38590 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 11, 1969 Committee on Film Classification; to the for certain members of the committee on Ed ran Argun; to the Committee on the Judi Oommittee on Rules. ucation and Labor; to the Committee on ciary. By Mr. DEVINE: Rules. By Mr. COLLIER: H. Res. 747. Resolution amending the rules By Mr. RIVERS: H.R. 15219. A bill for the relief of Maj. Mi of the House to prohibit a single appropria H. Res. 750. Resolution to provide for chael M. Mills, U.S. Air Force; to the Com tion bill from carrying appropriations for the further expenses of the investigation and mittee on the Judiciary. more than one executive department; to the study authorized by House Resolution 105; By Mr. CORMAN: Committee on Rules. to the Committee on House Administration. H.R. 15220. A bill for the relief of Mrs. In H. Res. 748. Resolution to amend rule XXI Soon Lee Castronova; to the Committee on of the Rules of the House of Representatives the Judiciary. to require the yeas and nays in the case of PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS By Mr. FISHER: final action by the House of Representatives Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private H.R. 15221. A bill for the relief of Maria on general appropriation bills; to the Com Gagliardi Paladino; to the Committee on the mittee on Rules. bills and resolutions were introduced and Judiciary. By Mr. PERKINS (for himself and Mr. severally referred as follows: By. Mr. McKNEALLY: BRADEMAS): By Mr. CHAMBERLAIN: H.R. 15222. A bill for the relief of Thomas H. Res. 749. Resolution authorizing travel H.R. 15218. A bill for the relief of Dr. Tu- R. Keefe; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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MEDICAL RESEARCH AND THE unnecessary fears if the unlearned would Again, many cordial thanks for your ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION try to establish facts by performing re generous letter. search instead of regurgitating computer Very sincerely yours, HON. CHET HOLIFIELD runs made on a third party's data. GEORGE C. COTZIAS, M.D. I would like to place Dr. Cotzia's letter OF CALIFORNIA in the RECORD to indicate other areas of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Atomic Energy Commission sponsored SANDS POINT NAVAL TRAINING Thursday, December 11, 1969 medical research from which we can ex DEVICES CENTER Mr. HOLIFIELD. Mr. Speaker, on sev pect significant benefits for all mankind. eral occasions in the recent past there The letter follows: BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LARORATORY, HON. LESTER L. WOLFF have been statements in the record by OF NEW YORK members of the Joint Committee on ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES, INC. Upton, L.I., N.Y., November 24, 1969. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Atomic Energy concerning new clinical Hon. CHET HOLIFIELD, treatments with L-dopa for several neu Chairman, Joint Committee on Atomic Ener Thursday, December 11, 1969 rological diseases. The Honorable CRAIG gy, Congress of the United States, Wash Mr. WOLFF. Mr. Speaker, as you HosMER of California pointed to the out ing, D.C. know, many local communities are faced standing medical efforts being supported DEAR REPRESENTATIVE HOLIFIELD: My COl with overcrowded schools-the result of by the Atomic Energy Commission and leagues and I are deeply touched by the warm accolade in your letter of November 17. We growing populations coupled with the particularly to the work of Dr. George C. thank both you and the members of your all too frequent problem of lack of avail Cotzias and his colleagues at Brookhaven Committee. able land on which to build schools. National Laboratory with L-dopa. Sena The results to which you refer constitute In Port Washington, which is part of tor CLINTON ANDERSON made two state the fruition of team work that was continued the Third Congressional District, which ments, one concerning the use of L-dopa over many years. Sustaining such labor out I am proud to represent in Congress, this for Parkinson's disease and the other side the complex climate provided at Brook problem has developed. Recently, how concerning L-dopa and dystonia muscu haven by the AEC, would have been impos ever, the General Services Administra lorum deformaris, a neurological disease sible. tion announced that a 161-acre tract of which affects young :people. The main lesson from this is the following: if one wants progress with debilitating dis Federal property, the former site of the Recently Dr. Cotzias was awarded the eases, one must couple long-term, in-patient Sands Point Training Devices Center will Albert Lasker Award for his brilliant investigations with highly sophisticated be available to bidders with the greatest clinical work with L-dopa. Since the Joint laboratory research on animals, their tissues, need. Committee has for a long time been in their cells and even fragments of their cells. I am concerned with the fact that Port terested in the team efforts at the Brook Such tedious and frustrating enterprise is Washington's school system's needs are haven National Laboratory, I wrote to never immediately rewarding. If the Brook haven environment can flourish we cannot both immediate and ac~te. Dr. Cotzias and congratulated him on help but remain productive. The work that Recently, Mr. Speaker, I received a behalf of myself and the other members led to tritiated thymidine; studies of the unanimous resolution that had been of the Joint Committee. I received a genetic control of hypertension; of extracor passed by the residents of the affected reply from this great, but humble man. poreal irradiation; of the remarkable prog area regarding this issue. Since I firmly This is a real man and a real scientist ress toward a cure of hoof and mouth dis feel that the Federal Government has and a real doctor who puts his faith in ease; of the synthesis of the first human pro a responsibility to meet the needs of the data he records. His great efforts re tein (insulin), were bought at bargain prices local communities, especially in the im sulted in a true reward for all mankind. by a small group of incredibly dedicated peo ple here at the Medical Department at Brook portant area of education, I would like to He did not sit in his laboratory scanning haven. take this opportunity to include this res data others had collected, shaking his We are of course elated that our results olution in the RECORD: head over past failures and then doing have been confirmed and that from this Whereas the Port Washington Board of nothing. He decided something needed thousands of patients have derived, or will Education last month released a comprehen to be done, and did it. derive, benefit and hope. We do not intend, sive public school building program geared to L-Dopa is a newly developed drug however, to rest on these perishable laurels. meet the needs of an expanding school pop which has been developed and used in As scientists, we accept this success as a man ulation for the next ten years; and many clinical cases. It has given miracu date to pursue novel investigations in ani Whereas the key to this plan is the acquisi mals and man with increased urgency. tion of 50 acres of free land from the Federal lous relief to persons suffering from Our collective experimence and sophistica Government, part of the former site of the Parkinsons disease. tion combined with, hopefully, increased fi Sands Point Naval Training Devices Center, Dr. Cotzias is not like the pseudosci nancial support should further increase our declared surplus by the General Services Ad entists and nonscientists--or to use a effectiveness. Presently, for instance, we ap ministration last week; and descriptive terminology f1·om Orwell's pear to have hit on even more fundamental Whereas two additional parties, Nassau book "1984"-the "unscientists'' who run processes which we are elucidating in animals County and the Sands Point Country Day all over the country making strident, before we apply them to the therapy of man. School, have made known their interest in Given credits of time and money, we believe the entire 161 acre tract, to the exclusion sensational charges about the dire re that other diseases of the brain will be ame of the requirements of the Port Washington sults that will befall mankind because liorated at Brookhaven. I hope you will agree School District; and of nuclear power reactors and the Plow that at this juncture, besides misleading you, Whereas the Port Washington School Dis share programs. It would certainly be false modesty or humility would be inexcus- trict is the only applicant combining both helpful and eliminate the arousing of able. · public and educational use, and requires only December 11, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3859f a small portion of the over-all tract, not to tribution, transmission or sale of electric the investment tax credit as between farm• the exclusion of the other claimants; and energy. we further recommend that REA ers and rural small business on the one hand Whereas petitions bearing the names of take cognizance of the increasing role of and on the other the regulated utilities over 3,100 Port Washington residents, back nuclear generation and be prepared to ap whose rates are established to cover costs: ing the claim of the School District to 50 prove loans for nuclear generating units Now, therefore, be it resolved that we acres of this site were presented to all rele where they are required to provide lowest urge the Senate to reinsert into the tax bill vant government agencies and officials in cost wholesale energy. the investment tax credit provision as ap Washington, D.C., last week. Be it further resolved, that Region V of the plicable to farmers and rural businesses. Now, therefore, be it resolved, that the Port NRECA recommend that the Atomic Energy 5-6. FARM INCOME AND UNITY Washington Democratic Club express its sup Commission continue to regulate, supervise port for the Port Washington School Dis and license nuclear generating stations as a Whereas, the prices received by farmers trict's claim for this land, and nation-wide expert on behalf of all the citi for their products have for a number of Be it further resolved that the Club call zens of the United States and that the sev years failed to keep pace with the prices upon: eral states refrain from attempting to impose of goods and services which farmers must 1. Nassau County to relinquish their elaim duplicating regulation without the benefit of buy; and to the entire tract in favor of a joint appli the expert experience of the Atomic Energy Whereas, the number of farms and the cation for shared usage with the Port Wash Commission. farm population continue to decline, bring ington School District and one another, and ing about an inevitable decrease in farmer 2. Senators Javits and Goodell, Congress S-2. LOAN FUNDS AND THE ECONOMY oriented representation in the U.S. Congress man wour, Supervisor Meade, and County Resolved, that we, the delegates of Region and increa.s'ed difficulty in securing Con Executive Nickerson to support the applica V: gressional understanding and passage of leg tion of the Port Washington School District, 1. Commend the President for his concern islation of benefit to faTmers and our pres and and efforts to control inflation. ent system of family-type agriculture; and 3. all civic, fraternal, political, and educa 2. Respectfully urge the Administration Whereas, during the past f'eW years, a tional organizations in Port Washington to and the Congress to be cognizant of the con number of general farm organizations and support the application of the Port Wash tinuing urgent needs of the rural electrifica cOinmodity groups have been mt!eting in an ington School District; and tion program. effort to achieve a degree of unity on agri 4. the U.S. Department of Health, Educa 3. Recognize the need for restraint in cultural policy; and tion & Welfare and the General Services Ad spending, but we believe it is self-evident Whereas, the present situation of low ministration to act favorably upon the appli that it is not in the national interest to farm income and decreasing number of farm cation of the P.W. School District. financially starve the rural electric co-ops families is eroding the rural economy, thus and jeopardize their ability to meet the grow affecting the operations of the rural electric ing demands of their member-consumers. systems; and VIEWS OF THE RURAL ELECTRIFI 4. Urge the President, the Secretary of Whereas, rural electric systems and their Agriculture, the Administrator of REA, and national association, NRECA, having no CATION LEADERS other officials to not impose additional cuts vested interest in any of the general farm on an REA loan program that is already in organizations or commodity groups and their HON. ALVIN E. O'KONSKI adequate to meet the need for capital funds; policy positions, have a great potential for and we further urge support for a supple providing leadership in efforts to achieve OF WISCONSIN mental appropriation to meet loan fund unity in agriculture: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES needs of the rural electrics and lower the Now, therefore, be it resolved that NRECA Wednesday, December 10, 1969 record-high backlog of loan applications. encourage, support, participate in and, 5. Urge the Bureau of Budget to promptly where appropriate, initiate efforts to find Mr. O'KONSKI. Mr. Speaker, the rural release REA loan funds appropriated by the common ground of agreement among the electric systems of region V of the Na Congress. membership of the various organizations in tional Rural Electric Cooperative Asso Be it further resolved, that we urge all American agriculture for the purpose of ciation held their annual meeting at possible action by the Administration and developing national farm and rural policy Springfield, Ill., on October 1, 2, and 3, the Congress to lower the record-high level which will benefit family-type farmers and of interest rates, which add fuel to the in strengthen rural communities, and which 1969. flationary spiral and cause financial hardship will be practical, politically realistic and The regional meeting was attended by to farmers, the aged, and others, and severely generally agreed upon among farmers and over 500 farm and rural leaders. They restrict the construction of badly needed their friends; and represented 116 cooperatives, serving housing. Be it further resolved, that where possi some 386,121 consumers in the States of S-3. CFC MEMBERSHIP ble and appropriate, we help to present the Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin. Whereas, the National Rural Utilities Co position of the farmer to the consuming Under leave to extend my remarks, I operative Finance Corporation was estab public in order to achieve a greater under am placing in the RECORD the resolutions lished as a self-help financing institution to standing among urban consumers of their adopted during the 3-day meetings. provide. funds to supplement the annual stake in national farm policy which will per Congressional appropriation for the REA two mit our present system of family-farm ag These resolutions reaffirm past views of percent interest loan program; and riculture to prosper and continue to serve the rural electrification leaders and re Whereas, more than 500 rural electric sys the good of the entire nation. flect their expression of opinion on issues tems have shown their support of the Na 5-7. RURAL UBRAN BALANCE of current concern. It is a pleasure for tional Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Whereas, the future health and prosperity me to call these significant resolutions Corporation by qualifying as Founding Mem of the Nation depends upon the solution of to the attention of my colleagues and to bers; and the imbalance between rural and urban commend region V and the National Whereas, eighty-five rural electrics in Re America. There can be no lasting solution Rural Electric Cooperative Association gion V have so qualified: unless social and economic opportunities in for the vital role they are playing in our Now, therefore, be it resolved, that all rural rural America are sufficient to stop and country today. electric systems in Region V are urged to reverse the outmigration to the cities; and The resolutions follow: apply for membership in CFC. Whereas, America's rural electric systems S-4. CO-OP PROVISION IN TAX BILL are prepared to contribute to the maximum 5-l. REAFFIRMING PAST ACTIONS Whereas, the House of Representatives of extent possible manpower, know-how, and Resolved, that we reaffirm our support of the U.S. Congress has passed tax legislation leadership in correcting the critical rural those resolutions contained in the docu (H.R. 13270, Tax Reform Act of 1969) which urban imbalance: ment "Continuing Resolutions," distributed contains provisions of a punitive nature Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Ad to the delegates at this meeting, subject to against our fellow cooperatives; and ministration and the Congress give the solu the following amendments: Whereas, this provision would not result in tion to this grave domestic problem the high Be it further resolved that we amend Con increased tax revenues for the federal gov est priority; and tinuing resolution No. 7 by substituting ernment, but would hamper cooperatives in Be it further resolved, that we actively and therefor the following: their efforts to maintain adequate capital for aggressively support legislative and ad We urge Congress to pass legislation which necessary improvements; and ministrative rural development efforts, in would prohibit the Atomic Energy Commis Whereas, this provision would have a cluding: sion from issuing any license for the con detrimental effect on our efforts 1x> estab 1. Programs designed to provide new job struction and operation of a nuclear gen lish -a cooperative financing institution to opportunities including incentives for rural erating station until the applicant therefor provide badly needed supplemental capital: industrial development; vitally needed com has granted to all interested parties, including munity facilities of all kinds; modern hous other electric systems, an opportunity to par Now, therefore, be it resolved, that we op pose this portion of the pending tax legisla ing, and technical assistance. ticipate on fair and reasonable terms in the tion (Section 531). 2. Appointment by the President of a .co ownership of such station, and has agreed ordinator for rural community development to make the output of electricity from such 5-5. INVESTMENT TAX CREDrr on the White House staff to be charged with station available for sale on non-discrimina Whereas, we recognize there is a basic developing maximum cooperation and co tory terms to all entities engaged in the dis- difference in the need for continuation of ordination among the several government 38592 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 11, 1969 Departments and Agencies which now ad 5-12. CO-OP MUNICIPAL COOPERATION However, it is apparent that based on pop minister the multiplicity of programs that Whereas, rural electric cooperatives and ulation growth statistics and the writings affect rural development. municipal electric systeins have numerous of many eminent demographers and scien 3. Restructuring of the Federal machinery common characteristics and share many tists that the issue of overpopulation has which has responsibilities for developing pro common proble~ns; become a most pressing -one. A number of grams to insure maximum coordination with Now, therefore, be it resolved, that rural writers predict that as early as 1990 we will in Departments and between Departments. electric cooperatives be urged to explore the witness world famines whose primary cause 4. Continued efforts to develop and foster possibilities of gaining strength in the will be linked directly to population growth. a national housing campaign as previously wholesale power area by working together Lawrence Lader, now executive director of approved by the membership. with municipal electric systems. the national association to repeal abortion 5. Removal of present restrictions and laws has written that "Beyond the problem 5-13. ACTION COMMITTEE FOR RURAL ELECTRIFI of economics and food supply, the brutal lim itations which prevent the Farmers Home CATION (ACRE) Administration from providing a level of reality is that the world will eventually run home financing that realistically meets the Whereas, the rural electrification program out of space to hold a population that keeps is dependent upon public acceptance and doubling at the present rate. General Eisen needs of rural people. legislative support; and 6. Adequate funds in the form of loans and hower, an opponent of family planning aid Whereas, the rural areas have experienced during his Presidency, has this to say today: grants to enable public water supply districts a decline in the number and strength of and municipalities in rural areas to con '. . . since the Earth is finite in area and elected officials interested in rural-oriented physical resources, it is clear that unless struct and extend water systems so that legislation: rural communities and farm areas may have something is done to bring an essential Now, therefore, be it resolved, that we sup equilibrium between human requirements services comparable to those available to port the Action Committee for Rural Elec urban residents. and available supply, there is going to be in trification (ACRE) as a voluntary vehicle some regions not only a series of explosions 5-8. ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL through which we as individuals can pro but a lowering of standards for all people, Whereas, population growth and increas mote the interest of the rural electrification including our own.'" ing industrialization are placing, with every program by helping our friends in state and I am equally aware that there are many passing year, a heavier demand on our na national office; political, legal, social, moral and economic tion's natural resources, including land, Be it further resolved that we urge all di issues involved in Government-sponsored water and the air we breathe; and rectors, employees and members of rural birth control prograins and policies and that Whereas, public attention is being increas electrics to participate as individuals in our there have and will appear before this com ingly focused on the resulting problems of political processes. mittee eminently more qualified and adept water and air pollution, the overcrowding of 5-14. NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOOD, NUTRI people than I to discuss those issues. existing recreational areas and the disap TION AND HEALTH Therefore, I will address myself solely to pearance of open land suitable for developing Whereas, we believe that in a country with some of those issues that surround the most additional recreational areas, especially in the widely used method of birth control in the such resources as ours, every citizen should world today-abortion. vicinity of our large metropolitan centers; be assured an adequate, n~tritious diet; that and we should, indeed, be a "well-fed" nation; Alice S. Rossi, in an excellent article in Whereas, there is great need for a balanced and the July-August 1969 issue of Dissent made and practical national policy in regard to en this most cogent comment about the word Whereas, President Nixon is planning a na "abortion": vironmental protection which gives due con tional Conference on Food, Nutrition and sideration to economic as well as environ "Free associations to the word "abortion" Health for the purpose of producing a na would probably yield a fantastic array of mental factors; and tional commitment to a nutritional policy Whereas, it is the responsibility of rural emotional responses: pain, relief, murder, which will be applicable to every economic crime, fear, freedom, genocide, guilt, sin. electric systems and the other segments of level, with particular cognizance of the food the electric utility industry to participate in and nutrition probleins of the poor; and Which of these associations people have no the development and promotion of a bal doubt reflects their age, marital status, Whereas, NRECA, because of the social religion or nationality. To a forty-four-year anced national policy in this important area; concern of its members, has been asked to old Japanese or Hungarian woman, the pri Now, therefore, be it resolved, that we participate in the planning of this confer mary response might be "freedom" and endorse the establishment, as directed by the ence and in the formulating or· voluntary "relief"; to an unmarried American college NRECA Board, of a Subcommittee of the action programs; girl, "fear" and "pain"; to a Catholic priest, NRECA Standing Committee on Power and Now, therefore, be it resolved that the "murder" and "sin"; to some black militants, Water Resources to study the various aspects managers, directors and members of Region V "genocide". of the environmental control problem, and be urged to participate in the national cam There are many ways to avoid the nega we pledge our assistance to that Subcommit paign to give community visibility to, and tive associations and connotations that sur tee in the execution of this important assign to generate electorate awareness of, the Con round the word. We could, for example, bor ment; and ference recommendations during 1970. row the term advanced by the British when Be it further resolved, that we commend Be it further resolved that a copy of this they recently rewrote their laws-"preg the NRECA Board for authorizing the NRECA resolution be forwarded to Dr. Jean Mayer, nancy termination". General Manager to work with other electric Special Consultant to the President. I believe that that would get us closer to industry leaders as appropriate in developing the heart of the issue but it would still not effective solutions to the problems of environ be close enough. mental control and in other areas of mutual ABORTION AND POPULATION Not close enough because the basic issue concern; and and the only real alternatives fur the preg Be it further resolved, that we urge Con CONTROL nant woman who does not want the child gress and the Administration to institute is abortion or compulsory pregnancy. If we appropriate research and action programs to view the issue in this perspective we are at deal effectively with the growing problems HON. SHIRLEY CHISHOLM what one might can "ground zero". of pollution and environmental control, in OF NEW YORK Does our Government or any other govern cluding specifically programs to reclaim and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment have the right by which to force a reuse the waste products of our society. Wednesday, December 10, 1969 woman to have a child that she does not 5-9. MOBU.E AND PREFABRICATED HOMES want? In Hungary, Gyorgy Peters, the chief Mrs. CHISHOLM. Mr. Speaker, yester government statistician, has answered (pre Whereas, there is a strong trend to increas sumably with backing from higher officials) ing use of mobile and prefabricated homes day I gave the following speech before the Senate Committee on Labor and Pub with an emphatic "no!" He reportedly has for year-round living, providing additional said "the introduction of regulations with opportunities for electric service; and lic Welfare's Subcommittee on Health which the state would interfere with the Whereas, many probleins are arising both as part of their hearings on population freedom of the parents contradicts our po for the home-owner and for NRECA member control. litical and moral concepts." What then must systems in the areas of safety, economics, I am including these remarks in the we, as representatives of a democracy, an standards and financing; CONGRESSIONAL RECORD to serve as a ref swer to the question? Now, therefore, be it resolved, that NRECA erence for any of the Members or private The majority of family planning advocates in cooperation with statewides and manu citizens who might be interested in the would be aghast if our Government were to facturers develop a proposal which the mem suggest laws requiring the use of any con ber systeins might consider for dealing with issue: traceptive, or, as in a recent case in Cali the mobile and prefabricated home probleins STATEMENT BY MRS. CHISHOLM fornia, legal sterilization. and opportunities. For quite some time now I have been an Yet it has been Government policy in this ardent advocate of family planning. It seems country that compels pregnant women to 5-10. YANKEE-DIXIE to me quite obvious that whenever it is pos carry a full-term pregnancy, often against Resolved, that we reaffirm our support of sible to do so, the limitation of the number the wishes of both parents. the Yankee-Dixie project and urge all sys of births should be accomplished by the Dr. Garrett Hardin has, perhaps rightly, tems to support this endeavor. utilization of contraceptive devices as a de equated this situation with compulsory ser sirable met hod. vitude and has said "when we recognize that • * • • • December 11, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 38593 these (abortion or compulsory pregnancy) believe in either sugarcoating or hiding the tor to doctor, and from State to State, but are the real operational alternatives (for the issues. average cost with hospital expenses could pregnant woman), the false problems cre I would like to make one final point about well be somewhere between $500 and $700. ated by the pseudo-alternatives disappear." illegitimacy for those of you who might be It is obvious that none of the poor can afford Gentlemen, i! I may, I would like to now thinking about the immorality of women re this luxurious method of birth control. discuss some of the statistics that are perti ceiving AFDC. As I understand it, the largest But nevertheless they are the ones who nent to this number one methOd of birth increase in the AFDC rolls is coming not from most often find themselves in crucial need control. those women who are now receiving public of it. They, of course, seek out the illegal One: The safest method of contraception assistance but from those women who find abortionist or attempt to do it themselves. now known, if one excepts total abstinence, that AFDC is the only answer to the prob The financial cost may be as low as $30, or is supposedly the pill. But certain statistics lem of compulsory pregnancy that they face. the average cost of a year's supply of the show that even when the pill is used prop Before you condemn their immorality con pill. erly there is a failure rate of approximately sider that there is two sides to the coin and But it is the other cost, the human cost, one percent. Consequently, if all fertile that the government policy that we as that is horrifying to contemplate. Edwin women in the United States were using this elected officials represent is the other side of Gold's study estimates that of the deaths method of contraception properly there it. of women related to maternity in New York would still be some 250,000 unwanted births. Three: one can hardly discuss the issue of City, abortion was the cause of death for Two: At present there are approximately abortion by pointing out the inadequacy of only 25 % of the white women while it caused 245,000 babies born illegitimately in the the pill or the number of illegitimate births 49% of the deaths of non-white women and United States each year. while ignoring legitimate but unwanted 56% of the deaths of Puerto-Rican women. We cannot say definitely that all of the births. This is at least a part of my answer to illegitimate children born each year are A recent survey by Dr. Charles Westoff of those who say that family planning is a form either unplanned or unwanted but what is Princeton University's office of population re of genocide. What could be more like geno clear from a comparison with the first sta search reveals that 22 percent of all legiti cide than what a comparison of these sta tistic is that the same number of births, mate births in the United States are un tistics I just gave you portray? patently unwanted, would be with us each wanted by either the husbai?-d or the wife. Further, in 1966, Dr. Carl Goldmark, Jr., year even if information and dispensing This in-depth study also revealed that of all president of the New York County Medical services about the pill (or any other method) economic groups the poor were most anxious Society, estimated that about 80 % of all were working at the optimum level. about this issue. Among the poor (as classi maternal deaths were the result of criminal It is further clear that with the present fied by the social security standards) 42 per abortions. laws and policies in effect, at that point we cent of all legitimate births were unwanted. But gentlemen, let us come a bit closer to would indeed be compelling pregnancy even The principal reason seems to be either finan home, to Washington, that showplace of the though the wom1 v had attempted every cial or financially related e.g., crowded hous Nation. What is the situation here? thing within her power, except total absti ing. Well, Dr. Milan Vuitch, who was the cen nence to prevent the pregnancy. The plethora of studies, committees and tral figure in Judge Gessell's recent ruling Shall we take another look at the illegit commissions on poverty and its causes have on the District's compulsory pregnancy law, imacy statistic? About 41 percent of the shown beyond a doubt that there is a very estimates that more than 20,000 abortions a illegitimate births are to young girls under high correlation between family size and the year are performed in the greater Washing 19 years of age. What happens to these young ability of the family to break the poverty ton area. He further estimates that only 25 % ladies and their children? cycle. The risk of poverty increases rapidly of them are performed in hospitals. That Society's attitude seems to be "you've had from 9 % for one-child families to 42 % for means that there are more than 15,000 illegal your pleasure now pay the price!" which families with six or more children. Nearly abortions performed in or near Washington. is more immoral, granting an individual, half of the children growing up in poverty in The municipal hospitals in the District basic right or forcing a young girl-some as 1966 were members of families with five have the same anti-black, anti-poor policies in effect that I find in the New York City young as 14 or 15-to assume the responsi children or more under 18; more than ~ of bilities of an adult without the privileges, all families with four or more children live in hospitals. D.C. General, for ir:stance, reports poverty; the risk of poverty is two and one 80 therapeutic abortions for last year. That rights and the opportunities? What are we is roughly .016 % for the legal abortions in doing to the mother? What are we doing to half times that for families with three chil dren or less. the greater Washington area. That figure has the unborn child? even more impact, I believe, when one re There is also the fact that if a white girl I do not want you to think however that I am asking you to consider this aspect of fam alizes that it is only .004% of the total abor gives up her child for adoption there is a tions performed, both legally and Ulegally, in gOOd possibility that the child will be ily planning solely as an element of what was known as the "war on poverty". If this were this area. adopted. This is not the case for black and The impact multiplies dramatically when the sole reason, we would indeed be waging a other minority-group children. When they we consider that D.C. General also reports are given up they spend most of their child full scale war on the poor themselves. between 800 and 1,000 incomplete abortions. hood in orphanages, public institutions and No, I am suggesting that we move away Incomplete means that the abortion was in foster homes. This is, I believe, one of the from the concept of a class-oriented family duced, either by drugs, instrument or nat prime reasons that so many black girls planning policy. I am asking that all of those family planning services available to the urally, but that it did not complete natu choose to keep their babies. rally . . . therefore it must be completed ~ That is only a small part of the moral middle-class, rich and white be made avail a physician. cost that we pay for maintaining our pres able and accessible to the poor, black and In short, they expended 10 to 12 times ent attitudes. There is another reason that brown. The primary one which is not avail more effort on repairing botched, non-pro might appeal to you gentlemen more. able at present, under safe and sanitary con fessional surgery than they did on perform Compulsory pregnancy costs money. For ditions, is pregnancy termination; and abor ing medically safe, professional surgery. That a moment I would like to continue to con tion is, as I noted, the number one method is nothing short of complete absurdity. centrate on the illegitimacy statistic. of birth control. Botched abortions are the single largest cause The number of illegitimate children on Why do I say that this service is not equal of maternal deaths in the United States and AFDC has been rising steadily. As of 1967 ly available, under safe and sanitary condi it is evidently going to be Government policy there were 1,100,000 on AFDC. That was 28 tions, for at least minority-group poor wom to keep it that way. per cent of all children on the rolls. About en? In New York City, for example, well over There are no clear statistics on exactly ~ to % of all illegitimate children.under 18 90 % of all therapeutic abortions a.re per how many illegal abortions there are each (and in 1967 there were 4.5 million) are formed on white women, according to the year in this country. Estimates range from on the AFDC rolls. There are at present over association for the study of abortion. as low as 200,000 to 1.5 million. One thing 70,000 unwed mothers receiving aid for de In January of this year an article in the that is clear however is that if we repealed pendent children. Scientific American estimated that the ratio our compulsory pregnancy laws the incidents The AFDC payments range from $10.55 per of therapeutic abortions per 1000 deliveries would be reduced. recipient in Mississippi to $64.65 in New in this country was 2.6 for white women, .5 There are many statistics from other coun Jersey. The national average per recipient is for black women and .1 for Puerto-Rican tries that support my contention. But in the $44.30, for the District of Columia it is $42.40. women. interest ·of saving time let me quote instead Think about it, gentlemen, the total amount One must also note that in New York from an article about the new British law paid out for these children is about $48,730,- City from 1960-1962 the abortion ratio in that appeared in the Washington Post in 000 a year and unmarried mothers are the municipal hospitals was only .1 per 1000 June of last year. ones who find it most difticult to get o1f the live births. Plainly and simply, this shows "Some doctors contend the only value of Public Assistance rolls. that legal abortions are not readily available the bill is to prevent the harm done by I have talked a great deal about illegiti to the minority-group poor, in New York secret abortionists. They say Hungary al macy today. I have done it purposefully be City at least. lows abortions for anyone who wants one, cause people tend to be squeamish and don't There is also the financial burden that and illegal operations have reportedly faded want to generally discuss the matter. I even legal abortion can and does impose. away. Czechoslovakia has a 'social clause' think we must discuss it and many more of The cost of a legal abortion, mainly because similar to Britain and clandestine abortions the subjects that surround the abortion is the uneven laws that now govern, may_cost have dropped w 4,000 a year instead of sue and come to grips with them. I do not from $500 to $1,000. The fees vary from doc- 100,000." 3'8594 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 11, 1969 May I point out that it there are now ning is to reduce even the number of wanted guilty verdicts. Punishment, invariably ex 1,500,000 tllegal abortions in this country, pregnancies, is it not illogical then to con ecution, was meted out immediately." a drop of the same percentage would re tinue to force women with unwanted preg duce the numbe1 of lllegal operations per nancies to have the child? I think that it isl ''UCONSTaUCTION'• f'ormed to about 30,000; that is only about Phase n was the period of "&Ocla.l recon twice as many as are now performed in the struction." It occurred during the few days District of Columbia alone. FEAR OF A BLOODBATH the Communist cadres believed they were Gentlemen, let us look bTiefly at some of permanently in Hue. the countries where the compulsory preg In order to "build a new social order, it nancy laws have been weakened or, if you HON. DONALD M. FRASER was necessary to purge the old order." The prefer, where abortion laws have been lib OF MINNESOTA "social negatives" were eliminated. Anyone eralized: who might stand in the way of the Commu Experience ln Sweden and Denmark have IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nists' consolidating their hold and imposing shown that as legal abortions increased the Wednesday, December 10, 1969 their own rules was killed. death rate associated with it decreased. Phase Ill, however, was the worst. During In 1967 in Hungary there were 187,000 Mr. FRASER. Mr. Speaker, in his No the last week of their stay, the Communists legal abortions as against 148,900 live births. vember 3 speech, President Nixon said: knew they would be forced to withdr... w. They Similarly Czechoslovakia's birthrate has For the South Vietnamese, our precipitate were determined to leave no witnesses who been reduced but not as drastically as Hun withduwal would inevitably allow the Com might testify against them or identify the gary's. munists to repeat the massacres which fol 150 clandestine Communist cadres who had Romania, after substituting a more re lowed their takeover in the North 15 years "surfaced" to rule Hue. strictive law in 1966, discovered that their before. "Most victims were killed in batches dur birth rate almost tripled in one year, the ing this period. At the sand dune grave previous rate being 13.7 per 1,000. Douglas Pike is quoted in the Wash they were tied together in groups of 10 and It would seem that the absence of com ington Post of December 7 in support of cut down with subma.chine guns," Pike said. pulsory pregnancy laws alone can contrib the President's view. By Pike's count, 5,800 of Hue•s civilians ute a great deal to the control of the popu I inc:ude in the RECORD three other are dead or missing, while 1,800 were hos lation growth, especially when one considers articles which consider the likelihood of pitalized. Of approximately 71::,000 persons in that at least the eastern bloc countries men a bloodbath in postwar South Vietnam. the city during the Communists' rule, 7,600 tioned do not widely practice the more mod became casualties. Allowing wide latitude ern methods of contraception. The Tran Van Dinh article especially in dicates that new policies can lessen the for casualties in the battle !or the city, at Of course no die-cussion of abortion would least 5 per cent and possibly closer to 10 be complete without discussing the politi possibility of a postwar massacre by cent of the population were deliberately cally volatile issue of religious and moral either side. slain, he estimates. concepts. Mr. Speaker, there is today a blood He believe3 the Hue massacres were dif Since we are already outside of the coun bath in Vietnam. Our aim should be to ferent from other Vietcong terrorism, "not try, let's stay there momentarily to quickly bring it to an end by effective negotia only in degree but in kind." It was not the inspect the abortion rates of a few coun tion, by broadening the base of the South quick terror used to build Vietcong morale tries with large ::;atholic populations: or to frighten the populace but the slow, in The illegal abortion rate in Uruguay is Vietnamese Government, through a cre ative aid program for postwar Vietnam, tensifying terror intended to create the :lasis almost two and one-half ti:mes the number of a new government. of annual live births. and if necessary, by providing asylum for To Pike the lesson of Hue is clear: "If the In Roman Catholic Chile, 27 percent of the those who want to leave Vietnam. women reported that they had had abor The articles follow: Communists win decisively, all foreigners tions at one time or another. would be expelled from the South, partic [From the Washington Post, Dec. 7, 1969] ularly hundreds of newem~n. A curtain of In Roman Catholic France, the annual HUE SLAYINGS SEEN PATTERN IF FOE WINS ignorance would descend. Then the night number of abortions equals the annual num of the long knives would begin." ber of live births. HoNG KoNG.-The massacre in Hue during the 24 days Communist troops oc{lupied the Coming back tc this country we find that [From the New Republic, Dec. 6,1969] 1n a poll conducted in 1967, no less than 72 city in February, 1968, was a three-phase percent of the Catholics polled favored abor operation, according to a U.S. authority on THE FATE OF "OUR" VIETNAMESE AFTER WITH tion reform, as did 83 percent of the Protes the Vietcong. DaAWAlr-FEAa OF A BLOODBATH tants and 98 percent of the Jewish. Douglas Pike, a Foreign Service omcer ~By Than Van Dinh} No lesser a Catholic luminary than Car whose book, "Vietcong," is generally re The possibility of a "bloodbath•' in South garded as the definitive text on the "guer dinal Cushing of Boston was quoted as hav Vietnam 1! US troops were to swiftly with ing said "It does not seem reasonable to me rillas" organization, spent a week in Hue draw has been worrying both "hawks" and to forbid in civil law a practice that can last month reseaPching the mass slayings and "doves." But the Vietnamese likely to be be considered a matter of private morality." concluded that as many as 5,800 Hue citizens the most affected ny a change of regime in He was of course speaking of the less may have been executed. Pike, now stationed with the U.S. Infor Saigon, or by a Communist ta.ke-over-the traditional methods of birth control, con wealthy and powerful-do not talk much traceptives, but it is my belief that logical mation Service in Tokyo, is preparing a re port on his findings. During a visit here, he about it: they have been getting ready ever extension to abortion is now in order. That since the Tet '>f!ensive of 1968, which brought is especially true if he did, in fact, mean said the massa.cre in VIetnam's old imperial capital "was quite impersonal." the war into their cities and their a.ir-con "A practice that can be considered a matter dltloned living rooms. A quiet exodus began, of private morality:· AGAXNST GROUPS mostly to France. The price of exodus is not Outlawing compulsory pregnancy laws, "It was not a blacklist of individuals but cheap. An exit visa costs as much as "15000; which some of you might still prefer to call a blacklist of titles and positions in the old a "certificate of French citizenship" costs legalizing abortion, would not be forcing any society,'' he said. "It was directed not against about $2000; 1llegal border crossings into doctor or hospital to perform abortions people, but a.ga.inst 'social units'-religious Cambodia cost anywhere from $800 to $4000. against their beliefs. By outlawing these laws organizations, political parties and social Money has been deposited in European we would instead be honoring the basic and movements like women's and youth asso banks. According to Allessandro Cassella of individual right of a woman to terminate ciations:• Die Weltwoche of Zurich a total of between an unwanted pregnancy. Pike said that Phase I of the Communist $1.5 and $2 billion has left Vietnam in this There are literally reams of other statis campaign against Hue's clvllians occurred way. According to the same journalist, Presi tics that I might present to you gentlemen during the first few days of the occupation, dent Nguyen Van Thieu has found a home today in support of the repeal of the present when the Vietcong did not expect to stay but for his children in Rome (where his brother compulsory pregnancy laws. However, time wished to make an example and "break the is ambassador), and his wife has just pur Will not allow me to nor am I sure that it enemy's administrative structure." chased a house in Europe. He estimates that would accomplish more than muddying up "Civilia:..1 cadres," Pike sa.ld. "accompanied of 1600 Vietnamese who are legally leaving the waters. by firing squads, executed key individuals to this country each month, half do not return, The basic underlying question in any dis weaken governmental administration follow which means that approximately 10,000 have cussion of compulsory pregnancy laws ing Communist withdrawal. This was the emigrated since the negotiations started in (which I choose to use rather than the term blacklist period, the time of the drum-heM Paris. My own estimates are a. blt higher. abortion laws) is what should a. woman who court. Those who cannot afford or who do not wish is pregnant against her will do and what "Cadres with clipboards bearing lists of to leave, have gone through a well-planned should the professional and public response names and addresses summoned various process of accommodation with the "other toward her be if she chooses to terminate 'enemies of the revolution' to kangaroo side," an accommodation that reaches the the