Extensions of Remarks Hon. John Marshall Butler
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11310 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE July 22 To be brigadier generals Brig. Gen. John Paul Doyle, 247A. Col. Dolf Edward Muehleisen, 1144A. Col. Harold Willard Glattly, 016967. Brig. Gen. Manning Eugene Tillery, 293A. Col. Harold Lee Neely, 1161A. Col. John Frederick Bohlender, 017814:. Brig. Gen. Edward Pont Mechling, 327A. Col. John Edward Murray, A0372910. Col. John Ruxton Wood, 017821. · Brig. Gen. Frank Hamlet Robinson, 336A. Col. Emmett Buckner Cassady, i095A. Col. Paul Dunn Berrigan, 016741. Brig. Gen. W.alter Robertson Agee, 413A. Col. Cecil Edward ·combs, 1203A. Col. Henry Joseph Hoeffer, 016765. Brig. Gen. Harold Winfield Grant, 497A. Col. Lawrence Clinton Coddington, 1275A. Col. Gerald Francis Lillard, 016770. Brig. Gen. Henry Keppler Mooney, 589A. Col. Avelin Paul Taeon, Jr., 1566A. Col. Parmer Wiley Edwards, 016775. Brig. Gen. ,Raymond Judson Reeves, 1082A. Col. Claude Edwin PUtnam, Jr., 1593A. Col. Charles Pennoyer Bixel, 016808. Brig Gen. Thomas Patrick Gerrity, 1613A. Col. Frank Ed:win Rouse, 1595A. Col. Louis Howard Foote, 017010. To be brigadier generals Col. William Kemp Martin, 1697A, Col. Lyle Edward Seeman, 017082. Col. Ralph Lowell Wassell, 1730A. Col. Leslie Granger Mulzer, A0138777. Col. Horace Milton Wade, 1872A. Col. Robert John Fleming, Jr., 017095. Col. John Caswell Crosthwaite, 295A. Col. William Ross Currie, 017115. Col. Joseph Randall Holzapple, 1897A. Col. Robert Scott Israel, Jr., 354A. Col. Joseph James Preston, 1966A. Col. Ralph Thomas Nelson, 017308. Col·. Edgar Alexander Sirmyer, Jr., 394A. Col. John Ogden Kilgore, 029008. Col. Lawrence Mcilroy Guyer, 454A. IN THE NAVY Col. Alvin Galt Viney, 017511. Col. Donald Philip Graul, 455A. The nominations of Lloyd R. Sellman and Col. James Percy Hannigan, 017531. Col. John Coleman Horton, 457A. 856 other officers of the Navy for promotion Col. Philip Henry Draper, Jr., 017543. Col. Winslow Carroll Morse, 515A. to the grades indicated in the line and staff Col. Harold George Hayes, 017554. Col. William Leroy Kennedy, 517A. Col. John David Francis Phillips, 017584. corps of the Navy, subject to qualifl<:ations Col. George Frank McGuire, 539A. therefor as provided by law, were received Col. William Darwin Hamlin, 017619. · Col. Edward Bone Gallant, 577A. Col. Robert Little Cook, 017675. by the Senate on July 13, 1955, and appear Col. Julian Merritt Chappell, 583A. in full in the Senate proceedings of the Col. Lester Skene Bork, 017685. Col. Edward Nolen Backus, 604A. Col. Thomas Norfleet Griffin, 017775. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD for that date, under Col. Lloyd Roosevelt Moses, 029362. Col. Robert Lee Scott, Jr., 640A. the caption "Nominations," beginning with Col. Frederick Theodore Voorhees, 029374. Col. James Simon Cathroe, 18821A. the name of Lloyd R. Sellman, which ap Col. Lou George Van Wagoner; 041668. Col. Robert Edward Lee, 19033A. pears on page 10425, and ending with the Col. William Charles Kingsbury, 923A. UNITED STATES Am FORCE name of R-0bert A. Edlin, which is sbown on Col. Charles Anthony Heim, 1033A. page 101:27. The following-named officers for tem Col. Haskell Erva Neal, 1047A. porary appointment in the United States Air Col. George Bernar_d Dany, 1061A. IN THE MARINE CORPS . .Force under the provisions of section 515, Col. Perry Bruce Griffith, 1075A. Lt. Gen. Oliver P. Smith, United States Ofllcer Personnel Act of 1947: Col. WHliam Harvey Wise, 1083A. Marine Corps, to have the grade of lieuten To be major generals Col. John William White, 1087A. ant general on the retired list in the Manne Brig. Gen. Hugh Arthur Parker, 505A. Col. Robert Morris Stillman, 1114A. Corps, effective from th~ date of his retire Brig. Gen. Walter Irwin Miller, A0913582. Col. Thomas Joseph Gent, Jr., 1130A. ment. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Subversives in Defense Facilities opinion, demolishes these continuing at subversive. "We could not get such infor tacks upon any legislation vital to our mation and were advised that the entlre security program was under study." It is EXTENSION OF REMARKS national defense. obvious that FBI files cannot be turned over OF · Mr. President, I ask unanimous con to private individuals, but it 1s a monument sent that this editorial be printed in the to the fatuous tolerance of democracy that HON. JOHN MARSHALL BUTLER · CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, along With my subversives can't be disturbed in their OF MARYLAND newsletters of May 9, 1955, and July 11, activities because there is no legal way to identify them. m THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 1955, on the same subject. There being no objection, the editorial Undoubtedly, if an employer undertook to Friday, July 22, 1955 dismiss a suspected worker without having and newsletters were ordered to be had access to the Government's information Mr. BUTLER. Mr. President, as one printed in the RECORD, as