:3096· .CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE APRIL 15 677. Also, concurrent resolution, submitted 686. Also, petition of the Assembly of the in the House of Congress on the state of the James Fowles, clerk of the senate, house of California Legislature, respectfully memorial­ Union; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. representatives, Columbia, S. C., endorsing izing the President and the Congress of the 698. Also, petition of the Texas Dental Col­ the farm security program and urging its en­ United States to construct a dam on the lege, Houston, Tex., petitioning considera­ largement and continuation; to the Com­ upper reaches of the Stanislaus River in tion of their resolution with reference to Se­ mittee on Agriculture. order to retain the usual annual excess flow lective Training and -service Act and national 678. Also, house resolution submitted by of water of the Stanislaus River and protect d~fense; to the Committee on Military Affairs. J. E. Hunter, Jr., clerk of the house of rep­ the delta islands in the San Joaquin River 699. Also, petition of the Southern Trame resentatives, Columbia, S. C., memorializing below Stockton, Calif., which wm be used for League, Nashville, Tenn., petitioning consid­ the Pres:dent of the United States of Amer­ large armed forces due to the defense emer­ eration of their resolution with reference to ica and the Congress to take such immediate gency; to the Committee on Rivers and the St. Lawrence power and wat erway project; action as is necessary to put an end to strik­ Harbors. to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. ing; to the Committee on Labor. 687. By Mr. MARTIN of Iowa: P.:tition of 700. Also, petition of Wesley K. Wiker, heir 679 . Also, resolution submitted by James the Forty-eighth General Assembly of the of M. R. Wiker, Niobrara County, Wyo., pe­ D. Walters, secretary-treasurer, Junior State of Iowa, urging the Congress of the titioning consideration of their resolution Chamber of Commerce, Columbia, S. C., re-. United States and the Federal Bureau of with reference to mining claims situated in questing the Senators and Congressmen Roads to liberalize the regulations governing Niobrara County, Wyo.; to the Committee from the State of South Carolina to spon­ the allocation of Federal funds to the various on the Public Lands. sor, endorse, and;or support such legislation States for the purpose of building farm-to­ in Congress as will prevent the stoppage of market roads and to particularly liberalize industrial production throughout our Na­ the rules limiting the highways upon which tion; and that congressional action be taken such funds can be expended for the improve­ immediately to prevent subversive activities ment thereof, and that the various States SENATE throughout our Nation as effectively a,s may through the appropriate authority created by be possible; to the Committee on Rules. them for that purpooe am• in Iowa particu.:. TuESDAY, APRIL 15, 1941 680. By Mr. GAVAGAN: Resolution of DiVi­ larly, the State highway commission, rather sion No. 2 of the Ancient Order of. Hiber­ than the Federal Bureau of Roads, be given The Chaplain, Rev. Z~Barney T. Phil­ nians, requesting favorable consideration by more authority to supervise the expenditure lips, D. D., offered the following prayer: the Committee on Foreign Affairs of House of such funds as may be allocated to a Resolution 150 and passage of said resolu­ given State for the construction of farm-to• 0 Thou, who art the author of peace tion; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. market roads; to the Committee on Roads . and lover of concord,· in knowledge of 681. By l-f,r. IZAC: Pet!tion of the execu­ . 688. By Mr. MERRI'IT: Resolution of the whom standeth our eternal life, whoSe tive committee. of the San Diego, Calif., United -Irish-American Association of West .. service is perfect freedom: Help us to branGh of the. National Women's Party, chester County, N. Y., heartily en~orsing Josephine Ir:ving, Mary Rlling, Cora Babbit House b111 1796, designating the Friday before show the reality of our: prayers by our en: Johnson, Irene ·Thull, Ella Robbins, Bessie Easter, in each year, as a legal holiday, and deavor to reaUze them. Let not the Bretz, Irene Clark, and Emily N. Ziegler, sec­ .urging its passage and enactment into law; power of any habit grow too strong for retary, requesting that their views in favor to the Committee oil the Judiciary. us; but· do Thou deliver us from bondage of the equal rights amendment be read into ' 689. By Mr. VAN ZANDT: Petition of· Rev. to our former ways by adjusting us to the the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, and that, ac­ Albert Allen Bird and members of the Pen­ means of grace and instruction which cordingly, immediate and favorable ~ction field Presbyterian Church, Penfield, Pa., urg­ be taken thereon; to the Committee on the -ing