pregnancy? courts. Publlc trials usually lasted about 10 highest echelons of the government. Huynh If the underlying thesis of family plan- minutes, and there were no known not- Van Trang, special assistant to President December 11, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 38595 Thieu, was arrested in July this year with 42 and written by Mr. Thai Van Kiem, a Viet the people.' According to Le Ngan, director of others on charges of having contacts with namese diplomat and scholar, the total num Hue's special police, the list consisted of five the Vietcong. They were scheduled for trial ber of refugees was: 887,895 of whom 85 names, all those of officers of special police.'' November 28. On the provincial level, as percent or 754,710 were Catholics. The Catholic priest in Gia Hoi told him that Henry A. Kissinger has noted, "tacit accom Also, some 100,000 Vietnamese left the "none of his clergy or parishioners were modations are not unusual in many areas South for the North in 1954, several thou harmed by the NLF." such as the Mekong Delta" (Foreign Affairs, sands of whom were Catholic. There are now When the 1968 Tet offensive started, I January 1969). One wonders who will be left about 800,000 Catholics in North Vietnam. suggested to an acquaintance of mine whom among the prospective victims. There are Catholics in the leadership of the I thought was close to the Saigon policy The here-and-now bloodbath is real, how National Liberation Front. Those who pre makers, that Hue should be declared an open ever. For the majority of Vietnamese, poor dict the wholesale murder of Catholics by city as was Rome during the Second World peasants in the defoliated countryside and Communists sound more Catholic (and more War, and for the same reasons. Had that been destitute workers in the city slums, it is what anti-Communist) than the most anti-Com done, the loss in lives, the damage to histor they have been witnessing a long time: the munist Catholic leader in South Vietnam, ical sites and treasures would have been search and destroy missions; the "free zone" Father Hoang Quynh. During the First Indo minimized. Instead of which, the ARVN strikes; the B52 saturation bombings; the chinese War, Father Hoang Quynh led a (which disappeared at the first Vietcong Phoenix operation (which from December guerrilla army against the Viet Minh, and in shot) returned in force with the US Marines 1967 to December 1968 killed 18,393 civilian 1954 he moved south with his faithful. Re and planes to "destroy the city in order to Vietcong cadres); the Song My ("Pinkville") cently, he said: "If the Communists come, save it." Hue authorities never explained why type of breakfast massacre in which an Amer we will try and live and adapt here." (News they failed to protect the people. Nor did ican infantry unit allegedly shot down some week November 24, 1969). In the last three they reveal the number of people killed by hundreds of men, women and children in a years, he has worked out a close relationship American bombings and artillery. captured village in the early morning of with Venerable Tich Tri Quang, the militant Few know the Vietcong better th.an Tran March 16, 1968;- the atrocities regularly de Buddhist leader whom some in the US con Van Dac, a Vietcong colonel who defected scribed in national magazines (Esquire, Look, sider pro-Communist. Father Hoang Quynh last year. In an interview published by the The New Yorker). To talk about a future knows very well that security lies in close Joint US Public Affairs Office in Saigon, Tran massacre against this present background is association with your own people, not with a Van Dac said: "If the Vietcong took over, ironic, to say the least. foreign army. In a communique on January 8, they would send military officers and former For me, a Vietnamese, to discuss this prob 1968, the Conference of Bishops in Vietnam civil servants to concentration camps to be lem is to admit the US has a role to play in appealed to "the goodwill of the govern reeducated, in some cases to hard labor until the internal affairs of Vietnam after the war. ment of both South and North Vietnam to they become submissive. And of course, all I ask myself if earlier Americans would have build peace together: in the name of the those whose social class or former position been impressed by the reprisal argument, if Lord, we cry Stop." In early November this makes them objects of suspicion would be it had been raised by the British before they year, 93 prominent Vietnamese Catholics carefully watched by the authorities. To me, left American shores after the War of Inde from France, West Germany, Canada and in the people of Vietnam and especially the pendence? Would it have carried much weight Vietnam called for the immediate with peasants who have been militarily and po if, during the Civil War, a European country drawal of US troops. Among the signers of litically trained in the last two decades by had intervened on behalf of either the North this appeal was Colonel Nguyen Van C:Pau, the revolutionaries would not be easily ter or the South, and then refused to leave on for several years (1957-1962) Director of Psy rorized. They are tougher and much more the grounds that withdrawal would leave the chological Warfare of the ARVN (Army of the sophisticated than their apparent apathy people of the North (or the South) at the Republic of South Vietnam). (The colonel seems to indicate. In 1956, two years after mercy of aggressors? recently sent a letter supporting the October the prestigious victory at Dien Bien Phu and Nonetheless, the question needs to be dis and November Moratoriums in the US.) the immense popularity of the late President cussed, if only because it is raised by many In recent months Saigon has given wide Ho Chi Minh, the peasants in Nghe An, Ho Americans whose compassion for the Viet publicity to "mass executions and mass Chi Minh's home province, revolted against namese people and whose opposition to the graves" in Hue, digging up bodies for the the excesses of land reforms. President Ho war I do not doubt. But in doing so, we must press and photographers. Yet, Colonel Ton Chi Minh admitted the mistakes publicly and examine two underlying myths: the first is That Khien, chief of Quang Ngai province took over the Secretary Generalship of the that the "Orientals put little value on life ("Pinkville"), where the March 16, 1968 mas party to correct them.'' and take killing very lightly"; the second sacre of Vietnamese women and children took If the reason for continuing the US mili is that reprisals are the monopoly of the place, refused to dig up the bodies of the tary presence in South Vietnam is to prevent Communists, whereas anti-Communists are victims, saying that "they are old bodies" a bloodbath, then the logical thing to aim for, less vengeful. The first is easily dispelled (Evening Star, November 17, 1969). right now is a broad-based Saigon regime by a reading of Western history: the reli Why are the Hue bodies new and the that includes Buddhists, whose nonviolent gious wars, the Inquisition, the lynchings, Quang Ngai old, when they were buried at position has been always clear and consistent, the World Wars, the American Indian and the same time? President Nixon said: "We the peace-minded generals such as Duong Civil Wars, Hitler's "final settlement." Any saw the prelude of what would happen in Van Minh (Big Minh) or Tran Van Don. one who has spent time in Vietnam realizes South Vietnam when the Communists en That would be a negotiating government. that the peasant esteems life very highly. tered the city of Hue last year. During their The Thieu-Ky-Khiem regime is not only an The Oriental is no more brutal, no more brief rule there, there was a bloody reign of obstacle to negotiations, but polarizes the casual about death than is the Occidental, terror in which 3000 civilians were clubbed, situation among non-Communist elements irrespective of politics. Since 1945, Vietnam shot to death and buried in mass graves." as well. "Vietnamization," which attempts has gone through a revolution and revolu I was touched by the President's mention of to consolidate Thieu's regime, simply in tions are always bloody, but the blood is Hue, my home town. The 1968 Tet offensive creases the likelihood of reprisals. on all hands. Mr. Kissinger recognized this took two victims in my OWJl family: my Those who fear a Vietcong bloodbath ought when he wrote: "It is beyond imagination younger brother, a noncommissioned officer to consider other possibilities too. What will that parties that have been murdering and in the ARVN and a published poet, and my happen, for example, to thousands of political betraying each other for 25 years could work nephew. They were both killed not by the prisoners (among them Truong Dinh Dzu, together as a team giving joint instructions Vietcong but by American bombings. They the runner-up in the 1967 elections and now to the entire country." The French, whom were buried in a temporary grave for the condemned to five years at hard labor), if the U.S. helped to fight against the Viet reason that Hue was under siege; nobody there is no negotiated settlement? Judging Minh during the first Indochinese War, mur could get out of the area to buy a coffin for from many threats directed against the dered a large number of Vietnamese nation decent burial. The first news I received from neutralists and the peace-minded by the alists and Communists alike, in both the an official Saigon source was that my rela Saigon regime, they would be liquidated by North and the South. In November, 1945, tives were killed by the Vietcong. Only much Thieu and his friends the day those leaders French artillery fire and air bombardment later, when I got word from my own family, decided to quit the country. Thieu has al killed 6000 fleeing Vietnamese civilians at did I learn that they had been killed by the ready launched a campaign against his Haiphong. The brief Japanese occupation bombings. What happened in Hue is told in political opponents, accusing them of being of Vietnam was also bloody. an account that appeared in The Christi an Communists. Many Americans believe that the Viet Century of November 5, 1969. The author, Or consider this: Senator Cranst on (D, namese Catholics will be the sure victims Len E. Ackland, now a graduate student at California) , New sweek and Time has re of future reprisals. Thus, President Nixon the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced In ferred to a Pentagon "contingency plan" to in his address on November 3 mentioned tlie ternational Studies, worked and lived in Hue fight the South Vietnamese Army, should "million-and-a-half Catholic refugees · wlio in 1'967. He returned there after the Tet negotiations fail. This is not as absurd as it fled to ·South Vietnam when the Commu offensive of 1968 to interview the people (he may seem. Anti-American feelings in the nists took over the. North." The President's speaks Vietnamese) . He wrote: "When on the South have risen since the Paris talks. The st atistics were inflated. According to Viet first day of the attack, about 20 Vietcong "Vietnamization" program has brought into nam Past and Present published in Saigon entered Gia Hoi (a precinct of 25,000 resi positions of command young ARVN officers, in 1956 under the patronage of the South dents in Hue) in order to secure the area, who, unlike the generals, have never been Vietnam Department of Education and the they carried with them a list of those who associat ed with the French army. They are National Commission for UNESCO (p. 374) were to be killed immediately as 'enemies of products of the South Vietnamese milit ary 38596 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Decernber 11, 1969 schools since 1954. They are now part of an would suggest that the US should ask its The President's account is contrary to the anti-Communist army, but they are not allies to share the burden. Perhaps some historical record. If his advisers have studied anti-nationalist; they know what is going Vietnamese would like to settle in Thailand, the reports of the International Control on among their leaders, the corruption and in the Philippines, in South Korea, in New Commission, responsible under the 1954 the ineffectiveness. I know of several cases Zealand. Australia needs manpower, and if Geneva armistice for investigating allega where officers of the ARVN have been demoted Canberra can send troops to fight for the tions of reprisal, they must know that in the because of their close connection with their "freedom" of the Vietnamese, the Australian first two years following that armist!ce a total American advisers. General Ky himself has Parliament can change its immigration laws of nineteen complaints alleging political re tried to exploit this anti-American sentiment to admit the colored Vietnamese. prisal in the North were lodged with the among young officers. More than once, he Give to the International Control Commis Commission, only one of which involved mur has said that if he had to choose again, he sion (ICC) temporary command of the last der. During the same period at least 214 were "would be on the side of Ho Chi Minh." The batch of US troops being withdrawn, thus lodged against Diem's Government In the young majors and captains do not have guarding against their being assaulted by South, including several reports of massacres. money in foreign banks, they are not going to ARVN, NLF or Hanai forces. Although the I.C.C. did not complain that leave en masse after the Americans go home. Let the US insist on strengthening ma its inquiries into these allegations were ham But to stay with their people, they either chinery to implement Article 14C of the 1954 pered in the North, it soon encountered ma have to find the way to accommodate with the Geneva Accords. 14C said that the parties jor obstructions in the South, with Saigon "other side," or prove by their actions that to the agreement undertook "to refrain from finally forbidding it in early 1957 from con they are as patriotic as the Vietcong. The any reprisals or discrimination against per tinuing such investigations there. At that best proof might be to fight the US "residual sons or organizations on account of their ac time the Commission had yet to investigate force." In June of this year, two US mllltary tivities during the hostilities, and to guar thirty-five alleged incidents or political re police who had rushed to a bar in response antee their democratic liberties." These prisal in the North as against 1,047 in the to complaints that a drunken US soldier pledges are accepted in paragraph C of point South. Many allegations could have been was making trouble were shot to death by 5 of the NLF 10-point program for the settle substantiated. We know that Diem'& regime Colonel Nguyen Viet Can, commander of the ment of the war. reported publicly that between 1954 and 1960 Vietnamese airborne battalion that guards there were 48,200 alleged Communists ar the Independence Palace. No charge was filed [From the New York Times, Dec. 6, 1969] rested in South Vietnam. against the colonel. As Mr. Kissinger again TOPICS: HISTORY AND THE BLOODBATH THEORY SUPPORT-DR SOLUTION? rightly notes: "The Vietnamese people have IN VIETNAM It was in the fall of 1956, more than two lived under foreign rule for approximately (By George MeT. Kahn) half of their history. They have maintained years after the Geneva Armistice, that vio a remarkable cultural and social cohesion by The Administration's most persistent argu lence occurred on a significant scale in the being finely attuned to the realities of pow ment. against a rapid or complete withdrawal North. This was unconnected with the anti er." To many Vietnamese the realities of of American troops from Vietnam has been French struggle and was not in reprisal power since the Paris talks are shifting. An that a bloodbath would take place if Amer against Vietnamese who had supported attack by the ARVN against the US troops ican forces were no longer available to pro-. France against the Vietminh. would be the final blow. teet President Thleu's regime from the Na Those concerned with political reprisals Finally, President Thleu :-.nd the U.S. Em tional Liberation Front. others hold that might well insist that in any future Vietnam bassy in Saigon have claimed that the paci even if the President's forecast were correct, settlement the I.C.C. or its equivalent be fication program has been going extremely the number of victims involved would not ap made much stronger to insure that it is capa well, that the South Vietnamese government proach the number of civllians who are cer ble of investigating alleged reprisals effec tain to be killed during even a few more tively. controls more than 80 percent of the popu months of fighting in South Vietnam. lation. If this were true, then over a m1llion And any President worried about a future But however one estimates these possibil ARVN troops and U.S. residual forces could bloodbath in Vietnam who looks to historical stage a real bloodbath-against the Viet ities, it is essential that a clear distinction be precedent for instruction should be as much cong-after the war. made between battlefield conditions and the concerned with the actions of an American situation existing after an armistice. In supported regime as with those of the regime I do not sit in the inner councils of the heat-of-battle conditions both sides in the we oppose. NLF. I do not know the number of Viet past-and probably 1n the future-have namese who may be victimized once U.S. carried out reprisals against those identified [From the Christian Century, Nov. 5, 1969] forces are withdrawn. But I am not persuaded as working for the enemy-particularly when VIETNAM: THE BLOODBATH ARGUJ4EN'l'--THE that a bloodbath would take place if there they occupy positions in intelligence, the were no U.S. troops in Vietnam, or if the Viet EviDENCE SUGGESTS THAT HANOI WOULD NoT police, or are believed to be informers. MOUNT MASSIVE Ktt.LINGS AFTER TAKING cong took over. I agree, however, that if only This was apparently an important factor dozens of Vietnamese might be killed in the POWER IN THE SOUTH in the execution of civilians at Hue, and (By D. Gareth Porter and Len E. Ackland) post-withdrawal period, it is the moral duty Army spokesmen have alleged that it in of the American people and government to fluenced American conduct in the massacre As pressure builds on the Nixon admin find the way to protect them. In the past, at Songmy. So long as a particular battle is istration to withdraw American troops rap the Chinese invaure on the N.L.F . and Let's don't have another cyclamate con North Vietnamese increased. neled into the large cities because Gov troversy and let's remember, too, that there The notion that the communists will ernors and legislatures are not sym are many variances of views on even ciga mount massive killings after taking power pathetic to the problems of central cities, rettes, without hard, uncontradictable facts in the South is further weakened by the and, indeed, have compounded the plight being available. testimony of Tran Van Dac, one of the of cities by their suburban-rural ori The public is beginning to take some of highest-ranking defectors from the N.L.F. entation. this stuff with a grain of salt, which inci In an interview published last year by the Instead of dismantling the Office of dentally apparently has u ot yet been scruti Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office in Saigon, he Economic Opportunity, I would prefer nized by the headline set::kers. explained that, if they took over, the com As the detective on TV says, just the facts, munists would send military officers and for to see it expanded and strengthened, be sir. mer civil servants to "concentration camps cause OEO has shown useful alterna Meanwhile, we are going to keep right on to be re-educated" and in some cases to do tives to the traditional welfare approach eating a couple of eggs in the morning, hard labor, until they became "submissive." to poverty. Programs like Headstart, and, if you don't mind, the bacon to go with And of course, all those whose social cla!ss or Followthrough, and my New Careers it, crisp. And butter on the toast, please. former position makes them objects of sus program, initiated at OEO, have become picion would be "ca.refully watched" by the staples of the American education authorities. program. Neither the earlier consolidation of power "LOVE PEACE" BECOMES "HATE Beginning as ~:~.poverty program, New in North Vietnam, nor the occupation of Hue AMERICA"-A PSYWAR STRATEGY in 1968, nor the testimony of a high-rank Careers as a concept has permeated ing defector, supports the conclusion that many aspects of the Nation's manpow Hanoi intends to bring about a "bloodbath" er programs. HON. JOHN R. RARICK after achieving control in the South. What VISTA has given many concerned ever the utility of eliminating government OF LOUISIAN A young people a constructive outlet. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES personnel during the war, the communist OEO has brought food to the hungry leadership h!U> no interest in liquidating Wednesday, December 10, 1969 Saigon's military officers or civil servants. If and legal and medical service to the there are political executions, the victims are indigent; new education, job skills, and Mr. RARICK. Mr. Speaker, most most likely to be those who are highly un employment to the aspiring poor. Americans, preoccupied with earning a popular with the citizens, such as the secret A mass of 50, separate, State pro livelihood, raising a family, and enjoy police officers on the highly selective list of grams could not possibly follow in this ing life, do not fully understand that we "enemies of the people" in Gia Hoi. tradition. The innovation and zeal of The past offers ample evidence that long are at war in this country. They have ttanding hatreds can result in individual OEO must not be allowed to disappear. been led to believe that there has to be vendettas, and the highly political central shooting for their country to be endan Vietnamese are especially prone to such gered or to be at war. For this reason, settling of old scores. If the U.S. really they believe the present war is confined wishes to fulfill its moral obligation to those WASHINGTON MEDDLERS to a tiny Asian country far overseas. who fear for their safety in the absence of They do not understand that a war is the American presence, it can do so easily HON. WM. JENNINGS BRYAN DORN being waged without shooting-a psy by pledging to provide transportation to new chological war-which the enemy is daily homes for all who desire it. OF SOUTH CAROLINA prosecuting to the fullest right here in The Nixon administration and its sup IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES porters appear more interested, however, in the United States of America. the exploitation of the bloodbath theme Wednesday, December 10, 1969 The technique of thesis and synthesis, than in taking the practical steps to provide Mr. DORN. Mr. Speaker, recently a and the "slide-off" is most lucidly ex safety. And while they appeal to the Ameri plained by J. Edgar Hoover, in his book, can abhorrence of an imagined massacre, very timely editorial appeared in the An derson Independent, Anderson, S.C. "Masters of Deceit," which should be the real killing of thousands of Vietnamese studied by Americans. Most need to and Americans goes on month after month. I commend this excellent editorial to the attention of my colleagues and to recognize the intentional manipulations the American people: and distortions of the "slide-off" tech SUBSTITUTE OEO BU.L INADEQUATE nique used in Communist education. AND NOW THE WASHINGTON MEDDLERS Education in this misapplication is a PREPARE FOR AN ATTACK UPON EGGS weapon of the battle. HON. JAMES H. SCHEUER John Harms, editor of the Kiplinger Agri Failing to understand the technique, cultural Newsletter, warns that the next OF NEW YORK batch of "consumer protection" in the works many Americans do not understand the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to come out of Washington will be a cam development and use of the Mylai in cident as "hate America" propaganda to Wednesday, December 10, 1969 paign against eggs and already the poultry industry is madder than a wet hen about it further confuse our people and damage Mr. SCHEUER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to because, say the poultrymen, nothing has our national unity against a common day to oppose the substitute OEO bill of been proven about the cholesterol content of enemy. fered by my distinguished colleagues, Mr. hen fruit. The initial psychological thrust was to QUIE and Mrs. GREEN. While I am aware Speaking before the Northeastern Poultry indoctrinate our impressionable youth Producers Council at Atlantic City, Editor that the poverty program has many Harms said the groundwork is under way in a belief that