follows: about the man, the employer would probably who has served now ior a considerable [From 'the Saturday Evening Post of July have his plant closed by a strike and in the period of time as a member of the Inter 23, 1955) end be compelled to restore the suspect to his nal Security Subcommittee of the Sen Job. Since the employer is unable to act by NEW LA w NEEDED To BAR SPIES FROM himself, and Government officials do not give ate, I am convinced that the potentiality WAR PLANTS for subversion and sabotage within our the needed information, a statute is called Although a worker in an industrial plant for, making it mandatory for the Govern essential defense industries and facilities can sometimes be fired for taking too long ment to boot subversives out of our defense has not decreased with the changing for a smoke in the washroom, it will be industries. The Butler bill was designed to attitudes of world affairs. news to many people that it is impossible fill this gap. The Secretary of the Army, Mr. Wilber to get rid of .suspected subversives and Soviet Although certain labor leaders, the Ameri M. Brucker, has testified that-- agents planted in our sensitive defense in cans for Democratic Action, and other so There are known subversives now working dustries. To .remedy this situation, the De called liberal groups have criticized the But in vital defense facilities without there being partment of Defense prepared a bill, which ler bill as setting up "an approximation of adequate authority in the Federal Govern was introduced by Senator BUTLER, of Mary the police state," the measure seems ade ment to meet this potential threat to our land, designed to give the Government the quately cautious in its approach to the sub productive capacity and therefore to our right to exclude these dubious characters ject. For example, before its terms can be military effectivene~s. from places where they could cause trouble. carried out the President must issue a proc It does seem about time some attention was lamation "that the security of the United To fill this gap in our internal-security paid to this matter. States is endangered by reason of actual war structure, I have introduced, with the One explanation of this extraordinary sit or threatened war, or invasion, or insurrec sanction of the administration, Senate uation is the almost pathetic anxiety of the tion, or subversive activity, or of disturbance bill 681, which would "guard strategic Government not to be accused of violating or threatened disturbance in the interna somebody's civil liberties. A year ago a tional relations of the United States." Im.. defense facilities against individuals be statement made on behalf of the General portant as it is to protect the rights of indi lieved to be disposed to commit acts of Electric Co. before the Senate Judiciary Com viduals and to stay within the limits of "due sabotage, espionage, or other subver mittee pointed out that "Government agen process of law," the layman will wonder why sion." cies direct contractors to exclude from spies cannot be hightailed out of defense As was to be expected, this proposal 'classified' defense work all employees whom plants until the menacing circumstances has been the subject of criticism fi:om they find to be 'security risks,' but the indi cited above are present. certain misinformed and misguided per vidual employer does not receive from · the Even when the FBI has put the finger on Government the evidence which supports its a suspected subversive in a defense plant, sons and groups. However, the July 23, conclusion." nothing could happen to him under this pro 1955, issue of the Saturday Evening Post In its statement the company declared posed law until he bas been notified of the contains an excellent editorial entitled that when the Korean war broke out it at charges against him .and given an adequate "New Law Needed To Bar Spies From tempted to have the Government give the opportunity to defen.i- himself agai.J;lst them. War Plants," which very capably, in my names of any employees considered to be He may request a hearing, and if the charges 1955 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 11311 are based on the testimony ·Of informants ernment. Yet in recent years this maxim Korean War Prisoner Veterans Entitled whose identity must be withheld for secu has become confused with the issue-not rity reasons, the suspe·ct "shall be furnished wholly unrelated, however-of due process to Monetary Benefits with a fair summary of the information in of law. While th.ere are many judicial prece support of the charges against him." The dents which capably disentangle these per bill did provide that "any investigatory or plexities and place them in clear perspective, EXTENSION OF REMARKS ganization [meaning the FBI]" shall not be the courts have concluded that due process OF required . to disclose the source of its in in the context of security programs is "prop formation if such disclosure would "endan erly definable in terms of the maximum pro HON.