the safeguarding of the morals of the Thou hast placed before us. Judiciary. · young men inducted into milit.ary service; to Above all, make us ready and anxious 682. By Mr. KRAMER: Petition of the Sen­ the Committee on Military Affairs. to ·serve. Direct us in thought and feel­ ate and the Assembly of the State of Cali­ 690. By the SPEAKER: Petition of the city ing, that harmony and not dissonance fornia, requesting the President and the of Woodbury, N. J., petitioning consideration may characterize the response of our Congress of the United States to enact legis­ of their resolution with reference to addi­ ·uves to the- pleadings ·of mankind for lation proposed by Senate bill 710, as speed­ tional hospital facilities for veterans within peace. Teach us how to be fully and ily as possible; to the Committee on Indian the State of New Jersey; to the Committee Affairs. on World War Veterans' Legislation. heartily in the world, yet not of it; how 683. Also, petition of the Senate and the 691. Also, petition of the Board of Super­ to keep ourselves allied and responsive to Assembly of the State of California, request­ visors of Rensselaer County, N.Y., petitioning the Infinite, while yet no touch of mun­ ing the Congress of the United States to consideration of their resolution with refer­ dane sympathy is lost. replace the $35,000,000 reduction in appro­ ence to House bill 2245, concerning a vet­ Finally, do Thou gird us for the battle priations for the Surplus Marketing Admin­ erans' hospital in the Twenty-ninth Congres­ in behalf of trUth and righteousness, en­ istration with provision that this fund be sional District;· to the Committee on World allocated to fruit crops adversely affected War Veterans' Legislation. abling us to feel the sorrows and the bur­ by loss of foreign markets, and that the ap­ 692. Also, petition of the Scranton Build­ dens of humanity without losing aught propriation be increased by another $100,- ing and Construction Trades Council, Scran­ of the joy of service in Thy kingdom. 000,000 for the specific expansion of the ton, Pa., petitioning consideration of their We ask it in the name and for the sake of stamp plan, so that the underprivileged two­ resolution with reference to labor and na:­ Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. thirds of the Nation unable to afford ade­ tional defense; to the Committee on the quate diets can be assisted by the Federal Judiciary. · THE JOURNAL Government to the point of absorbing other­ 693. Also, petition of Edmond C. Fletcher, On request of Mr. BARKLEY, and by wise unabsorbable surpluses of fresh, canned, of washington, D. C., petitioning considera­ and dried fruits; to the Committee on Appro- tion of his petition with reference to the unanimous consent, the reading of the priations. · impeachment of the Honorable D. Lawrence Journal of the proceedings of Monday, 684. Also, petition of the Carl H. Kren Post, Groner, Chief Justice of the United· States April 14, 1941, was dispensed with, and No. 1123, of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of Court of Appeals for the District of Colum­ the Journal was approved.·• the United States, requesting all Senators bia; to the Committee on the Judiciary . . MESSAGE· FROM THE HOUSE and Representatives from the State of Cali­ 694. Also, petition of the Building and Con­ fornia to assist in the amendment of the struction Trades Council, Grand Rapids, A message from the House of Repre­ Selective Service Act so that ex-members of Mich., petitioning consideration of their reso­ sentatives, by Mr. Chaffee, one of its read­ · :the Navy and/or the Marine Corps may be lution with reference to labor and national ing clerks, communicated to the Senate ·granted such equal deferment as the Army defense; to the Committee on the Judiciary. and to begin any action necessary with refer­ 695. Also, petition of the Fort Worth Build­ the resolutions of the House adopted as a en::e to deferment in connection with the ing Trades Council, Fort Worth, Tex., peti­ tribute to the memory of Han. Morris Selective Training and Service Act; to the tioning consideration of their resolution with Sheppard, late a Senator from the State Committee on Military Affairs. reference to labor and national defense; to of Texas, and transmitted the resolutions 685. Also, petition of the Legislature of the the Committee on the Judiciary. of the House thereon. State of California, requesting the Congress 696. Also, petition of the Green Bay Build­ · The message announced that the House of the United States and the President of the ing and Construction Trades, Green Bay, Wis., had passed the following bills and joint United States to enact such legislation or to petitioning consideration of their resolution take such other steps as may be necessary to with reference to labor and national defense; resolution, in which it requested the con­ provide that meat and meat products