peace is imperative and problems, the substitute bill does not for the blast against eggs and the White mu~t be cherished; and since war is the offer solutions. It merely compounds the House Conference on Food, Nutrition and antithesis of peace, they must hate war. problems. Health will be used as a springboard by those To translate the abhorrence of war First, the substitute measure would people who attack eggs. into a hatred of America, it was only December 11, 1.969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 38599 necessary to :find an Incident which the Philip M. Stern Foundation, :financier of the Army film being in black and white and would identify the horrors of war with left-wing causes, Herscli spent two months his private film being in color. When he re• our own country. The Mylai or Pinkville travelling around the country tracking down turned from the war he lectured and showed ex-GI's Who might have information on his "horror" :fllxns around the Cleveland area incident served as the vehicle for trans- the "massacre," which supposedly took place without causing any excitement. fer for hate of the war to hate of our in the hamlet of My Lai, village of song My, He recognized his opportunity, however, country. province of Quang Ngai, March 16, 1968. when the story of the "massacre" finally hit Thus, what began as love of peace be- The "massacre" story begins with a man the news and took his pictures to Joseph came hatred of America. who supposedly started the whole thing Eszterhas, a reporter for the liberal Cleve In include in my remarks an interest- when his "conscience" caused him to write land Plain Dealer. The paper printed eight of ing report by Mr. Frank Capell in the a 1,500 word letter to various and sundry his pictures on November 20th and that same Herald of Freedom for December 12, u.s. officials, Senators and Congr~ssmen. night Haeberle and Eszterhas flew to New 1969, entitled "More Hate America Ronald Lee Ridenhour, age 23, now a student York to go in business. They set up shop in Claremont College in California, was a in Room 801 of the Gotham Hotel and in Propaganda/' a report by Mrs. Shirley door gunner on an observation helicopter as vited bids from newspapers and magazines Scheibla from Barron's for October 6, signed to the 11th Light Infantry Brigade on the eighteen color slides. For a while it covering the Institute of Policy Studies when he first heard about the "massacre." seemed that there was lots of money to be and its co-director, Richard Barnet, and When he was subsequently transferred to made but questions arose as to legality and a news clipping on the moratorium: commando reconnaissance he had the op- ownership and such technicalities, as well as Mou "HATE AMERICA" PROPAGANDA portunity to talk to soldiers in many differ the propriety of selling rights to atrocity ent camps. He had first heard about Song pictures. A package deal was made with Life The Communist take-over of the United My, nicknamed "Pinkvllle" because it was for Haeberle's slides, accompanied by Eszter States is proceeding along the tried-and-true a Viet Cong stronghold and colored thus on has's words which were as gory as the slides. lines established by the Communist take- Army maps, about a month after the "massa For Instance: "This man was old and trem over of Russia. The importance of the dis- ere." By June he had located four members bling so that he could hardly walk, he looked integration of the military was recognized of c Company, 1st Battalion of the 20th like he wanted to cry. When I left him I by the Bolsheviks (they called it democratl- Infantry, 11th Light Infantry Brigade who heard two rifle shots." and "Haeberle found zation) and is being accomplished in the had participated in the action on March 16, the bodies above on a road leading from the United States Armed forces through "atroc- 1968 and were "willing to talk." In Novem village. 'Most were women and babies. It ity stories" and "incidents" discrediting our ber, just before he returned to the United looked as if they tried to get away'." and soldiers and officers fighting in Vietnam. The states, Ridenhour located a :fifth participant. "They just kept shooting at her. You could Green Beret "incident" did not arouse Returning to his home in Phoenix, Arizona, see the bones flying in the air chip by enough horror, although it did have a de- Ridenhour pieced together his hearsay story chip ..."and "The GI fired three shots into bilitating effect upon the morale of the and by the end of March, 1969 his letter was the child.... The third shot put him down Armed Forces and did force top-flight officer, on its way to President Nixon, Secretary and body fluids came out. The GI just sim Col. Reault, out of action. To accomplish Laird, and the Senators and Congressmen. ply got up and walked away." what the Green Beret "incident" failed to As a result of his letter, Ridenhour was Another eyewitness who emerged was Paul accomplish, we now have a new "incident,'' interviewed by an Army investigator but, David Meadlo who appeared in a televised the "My Lai Massacre," which seexns to have when great headlines concerning his infor interview with Mike Wallace on C.B.S. The many of the earmarks of a "planned inci- mational coup did not burst upon the Amer "news" interview was arranged by Dispatch dent." The photographer, whose horror pic- lean scene, he was discouraged and con News Service which was reportedly paid tures have shocked the world, requested that tacted a "literary agent" by the name of $10,000 by C.B.S. Meadlo got nothing but has he be assigned to cover this particular ac- Michael cunningham who attempted to sell since told a prospective interviewer: "I ain't tion. The men were briefed by a "field para- Ridenhour's story to various newspapers, talking to nobody now unless they pay." We graph" from headquarters, stating tha,t My magazines, news agencies a,nd television net hope no one will pay him for we agree with Lai harbored Viet Cong and North Vietna- works with no success. Although we are Sen. Ernest F. Hollings who criticized the mese troops and ordering C Company to take assured by the news media that Ridenhour's C.B.S. for carrying the interview, stating that and destroy the village. This was the first motives in "exposing the massacre" are most Meadlo "was obviously sick" and that a man combat engagement of C Company, accord- honorable, we can't help agreeing with Col. in his condition "ought not to be exposed to ing to one of its members, Charles A. West oren K. Henderson, former Commander of the entire public." In the interview Meadlo of Chicago. Mr. West, a participant in the the 11th Brigade, who stated: "I can't be stated that Lt. Calley had ordered "about so-called "massacre," gives an entirely dif- lieve a guy who did not participate in some 370" villagers killed and that Meadlo him ferent story from the publicity-seekers and thing, that his conscience would bother him self had killed possibly "10 or 15." At the end money-makers who have jumped into the a year later more than the men involved." of the interview he stated: "I see women and picture with both feet, and has stated that one of the :first men who supplied Riden children in my sleep. Some days . • . some he will testify for the defendants, Lt. Wm. hour with information was his good friend, nights, I can't even sleep. I just lay there Calley and Sgt. David Mitchell. Charles Gruver, age 24, now a construction thinking about it." Meadlo, who lost a foot This particular can of worms was opened worker in Tulsa, Oklahoma. That Gruver in action shortly after the "massacre," also by a new left-wing "news" (propaganda) might have an ax to grind was indicated by thinks it is not fair that his disability pen service called Dispatch News Service which his statement that Lt. Calley was intensely sion has been reduced now that his injury WM started in late 1g68 in Taiwan by David disliked by the men (Newark N.J. Star Ledger, has healed. Obst and another American, Michael Mor- 11/24/69). Gruver was quoted as stating that Another participant, Varnado Simpson, row, a former Dartmouth student. Obst, who his out:flt was told the village was a VietCong did not look upon the inhabitants as "civil is 23 years of age, went to Taiwan as a stu- stronghold and ordered to destroy it com ians". He stated: "To us they were not civil dent and returned to the United States last pletely. He stated: "We confiscated several ians. . .• To us they were VC." At the time year to study Chinese at the University of weapons and took a few prisoners and later Simpson, from Jackson, Mississippi, was a California. He is the son of a Los Angeles ad- they found an underground military hospi 19-year-old assistant platoon leader. vertising man. Morrow went to Vietnam to tal in the village." The horror story in Life Although newspaper headlines have seek information and was joined by Donald magazine of Dec. 5, 1969 does not mention screamed that "Only the Chickens were left Luce. Others on the Dispatch staff in saigon these statements, the one they have picked alive," Chief WO Hugh C. Thompson, Jr. (27) are Don Ronke and Dick Berliner. In Wash- being the following concerning a small boy: of Decatur, Ga. who is now an instructor ington they have Derek Norcross who also "The boy was clutching his wounded arm pilot at Army Aviation Center at Ft. Rucker, writes "Youth Notes" for Parade. Assisting with his other hand while blood trickled be Ala., received the Distinguished Flying Cross Dispatch as an "31dviser" is Richard J. Barnet tween his :fingers. He just stood there with for his actions as a helicopter pilot on March who hM just returned from a visit to Hanoi big eyes staring around like he didn't under 16, 1968 at My Lat. The citation read: "He and is co-director with Marcus Raskin or stand. Then the captain's RTO (radio op spotted 15 young children trying to hide in Washington's Institute for Policy Studies, a erator) put a burst of 16 (M 16) :fire into a bunker and evacuated them to secure radically leftist oriented "think-tank." Mi- him." area. Moments later he located a wounded chael Nussbaum of 1156-15th St. N.W., The story in Life was written around the Vietnamese child and disregarding his own Washington, D.C. is attorney for Dispatch. "exclusive" color pictures they bought from safety he again landed and evacuated the Associated with Dispatch is Seymour M. Ronald L. Haeberle. identlfled as a 28-year child to the Quangngai hospital." Thompson Hersch, age 32, a Washington free lance old Cleveland businessman who was assigned is reportedly responsible for the :flrst Army writer who began his career as a police re- to Company C, 20th Infantry of the Ameri inquiry into the way the operation at My Lai porter with Chicago's City News Bureau. He cal Division, 11th Infantry Brigade as a pub had been run. has spent the last few years in campaign- lie information Sergeant at the time of the The can of worxns also contained some ing successfully against chemical and bio- incident. He and SP5 Jay Roberts, both of other "atrocity" stories whose time had logical warfare. He was press secretary for the 31st Public Information Detachment, come. Thomas F. Loflin 3rd was an adjutant Eugene McCarthy during his presidential try. had volunteered for this operation because of the 88th Supply and Service Battalion at Hersch reportedly has nuxnerous Pentagon "word was out that it would be 'a hot one'." Pleiku and is now a law student at the Uni contacts and got a tip on the "massacre" · .·Haeberle was well prepared with three cam versity of North Carolina. He says he heard story from them. With a $1,000 grant from eras, one for the Army and two for himself, U.S. helicopter pilots brag about killing 38600 EXTENSIONS· OF REMARKS December 11, 1969 South Vietnamese civilians. When he re Communists and therefore cannot be con States we have our American Cong who look turned to the U.S. in December 1966 he wrote sidered "innocent civilians." The guerrilla as much like normal Americans as the Viet an article about these "atrocities" which was technique makes it impossible to identify Cong look like innocent civilians. published in convicted pornographer, Ralph the enemy. One has but to read an analysis of the Ginzburg's Avant-Garde magazine of Jan Ralph De Toledano describes the action at events leading up to the Communist take uary 1968. Another helicopter "atrocity" was My Lai according to the story of Charles over of Russia to realize that the United brought forth by Alan Jones (22) of Oak West: States is not too far away from the same Forest, Illinois, a teacher at DuSable Upper "In moving on My Lai, says Mr. West, terrible fate toward which its own "revolu Grade Center. He furnished to the Chicago Charlie Company was badly bloodied-with tionaries" are pushing it. Abroad and at home Sun-Times photographs purporting to show soldiers killed and wounded by snipers and skillful propagandists discredited the Czarist prisoners being dropped from helicopters. booby traps. The company was pinned down Regime as they are now discrediting the The pictures were reportedly mailed to his by enemy :fire just outside the village and United States. Spreading seditious propa parents, Mr. & Mrs. Karl Jones of New York took shelter in a rice paddy. When it at ganda among the soldiers, :fighting an un City by a pilot-photographer but Jones and tacked, it was met by sniper :fire. When the popular war, the Bolsheviks and their his parents refused to identify the photog company entered the village, they found "liberal" agents undermined the morale of rapher. The Draft System draws into the many dead as a result of artillery shelling the army causing it to collapse and event service all types, and the leftist propaganda and bombing from the air. The only :firing ually split into two forces, one of which among U.S. Servicemen is showing results. into groups of old men, women and children supported the lawful government and the Of courne, the Communist press is loving he saw occurred when military age males de other the so-called "revolution." Here and every minute of this and having itself a :field liberately ran among these civilians. Even now in the United States, as in Russia im day. The Communist Daily World of Dec. 3, tually it was established that at least some mediately before the Bolsheviks (hiding be 1969 carried an interview with Ridenhour of these were Viet Cong or NVA troops." hind their "liberal" stalking horses) moved and a picture of Jack Levin and Lloyd Ziff, An official investigation was conducted by in, the people are tired and frustrated by a identified as two University of Pennsylvania the U.S. Army shortly after the March 16, seemingly hopeless war which we are not law students. The picture shows them stand 1968 encounter and no grounds for "atrocity" able, or even trying, to win but which is ing on the steps of the Capitol with a large stories were found. An investigation ordered killing and maiming their loved ones. Peo sign which asks: "How do you shoot a baby by President Nguyen Van Thieu showed that ple are beginning to believe the seditious and hear the shot 20 months later?" The reports that 527 civiliaru; were massacred propaganda that our country is "sick" and Nov. 29, 1969 i!s.sue the Daily World makes "were completely inaccurate" and actually eventually they will feel that it is not worth some suggestions under the title of "What about 20 civiliaru; were killed in a battle for saving. In the government itself in Russia, Can be done?" they state: the village. A South Vietnamese communi as in America today, the "liberals" constantly "After the disaster of Pearl Harbor, Presi que, based on an investigation by Lt. Gen. criticized theii· own government and coun dent Roosevelt appointed an extraordinary Hoang Xuan Lam, commander of the area try, talked of elaborate "reforms" but op commission headed by Supreme Court Jus that includes the Village of My Lai in the posed any suggested improvement because it tice Roberts to probe the guilt of the U.S. Quang Ng·ai area where the incident allegedly was not enough. Many "charges" against the military. occurred, stated: "More than a year ago in government were later proved to be un "Is the blow dealt the American people March 1968, an operation was launched by founded but by then it was too late ... the and the name of America by the Songmy the America! Division's Task Force Barker in damage had been done, the government had atrocity less a disaster than was Pearl Harbor? the area of My Lai hamlet, Son My village, fallen. Let us not be taken in by our "A full CongreSsional inquiry into Songmy Son Tinh district, Quang Ngai Province, with "liberals" and breast-beating pacifists and is called for. the aim of destroying an important Commu defeatists as the unfortunate Russians were "An investigation by International tri nist force in that area. taken in by theirs. bunals should be welcomed. "When Task Force Barker moved into that "The labor, peace and black-and-brown area, they met strong resistance from the (From Barron's, Oct. 6, 1969] movements that have a patriotic stake in enemy.... The result of the contact was THE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES AlMS To ending the war and atoning if possible for 125 enemy killed and at the same time about DISARM THE UNITED STATES the horrors inflicted upon the Vietnamese 20 civilians living in the hamlet were killed ("By giving a tax exemption to an orga people could establish their own tribunal. by tactical air strikes and artillery while the nization like the Institute for Policy Studies, "Above all, efforts to end the war must now :fight was going on. our government is allowing tax exemption be redoubled, for it is cynical hypocrisy to "Reports from newspapers and foreign to support revolution." Senator Strom Thur pretend that the war can be continued with news agency saying that 527 civilians were mond (R., S.C.), Congressional Record, De out war crimes and atrocities. This criminal killed were completely inaccurate." cember 4, 1967.) Col. Ton That Khien, chief of Quang Ngai U.S. aggression against the Vietnamese is one (By Shirley Scheibla) continous Songmy." Province, conducted his own investigation WASHINGTON.-The vicious attack, in and James Reston in the N.Y. Times states and said he did not believe the villagers were telling the truth when they told newsmen outside of Congress, on the so-called mili that "the Songmy tragedy cannot merely be tary-industrial complex has enlisted the sup left to the military and forgotten like the that Americans entered the village, herded the people from their homes and killed them port of an ally as powerful in and around Green Beret affair. The President ... has the nation's capital as it is unknown to the the power to create a Presidential Commis with rifles and machine guns. He said he could :find none who saw any massacre and U.S. at large, an organization called the In sion of distinguished and disinterested citi stitute for Policy Studies (IPS). zeru; to review the evidence free from the said the village was dominated by the Viet Cong. The South Vietnamese Government's For example, IPS is represented on the staff tug of politics. This has been done from time of the Joint Economic Committee, which, to time in our history, most recently in the conclusion is that the "massacre" just never happened. They do not :find Communist under the leadership of ---, has spear murder of President Kennedy, and it could headed the assault on the Pentagon's pro usefully be employed again in this case." propaganda as convincing as others, not st> well educated in Communist ways, may find posed budget. An economist with the com Government lawyers are thinking in terms of mittee, Richard Kaufman, is in charge of his a "War Crimes Tribunal." The N.Y. Times it. The man who was the Commander of the staff work; Mr. Kaufman also happens to be of Nov. 30, 1969 states: "Legal authorities in an associate fellow of IPS. IPS defines asso Washington believe that a military-civilian Army's 11th Brigade at the time of the al leged "massacre," Col. Oren K. Henderson, ciate fellows as "part-time faculty who have tribunal may have to be created if the men led seminars, participated in social inven who were allegedly involved in a reported has stated recently: "Up until two weeks ago, I would have sworn it could not happen with tions, or have engaged in individual research massacre in Vietnam but who have since projects supported by the Institute." It says been released from service are to be brought out me knowing about it. But when I start associate fellows sometimes, but not always, to trial. ... The Tribunal would have some seeing TV broadcasts and hearing soldiers r-eceive honorariums for their work. Mr. Kauf of the attributes of the type of military com speak about this subject who were them man told Barron's he did not care to com missions widely employed during and after selves eyewitnesses, I begin to wonder." Col. ment on whether he has received pay for his the Civil War." Henderson checked into the matter at the work for IPS. It looks as if the soldiers who thought time and considered the charges to be Viet Until 1967, when Mr. Kaufman went to they were doing their duty in a "search and Cong propaganda, for they began bombarding work for the committee, it had left the mili destroy" mission in a Vietcong stronghold the area with propaganda messages about tary budget to the Armed Services and Ap are going to be put in the same position as two weeks later, claiming that the U. S. propriations Committees. Now the staff econ the local policeman who must always be forces had killed an abnormal number of omist, undismayed by --- recent failure afraid of being accused of "Police Brutality" civilians. Since Communists are well known to win major Senate cutbacks on military 1f he does his duty properly. In Vietnam it for using the "big lie," the fact that they spending, including a halt to purchases of is impossible to distinguish friend from foe began to push this "atrocity" story would the C5A aircraft, says he is planning a :five and waiting to :find out is usually fatal. make one wonder about its authenticity. As year campaign against military spending. While 2 and 3 year old children are not for the bloody photographs, none of them utilized by the Viet Cong, there are untold show Americans doing any shooting . . . for OFF-THE-RECORD BRIEFINGS incidents of children not much older being this we have but the photographer's word Mr. Kaufman wears his two hats with care in their employ. Innocent-looking old men and we really don't know how good that less ease. Earlier this year, in his omcial ca and women make booby traps and protect the is. We must remember that in the United pacity, he invited 27 Congressional assistants December 11, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3860l to off-the-record briefings on military spend kow then went to work for IPS as its senior of the 1964 disturbances at the University ing under the auspices--and at the expense fellow. of California at Berkeley. He is a former of the Institute. They lasted several hours In August of 1965, Mr. Waskow represented member of the executive board of the Na each, included dinner, and were held once a IPS at a meeting in Santa Barbara, Calif., tional Capital Area Civil Liberties Union and week for several months at the Congressional at the Center for the Study of Democr<ic served as attorney for members of the Stu Hotel. Institutions, which produced a "Call for a dents for a Democratic Society charged with The Institute has arranged similar con New Politics," a hope for a united Left in seizing and occupying George Washington ferences for other interested groups, includ the U.S. A year later, a National Confer University's Sino-Soviet Institute in April. ing the National Conference on Military ence for a New Politics (NCNP) was held in Last month he was jailed in Chicago on a Priorities; IPS officials also have worked with Chicago. charge of contempt of court in connection the Council for a Livable World (which now Over the Labor Day weekend in 1967, Mr. with his defense of "the Chicago eight," ranks as the third-biggest spender among Waskow attended the first NCNP convention charged with conspiring to incite a riot U.S. lobbyists), the members of Congress for in Chicago; subsequently he was identified during the 1968 Democratic National Con Peace Through Law, and the New National on the floor of the U.S. House of Represent vention. (The charge against Mr. Tigar has Mobilization Committee to ·End the War in atives as "one of the founders and leaders been dropped.) Vietnam. of the NCNP." STUDY ASSIGNMENTS What is the Institute, and why is it so Mr. Raskin's Washington career began in IPS' 1968-69 schedule for "seminars" de concerned with the military-industrial com 1960, when he served as clerk and free lance scribes the aforementioned Mr. Kaufman's plex? It characterizes itself as a "think writer to several Congressmen, including assignment as "a