Hon. Alexander Wiley
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1508 CONGRESSIONAL .RECORD - SENATE January ,27 NOMINATION term expiring May 10, 1958, vice Chester I. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Barnard. Marvin Leland McLain, of Iowa, to be an Executive nomination received by the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. Senate January 27 (legislative day of CONFIRMATIONS COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION January 16). 1956: Executive nominations confirmed by Marvin Leland M;cLaln, of Iowa, to be a the Senate January 27 (legislative day member of the Board of Directors of the NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD, NATIONAL SCIENCE Commodity Credit Corporation. FOUNDATION of January 16), 1956: ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION Exl'ORT-IMPORT BANK OF WASHINGTON T. Keith Glennan, of Ohio, to be a member Harold S. Vance, of Indiana, to be a mem Samuel C. Waugh, of Nebraska, to be Presi of the National science Board, National ber of the Atomic Energy Commission for dent of the Export-Import Bank of Washing Science Foundation, for the remainder of the the term expiring June 30, 1960. ton. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Address by Hon. Alexander Wiley,. of The powder keg Middle East, where hands with a 200-mile range. Both the U. S. S. R. are still close to triggers on both sides of the and ourselves have been pushing forward to Wisconsin, on "Brink of War" Contro Arab-Israeli borders, while arms shipments develop the dreaded intercontinental missile, pour in from Soviet bloc and other areas; a ballistic-free-missile, or a guided missile versy Our ally, France, where the Communists controlled by electronic means. are cunningly maneuvering to capitalize on Meanwhile, planes have been piercing the EXTENSION OF REMARKS their 152-vote bloc so to form a so-called barrier of sound at better than 1,000 miles popular-front government in the badly splin an hour. Jet planes are being introduced as OF tered National Assembly; well into commercial aviation, shrinking the Indonesia, where the Communists are also oceans and land distances, still further. HON. ALEXANDER WILEY maneuvering to exploit differences within All of these, and a hundred other factors in OF WISCONSIN and between Moslem parties' ranks and today's world, necessitate our close attention IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES thereby get a Red toehold in a new coalition to once remote developments in the world cabinet; scene. Friday, January 27, 1956 South America, which, while fortunately BANKERS CONSERVE, WARS DESTROY LIFE not in crisis, per se, is studying the signifi Mr. WILEY. Mr. President, last eve cant trade bait, dangled by Soviet Premier It is natural that you, in particular, as ning it was my pleasure to address the Bulganin; this is the latest instance of Red bankers, should be interested in this subject, safe deposit section of the District of peaceful-coexistence strategy-penetration because it is the banker's obligation to con through "rubles now, revolution later." serve. He is, of course, a trustee of other Columbia Bankers' Association. My peoples' funds-funds which represent not ·subject-was the so-called "brink of war•• PROBLEMS BEFORE CONGRESS only their life's resources, but their very lives controversy. Or, getting still closer to home, one could themselves. I send to the desk the text of my review in detail the policy problems in the Nothing could be more contrary to the idea address, and ask unanimous consent that Congress, regarding mutual security legis of conservation than war. it be printed in the CONGRESSIONAL lation, key questions such as: "Should Con The 140,000 United States lives which we gress write in a long-range declaration of expended-in deaths and wounds in Korea RECORD, intent, as regards future aid, or should it the $22 billion which were exploded on that There being no object.ion, the address attempt the more unprecedented step of a peninsula on behalf of the defense of a free was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, direct, long-range commitment, as such, or people-these are but the smallest symbols as follows: should it cut out economic aid entirely, or of infinitely worse costs which would be borne what it should do?" SENATOR Wn.EY URGES END OF "BRINK OF WAR" in the event of a third world war. Or, too, one could refer to the proposed SQUABBLE, SAYS WE MUST GET ON TO MORE THE BASIC QUESTION BEFORE US welcome increase in the appropriations for SUBSTANTIAL REVIEW OF OUR PROGRAMS the United States Information Agency-an We come now, then, to the basic question AHEAD issue on which the President of the United of the evening: "Are we on the right path? I am pleased to address the members of States feels very strongly-an issue on which Are we moving in the right direction toward this section on a subject which I know is of I personaily feel very keenly, too, for USIA heading off such a war?" deep interest to you, as it is, of course, to all is our principal instrument in the worldwide Has the foreign policy of your country other thinking Americans. battle for men's minds and, as such, the and mine been a sound one, or has it, as some I refer, of course, to the foreign policy of move to strengthen it is long overdue. USIA of its critics contend, been full of blunders? our country. has had its ups and downs. Time after Have we needlessly pushed to the brink of It will be my aim tonight to confine my time, it has been pulled up from the roots, war, as some people falsely interpret and remarks to but a few of the more basic prob examined, investigated, cut, and then thrust · unsoundly contend? lems confronting us. back into the earth, as if it could quickly The answer is as follows: THE MANY CRISIS AREAS ON THE WORLD SCENE take hold once again, in its worldwide opera OUR COURSE IS SOUND tions for the truth. If time were to permit, it would be a And one could refer to dozens of other The basic foreign policy of our land ls pleasure for me to take a detailed view of specific problems as well. sound. It is sound because it has been some of the more crucial individual settings molded and reviewed and refined by the on the world stage. WHY THESE PROBLEMS CONCERN US best minds, the best hearts, the best capaci One could devote an en tire evening just to Now, of course, I know that passing ties available to our Republic. Not just Re exploring such highly significant areas of through your minds, as I have mentioned this publican leadership, but Democratic leader crises, as those I will mention now: brief list, may have been the question, "Sena ship as well, have contributed to every single North Africa, scene of continued serious tor WILEY, why should we be concerned with major step which we have taken in recent tension and disturbances, as Morocco and all these far-distant places? What business years. Algeria move toward more self-government; is it of ours if two far-off countries are quar Under the great leadership of President North Africa, where our own strategic air reling over some bit of territory, say, the Saar, Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Fos bases represent a vital deterrent against or Dutch New Guinea, or Kashmir, or if there ter Dulles, we have basically moved not world war III; are civil disturbances in some land?" toward war, but toward an endurable and The ever-ominous Taiwan (Formosa) The answer is, I feel, very clear. The an just peace. Strait area, where recent Red artillery bom swer is that any situation which endangers Of ·course; we have been in danger. O! bardment, air and naval action, may indicate the peace of any part of the world, may en course, we have been at the edge of war at the possibility of ~he re~mergence of .the danger the peace of the whole world. times. Formosa-Pescadores, Quemoy-Matsu prob There is no part of the world today so far But we have never been pushed to the edge lem to the No. 1 position of crisis on the distant from any other part as to be of no by the design of any American. world scene; interest to us, and to other men of good will. On those occasions when we have been a-· Troubled India, where civil strife over the You and I read every day i.n our newspapers mittedly close to war, it has not been be states' reorganization has offered another that the world has been shrunken by men's cause of any American's foolhardy desire to example of treacherous Red meddling in dis !nventiveness. General Taylor has told how get close to it. Rather, we have been pushed turbed waters; we have been developing a guided missile to the edge because of the reckless, aggres- 1956 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - -SENATE 1509 sive actions of the Soviet Union and Red problems of advancing President Eisen But war could ·not and would not have China. hower's open-sky proposals in the U. N. been the decision on our part; it would be Under those circumstances, we had the al Disarmament Commission; problems of the decision of Peking and Moscow. We ternative of either retreating in panic, that strengthening SEATO; of preventing any don't want war. Do they? is, committing an act of appeasement, or erosion in the Middle East Treaty Organiza Yes, Senator HUMPHREY was right. The · standing still in paralysis, tonguetied, un tion (because in part of the disturbances in Formosa resolution was, indeed, an act of able to even speak our position.