in­ to the Committee on the Judiciary. currence of the Senate: spected and passed under the California meat 697. Also, petition of the executive commit­ H. R. 4057. An act to authorize the Federal inspection law may be sold to and purchased tee of the Slovak League of America, Lu­ Security Administrator to accept gifts for the by the United States and its agencies on the zerne, Pa., petitioning consideration of their Freedmen's Hospital and to provide for the same footing as meat and meat products pro­ resolution with reference to an address on administration of such gifts; duced under Federal inspection; to the Com­ the international situation made by President H. R. 4::183. An act to enlarge the powers of mittee on Agriculture. Franklin D. Roosevelt,· as well as his address the property clerk of the Police Department 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 3097 of the District of Columbia to dispose of who are recognized as being fair to organized of fresh, canned, and dried fruits; and be it property coming into his possession; labor, when any or all of the building- and further H. R. 4131. An act to amend the District construction-trades organizations are unable "Resolved, That the secretary of the senate of Columbia Trame Act, as amended; to supply a full force of building-trades men is hereby directed to send copies of this reso­ H. R. 4221. An act for the relief of Charlotte to man defense projects, every organization lution to the President of the United States, E. Hunter; and amliated with such labor organizations agrees the Vice President of the United States, the H. J. Res. 145. Joint resolution authorizing that a union employer shall be privileged to Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Federal Security Administrator to permit employ others than members of the building each of the Senators and Congressmen from the American Red Cross to construct needed and construction trades amuated with such California in the Congress of the United recreational buildings on the St. Elizabeths labor unions until such time as the labor States, and that the Senators and Congress­ Hospital reservation. organizations so affiliated can replace non­ men from Californiit in the Congress of the union men with members of their organiza­ SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE United States are respectfully urged to sup­ tions, or until such nonunion men are re­ port the legislation herein outlined." CONTRACTS UNDER NATIONAL-DE­ quested to become members of the respective FENSE PROGRAM A joint resolution of the Legislature of the unions; to the Committee on Education and State of California; to the Committee on In­ Labor. dian Affairs: The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair A resolution of the Camden, N. J ., Indus­ appoints the Senator from New Mexico trial Traffic Club, protesting against the "Senate Joint Resolution 13 [Mr. HATCH] a member of the special enactment of legislation for the construction committee to investigate the national­ of the St. Lawrence River development; to "Memorializing the President and Congress to defense program, in place of the Senator the Committee on Foreign Relations. enact legislation proposed by United States Senate bill 710, providing a basis of recovery from Arizona [Mr. HAYDEN], resigned. A joint resolution of the Legislature of the State of California; to the Committee on for claims of California ·Indians based on EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS Appropriations: early treaty arrangement The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the "Senate Joint Resolution 14 ;,Whereas the Indian occupants of Califor­ Senate the following letters, which were nia by various treaties ceded their tri.'Jal lt..r"ds "Relative to memorializing Congress to allo­ to the Federal Government in return for referred as indicated: cate funds in surplus marketing budget for treaty agreements that were never fultlller.l; 1942 to California fruit growers because of and AWARDS OF CONTRACTS FOR THE ARMY loss of normal export markets due to the A letter from the Secretary of War, re­ "Whereas there has been introduced in war the Senate of the United States by Ron. porting, pursuant to law, relative to divisions "Whereas the fruit industry of the United of awards of certain quantity contracts for SHERIDAN DOWNEY a bill a known as S. 710, States, including growing, processing, and which provides for an equitable basis for com­ aircraft, aircraft parts, and accessories there­ canning, has become concentrated in the for entered into with more than one bidder pensation to the California Indians for the State of California, which produces 40 percent lands that were taken from them without under authority of law; to the Committee on of the fruit crop of the Nation, although only Military Affairs. compensation; and 5 percent of the country's people live here; "Whereas all the prospective Indian re .. LEGISLATION BY THE COUNCIL OF ST. and cipients of such consideration have expressed THOMAS AND ST. JOHN, V. I. "Whereas California fruit growers are de­ their approval of the basis of recovery pro­ pendent on national and foreign ma:r;kets to vided in said billS. 