work study project to ana tank"; calls most of its officials "fellows," ---, Herman Toll (D., Pa.) , James Roose lyze the war machine as a public-private cor and enjoys tax exemption as an educational velt (D., Calif.) and---. Mr. Raskin soon porate structure. Topics covered will include institution. It is supported by tax-exempt co-authored a report with Mr. Waskow for cost, benefits, public relations and distribu contributions from foundations, universities, ---. Copyrighted in 1961, it was titled tion. of profits." The project assignment for colleges and individuals. And, as will be seen, "Deterrence and Reality," and, so far as can Mr. Kaufman in the IPS 1969-70 budget is it is directed by leaders of the New Left, a be determined, constituted the first advocacy "Defense Procurement." movement which J. Edgar Hoover, in testi of U.S. unilateral disarmament on Capitol --- told Barron's he had heard that Mr. mony before the House Subcommittee on Hill. Mr. Waskow subsequently expanded the Kaufman is associated with the Institute, Appropriations, recently called "clearly sub report into a book, The Limits of Defense. but that he is not familiar with it. However, versive ... an ever-increasing danger to our THE LIBERAL PAPERS --- Committee has published two essays national welfare and security." According to a press release by---, Mr. by Milton Kotler, who the Committee itself Organized six years ago, the Institute has has identified as a "Resident Fellow Insti an annual budget which currently runs to Raskin also served as group secretary for the Liberal Papers, a collection of essays written tute for Policy Studies, Washington, D.C." $400,000 a . year. Financing has come from --- said further that he considers what the Ford Foundation, Edgar Stern Family by more than a dozen professors for a num ber of Democratic Congressmen, made pub Mr. Kaufman does with his time after work Fund, Samuel Rubin Foundation, Irving ing hours is his own business. Lauck, the Institute for International Order, lic early in 1962. Among other things, the essays urged the U.S. to allow Russia to plug IPS principals seem to be very busy men. Milbank Foundation, "The Fontaney Corp., Co-Director Barnet and Trustee Hans Mor through the generosity of James P. War in to this country's warning defense system (DEW); recognize and admit to the United genthau, professor of history, government. burg," Society for the Psychological Study of and international relations at the University Social Issues, National Board of Missions of Nations Communist East Germany, Red China, North Korea and North Vietnam; of Chicago, are advisers to the Council for the Presbyterian Church, Field Foundation, a Livable World. IPS Fellows Waskow and Cudahy Fund, Edwin Janss Foundation, Jen unilaterally abandon nuclear tests; break up NATO; abandon Berlin and neutralize cen Leonard Rodberg, former bureau chief with nifer Cafritz, Walter E. Meyer and Michel the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Gellert. tral Europe under terms proposed by Com munist Poland. have done work for it. ACTIVE FELLOWS A Senate report has described the Coun With the advent of the New Frontier, Mr. Support for the Institute also comes from cil's goals as unilateral disarmament and Raskin was called to the White House to join "turning this country into a fourth-rate publishers, who, according to IPS Co-Director the special staff of the National Security Marcus Raskin, have printed about two power at the mercy of the international Council as an aide to McGeorge Bundy, who wolfpack." The Council is the third highest dozen books and several thousand articles now heads the Ford Foundation. Mr. Raskin by its personnel. Mr. Raskin explained 'to spender of the lobbying organizations which also served as a member of the American filed reports for 1968. With outlays of $154,- Barron's that IPS furnishes an office and a delegation to the 18-nation disarmament salary for the fellows who perform such 022 (up from $77,470 for 1967), it topped even work, and fees and royalties go directly to conference at Geneva. such famous lobbying groups as the Ameri-, them. Moreover, IPS principals serve on a Mr. Raskin subsequently became chairman can Legion and the American Medical As number of university faculties, including of the Committee for the Formation of a sociation, and was outranked only by the those at Harvard, Duke, the University of New Party. On August 1, 1968, the Committee United Federation of Postal Clerks (AFL Maryland and the University of Chicago. issued a statement by the chairman in which CIO) and the AFlr-CIO. he said the New Party "will stand for the · IPS had its genesis in the Peace Research dismantling of an obsolete, dangerous mili LEADING PEACENIK Institute, which began operation in Wash tary establishment that is over-extended and According to the same Senate document, ington on April 5, 1961, with an announce over-reaching. It will insist that there be an the Council takes credit for assuring the ment that it would serve as a privat-e agency original election victory of one of the Sen to undertake and stimulate research in all arms control and disarmament law in the U.S. applicable to citizen and police as well. ate's leading peaceniks, ---, by having fields relevant to peace, security, disarma . . . It will insist that revolution in other its membership put $22,000 into his cam ment and international order. Shortly after nations or insurgencies therein should not paign, enough to win a close contest in a ward it obtained a $20,000 contract for a sparsely populated state. study for the Arms Control and Disarma cause interventions anct suppressions by the American military." ---, in turn, is vice-chairman of a ment Agency. group called Members of Congress for Peace Signed by Authur I. Waskow, now the sen IN THE HEADLINES Through Law. Its chairman is ---, and ior fellow of IPS, the document called for Last January, the New Party announced its members include --- (Mr. Waskow's an international police force to keep world it had elected Dick Gregory and James P. former employer), all three of whom have peace and see that nations disarmed. The Dixon, president of Antioch Colleg.e, as co attended "seminars" at IPS headquarters. author also suggested that disputes in a dis chairmen to succeed Mr. Raskin. Mr. Dixon Last July that group issued a report, la armed world could "be settled by reference is an IPS trustee, and Antioch is one of the beled "personal and confidential," which said to the International Court of Justice, to colleges associated with the Institute. Never that the recommendations of the Joint Eco various mediation services, to various organs theless, Mr. Raskin remains in the headlines, nomic Committee can serve as guidelines for of the United Nations, etc." A relative un primarily because of his indictment (and positive reform in military procurement. known at the time, he had come to IPS from subsequent acquittal) on a charge of con Among other things, the report called for his job as legislative assistant to ---; spiring to advise draft evasion, along with moratoria on the construction of aircraft Mr. Waskow now has become a public figure Dr. Benjamin Spock and the Reverend Wil carriers, F-14A planes, advanced manned because of his active role in demonstrations, lian Sloan Coffin, Jr. bombers and chemical and biological warfare including those at the Pentagon and the Since its inception, the Institute has centers. It also urged drastic curtailment in Democractic National Convention in Chicago. fought military defense through "seminars," Sentinel-Safeguard deployment and the ABM JOINING FORCES chiefly for members of Congress and their research and development program. assistants. In 1967-68 (it operates on a school Late in 1963, the Peace Research Institute year), IPS held a series of conferences for [From the Evening Star, Nov. 16, 19691 merged with the Institute for Policy Studies, Congressional assistants on "The Impact of which had just been founded by Marcus the War on American Society." Besides Co CROWD AT MONUMENT SWAYS TO SONGS AND Raskin and Richard Barnet, who once served Director Barnet, one of the speakers was SPEAKERS as deputy director of politica.l research for Michael Tigar, whose subject was "The War (By Christopher Wright) the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament and the Draft:• Like a great sea lapping against the col Agency (Barron's,.Aprll 29, 1968). Mr. Was- Mr. Tigar is well known as a student leader umns of government, the crowd at the Wash- 38602 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 11, 1969 1ngton Monument swayed back and forth to body needed to show up. As soon as they dence. Whenever two whole North Vietna the tune of the song. "All we are are Saying put the machine guns at the foot of the mese regiments were employed in the past, it is 'Give Peace a Chance'," they sang again Capital the point was made." was at least against a province capital, and and again. Folk singer Pete Seeger and the Rev. Fred certa.inly not against a lonely little village. Throughout the afternoon, the cold wind erick Douglass Kirkpatrick began to sing Therefore, in the second pla.ce, the only pos whipped across the packed monument the John Lennon-written song. "All We Are sible aim of the attack was to make mislead grounds, where the crowd of young people Saying Is 'Give Peace a Chance.' " Seeger ing headlines at home. sat, sb:ivered, sang, cheered and milled about asked everyone to join in, took off his coat, "District Town Overrun by VC"--one can as ~peakers ranging from U.S. senators to and started wavivg it in circles as he sang. imagine how the hoped-for headlines would radical David Dellinger urged an ending to ENTmE ASSEMBLY RISES have looked, and the false impression they would have conveyed. In !act, however, the the Vietnam war. Others in the crowd began to wave their For the most part the massive congrega attack on Hiepduc was repelled, after fearful coats in the air, then the entire assemblage North Vietnamese losses, by the brave men tion was peaceful, friendly and well-orga rose, waving the "V" sign from one side to nized. At one point they were told by Howard of the Americal Division, the ARVN and the the other, and started singing. Marines. But that was hardly noticed at Samuels one-time head of the Small Busi The sing-along king, Mitch Miller, joined ness Ad~inistration, "It's you who are here home, since Hanoi had a bit of luck. today-not Spiro Agnew, not Richard Nixon Seeger and Kirkpatrick on the platform and A long-embattled U.S. company hesitated who are the traditional Americans." Samuels helped lead the crowd and the song went on to press forward for less than an hour, as added that they were patricipating in "a for about five minutes, ending with a rous must happen sometimes in hard fighting. tradition of protest ... of striving for jus ing cheer. The hesitation was so reported that the tice in this land. You are the best in Amer Mrs. Martin Luther King, addressing a normally sensible James Reston, of The New ica, not the worst." peace rally on the Monument grounds for York Times, wrote about a "sniff of mutiny." the second time this fall, told the mass that Later The Times sent an able young reporter SPOCK LAUDS DISTRicr OF COLUMBIA MAYOR unless the war in Vietnam is ended, ''Every to find out what had really happened. He :tfot all public officials were chastised by one will live in stagnating slums and cities." learned that the men of the company in the moratorium speakers, however. The Dis Calling the war in Vietnam "a war that was question were furious because it had been trict's Mayor Walter Washington was praised a blunder in the first place," she accused the made to sound "like we were refusing to by Dr. Benjamin Spock, who described him administration of "trying to end opposition fight, and that wasn't so." But by then it as "the man who put his job on the line to to the war rather than the war itself." was too late. get us that permit" to march. The sentiment of the demonstrators to In sum, the real story was not told, and a Relations between police and marchers ward the Nixon Administration was also re basically unreal story got a great deal of along the route of the procession appeared flected by Senate dove Charles Goodell, R notice. There was no evil intent, any more unusually cordial. Near the Interior De N.Y. "There are some leaders today who in than there is evil intent behind the misre partment one officer halted the procession stead of lowering their voices, are raising porting when Hanoi sets off fire-crackers to to allow traffic to pass. When the last car strident calls to the flag, to patriot:sm, simulate an offensive. In these endlessly re went by he told the wai tlng kids "Thank against communism . . . may our actions current cases, the headlines read "Seventy you," to which one blond girl replied "Thank today and hereafter hasten the time when four places attacked in new VC offensive" you officer," as they went by. our flag once again can be used to celebrate omitting the rather important fact that 70 At one point, early in the proceedings, peace and reason," Goodell said. or more of the "attacks" are a couple of when it was still possible to scale the tall But the fiags seen on the monument hasty mortar rounds that have missed their metal scaffold that held the speakers and grounds today were of a different nature targets. some of the sound equipment, one could see from the senator's theme and a different kind You can better understand the bitterness from that vantage of more than 40 feet the from those that usually ring the white Monu of the soldiers at the front, however, if you size of the crowd stretching away toward ment spire. At least one large Viet Cong fiag study the background of an episode like the the Monument, speckled with flags and the waved in the breeze from a flagpole at the rather earlier excitement about "Hamburger colors of clothes. It seemed a vast solid foot of the Monument. Hill." The hill's real name is Dongapbia body, but was in fact full of its own colo Downtown streets were clogged with youths the other name simply adopted for headline nies and encampments as the marchers found who moved in and out of the main rally purposes and it dominates the strategically ways to pass their time. body which packed an area from the tidal critical Ashau Valley. basin to the Justice Department. When a North Vietnamese regiment slipped THE REVOLUTIONARY DIET across the Loatian border and occupied At half a dozen places amid the crowd [From the Washington Post, Sept. 22, 1969) Donapbia, there were in truth two choices: the National Welfare Rights Organization either get the the North Vietnamese off the set up metal horse tubs full of water on HANOI'S USE OF AMEJtiCAN PRESS Is MAJOR hill or get ready to abandon the hard won cinder blocks with fires undernearth. Manned PHENOMENON OF WAR Ashau Valley. With the valley abandoned, by heavy women, they supplied an endless (By Joseph Alsop) the North Vietnamese would have insta.lled number of soft hot dogs and rolls, apples HIEPnuc.-Hanoi's cynically astute exploi a forward supply system in two months and and potato chipe, the staples of the revolu tation of the American press, and the result in three months, the lOlst Airborne Division tionary diet. ing anger of many Americans fighting for would have been fighting on the approaches When the crowd came together, it came their country in Vietnam, have become major to Hue, and would have been losing three or with a rush and without warning. Dick Greg phenomena. Frankness is in order, and Hlep four times as many men, too, as the division ory got them on their feet when he roared: duc is a good place to begin. now loses while controlling the Ashau and "We go on record to say, not only to the Its scenery, all lofty mountains and the border mountains. Nixon administration but to tryants all over sweetly fertile miniature valleys, and its his "What do you blank blank guys think? the world, we going to see to it, there will tory, which is both sad and inspiring, are That we risk our lives and our buddies' lives be no more war." He roared and shouted to Hiepduc's only stirring features. It is the Just for the hell of it? _ the microphones in a high pitch, and they most remote, least populous district in south The question was put, with considerable were on their feet instantly, hands up and ern I Corps. It was overrun by the VC; the bitterness, by a battle-hardened young ser :fingers V -ed giving a mighty growling cheer. district town was burned., and the whole geant who was proud that he had helped At one point, radical students waving Viet place was totally abandoned in 1965. retake Donapbia, and broadly understood the Cong fiags began to shove their way toward Only last March, about 4500 of Hiepduc•s hill's importance. It seems to this reporter the platform. The push mired down in the refugees, trusting in their government and to pose a grave problem !or the trade he has sheer numbers of the crowd and finally most its American allies, at last returned to till been proud to follow !or going on !our of the radicals st--.t down under the banners their fields. They now live in a new-built, decades. With everyone else. Student marshals con tin-roofed vUlage in the main valley. Here, tinuously squeezed their way between the on a little hUl above the village amid barbed ranks of dissidents keeping the groups sep wired entanglements, the resllient "district PROF. FRANCIS L. LOWENHEIM AND arated and attempting to hold down the chief," Maj. Soan, leads his people from a tension. THE GSA-THE GSA SIDE OF THE "district omce" that is nothing but a. muddy ARGUMENT Folks songs of another, perhaps more bunker. hopeful, era found their way into the pro This 1s the politically, tactically and stra gram. With the winter wind whipping her tegically ludicrous objective against which light blond hair Mary Travers sang "The HON. GEORGE BUSH Hanoi's high command chose to launch the OJ!' TEXAS Times They Are A-Changing" and brought enemy's heaviest single ground attack this the kids to their feet tor yet another time. year, by two full-strength regiments of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Six years earlier-almost in another era 2d North Vietnamese Division. And this, in Wednesday, December 10, 1969 Mary, of the Peter, Paul and Mary group, itself, was profoundly significant. sang the eulogies and the hopeful aspira Sane commanders do not normally attack Mr. BUSH. Mr. Speaker, on November tions of the 1963 civil rights march. pimples with meat-axes. Hence the attack on 25, 1 placed a letter in the CONGRESSIONAL Singer Arlo G\.tthrle , second-generation Hlepduc first of all signified a remarkable RECOitD from Prof. Francis L. Lowenheim folk idol, told the cro-wd, "I don't think any- decline in enemy capability and self-confi- of Rice University in which he charges December 11, 1969 EX'fENSIONS OF REMARKS 38603 charged out to a searcher, the Library re Quarterly, VII (Autumn 1965) , 53-65, which that the Franklin D. Roosevelt ~ibrary cords the item that is charged out. Records published the Director's paper. This ob at Hyde Park withheld information from in the Library do not show that this par viously does not constitute systematic con him. Since then the General Services Ad ticular folder on Dodd was charged out to cealment. ministration wrote me their side of the Dr. Loewenheim. 3. The compilation was mentioned to argument. In the interest of fairness, I we do not know why Dr. Loewenheim did many searchers at the Library, because the submit their letter for inclusion in the not request this folder. He had available to Library staff tries to bring the material tn the Library's custody to the attention of a RECORD at this po,int: him (as were available to all searchers who requested them) a numerical list of folders maximum number of users. No list was kept GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION , and an alphabetical index to the folders in of those so informed, but among searchers Washington, D.C., December 2, 1969. the "Official File," both of which clearly in who knew of the compilation before its pub H on . GEORGE BUSH, dicate that OF 523 contains Dodd material. lication were such scholars as Professor House of Representatives, This particular folder on Dodd is also re John M. Blum, of Yale University; Professor w ashington, D.C. ferred to on five separate cross reference Frank Freidel, Jr., of Harvard University; and DEAR MR. BusH: I have read with interest sheets · in another folder on Dodd in the Dr. Fred L. Israel and Professor Arthur your remarks in the CoNGRESSIONAL RECORD "President's Personal File" (PPF 1043). The Schlesinger, Jr., of the City University of New for November 25, 1969, regarding charges latter folder on Dodd was charged out to York. Dr. Loewenheim is incorrect in stating made against the General Services Adminis Dr. Loewenheim three times during his that his attorney has requested information trati~m·s Franklin D. Roosevelt Library by visits to the Library. about such individuals from the General Dr. Francis L. Lowenheim in his letter to Two additional sources which would have Services Administration; had he done so it you of November 11, 1969. been known by a scholar doing research on would have been supplied promptly. The charges printed in this letter are rep Dodd in 1966-67 also pointed to the folder 4. Dr. Loewenheim is also incorrect in etitions or restatements of allegations made not used by Dr. Loewenheim. One, an ar characterizing the manuscript as "an abso by Dr. Lowenheim on numerous occasions ticle by Franklin L. Ford, "Three Observers lutely indispensable guide or finding aid to during the past year. All of these allegations in Berlin: Rumbold, Dodd, and Francois the thousands of Roosevelt foreign policy are without foundation. To answer every Poncet," in Gordan A. Craig and Felix Gil documents at Hyde Park." The Roosevelt charge in the portions of the letter printed in bert, eds., The Diplomats, 1919-1939 (Prince Library contains over 20 million pages of the RECORD would require many pages, but ton University Press, 1953), cites the folder documents on hundreds of subjects, includ in the attached statement I have replied to OF 523 five times. The other, Robert Dallek's ing foreign affairs, and provides many lists a few of the most significant charges and Ph. D. dissertation, "Roosevelt's Ambassador: and indexes as finding aids to these docu misstatements to demonstrate their lack of The Public Career of William E. Dodd" (Co ments. The Nixon compilation is in no sense substance. lumbia University, 1965), also cites folder a finding aid; it is a reproduction of the I hope this will answer any questions you OF 523. A copy of Dr. Dallek's dissertation is texts of 1400 selected documents on foreign had with respect to this matter. If I may in the Roosevelt Library and is listed in the affairs during the first 4 years of the Roose provide you with any further information Library's card catalog under "Dodd." Dr. velt Administration. in connection with these charges, please let Loewenheim did not have Dr. Dallek's dis Use of documents by Dr. Richard P. Traina. me know. sertation charged out to him. The allegations regarding Dr. Traina's expe Sincerely, When Dr. Loewenheim failed, at least ten riences grow out of an entirely different set of ROBERT L. KUNZIG, other scholars, using the same indexes avail circumstances than those involving Dr. Admi nistr ator. able to Dr. Loewenheim, requested and used Loewenheim. this same folder, including two scholars who Dr. Traina wanted to see a number of docu STATEMENT ON CHARGES AGAINST THE FRANK were at the Library during the same months ments relating to the Spanish Civil War LIN D. ROOSEVELT LIBRARY CONTAINED as Dr. Loewenheim. Dr. Loewenheim did not which, among others, had been placed in files IN A LETTER FROM DR. FRANCIS L. LOEW ask Library staff members for the missing closed to research by a Committee of Three ENHEIM TO REPRESENTATIVE GEORGE BUSH Dodd letters even once, and certainly not appointed in 1943 by President Roosevelt, DATED NOVEMBER ll, 1969 repeatedly, and Dr. Loewenheim gave no which consisted of Samuel I. Rosenman, The charges in this letter are repetitions indication to the Library staff that he was Harry L. Hopkins, and Grace G. Tully. Docu or restatements of allegations made by Dr. in fact concentrating on Professor Dodd ments were placed in closed files if they fell Lowenheim on numerous occasions during rather than on his announced topic of Mu in any one of eight categories, including in the past year, all of which are without foun nich. vestigat ive reports; applicat ions and recom dation. In the following paragraphs the facts Dodd Papers at the Library of Congress. mendations for positions; documents con are set forth to a few of the most significant Dr. Loewenheim does not hold the General taining derogatory remarks about the char errors and misstatements to demonstrate Services Administration responsible for his acter, loyalty, integrity, or ability of indi their total lack of substance. inability to find, in the collection of Dodd viduals; documents containing information Topic of research. In the very first para papers in the Library of Congress, copies of that could be used to harass living persons graph of his letter Dr. Lowenheim states that the six letters he says he sought at the or relatives of recently deceased persons; he went to the Roosevelt Library "to put to Roosevelt Library. Nevertheless, copies of documents containing information the re gether in book form the correspondence of four of the six letters are actually in the lease of which would be prejudicial to na President Roosevelt and Professor William E. Dodd papers at the Library of Congress. It tional security; documents containing in Dodd." On the contrary, Dr. Loewenheim's is a -curious coincidence that Dr. Loewenheim formation the release of which would be application to study at the Library stated his was apparently no more successful in lo prejudicial to the maintenance of friendly topic as "Munich-A Documentary History" cating them than he was in lc eating the relations with foreign nations; and communi and added "The documents and related ma letters at the Roosevelt Library and that cations addressed in confidence. The Library terials are to illustrate the role and attitude other scholars were able to find a nd use the has no choice under the conditions prescribed of the United States during the Munich four Dodd letters at the Library of Congress. by President Roosevelt but to withhold crisis, showing also what inforxnation about Alleged concealment of ma1:-uscript of documents of the categories specified. the growing German-Czech crisis, 1933- publication. Dr. Loewenheim states that the Provisions for periodic review and release 1938, was available to the United States manuscript compiled by Dr. Nixon "had been were set forth by President Roosevelt's com and, in particular, to President Roosevelt systematically concealed from countless mittee under which documents in the closed during this period." Most of the records scholars working at the Roosevelt Library files have been gradually opened. Some of used by and copied for Dr. Loewenheim dur over xnany years." The real facts are dia the documents in which Dr. Traina was in ing the 75 hours he spent at the Library be metrically opposite. terested during his research in 1962 and 1964 tween September 1966 and February 1967 1. Dr. Nixon's manuscript consisted of re were still being withheld in acordance with are related to his originally announced productions or transcripts of document s in committee instructions but were opened after topic-Munich. Most of the Dodd items or the Library. The documents themselves were a periodic review late in 1966. Dr. Traina was dered by Dr. Loewenheim were not requested always in the files, except for the few hours sent copies of these and was given the dat es until February, at the very end of his visit. they were being copied or checked (this of those still classified. Ot her documents of Alleged withholding of Dodd documents at was completed long before Dr. Loewenheim int erest to Dr. Traina were opened after the Roosevelt Library. Dr. Loewenheim says came to t he Library), were always available another periodic review in 1967. that after "most careful search" at the Li for research, and were in fact used by hun Dr. Traina apparently disagrees with the brary he was unable to locate early cor dreds of scholars. judgment of the President's Committee in respondence between President Roosevelt 2. The preparation of the manuscript for putting at least some of the documents .; : . • .