1945 CO-NGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9465

Medical Director Thomas M. Rivers to be a that the Senate had passed, with amend­ mittee to e~cort our distinguished guest medical director in the United States Naval ments in which the concurrence of the into the Chamber the Senator from Ken­ Reserve, with the rank of commodore, for House ·is requested, a bill of the House of temporary service. . tucky [Mr. BARK~EY], the Senator from Medical Director Alphonse McMahon to be the following title: Maine [Mr. WHITE], and the Senator a medical director in the United States Naval H. R. 694. An act to amend section 321, title from Massachusetts [Mr. WALsH]. Reserve, with the rank of commodore, for III, part II, TransFJOrtation Act of 1940, with At 12 o'clock and 31 minutes p. m., the Mmporary service. respect to the movement of Government Doorkeeper announced the Secretary of Dental Surgeon George C. Paffenbarger to traffic. the Navy, Hon. James Forrestal. be · a dental surgeon in the United States Naval Reserve, with the rank of commodore, The message also announced that the At 12 o'clock and 33 minutes p. m., the for temporary service. - Senate had passed a concurrent resolu­ Doorkeeper announced fleet commander Pay Director John W. Landregan to be a tion. of the follQwing title, in which the ·of the United States Navy, command((r pay director in the United States Naval Re­ concurrence of the House is :~;equested: - in chief of the Pacific Fleet and the serve, with the rank of commodore, for tempo- S. Con. Res, 34. Concurrent resolution au­ Pacific Ocean area, Chester W. Nimitz. rary service. . thorizing the Committee on Irrigation and . Admiral Nimitz, escorted bY the com­ Pay Director William L. Nelson to be a pay Reclamation to have printed additional copies mittee of Senator~ and Representatives, director ill the United States Naval Reserve, of the hearings before said committee on entered the Hall of the House of Repre­ with the rank of commodore, for temporary S. 555, a bill to establish a Missouri Valley - service. Authority. sentatives and stood at the Clerk's desk. Chaplain Robert J. White to be a chaplain [Applause, the Members rising.] in the United States Naval. Reserve, with The message also announced that the ';['he SPEAKER. Members of the Con­ the rank of commodore, for temporary service. Senate agrees to the amendment of the gress, I have the great privilege and the Civil Engineer Cuthebert P. Conrad to be a House to a bill of the Senate of 'the fol­ high pleasure of presenting to you a civil engineer. in the United States Naval Re­ lowing title: great American, a great fighting man, serve, with the rank of commodore for S. 694. An act for the relief of Dan. C. one of whom all Americans are proud, temporary service. Rodgers. Civil Engineer Roy M. Han·is to be a civil · commander in chief of the United States engineer in the United States Naval Reserve, The message also announced that the Pacific Fleet, Fleet Admiral Chester W. with the rank of commodore, for temporary Senate disagrees to the amendment of Nimitz. [Applause, the Members rising. 1 service. the House to the bill WASHINGTON, D. C., September 7, 1945. to each brother, and to. each sister, wife, authorities who accused him of having Rep. CLARE HoFFMAN, and sweetheart of those valiant men who revealed to a Member of Parliament, House of Representatives, will never return, I express my personal Capt. Archibald Ramsay, what Kent said Washington, D. C. and heartfelt sympathy. I do not be­ DEAR CONGRESSMAN: Following my telegram were the contents of certain secret of August 7th, my contacts with the women lieve, I cannot believe, that your loved messages which had passed between Win­ of the country reveal the great interest which ones died in vain. I stand here today ston Churchill. and Franklin Roosevelt. is being manifested in t...'le investigation of as the representative of the soldiers;· sail­ Kent confessed that he had copied and Pearl Harbor. Many people know that no ors, and marines who have won the vic­ photographed these messages. Congressional Investigati-ng Committee will tory in the Pacific. We have carried out Churchill then was First Lord of the expose the entire truth about Pearl Harbor the duty imposed upon us on December Admiralty in the British Cabinet and unless it fearlessly traces the intrigues which 7, 1941. I am deeply moved by and pro­ Rooseve.lt was President of the United preceded our shameful disaster. The released report of Army and Navy investigations about foundly grateful for the evidence that I States. Joseph P. Kennedy was the PearJ Harbor. as well as John T. Flynn's re­ have seen today that Congress considers American Ambassador in London. markable lnves~igations, while giving us that duty to have been well and faith­ For years, Kent was held confined in a much invaluable information, do not tell fully discharged. [Applause.] British prison and all attempts to obtain the whole story and ..omit many important At 12 o'clock and 54 minutes p. m. from him information as to the com­ matters which should be disclosed to our Admiral Nimitz and his committee of es­ munications which passed between people. Such disclosures have nothing to do Churchill' and Roosevelt have been futile. with party politics; the heartaches of war cort retired from the Hall of the