Capt. Henry Richard Sydenham, Dental H. Merrell Benninghoff Vinton Chapin Second Lt. Edward Wilford Maschmeyer, Corps (temporary major), with rank from Joseph F. Burt William A. Smale Air Corps. October 17, 1941. Second Lt. Neel Earnest Kearby, Air Corps. Prescott Childs E. Talbot Smftl'\ Second Lt. Leonard Muir Rohrbough, Air TEMPORARY APPOINTMENTS IN THE ARMY OF Clarence E. Macy Francis H. Styles Corps. THE UNITED STATES Dale W. Maher Ho.tard F. Withey Second Lt. Ray Hamilton Martin, Air Corps. TO BE MAJOR GENERALS Walter S. Reineclt William M. Gwynn Second Lt. Frederick John Sutterlin, Air Thomas H. Robinson Walter H. McKinney Brig. Gen. Ernest Joseph Dawley (colonel, Corps. To be Foreign Service officers of class 6: Second Lt. Murray Alston Bywater, Air Field Artillery), Army of the United States. Brig. Gen. Wllliam Hood Simpson (colonel, George M. Abbott John B. Ketcham Corps. George D. And:-ews John H. Madonne Second Lt. Delmar Edmond Wilson, Air Infantry), Army of the United States. Brig. Gen. Francis Bowditch Wilby (colonel, Lawrence S. Armstrong James E. Parks Corps. Corps of Engineers), Army of the United Roy W. Baker James K. Penfield x Second Lt. Joshua Thomas Winstead, Jr., Ellis A. Bonnet Winfield H. Scott Air Corps. States. TO BE BRIGADIER GENERALS Frederick W. Hinke Arthur F. Tower Second Lt. Charles Duncan Jones, Air Corps. Charles A. Hutchinson Second Lt. Ernest Haywood Beverly, Air Col. Raymond Albert Wheeler, Corps of Corps. Engineers. To be Foreign Service officers of class 7: Second Lt. George Edward Schaetzel, Air Col. William Middleton Grimes, Cavalry. Stephen E. Aguirre Henry P. Leverich Corps. Col. James Lester Bradley (lieutenant Daniel V. Anderson Raymond P. Ludden Second Lt. F;:ederic Grenville Huish, Air colonel, Infantry), Army of the United States. Waldo E. Bailey Patrick Mallon Corps. Col. Maxon Spafford Lough, Infantry. Walworth Barbour John Peabody Palmer Second Lt. Claude Edwin Putnam, Jr., Air Col. Robert Heber Van Volkenburgh (lieu­ Jacob D. Beam Troy L. Perkins Corps. tenant colonel, Coast Artillery Corps), Army John Wlllard Carrigan Paul J. Reveley · Second Lt. Donald Root Strother, Air of the United States. Bernard C. Connelly W. Garland RichardsOJ Corps. Col. Charles Harrison Corlett (lieutenant Merritt N. Coates Halleck L Rose Second Lt. Dale Leroy Anderson, Air Corps. colonel, Infantry) , Army of the United States Earl T. Crain Livingston Satterthwal Second Lt. Eugene Carl Woltz, Air Corps. Col. Dwight David Eisenhower (lieutenant Andrew E. Donovan 2d Francis L. Spalding Second Lt. Kenneth Wilbur Lawver, Air colonel, Infantry), Army of the United States. Walter C. Dowling John F. Stone Corps. Col. Kenneth Prince Lord, Field Artillery. Daniel Gaudin, Jr. Tyler Thompson Second Lt. Elliott Hartley Reed, Air Corps. Col. Alden George Strong, Coast Artillery James E. Henderson William C. Trimble Second Lt. Frank Edwin Rouse, Air Corps. Corps. Fred W. Jandrey Milton K. Wells Second Lt. Vernon Lake Stintzi, Air Corps. Col. Rollo Curtin Ditto, Chemical Warfare Douglas Jenkins, Jr. Second Lt. Clarence Theodore Edwinson, Service. To be Foreign Service officers of class 8: Air Corps. Col. Hubert Reilly Harmon (lieutenant Second Lt. James Carroll Cochran, Air colonel, Air Corps; temporary colonel, Air Hector C. Adam, Jr. Elbert G. Mathews Corps. Corps). Army of the United States. Russell W. Benton John Ordway Second Lt. Richard Powers Schumacher, Col. Archibald Vincent Arnold (lieutenant Roswell c. Beverstock Marselis C. Parsons, Jr Air Corps. colonel, Field Artlllery), Army of the United William F. Busser George F. Scherer Second Lt. Arthur Harold Rogers, Air States. · Richard W. Byrd Earle C. Taylor Corps. Col. Julian Francis Barnes, Field Artillery. Glion Curtis, Jr. Woodruff Wallner Second Lt. Whitmell Tompkins Rison, Air Col. Franklin Cummings Sibert (lieutenant Harry M. Donaldson T. Eliot Weil Corps. colonel. Infantry), Army of the United States. Owen W. Gaines Ivan B. White Second Lt. Donald Ellis Ridings, Air Corps. Col. Thomas Jay Hayes (lieutenant colonel, Second Lt. Leslie Ethridge Martin, Air Ordnance Department), Army of the United Corps. States. Second Lt. Preston Patton Pender, Air Col. Arthur Hazelton Carter (inactive Re­ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Corps. serve). Second Lt. Gwen Grover Atkinson, Air MoNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1941 Corps. UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE Second Lt. Harold Micheal Keeffe, Air The following-named dental surgeons to be The House met at 12 o'clock noon. Corps. senior dental surgeons in the United States Rev. Jacob s. Payton, D. D., executive X Second Lt. Charles Wesseler Bicking, Air Public Health Service, to rank as such from secretary of the Methodist Commission Corps. the dates set opposite their names: Second Lt. Harry Willson Markey, Air Stanmore P. Marshall, August 13, 1941. on Camp Activities, Washington, D. C., Corps. William 0. Boss, September 1, 1941. offered the following prayer: Second Lt. Henry Clay Godman, Air Corps. Second Lt. Howell Galen Crank, Air Corps. Eternal Spirit, we acknowledge Thee Second Lt. John Harold Cheatwood, Air to be the Lord of Life, and worthy of our Corps. CONFIRMATIONS fullest devotion and praise. We offer Second Lt. Thomas Kerns Hampton, Air Executive nominations confirmed by thanks to Thee for the constant renewal Corps. the Senate September 29, 1941: of Thy many mercies. Aid and sustain Second Lt. Francis Bernard Gallagher, Air by Thy presence those who are called to Corps. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD serve in difficult and responsible places. Second Lt. Clarence Kinney Longacre, Air Gerard D. Reilly to be a member of the To the multitudes of Thy children who Corps. National Labor Relations Board. Second Lt. W1111am Reynolds Stark, Air have known frustration through the visi­ Corps. COMPTROLLER OF Cu:. :'OMS tation of injustice and suffering·, impart Par. S. I nominate the following-named Arthur A. Quinn to be comptroller of cus­ Thy saving strength, 0 Lord, that with officers !or promotion in the ·Regular Army of toms in customs collection district No. 10, patient endurance they may trust in the United States. All officers listed below with headquarters at New York, N.Y. Thee.