·~.rd~ and Professor Dodd-six letters in a single publicat ion was announced (a) in the an in the closed files and wit h t he pace of ' ·: ' ' r: :· ,rq, ·· ·"!-~older. nual reports of the Administrator of General Library archivists in removing documents In this case, the question narrows down to Services to Congress for the fiscal years from the closed files. He does not contend whether one specific file folder in President 1957 and 1958; (b) by the Director of the that other scholars were given access to Roosevelt's "Official File" (OF 523), contain Library in a paper read before the April 1965 documents he did not see. The Library has ing correspondence with William E . Dodd, annual meeting of the Mississippi Valley no aut horit y to release documents exeept Ambassador to Germany, was or was not Historical Association, one of the two xna in accordance with rules laid down by tne withheld from Dr. Loewenheim. jor professional historical organizations in Committee. In these matters, the respon.,i When a folder or box is requested and is the United Stat es; and (c) in the M i dwest bility for carrying out the wishes of the 38604 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 11, 1969 President a.nd h1s committee rests with Li have actually done research a.t Hyde Park average of $45 a week and work directly brary a.rchlvlsts, and their views must pre during the last decade. on basic problems of housing, health, and vall over those o! Dr. Traina, who has Dr. Loewenheim's Memorandum of Com unemployment. They are among our best no such legal responsibility. plaint. The General Services Administration Dr. Loewenheim 1s a.gain in error in stat first learned informally of Dr. Loewenheim's investments in the future of our country. ing that withholding of material in the 23-page memorandum of complaint in late The substitute bill would wipe out the closed files was done by Dr. Nixon personal January 1969 and received a copy officially VISTA program. It would substitute 50 ly. At no time did Dr. Nixon serve as one with a letter from Representative Bob Eck separate programs related only in a su of the Library archivists engaged in review hardt dated February 25, 1969. This letter perficial, nominal way and it would sub ing closed files nor did he direct the work was acknowledged March 3, 1969. If Dr. stitute staggering duplication fo.r efficient o! these archivists. Loewenheim sent a copy of his memorandum control. Private publication of Foreign Affairs vol to the National Archives and Records Service VISTA now has seven training centers. umes. The official connection between the in December 1968 as he says, it was not re Roosevelt Library and the volumes of Frank ceived and of course could not have been Its recent reorganization calls for 10 lin D . .Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs, 1933- acknowledged. regional headquarters. Its recruitment 1937 has never been a secret as Dr. Loewen Investigation of Charges. Dr. Loewen is regionalized under an overall recruit heim implies. The origin of the documents heim's charges were investigated promptly ing plan. Its incoming volunteers are in the volumes, and the official connection between November 1968 and February 1969 assigned across the Nation on the basis of the volumes with the Franklin D. Roose as they came to the attention of GSA's Na of which program has need for their velt Library, as part of the National Archives tional Archives and Records Service, which particular skills. States with well-devel and Records Service of the General Services administers the Franklin D. Roosevelt Li oped legal programs get lawyers from Administration, are stated plainly by the brary. The charges were found to be without title page, the foreword by the Library Di merit. Independently, GSA's Office of Audits all over the Nation, economic develop rector and the Archivist of the United States, and Compliance, at the direction of the Ad ment programs get the pick of the busi and the editor's preface by Edgar B. Nix ministrator of General Services, also investi ness school volunteers. on. gated the charges thoroughly between Feb With this bill, with each State in busi Following inquiries addressed by GSA to ruary and April 1969. Its report of findings ness for itself, none of this would be three university presses-Harvard, Yale, and in April 1969 found no evidence of impro rem0tely possible. Each State would con Princeton-the Harvard University Press of prieties by GSA employees, and the Admin duct its own recruiting and selection fered to publish the volumes without cost istrator so reported to Representative Eck and assignment of volunteers. The need to the Federal Government. A contract for hardt on April 29, 1969. A third independent publication of the volumes on this basis investigation of Dr. Loewenheim's charges for volunteers would be met only if there was signed on December 18, 1967, between was undertaken in February 1969 by the was a sufficient number of qualified vol the Archivist of the United States and the American Historical Association's Commit unteers within that particular State. The President and Fellows of Harvard College tee on the Historian and the Federal Gov administrative costs would jump enor for the Harvard University Press. In addi ernment, which has not yet published a mously. Instead of seven training pro tion to saving money, the contract 1s also report. Currently, another investigation of grams there would be 50. A State with a advantageous to the Government because the matter is being conducted by an ad hoc it provides for active promotion through the few volunteers, 15 or 20, would still be committee appointed jointly by the Ameri charged with setting up a full training publisher's distribution machinery in order can Historical Association and the Organiza to achieve wide dissemination of the vol tion of American Historians, the two major program, a full selection program, and umes. No factual basis has been advanced professional historical organizations in the a full assignment apparatus. The staff for the contention that publication of the United States. The ad hoc committee con would outnumber the volunteers. There volumes by a private publisher "raises seri sists of three eminent historians, Dr. Richard would be no national poor to draw on. ous questions of legality and propriety." W. Leopold (Northwestern University), Dr. The problem of matching volunteers to The printing of such volumes by a pri Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (Johns Hopkins Uni sponsors would be almost impossible. In vate publisher rather than by the Gov versity), and Dr. Dewey W. Grantham, Jr. ernment Printing Office is entirely legal and a particular State there might well be a (Vanderbilt University), who have been sponsor who wanted 15 health specialists proper. The Comptroller General of the urged to report on the charges to their re United States, in a decision dated May 5, spective organizations "with the greatest and in the State the only volunteers 1953 (32 Comp. Gen. 487), held that the law expedition and not later than December 20, available might all be generalists or law relating to printing in the Government 1969." yers or business school graduates. The Printing Office does not apply "where the effort to design effective programs with entire cost of printing is not borne by the local sponsors would be rendered im United States or the printing is not exclu possible. The sponsor would have to de Bively for the Government." The principle SUBSTITUTE POVERTY BILL WILL stated obviously covers the present case since KILL VISTA sign his program not to meet the partic none of the cost of printing is borne by the ular need in his area but to use whatever United States. random skills were available. Dr. Loewenheim's attorney knew of the HON. DONALD M. FRASER A relatively new and most promising existence of the Comptroller General's de OP' MINNESOTA VISTA concept, the use of a volunteer cision as early as September 3, 1969, and at IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES team-combining the skills of, say, a his request was provided with a copy on Wednesday, December 10, 1969 lawyer, some health specialists, a busi October 22, 1969, in both cases long before ness graduate, an architect or city plan the charges in Dr. Loewenheim's letter of Mr. FRASER. Mr. Speaker, one of the November 11, 1969. ner, generalists-to work on the varied programs most harmed by the Quie problems of a particular community Charges in letter to New York Times Book Green substitute poverty bill is VISTA Review. A letter signed by Dr. Loewenheim would no longer be possible. and 19 other historians and printed in the Volunteers in Service to America. What would happen to VISTA if this New York Times Book Review for September The substitute bill would, among other substitute is accepted? 7, 1969, has been reprinted in the Congres things, give the responsibility for the There are some 5,000 volunteers in the sional Record for November 25, 1969 (pages conduct of the VISTA program to the 35718-35719), together with a reply by the field at this moment. I assume from the Governors of the 50 States. language of the bill that these 5,000 Archivist of the United States. Our reply VISTA, like its partial prototype, the was necessarily brief because of space limi would have to be sent home. Even if ta.tlons, so we offered in our reply, and we Peace Corps, is one of the most clearly they were allowed to serve out their year, repeat our offer now, to supply full details successful Federal programs designed to their projects would die rapidly, as they on request. attack the causes of poverty. left, one this week, two next month. It must be emphasized that the historians It is a program which has given a Many could not be replaced because signing the letter do not charge, as Dr. tremendous return on its investment; a there would be no way to replace them, Loewenheim implies, that they personally VISTA volunteer, a dedicated, skilled until a large set up effort is made in each have had experiences during the past 10 man or woman who works full time, is State. years at the Roosevelt Library "including maintained in the field for a total cost withholding of documents, concealment of Some 2,300 local organizations, both the Nixon compilation, gross favoritism to subsistence, training, everything-of public and private, have asked for VISTA certain scholars." Indeed, 12 of the 20 signers $4,400 a year. Volunteers across the Nation. Some could not truthfully do so, because they have These volunteers are the cream of 100,000 Americans have volunteered their never used the Library facilities, and 4 more young Amelica--lawyers, business school full-time services to VISTA. Funding have not used them for the past 10 years. graduates, generalists, health specialists. limitations have not permitted the pro Only 4 signers, including Dr. Loewenheim, They live in the poveTty areas on an gram to operate at anything like this full December 11, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 38605 potential, but there are 500 projects now all Americans regardless of their party give those who were virtually powerless a real affiliation and, therefore, I offer it for voice in improving their lives. It ran counter serving in thousands of communities in to cherished liberal notions about Federal 49 States of the Union. insertion in the RECORD: patrimony, racial integrat!on and corporate This whole program would die. The incident at Chappaquiddick was more greed, but it was in fact in the best FDR It could not be replaced. Each State th:an human tragedy. It was a setback as tradition of seeking radical innovations for would have to decide if it wished to take well for the Democratic party. For the ab the future to preserve the basic values of on the curious and inefficient burden of sence of Ted Kennedy from the 1972 race our past. makes all the more difficult the defeat of With this and other equally new and far administering its own little segment. Richard Nixon. The Democratic party once reaching concepts, the Democratic party can Many States would not even attempt the stood for energy and drive and hope. Now it provide a nonviolent answer to those under impossible. is in danger of becoming a tired second-place standably impatient youth who ask whether Those which did would be confronted defender of the status quo. Those of us who our system can be changed through means with a very limited choice of programs. care not only about the party's survival but other than violent confrontation and co The basic point of a volunteer organiza even more importantly about our children's ercion. Some of our goals, if they are mean tion like VISTA is to seek new solutions future must do more than wring our hands. ingful, will no doubt sound like those now I intend to do so. being proclaimed by all kinds of militants to old problems. Old solutions have More Democratic candidates and incum and revolutionaries. So what if they do? We proved disastrously to be no solutions at bents must take the initiative and present intend to achieve them peacefully, not all. VISTA has, for example, developed constructive alternatives to the Nixon ap through violence, by changing the system, . complex and successful economic pro proach. It would be inconsistent with our not throwing it out. "We cannot afford," as grams in conjunction with business philosophy to hamper the flexibility of the Archbishop Camara of Brazil has said, "to schools and professional groups in cer President's office, notwithstanding the in relinquish banners which are right merely tain cities. These programs have enabled cumbent's Republicanism. But we must fill because they have been carried by wrong a great many inner-city people to or the policy vacu:tm Mr. Nixon apparently in hands." tends to leave and fill it with something Departures from old entrenched positions ganize their own businesses, which sup more than the bread-and-butter programs are also required of our party in foreign port them decently and which put new that have dominated Democratic platforms policy. Because Democrats held power imme life into the economy of the whole de ever since the thirties, something more than diately before and during both world" wars, pressed area. These programs were de a rehash of the domestic programs of the Korea and Vietnam, many of our tradi veloped for broad use, across the Nation, New Deal, Fair Deal, New Frontier and Great tionalists retain an emotional commitment with different schools and different pro Society. to the cold war policies of containment. fessional groups in different cities. This It is unfortunate that long years of power Many believe that the only alternative to kind of research and development is pos- in Washington have committed many Demo isolationism is for America to be a global crats to a defense of big government, high magistrate, an international New Dealer com . sible only on a broad scale. At best, in a taxes and centralized bureaucracy for their pl--te with military assistance to undemo · few big, rich States, such productive in own sake. They pooh-pooh the concepts of cratic regimes abroad and a security-con novations would be duplicated need individual involvement and community con scious military-industrial complex here at lessly; in many States the resources for trol as Republican slogans. They stubbornly home. That must change. Our party cannot such development would not be available. cling to outmoded Democratic precedents: conceal its role in the mistaken escalation The problem of recruiting would be to public-welfare programs that humlliate of the war in Vietnam. But we can call similar. Each State would set up its own those they should help; to !arm-price pro now for a bargaining and battlefield posture grams not geared to feeding our hungry; to that rejects the lllusions of the past and recruiting machinery. In certain popula public-housing programs that create new seeks the earliest feasible liquidation of that tion areas VISTA finds the young men slums; to payroll taxes that run counter to basically bad investment. We can discard the and women who do not want to destroy a progressive fiscal policy. New Deal liberal negative attitudes that characterized Demo America, but who want to work to solve ism, convinced that all wisdom stemmed cratic administrations on new approaches to its problems. Some States have several from Washington, built traditional Govern China and Germany; and we can offer our such areas. Some have few or none. The ment paternalism and handouts into LBJ's own specific proposals for ending the East number of recruits in some States will War on Poverty ·and opposed RFK's tax and West arms race and for building nonmilitary be many times greater than the needs of credit incentives for attracting private busi responses to Communism. that particular State. In others the need ness into the ghetto. For dramatic proof that In both foreign and do:nestic policy, in the well-intentioned welfare approaches of short, we must shed the old liberal stereo will be many times greater than the the 1930's are inadequate for the 1970's, one types. "Liberal" once meant open-minded, re number of recruits. This would be par need only look at the supposed "security" ceptive to change, wi111ng to try and to dare ticularly true, and particularly tragic as we have provided to the hapless American not tied to any dogma or doctrine of the past. I have already indicated, in the most suc Indian. I do not consider myself illiberal, because I cessful, most promising areas of the To be sure, the Democratic party must am against inflation, crime, obscenity or VISTA program: projects which em offer new social programs: to make low-cost teen-age drug abuses. Nor do I think it liberal phasize the use of professionally skilled medical care available to all, to extend free to condone violence on the campus or in the volunteers. One State may have many public education beyond high school, and to ghetto, or to pretend that the United Nations erase the malnutrition and infant mortality is more than it really is. Our party, to suc institutions turning out highly qualified that affiict the richest country on earth, to ceed, must recapture the enthusiasm of those health specialists and relatively little· name only a few. But it must also offer new tuned out by last year's series of tragedies. need for them as volunteers. In another leadership with new perspectives-on the Those young and concerned voters must be the opposite is true. need to reallocate resources from military shown that a peaceful revolution is possible, I submit that this substitute bill would weaponry to the abolition of domestic de and that violent confrontations are unneces destroy what is perhaps our most effec formities-on the need to give investments sary. Only if the Democrats, nationally and tive, most efficient effort to find perma in our youth and our environment a higher locally, offer that kind of action instead of nent solutions to the problems of poverty priority than balancing the budget-on the cliches can we win and deserve to win. need to treat the growing urban crisis as a Reports of the party's good health, follow in our Nation. clear and present danger to the ptosperous ing Hubert Humphrey's surprisingly narrow white majority as well as to the black and loss to Richard Nixon last November, were poor minorities. unfortunately exaggerated. The Republican The Democratic party must remain the Dixiecrat coalition emerged in control of A CALL FOR LEADERSHIP liberal party in the original sense; but the the White House, both Houses of Congress typical liberal-conservative anlayses and and the governorships of the principal states. labels are no longer as relevant as they ""ere. The new President, unlike the last Republi HON. EDWARD I. KOCH The movement to bring government closer can President, has both the political know OF NEW YORK to the people through decentallzed control how and the determination to perpetuate his IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of schools and other community institutions, party in power. Among the industrial states for example, is neither "liberal" nor "con of the North, on which Democratic presiden Wednesday, December 10, 1969 servative." While the perils of that effort are tial candidates must depend, Republican gov Mr. KOCH. Mr. Speaker, in the No many, it is an outgrowth of the same sense ernors sit in all but New Jersey (which holds vember 4 issue of Look magazine, Theo of helplessness, the same resentment of a its election this year). dore C. Sorensen called on the Nation's distant, patronizing authority, that has ac Republican governors in fact control states celerated the movement toward "participa with two-thirds of the nation's population. Democrats to abandon old complacency tory policies." Republicans, it present trends continue, could and come forth with imaginative and The mammoth Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto organize the Senate after the 1970 election. creative leadership. Mr. Sorensen's ar project initiated by Robert Kennedy with Republican control of the House of Repre ticle is one which I believe will interest the backing ot private business sought to sentatives is a distinct possib111ty in 1972- CXV--2431-Part 28 38606 