House are the same, regardless of party. of Representatives. Kent claimed that his purpose in dis­ A record is in existence, it is contained in At 12 o'clock and 55 minutes p . .m. closing these messages was to prevent several hundred cablegrams which were ex­ the Speaker announced that the joint war, and it was alleged that, ·while high changed between Winston Churchill and the meeting was dissolved. officials here were talking peace, they late President Roosevelt through the medium Thereupon the President pro tempore were, as a matter of fact, planning war. of the American Embassy in London, using and the Members of the Senate. returned Will the committee on Pearl Harbor the State Department secret code. In a Con­ to their Chamber. call Kent? Will it call Kennedy? Will it gressional message you brought out the case call those who in the State Department of Tyler Kent. The Pearl Harpor investiga­ AFTER RECESS tion will be incomplete- if the cables ex­ or in any other department here in changed between Roosevelt and Churchill The recess having expired at 12 Washington put into code and de­ are not brought within the orbit of public o'clock and 56 minutes p. m., the House ciphered the some 450 cables which daylight. was called to order by the Speaker. Kent's mother claims were exchanged be­ When President Truman blames "the Na­ The SPEAKER. Without objection, tween Roosevelt and Churchill? tion as much as any individuals" for the the proceedings had during the recess of Will the committee call the Govern­ catastrophe at Pearl Harbor, v.•e need. to the House will be printed in the RECORD. ment's employees in London and compel analyze this statement. If, for instance, someone would blame the American people There .was no objection. them under oath to disclose the contents for the weatberc, we should demand to be PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE of these messages? shown just bow they were to blame. Cer­ There is in particular one message tainly in the Pearl Harbor matter the Ameri­ Mr. KEFAUVER. Mr. Speaker, I have . which it is claimed was sent by Churchill can people bad nothing to do with the foreign . heretofore been granted a special order to Roosevelt in October of 1939, in which, diplomacy, the intelligence service, or the to address the House for 15 minutes this it is charged, Churchill, who was not the warnings to be sent to Pearl Harbor. The afternoon. I ask unanimous consent Prime Minister, wrote: assertion is made that the people did. not that that order be vacated and that in support the President in his efforts for pre­ lieu thereof I may be permitted to ad­ I am half American and a natural person paredness. Does .this mean that the isola­ to wor~ with you. It is evident we see eye dress the House on Tuesday next for 15 tionists or those who were for America first to eye. Were I to become Prime Minister of were to blame? Is it permissible to ask: If minutes after disposition of business on Britain' we could control the world. the preparedness bad been greater, would the Speaker's desk and at the conclusion there not have been. more ships tied up at of any special orders heretofore 'entered. Now it is stated that President Roose­ velt deprived young Kent of his citizen­ Pearl Harbor to be destroyed and would The SPEAKER. Is there objection to there not have been more men whose lives the request of the gentleman from ship; that he is no longer an American woula. have been lgst? That certainly would Tennessee? · citizen. have been the result with the same kind of There was no objection. It is to be hoped that the committee diplomacy and warnings. Could it be that the blame should be laid at the door of Mr. WIC~RSHAM. Mr. Speaker, I will insist that the facts in connection with Tyler Kent's arrest and incarcera­ those in the Roosevelt administration, the ask unanimous consent that on Tuesday State Department, and the British Foreign next after disposition of business on the tion be made public; that the truth of the many rumors which have been circu­ Office? The .first two bad complete charge Speaker's desk and at the conclusion of of affairs, and the attitude of the third is any special orders heretofore entered, lated about the secret communications indicated by the remarks of their propa­ I may be permitted to address the H-ouse between Churchill and Roosevelt be gandi"sts. For confirmation we quote from for 45 minutes. · ascertained. the book, Propaganda in the Next War, by The SPEAKER. · Is there objection to In justice to the memory of one of these the British author, Sidney Rogerson: the request of the gentleman from Okla­ men and in justice to the other, the "in the next war, as in the last, the result people of these United States and of the will probably depend upon the way in which homa? the United States acts, and 'her attitude will There was no objection. British Empire should learn whether or not these two men were plotting to get reflect the reaction of her people to propa­ EXTENSION OF. REMARKS ganda properly applied. • • • the United States into war or whether "Fortunately, with America, our propa­ Mr. HOFFMAN asked and was given they were seeking to avoid war-this not ganda is on firm ground. We can be entirely permission to extend his remarks at this solely for the purpose of clearing the rec­ sincere, as our main .plank will be the old point in the RECORD and include a letter. ord, but in the hope that other like inci-