710; and A letter from the Acting Secretary of the gain a living from these crops; and Interior, transmitting, pursuant to law, copies "Whereas said bill leaves the handling of "Whereas 18 percent of California fruit pro­ the claims of said Indians in the United States of amendments adopted by the Municipal duction normally goes into export with cer­ Council· of St. Thomas and St. John, V. I. Court of Claims, in the hands of the at­ tain specialty crops -showing ~n extremely torney general of California in accordance (with accompanying papers); ·to the Com­ high percentage; hardy pears, 90 percent; mittee on Territories and Insular Affairs. with enactments of our State legislature to prunes and apricots, 40 percent; raisins an~ that effect; and TRENT TRUST CO., L'ID., ET AL., v. THE canned pears, 30 percent; and "Whereas Attorney General Warren accept­ UNITED STATES (S. D09. NO. 46) "Whereas this foreign market has been al­ ed said authorization as a part of his omcial most completely cut off by the European war duties and now has deputies of his omce work­ ·A letter from the Chief Clerk of the United and home markets are unable to absorb the States ·court of Claims, transmitting, pur­ ing earnestly 1n behalf of securing recovery huge surpluses of these special crops which for said Indians as speedily as possible to the suant to resolution of the Senate, a certified growers produce each year; and copy of the special findings of fact, conclu­ best interests of said Indians of California "Whereas this situation constitutes a grave and to the best interests of the State of Call­ lion of law and opinion, rendered by the Court danger. to owners of the 235,000 acres of fornia; and of Claims February 3, 1941, in re Trent Trust orchards which have been developed over "Whereas the enactment of said bill will be Company, Ltd., et aZ., v. The United States, long years to provide the 1,000,000 tons of a forward step toward the economic rehabili­ Congressional No. 17747 (with an accompany­ fresh, canned, and dried fruit normally going tation of Indian citizens of California who ing paper); to the Committee on Claims and into export; and have not had quite an equal chance with ordered to be pri~ted. "Whereas the fammes of these thousands of other citizens of California; and · PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS growers, their employees, workers engaged in "Whereas such legislation would redound to canning, processing, transporting, and ware­ the honor of our ~tate and our Nation and Petitions, etc., were laid before the housing these crops are also adversely affected to the benefit of society in general: Now, Senate by the Vice President, or pre­ and with them th~ merchants and profes­ therefore, be it sented by Senators, and referred as sional groups in their respective communi- ,;Resolved by the Senate and the Assembly indicated: ties; and · of the State of California, jointly, That the By the VICE PRESIDENT: "Whereas the House of Representatives, Legislature of the State of California does A resolution of the forestry section, Asso­ over the protests of members of the California hereby respectfully urge the President and ciation of Southern Agricultural Workers, at delegation, saw .fit to reduce the Budget for the Congress of the United States to enact Atlanta, Ga., favoring the amendment of the year 1942 ·for disposal of surplus com­ the legislation proposed by S. 710 as speedily existing law so as to extend Federal coop­ modities by $35,000,000, providing a total of as possible; and be it further eration only to those States in which forestry only $200,000,000, compared with over $235,- "Resolved. That the conduct of such litiga­ work is in charge of competent technically 000,000 for this department in 1941; and tion as shall be authorized by said bill, S. 710, trained men, graduates of recognized schools "Whereas the agricultural appropriation be left in charge of the attorney general of of forestry; to the Committee on Agriculture b111 is now before the Senate of the United California in justice to said Indians of Cali­ and Forestry. States for consideration: Now, therefore, be it fornia, who in justice to them should not be Resolutions of the building- and. construc­ "Resolved by the Senate and the Assembly charged with the usual heavy expense of such tion-trades department, American Federation Of the State of California, jointly, That the litigation; and be it further of Labor, and the Alliance of Building Trades, Congress of the United States be memorial­ "Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be of Tulsa, Okla., pledging that there will be ized to