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December ·11, 1969 after the 1970 census enables Republican poor but also those too recently poor to have crats: "What can I do?" If our party is to be controlled state legislatures to reapportion forgotten and those too secure to feel threat responsive to its members-and we cannot congressional districts. Even now, among ened-not only realistic black and Spanish otherwise succeed-it is not enough that they the new and relatively new members of the speaking Americans but also idealistic white be ''involved" stuffing envelopes or ringing House and Senate, Republicans have a two Americans-not only the old-time New doorbells, important as such activities may to-one majority. Moreover, on most key issues Dealers, interested in public power and So be. dividing the 1968 Democratic platform from cial Security, but also their children and We must formulate procedures to redistrib the Republicans, roughly six out of seven grandchildren, interested in black power, ute political power to achieve the broadest Southern Democratic congressmen can be Vietnam and urban blight. Those in the so possible participation in the exercising of expected to vote with the Republicans. called white upper middle class, including that power. Precinct meetings open to all The defection of the once Solid South typi suburbanites and the well-educated and their must have an effective voice in the formu fies the erosion and division that have emas voting-age children--once largely written off lation of policy and in the selection of both culated FDR's coalition of power-brokers. as traditional Republicans-now hold the party leaders and candidates. The notion that Labor unions and big-city political machines balance of political power in the big st ates a few men should successfully choose the can still provide important manpower and Largely unOTganized and uncommitted, un party nominee for any important office re money to a Democratic candidate, as Hubert willing to vote by party label only, uninter gardless of whether he reflects the will of Humphrey's campaign in 1968 demonstrated. ested in the old-time economic issues and the voters is shocking. But as the members of these political, trade party history, these _voters will more easily Through direct primaries, periodic surveys union and other organizations move to the find comfort and safety in generally follow and more frequent state and national plat suburbs, achieve economic security and make ing the lead of their Republican fathers, em form conventions, through more open chan up their own minds after viewing TV, they ployers and neighbors unless Democratic nels of communication between party mem are less influenced by a leader trying to en candidates can appeal to their consciences as bers, leaders and public officials, through list them behind some lackluster candidate. well as their pocketbooks. increased party informational and educa Many of these leaders are at odds with the A new coalition of conscience can bring tional activities, and through a far broader party's young activists and intellectuals, the old Democrats and new Democrats to financial base of small contributions, rank who are in turn too often disdainful of the gether, combining the manpower of youth and-file Democrats can obtain new confidence white nationality groups once prominent in ful activists and part-time housewives with in party decisions, and that kind of direct the coalition-the Irish, Italians, Poles and that of regular precinct workers, who know participation can produce the enthusiasm and others-who are in turn often resentful of what it takes to keep the party functioning. momentum that lead to victory. the aspirations of black and Spanish-speak It can use the energies and skills of count A national presidential primary would be ing groups, who can at times distrust each less numbers of young lawyers and business chaotic and exorbitantly expensive without other. Most of the farmers who survived the men who have expressed to me their desire assuring as representative a choice as an agricultural revolution achieved their secu to take part in elevating American politics overhauled convention system. It would rity and defected from the coalition long ago. and who have the time, money and talent make even more difficult the prospects of In 1968, deep-seated opposition to Nixon to help bring that about. Nothing would be an insurgent candidate. But every presiden and Agnew had a temporarily galvanizing more self-defeating than to discourage their tial and every senatorial or gubernatorial effect, and the patronage and other services participation by surrounding the new coali nominee of our party will have greater voter dispensed by the party in power helped tion with an ideological wall so high that confidence (and surely more workers) if his compensate for growing weaknesses. But 1968 only the inflexible purists of the so-called policies and appeal have first been fairly was the last hurrah of the old Democratic New Left would be eligible for entry. Humor tested in a contested open primary. coalition. For too long, its leaders had com less militants and narrow-minded nihilists, who want freedom for the indulgence of All this will be to no avail, however, with placently counted on the loyalty of many out high-caliber candidates at every level. who no longer felt they could count on the their own moral tastes but not for the ma jority of Americans (whom they denounce), We need men and women who are able to Democratic party. In 1968, some of these appeal to all elements in the Democratic voters supported Wallace or fringe candi do not represent the coming wave of New Politics. party and to independents as well, willing dates, some stayed home, and some reluc to campaign hard at the grass-roots level, tantly voted Democratic without knowing On the contrary, the most important of all and more inclined to explain on TV the new why. Democratic party traditions-the one historic and current issues than to engage in blindly In too many places, moreover, the party trait distinguishing it through history from partisan exaggeration. Young people and in had grown soft and stale. It repeatedly offered other parties-is its role as a broad-based, tellectuals must be involved in those cam aging candidates more renowned for their multi-interest, internally divided political paigns, their imaginative contributions wel past glories than for their appeal to the in party, too diverse to be doctrinaire, too big comed regardless of their refusal to support dependent-minded, who saw no merit in au to be unanimous. every Democrat or every plank in their own tomatically voting the straight Democratic The key word in the lexicon of the New candidate's platform. Storefront headquar ticket. Many high-quality candidates with Politics is "participation." Real political ters will be more important than smoke broad appeal at the state and local level were power in both parties has too often rested filled hotel rooms. A candidate's convictions, defeated (or even discouraged from running) disproportionately in the hands of a few commitment and ability to inspire a ma by party ineptitude; many ran independently party officials and contributors, nearly all of jority of the voters will be more important of the party organization; and some ran as them white, male, amuent, Establishment than his acceptability to a few party leaders Republicans. In the best traditions of our oriented and over 50, many of them more and donors. party since the days of AI Smith and FDR, concerned about keeping their places on the Increased citizen participation does not the national and local Democratic campaigns political ladder than solving the national deny the need for strong leadership. On the in 1968 were focused on those voters too hard and urban crises surrounding them. contrary, the very turbulence and diversity pressed to feel amuent or too aware of the Until we change that picture, we can that have consistently characterized the his nation's needs to feel indifferent--only to hardly preach to other peoples about self tory of the Democratic party have also made find that the amuent and the indifferent determination. it responsive to those strong personalities constituted, regardless of registration, a new Having been in power nationally for nearly who survived spirited intraparty debates and Republican plurality. all of the last 36 years, Democrats have be led all factions to victory. "In stagnant pools," said Mr. Justice come too accustomed to accepting leadership - But above all, the Democratic party must Holmes, "there is decay and death; in moving from the top down and changing it too in not stand still. It must not be the party of waters there is life and health." Unless the frequently. Southern dissent inside the party the status quo. Its leadership must not be Democratic p :uty moves to become a more was expected, but liberal dissent was consid confined to the old and the established. As democratic p1.rty, it faces continuing decay ered heresy. One of the brighter spots of the Edmund Burke cried out long ago: "Applaud and decline. The 1968 election-having de dreary 1968 convention in bloody Chicago us when we run, console us when we fall, prived the Democrats of much of their pa was the willingness of 40 percent of the dele cheer us when we recover, but let us (press] tronage and power, having taught them not gates to oppose the party Establishment in on-for God's sake, let us (press J on." to rely on all the big-city machines or the voting for the minority "peace" plank. That South, having demonstrated that the sup same convention terminated most conces port of their middle-class members must be sions to the Old South, encouraged as never THREE BUFFALO OFFICIALS TES newly won-may prove in the long run to before the participation of black, young and TIFY ON SMUT MAIL have been at least a partial blessing in dis grass-roots Democrats, ended the unit-rule guise if it forces our party to cut its ties device by which minority voices were stilled, with racism and bossism and to build a established one commission to modernize HON. THADDEUS J. DULSKI new coalition from the bottom up. convention rules and established st ill an OF NEW YORK The basis for the old coalition was largely other to insist hereafter on the democratic class. The workingman, the relief recipient, selection of all delegates. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the dirt farmer and the tenement dweller These developments must continue. The Wednesday, December 10, 1969 looked to the New Deal and its successors for frustrating sense of powerlessness that many economic salvation. The basis for the new Americans feel toward remote, impersonal in Mr. DULSKI. Mr. Speaker, our Postal coalition must be not only the common good stitutions applies to political parties as well. Operations Subcommittee held a further but also conscience, including not only the I am const ant ly asked by dissatisfied Demo- hearing today on legislation _to ban the December 11, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 38607 ma1ling of obscene material into homes the people what they cannot do for them subcommittee for inviting us, and I am sure selves, or, as in this instance, what they are that I am extending the thanks of con where minors reside. not inclined to do for themselves. cerned people of the Niagara Frontier for This is a very difficult area of law in It is my observation that, to many parents having an opportunity to be heard. the light of court decisions, but it is a of minors, pornography is not a reality until matter upon which Members are con they are faced with it in their homes, or it 1s STATEMENT BY JULIAN F. KUBINIEC, SENIOR stantly receiving complaints from their found on the persons of their children. AssiSTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY, ERIE CouN constituents. Despite the difficulty in I have found that people have a vague idea TY, N.Y. writing adequate law, the effort must and of what hard-core pornography is, and their Thank you, Mr. Chairman, at the outset, is being made by our subcommittee. impression of it consists of mere nude figures. I want to thank :-ou for affording me the However, on occasion, when I do take ex opportunity to testify before your commit I commend the diligent effort by the amples of the hard-core pornography which tee relating to the problem of pornography subcommittee chairman, the gentleman is received through the mails or which is and obscenity. from Pennsylvania :ight mind earned, as well as "bought and paid for." happen in America, if we only determine to can say this is anything but economic dis This intelligent organized effort is working put back what we take out of the economic ease in a trance-like society? Nobody, unless both sides o! the street-on the side of the capacity to produce. he is an ostrich or a weasel or an inexpert mass recipients as well as on the side of poli This is easier said than done. in unearned trappings. · ticians, conscience-stricken businessmen, so Inflation, like economic employment, is cial scientists with manufactured wisdom, composed of several or many different ele and push-button economists who fine-tune ments. The Government is doing nothing anything not nailed down. REMARKS OF HON. CATHERINE MAY more than withdrawing from the inflation At least eight definite classes of inverted colonialism are destroying the productive AT THE WHITE HOUSE CONFER molecule only a single element--pure ENCE ON FOOD, NUTRITION, AND money. It is not even touching the related powers of America's Whole Economy. They element of purchasing-power credit! are: HEALTH Professor Arthur F. Burns, the new Chair- 1. M111tary and space programs of super man of the Federal Reserve Board, tells the nationalistic goals and proportions. Realistic HON. CHARLES M. TEAGUE Tax Foundation (of all people l) that "civil nationalistic goals are quite necessary-but ian programs are the preponderant cause of not those based on this vanity of being sher OF CALIFORNIA the growth of the federal budget." Here is a iff to the world. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2. Foreign commitments of men, money, whopping cause of inflation-the maldistri Thursday, December 11, 1969 bution of unearned income at its capital and machinery o! like proportions. best. The U.S. is increasing this distribution 3. A social-welfare inner nation that repro duces itself automatically ir ever larger num Mr. TEAGUE of California. Mr. instead of contracting it down to a size com Speaker, I call to the attention of my mensurate with pure increased productivity. bers. 4. The rising Black Economic Thrust, based colleagues an excellent speech made bY Inflation and economic employment are MAY socio-economic phenomena that cannot be on unearned capital acquisition camouflaged Hon. CATHERINE on December 4 treated as iron or oxygen the way we treat by legislated security and phony government at the White House Conference on Food, and measure elements in the physical interest rates. Nutrition, and Health: 5. The easy-credit customers who multiply sciences. But that is how our fine-trappings HoN. CATHERINE MAY, WHITE HOUSE CONFER like rabbits. "experts" in Washington a"ld in many name ENCE ON FOOD, NUTRITION, AND HEALTH, 6. The agricultural and unemployment brand universities treat social problems. This DECEMBER 4, 1969 is "the stuff diletantes are made of." non-political lobbies that prey on the in nocent for easy funds. These two predatory It is a great honor for me to address you Inflation w111 be either ( 1) destroyed by at this, and last plenary session of the White financial collapse or (2) forced to recede to forces form a single colony in concept because they are based mainly on the motivation of House Conference on Food, Nutrition and zero after, and only after, we comprehend Health. You have met here in response to a those elements in its non-monetary inner scmeth:ng for nothing. Their economic posi tions are not even plausible, and their social dramatic challenge-participation in the structure. There is no other exit off the pres building of a sound and workable response ent collision course. positions are completely sterile. The other seven inverted colonies do attempt an eco to the stark fact that hunger and malnutri The U.S. today is praCiticing permissiveness tion indeed t..dst in the midst of the most all across the podium of social endeavor. If nomic, social, or political justification. 7. The deep trough of sums given to higher prosperous society the world has ever known. we continue this appeasement--and that's From this Conference, and government, just what it is-then tragic economic dis education for maladministration and con sumption by self-styled research centers, self business and private citizen efforts to put its order is inevitable. Unlike 1929-1933, this recommendations into e.ffect, will come, I be time socioracial upheaval will be a direct styled students who belong either in voca tional schools or in manufacturing plants lieve, a massive dedication to doing what consequence of severe economic disorder. must be done to eliminate want in our land Even though the economic bin is truly not liberal arts factories-and entire new academic cities to house the whole "business" of plenty. And from it will come a reafi:irma empty, way-of-life welfarists, both black and tion of a most fundamental American right- white, won't believe it, cannot believe it. of imagined genius. 8. The balloon-like government services at the Right to Eat--and a resolve to make this You wouldn't understand, and I wouldn't Right a reality for all of our citizens. understand, if our nurtured way-of-life re all municipal, state, and federal levels. jected it out of inborn, spoon-fed habit. Not one of the eight inverted colonies con On May sixth of this year, President Nixon Must we put our hard-won political and tributes anything to the common bin of eco sent a. message to Congress outlining the economic freedoms on the block simply and nomic or productive goods and services. Each dimensions of your challenge. At that time, only because we cannot admit to gross intel takes away huge globs of real wealth in the the President said, "We have long thought lectual error? Congressman Quillen, our ego, form of sterile expenditures that die as soon of America as the most bounteous of na ir. plain fact, is our worst enemy. as made. tions. In our conquest of the most elemental Respectfully, Every year, for instance, the national net of human needs, we have set a standard that Wn.LIAM D. PARDRIDGE, private indebtedness increases at a faster is a wonder and aspiration for the rest of the Editorial Director, Economic Inequities. rate than the total population. This in itself world. . . . So accustomed are most of us illustrates the national check-kiting philos to a full and balanced diet that, until re [From the Knoxville Journal, Aug. 21. 1969] ophy behind all eight inverted colonies. This cently, we have thought of hunger and mal nutrition as problems only in far less fortu "INVERTED COLONIES" AMERICA'S INVENTION alone would cause classical inflation. Honest men of national political prom nate countries." (By William D. Pardridge) inence declare our huge Gross National Prod The President went on to point out that, Inverted colonialism is a new twist in uct proves we can support all the social lux "We have awakened to the distressing fact social trends and economic suicide. It could uries o! utopia.. But they don't know that that despite our material abundance and be invented only in America. the total dollar value of the GNP does not agricultural wealth, many Americans suffer England for centuries lived hlgh on the hog represent the total goods and services avail !rom malnutrition.... That hunger and because hard-working colonials shipped able for distribution to the eight inverted malnutrition should persists in a land such choice cuts to London, where merchants dis colonies. as ours is embarrassing and intolerable." tributed the goodies to all the nonworking These eight bottomless pits of economic And it was in that same message to Con landed gentry. expenditures are counted at the GNP pay gress that the President announced that he Mother Country was in the business of ment window as part of the very GNP ad would call this Conference. "Let's you and him work." vertised as our economic bank account. This Seven months have elapsed since the day Economic wealth produced by tolling is nutty. that this Conference was first proposed. Dur hands and natural resources overseas created Each of the eight inverted colonies has a ing that time, Dr. Jean Mayer has done an 38616 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 11, 1969 outstanding job of assembling experts from caution and restraint. This is the consumer system-the corner store and the super every corner of this land. Twenty-six sepa· in each of us that looks for balance and value market--that is used by their fellow cit rate panels of these experts have met to con in life, and good health and nutrition in food, izens. This is the better way, not only in sider every conceivable aspect of improved no matter how new and exciting in other terms of a more varied and satisfying diet, nutrition. These panelists have given up respects. but in terms of pride and self-esteem as well weekends and summer vacations to put to· This Conference has been designed to serve for those of our consumers who are poor. gether the recommendations that you have both of these consumer personalities-to The best way to improve the nutritional reviewed and considered. point the way to better, more convenient, status of low income groups is to give them Equally important is the work that you more nutritious, more available foods and the means for purchasing a nutritionally have done in evaluating these recommenda diets. adequate diet. The Food Stamp reform legis tions in the light of your own knowledge But, while many of the recommendations lation being considered in the House of Rep and experience. This has been an enormous of this Conference suggest changes in many resentatives will provide every American effort and a commendable one, and you aspects of our food system and in our own family with enough Food Stamps to pur should all be proud of your work. nutritional lives, I think it is important to chase a nutritionally adequate diet, at a cost Because of the hard work of all of you, remember at the same time that the system not to exceed 30 percent of income. It will this Conference is indicative of the urgency as it stands today is the most productive, provide free Food Stamps for the very poorest of the problems of hunger and malnutrition efficient and available that the world has ever families and will allow simultaneous opera in our land. known. tion of Food Stamp and commodity distribu And if it is good that we have taken the I say this b£>cause there is a tendency tion programs where local communities be time to meet and deliberate, what is needed sometimes among all of us to feel that since lieve that is appropriate. If all of our citizens now is something more-what is needed now some changes in certain areas may result in are indeed to have the Right t'"l Eat, these are is a commitment on the part of all of us to a net "good," what existed before was neces essential beginnings. But they are only be act. sarily "bad." This is not the case with many ginnings-both in terms of better nutrition Certainly we in Congress have a clear duty of the issues that came before the Con and health, and in terms of a better life as to act. It was in recognition of this duty that ference, and as we go back to our homes and well. 37 of my colleagues and I introduced H.R. our jobs to translate this Conference into 12222, the Food Stamp reform legislation action, I hope it will be accomplished within For while food is life's first essential and requested by President Nixon. And, recom the framework of the presentation of should have priority over assistance for other mendations of this Conference will, I can alternatives, and not the presentation of needs, we must look to the day when the assure you, receive prompt Congressional at absolutes. poor can have the kind of cash assistance tention as part of our commitment to I say this because we ueed to recognize that will allow them a decent minimum action. that there is no "typical" consumer in this standard of living. And the President has a commitment to diverse society of ours, and what is good for We have made a start toward an adequate action as well. While he is still waiting and one consumer may be very much the oppo system of income maintenance that will re pressing for food stamp reforms, he has site for another. As a result, it is vital to place the self-defeating and self-perpetuating taken steps to expand the present Food build and preserve a system that will pre welfare programs that have been with us Stamp Program as far as possible within the sent enough