"The position will naturally be eased if HECORD and include a quotation from the will meet at 10 a. m. Tuesday, O~tober Japan y,;ere involved, and this might and President of the United States on the 9, to begin hearings on H. R. 2536, the probably would bring America in without further ado. At any rate, it would be a nat­ subject of child-care centers. Bulwinkle bill. , ural and obvious object of our propagandists Mr. MANSFIELD of Texas asked and Various groups _who have representa­ to achieve this, just as during the Great War wa:s given permission to extend his re­ tion in 'Vashington will be· heard during they succeeded in embroiling the United marks in the RECORD and include a news­ the first week, such as Members of States with Germany." · paper article from the New York Times. Congress first, the Interstate Commerce In the New York Journal American of­ Mr. I{EFAUVER asked and was given Commission, the National Association July 16, 1941, it is quoted that "Lord North­ permission tc extend his remarks in the. of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners, cliffe h imself said in his book in 1928 that · he spent $150,000,000 in the United States Appendix of the RECORD and include a Association of American Railroads, rail­ in 1917 to get America into the war." letter. road traffic Olfganizations, railroad labor, Still further information is furnished by PAY OF WORKERS IN NAVY YARDS and truck and bus associations. Sir George Paish, who, when in this country The second week will be devoted to in 1940, is ·quoted in the Journal American Mr. DE LACY. l\1r. Speaker ~ I ask various State commissions, agricultural of Au~ust 30, 1940, as saying, "I am respon­ unanimous consent to address the House associations, National Industrial Traffic sible fQr getting this country into the last for 1 minute.. _ Le,ague, and various citizens' traffic asso­ war and I intend to get it into this one." , , The SPEAKER. Is there objection to ciations and traffic boards, and chambers The same newspaper, in the issue of J'uly the request of the gentleman from Wash­ 16, 1941, quotes from a book written by Win­ of commerce. ington? It is going to be necessary to limit the ston Churchill in 1925, which states: "The There was no objection. best way .to s~cure American sympathy is to time for this hearing as much as possible. get American blood .shed on the field." Mr . .DE LACY. Mr. Speaker, I rise for It is .also desired to avoid any repetition With all these expressions of the desire of the purpose of calling attention to a bill in statements before the committee. the British to get America into war, only a which I introduced this morning to pay The committee would be pleased to cop1plete revelation of the ~ablegrams ex­ to the workers in the navy yards, in Gov:­ have those \7ho are intending to appear chang~d between Roosevelt and Churchill ernment arsenals, and other establish­ 'to advise the clerk promptly the least can expose the full truth, and it is that which ments the same pay for the cut-back we hope you will demand at once. Tyler amount of time they will need in which Kent is ctill alive: his personal safety should week of 40 hom·s that they formerly re­ to present their testimony. ceiyed for 43 hours. be demar..ded. Capt. A. Ramsay, Scotch COMMITTEE ON THE MERCHANT MARINE AND member of Parliament, is also alive. Joseph I believe this to be a very important FISHERIES P. Kennedy is U!ltil now in this ·country and measure,. and I hope the Members will should not be allowed' to leave it until events take suitable notice of it. The Committee on the Merchant leading to Pearl Harbor have been revealed. Marine and Fisheries will hold a public The State Department cannot deny having EXTENSION OF REMARKS hearing Thursday, October 18, 1945, at the files or the cablegrams exchanged be­ 'l'A:r. MICHENER asked and was given 10 a. m., on H. R. 2346, the seamen's tween Churchill and Roosevelt. Therefore, permission to extend his remarks in the bill of rights·, to provide aid for the read­ the elements leading to the discovery of the RESORD and include an article. justment in civilian life of those persons truth are not lacking. May we, therefore, who rendered war service in the United hope that you and other patriotic Congress­ l\1r. KNUTSON asked 'and wa·s given men will not allow .any congressional inves­ permission to extend his remarks in the States merchant marine during World ti!!ation committee to overloolr any of the REcORD . and include an article. War II, and to provide aid · for the i~portant fact0rs connected with the Tyler ENROLLE:O BILLS SIGNED families of deceased war-service mer:­ Kent case. · chant seamer,L Patriotically yours, Mr. ROGERS of New York, from the NAGENE CAMPBELL BETHUNE. Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported EXTENSION. OF REMARKS that that committee h8,d examined and EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC.- found truly enrolled bills of the House Mr. SCH'V ABE of Oklahoma asked and , 721. Under clause 2 of rule XXIV; a of the following titles, which were there­ letter from the Attorney General, trans­ wa:s given permission to extend his re­ upon signed by the Speal{er: marks in the Appendix of the REconD and mitting a report