alternatives to adequately serve for. far too long. The President's Family scope of the present law. the wants and needs of this diversity. ~ss1stance proposal will provide the poor And I ain sure that each of you here is As this Conference has so wisely acknowl with the cash that allows them to choose committed to eliminating hunger and mal edged, efficient and pervasive as our commer in the market place, between different prod~ nutrition-if you were not, you would not be cial food production and distribution system ucts and services. And equally important, here. is today, there are those within this diverse Family Assistance will eliminate the dis But the elimination of hunger and mal society of ours whom it does not and prob criminations in the present welfare programs nutrition requires a greater effort than you ably cannot fully serve-at least alone. An against the father who stays with his wife or I or the President, with all the best in obvious example is those of the poor who and against those who are willing to work. ' tentions in the world, can make. Because, are not receiving the benefits of the Food In reviewing the recommendations of the ultimately, good nutrition requires the in Stamp Program. Perhaps less obvious, but various panels, I find broad agreement that terest and participation of every American, in many ways equally beyond the reach of Food Stamps, like commodity distribution, wherever he or she may be. our commercial food distribution system to should be an interim measure as we move This afternoon I would like to discuss with day are the aged and sick-especially in toward broad and meaningful welfare re you the significance of this Conference to rural areas-, the blind, and many others form. the consumer-to housewives and husbands, who have, for no fault of their own, been . While all here agree on the need for help to the poor and the not so poor. washed ashore from the mainstream of tng consumers who are poor improve their Each Conference panel considered a sep American life. nutritional status, the recommendations of arate aspect of one question: How can Amer Partnership efforts have been proposed this Conference are equally important for icans obtain and consume the food that best during this Conference to bring these people the great mass of Americans who do not live meets their own personal and fainily needs? into the commercial system-or to bring the in poverty. This is a vital point, for, as we The conclusions and recommendations of commercial system to them in some cases all know, the fact that a family can obtain these panels often overlap and occasionally and this is a fine approach. an adequate diet does not mean that it will. even conflict. But there are certain common In the past, a different approat::h has been Studies have shown that nearly two-thirds themes that run through all of these used. of the poor may be deficient in one or more recommendations. For more tha-n 30 years, the U.S. Depart vital nutrients. This must be eliminated but One point on which there is virtual ment of Agriculture has been distributing it is at least understandable. Less u~der unanimity is that if you are poor it is almost the surpluses of our farms to the needy. To standable, but in no way less serious, is the impossible to be well fed. Another is that day, such direct commodity distribution sys fact that the same studies show that more even Americans with adequate incomes can tems are operating in more than 1,100 coun than a third of those with incomes over $10,- improve their nutritional status. And, finally, ties. 000 also show nutrient deficiencies. many of the panel recommendations point to But such a system has its drawbacks, no While the greatest single factor in improv the existence of a nutritional knowledge gap matter how well motivated. As both domestic ing the nutrition of the poor is providing that has been created by indifference and in and international demands on our food sup the means to purchase an adequate diet, ob attention. ply grow, fewer and fewer foods are actually viously, more than money is needed to assure If we are going to look at the impact of in surplus. And if man cannot live by bread that both the poor and the middle income these recommendations on the consumer, we alone, living on tlour, cornmeal and lard isn't person will be well nourished. should start with a clear understanding of a big step forward. The recommendations of this Conference the consumer we have in mind. Let me But even if a government-operated system point the way toward better surveillance and explain. of food distribution could provide the variety evaluation of the nutritional status of the There are two consumers in each of us. or quality that is found in a local super whole nation. With better data, we will know One is the adventurer, seeking out products market--which it cannot--there is still a the location of problems such as iron defi and services that are newer . . . better . . . better way. For living on government-do ciency or iodine deficiency before they be brighter ... bigger. It is the adventurer part nated foods often results in the further iso come serious and extensive. of each of us that wants a more advanced lation of the poor from the rest of society, At the same time, better nutrition educa color television set, a purple convertible with furthering the feelings of despair and per tion is important to every consumer, for racing stripes, and new, exotic and exciting sonal inconsequence that our national pride knowledge helps the consumer to purchase foods This adventurer-perhaps even rad should refuse to accept in any American citi more wisely. ical-side of each of us even has a motto: zen. Product labeling ·is important. The con "Down with the old, up with the new-what The recommendations of this Conference sumer is not better protected because there ever it is." support the Administration's decision to is a mass of information on every package. But there is a second consumer within phase out commodity distribution over a The more that is there, the less readable lt everyone as well. That second consumer is period of time in favor of the Food Stamp may be. But it is very important that foods the traditionalists--square, straight, and Program. With food stamps, poor families be labeled meaningfully, and recomenda nonswinging-and speaks witl.. the voice of can use the commercial food distribution tions of this Conference suggests ways to .December 11, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3'8617 help the consumer to understand a food's tablish the Commission on Population culture, where tlu·ough the years his nutritional worth at a glance. Growth and the American Future which he committee has recommended funds for I think the consumer will benefit because has proposed. the Extension Service, for 4-H Club this Conference has pointed up a nutritional Congress must also provide the funds for work, and for such functions as school knowledge gap and de;manded that it be better surveillance and evaluation of our lunch program, soil conservation, rural closed. nutritional status and for better protection The studies of Dr. Ari10ld Schaefer have of the public health and safety. But the electrification, loans for rural housing shown how little we know. about our na Federal Government can't do it all. and waterworks, and for watershed and tional nutritional status. Dr. Schaefer has Industry has a major role to play in im flood prevention programs. discovered evidence of dietary diseases that proving traditional foods and continuing to I know that he and his office staff we thought that had been completely elim develop new and better products. Much of personally serve as hosts for 4-H groups inated. And, yet, he is the first to point out this, of course, has already been done as proc visiting Washington. that our problems of malnutrition are very essors and manufact urers have risen to the Mr. WHITTEN has previously received a di1Ierent from those of starving Biafra. Only challenges before them. For example, the continuing study will allow us to know the nation's millers and bakers have just medal, authorized by Congress, for out extent of the problem we face and the effec launched a major effort to further enrich standing contributions to American agri tiveness of our attempts to deal with it. the bread and rolls we all eat. culture. I am proud that the 4-H move This Conference has also focused on the Perhaps most important, we need-and I ment has seen fit to award him this latest prevalence of misinformation about nutri am sure we will get-a sense of mission and honor, and am glad that it may be re tion. We cannot afford a knowledge gap that dedication from industry to the task of get corded in the proceedings of this leads to great concern about a relatively ting the job done-done well and done now. Congress. minor incidence of protein deficiency, while But, in the final analysis, our progress de almost ignoring major and widespread iron pends on effective action at the local and deficiency. Until we close the nutritional community levels. We will never make sig knowledge gap, we cannot be safe from food nificant progress toward the elimination of fads and misinformation. hunger and malnutrition in this count ry THE GENERAL ELECTRIC STRIKE A large part of the reason for this knowl without the support and concern of Mr. and edge gap is a lack of manpower to close it. Mrs. John Q. Public-without a full mobil We simply do not have the trained profes ization at the community level. And I mean HON. JAMES A. BYRNE sional or para-professional personnel to pro the mayors, city and county officials, local OF PENNSYLVANIA vide adequate nutrition services or teaching. organizations and service clubs, as well as IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES And we find that the nutrition gap extends individual private citizens. They are the into our medical and dental schools where ones who, if they will, can provide the great Thursday, October 11, 1969 students receive almost no training in the est impetus to this national effort by iden Mr. BYRNE of Pennsylvania. Mr. relationships between nutrition and their tifying the problem areas within their com Speaker, the General Electric strike is patients' physical and dental health. munities, by determining the specific needs, Yet, if this lack of manpower presents a and by doing what they can to see that those now in its 7th week and has affected some serious problem as we get to the job of mak needs are met-in short, by committing 133,000 workers and the general public. ing sure all of our citizens eat well, it themselves to deal with the problems im It is most unfortunate this strike has presents an opportunity as well. mediately around them. lasted so long and continues during the For this is an area-as some of your panels Ultimately, the consumer has the most Christmas season, depriving shoppers of have recognized-in which concerned citi important role of all to play and, given the the opportunity to purchase various Gen zens-volunteers-can work and make an means and the knowledge, the problems that eral Electric products. enormous contribution. And it can be done face us today can be overcome. now. We must not look at this Conference as The Honorable Paul D'Ortona, presi For example, I learned recently that there the end, but only as the beginning. dent of the city council of Philadelphia are more than 150,000 trained home econo We must take the fine work that has been has brought to my attention Resolution mists in our country who are not now em done here and turn it into a positive force No. 187, which was adopted unanimously ployed. Most are busy homemakers, but they a force that will assure for all time that by the council on November 26, calling can-and should-be mobilized to help. the Right to Eat--and eat well-is one that upon the General Electric Co. and the Closing this nutritional knowledge gap is is truly enjoyed by every American citizen. unions to immediately resume good faith essential, because good nutrition and good health ultimately depend on the consumer collective bargaining. I am in hearty making her own decisions and basing her agreement with the resolution and wish to call it to the attention of my col judgments on the information and educa JAMIE L. WHITTEN RECEIVES 4-H tion she receives. It cannot be done in any leagues: other way. CLUB AWARD RESOLUTION No. 187 The problems of hunger and malnutrition Calling upon the General Electric Com require action, not just discussion, and it is HON. FRANK E. EVANS pany and the Unions representing its strik quite clear that the time for that action is ing employees to immediately resume good now. As President Nixon pointed out in his OF COLORADO faith and collective bargaining. May sixth message, "Something very like the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Whereas, The present strike of the employ honor of American democracy is at issue.... Thursday, December 11, 1969 ees of General Electric Company has inter The moment is at hand to put an end to rupted the gainful employment of thousands hunger in America itself for all time." Mr. EVANS of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, of citizens of this community; and The President's commitment will require years of devoted public service by a Whereas, The continuation of this strike continuing follow-through within the Ex Member of the House of Representatives will have a substantial negative impact on ecutive Branch, and he has indicated there was given national recognition Decem the economic well-being of this community will be no relaxation of effort on this front. and all of its citizens; and In answer to his request for a reformed ber 3, when my distinguished colleague, Whereas, It is essential that an early con and expanded Food Stamp Program, I pledge JAMIE L. WHITTEN, of Mississippi, WaS clusion be reached in this strike, not only to the President that Congress will be re awarded a 1969 4-H Alumni Recognition for the good of the employees involved and sponsive. I make this statement as a prime Key Award. for the competitive position of General sponsor of the Administration's Food Stamp He was one of eight prominent men Electric Company, but also for the economic Bill. I make this statement as a Member of and women awarded this solid gold key growth of this City; therefore the House Committee on Agriculture, which at the recent 4-H congress in Chicago. Resolved, By the Council of the City of is now working on that blll. I make this state Philadelphia, That we call upon the General ment in the knowledge that there is strong I am told that critelia for these Electric Company and the unions represent by-partisan support in the House of Rep awards, in addition to being 4-H Club ing its striking employees to immediately re resentatives for an improved Food Stamp alumni, include outstanding records of sume good faith collective bargaining and to Program. accomplishment in their chosen profes make every effort to reach an agreement that I am confident our Committee will present sion and also interest in youth, civic, will be equitable to all concerned. a Food Stamp Bill that is adequately fi church or school affairs, and active sup Resolved, That certified copies of this Reso nanced. It will contain vast improvements port of such activities. lution be forwarded to the management of in getting food to the recipients more effec the General Electric Company, and to the tively and with less red tape. Certainly Mr. WHITTEN is deserving of officers of the AFL-CIO unions representing In addition to the passage of Food Stamp this award; we are all familiar with his the employees, as evidence of the sincere Reform legislation, Congress must enact the continuing support of the 4-H movement sentiments of this legislative body. welfare reform contained in the President's in his capacity as chairman of the sub Cert ification: This is a true and correct family assistance proposal, and move to es- committee on Appropriations for Agri- copy of the original Resolution adopted by 38618 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 11, 1969 the Council of the City of Philadelphia on The Pueblo inquiry apparently limited admirably, as if to suggest that in it is the twenty-sixth day of November, 1969. itself entirely to the question o! whether the a legacy. Attest: captain of the ship should have gone down PAUL D'ORTON.Ik, fighting rather than have saved his life and Always deeply involved in the affairs of President of City CouncH. the lives o! his crew at the cost of embarrass his chureb, Charles Deane, a. Baptist and CRADLES H. SAWYER,. JR.# ment to the naval command. Unasked were a Democrat, blended the ingredients of Chief Clerk of the Council. such questions as whether he had, in fact, religion and politics into a salve which been ordered to violate North Korean waters he applied to the wounds of his fellow and how on earth or sea his messages of men. alarm were sent on the astonishing ping The Nation has reason to be grateful MILITARY JUSTICE COMMISSION pong ball course they followed. The Green Beret murder ease was simply f~ the devo.ted service which this great dropped, again with no real explanation of c1ti.Zen rendered ooth in and out of pub RON. MARIO BIAGGI what happened-in our name and with our lic office. OF NEW YORK funds-and why and how tt happened, let alone why it was all dropped . back into JN THE" HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES oblivion. ADMINISTRATION'S RECORD IS Thursday, December 11~ 1969 Most recently the Army has announced ANTIVETERAN; A DISMAL SHOWING blandly that while its own probe is con Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, I am in the tinuing, it lacks· sufficient congressional process of drafting a bill for the forma- developed evidence for prosecutions in the liON. JOHN M. MURPHY - tion of a House committee to conduct alleged graft in the operation of Army en an exhaustive study of the process of mil listed men's clubs. As against the Army,s OF NEW YORK itary justice and the practices prevalent inabflity to come up- with evidence, Sen. lN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES therein. Abraham Ribfcoft', in Senate hearings, un Thursday, December ItA 1969 covered "conflicts of interest, bribery, kick In that regard, I l'ead a very timely backs·, conspiracy and other criminal actions Ml'. MURPHY of New York. Mr. and appropriate article in the Decem or violations of regulations." Speaker, service to the veterans of our ber 10 edition of the Washington, D.C., After awhile, the citizen and taxpayer con Nation, their widows, and children has Evening Star. It was written by Frank eludes that military trialS' and investigations been-and wiTI continue to be-the hall Getlein and the entire text follows: exist primarily to place the blame for any mark of my service in the House. I will If on a whim or a dare, you should stick thing squarely on the shoulderS' of the lowest the ranking officer or enlisted man available, not let lapse high premium placed up your neighborhood bank. and.- through on patriotic service in our military fO'rces inexperience or bad luck, get caught, you to exonerate those wtth higher rank and to ignore the question of whether something in iime of war. As you know, I have would be tried, eventually, not by members four bills this of your famiiy but- by total strangers. about the mflitary system permits, en introduced session to meet coU?ages or tacitlT commands the crimes the pressing needs of veterans and their If, as the head o! a giant electrical cor investigated. families who are being shortchanged by poration~ you engaged. in a criminal con That such results should flow from a sys spiracy with your fellow giants to cheat the inflation and proposed administration tem in which the institution investigates hudget cuts. The shocking indifference government and the public at large a.nd, like itself should surprise no one. The same things your fellow crtminal at the bankrobbing happen in ecclesiastical eourts as a matter of the Nixon administration toward the level, you, too, got caught, you, too, wouid of course and the same thing happened in plight of our veterans is revealed by the assuredly be prosecuted and tried by stran feudal courts. fact that it has virtually opoosed or gers rather than by members of your own The dift'erence is that, nowadays at least, sought to delay every major, meaningful, firm. one can opt out. of ecclesiastieal justice and vital veterans legislation introduced in In general, we adhere in this country to even in the oleated. OF NEW YORK mental troubles is a situation shared in this state by both white and Indian defendants. Also, Mr. Speaker, I would insert three IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I would think that most of our Indian and paragl"aphs from a letter by attorney Thursday, December 11, 1969 white citizens. in this great state would be Don Bierle of Yankton addressed to the properly indignant with your unfair report. National Broadcasting Co. of which I Mr. POWELL. Mr. Speaker, today the Perhaps you can do better in the future. was provided with a copy. The para United Republic of Tanzania celebrates the eighth anniversary of the independ On this same subject is a portion of a graphs are as follows: However, the presentation above referred ence of Tanganyika, one of its two con copy of a letter from Charles R. Hogue, stituent states. Tanganyika and the is news director of KWYR radio station in to was not based on fact and was so preju Winner, S.Dak.: diced and biased that it unfairly and most land of Zanzibar joined together to form tragically misrepresented what is in fact the Tanzania in 196"4. Tanganyika-now I a.m. referring to a segment of the NBC truth. In my opinion the National Broad Tanzania-since its independence has program, "The First Tuesday in December", casting Company betrayed every pli.nciple of assumed a role of leadership among its seen on December 2, 1969. The program dealt its responsibility to the American public and with the life of a. convicted murderer, violated every reason why the news media sister African republics. The President Thomas James White Hawk. The program, should be given the right and privilege of of Tanzania, Julius Nyerere, has been although acknowledging that the facts non-censon;hlp in the presentation of its an outspoken African nationalist. Tan pointed to his guilt, was a play on the emo material. zania has also been a leader in promot tions of the nation for a. boy brought up in The personnel who produced this show, ing the cause of African unity. poverty and neglect. Scenes in the program through the i.nsccuracy o! the information Yet, although Tanzania has looked showed only the worst possible conditions presented and the spectacular manner in outward, more significantly it has looked which unfortunately do exist on the Rosebud which it was. done demonstrated their com inward and developed a realistic ap Reservation. However, the program left the plete inc.ompetence and utter lack of knowl praisal of its own problems and pros impression that nothing has been done to edge about the Indian problem. In using the help the American Indian in the past 200 Thomas White Hawk case. which in the first pects. President Nyerere's Arusha Decla years. instance is not even a proper foundation ration in which he declared a policy of Omitted from the program were any scenes upon which to base presentation o! Indian self-reliance as Tanzania's ideology for of the 4.5 mlllion dollar school complex at problems, the National Broadcasting person development has become a benchmark Mission, South Dakota. There were no shots nel were inept and presented a most. dis in the history of African development. of the modern Rosebud Public Health Serv torted picture of South Dakota and in par Following President Nyerere's lead many ice Hospital at Rosebud. There were no ticular completely missed the point in -African nations have adopted a policy of pictures of the hundreds of transitional or its approach to the problem. setting more realistic development goals Rosebud "400" houses that have been built I pel'SOnaUy wish to invite NBC to South at a. cost of from four to eight thousand dol Dakota to present another documentary on in terms of their needs. assets, and pros lars each. There was no mention of the in the Indian probl~m and we will be most pects for external assistance. dustry that has been brought to the Rosebud happy to cooperate in every respect in giving Thus, I call upon my colleagues to join Reservation to provide jobs for the Indian you complete access to any area of the state with me in wishing Tanzania a prosper people. There was no mention of the legal you wish to investigate and to any people ous and peaceful future and in saluting services provided for members of the Sioux you might wish to interview. You may wish that nation on this important national Tribe. to spend more time here than most poll- holiday.