replace the $35,000,000 reduction in sent by the Secretary of the Senate to the no stoppage of work on account of jurisdic­ appropriations for the Surplus Marketing President of the United States, the Vice Pres­ tional disputes between any of the building Administration with provision that this fund ident of the United States, the Speaker of the and construction trades on any building or be allocated to fruit crops adversely affected House of Representatives, the chairmen of -construction project essential to the speedy by loss of foreign markets; and be it further the Committees on Indian Affairs in the Sen­ and successful completion of the national­ "Resolved, That the above appropriation be ate and in the House of Representatives and defense program; to the Committee on Edu­ increased by another $100,000,000 for the spe­ to each Senator and each Member of the cation and Labor. cific expansion of the stamp plan, so that the House of Representatives from California in Resolutions of the· building- and construc­ underprivileged two-thirds of the Nation un­ the Congress of the United States and that tion-trades department, American Federation able to afford adequate diets can be assisted such Senators and Representatives from Cali­ of Labor, and the All1ance of Building Trades, by the Federal Government to the point of fornia be and are respectfully urged to sup­ of TUlsa, Okla., stating that, under employers absorbing otherwise unabsorbable surpluses port such legislation." 3098 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE APRIL 15 A concurrent resolution of the Legislature dent of the United States, to the presiding tilities; to the Committee on Foreign Rela­ of the State of Minnesota; to the Committee officers of the Senate and House of Repre­ tions. on Agriculture and Forestry. sentatives of the Congress of the United Resolutions of the Mayor and Common Resolution 3 States, and to each of the Senators and Rep­ Council of the City of Ypsilanti; Muskegon resentatives from the Stat-e of Minnesota in Lodge No. 32, Knights of Pythias, of Muske­ "Resolution memorializing Congress to sta­ the Congress of the United States. gon; and Council No. 8 of the Polish Roman bilize prices on farm products "Approved April 4, 1941. Catholic Union of America, of Detroit, all in "Whereas widespread dissatisfaction exists "HAROLD E. STASSEN, the State of Michigan, favoring the enact­ among the producers of farm commodities in "Governor of the State of Minnesota." ment of legislation to provide for the St. Minnesota and neighboring States relative to ·-Lawrence River development; to the Commit­ A joint memorial of the Legislature of the tee on .Foreign Relations. the Jo.sses incurred in ordinary farm oper- Territory of Alaska; to the Committee on ations; and . . By Mr. WALSH: Finance: .Resolutions of the Board of Aldermen of "Whereas the American farmer is forced to "Senate Joint Memorial 9 sell the major portion of what he produces Malden, approved by the Mayor, and the on a world market and purchase all of his "To the Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt, City Council of Woburn, both in the State necessities on a highly protected stabilized President of the United States,· to the of Massachusetts, favoring the enactment of domestic market; and President of the Senate,· to the Speaker legislation to abolish the 30-day layoff period "Whereas the spread between the value of of the House of Representatives of the after 18 months of employment under the the commodities the farmer sells and those Congress of the United States,· and to the .W. P. A.; to the Committee on Appropria­ he buys places him at a serious disadvantage Honorable Anthony J. Dimond, Delegate tions. in the market places; and to Congress for the Territcrry of Alaska: A petition of sundry citizens of Springfield "Whereas this price disparity has existed "Your memorialist, the Legislature of the and vicinity, in the' State of Massachusetts, for ·over 5 years and promises to continue Territory of Alaska,· in regular session as­ praying that the United States keep out of indefinitely and create disaster among agri­ sembled, respectfully represents that- foreign war; to the Committee on Forel'gn culturists; and "Whereas the Honorable RoBERT F ~ WAGNER, Relations. "Whereas the prices of agricultural com­ Senator from the State of New York, did, on Resolutions of the Common Council of the modities are not on a parity with prices of August 14, 1940, introduce Senate bill 4269 City of Everett, approved by the Mayor and other products and especially with the prices in the Senate of the United States, and on the City Council of Lawrence, both in the of those commodities which the farmer must the same day the Honorable JoHN w. Mc­ .State of Massachusetts, favoring the prompt b'uy; and CoRMACK, Congressman from the State of dispatch of foodstuffs and other. necessities "Whereas the financial returns from the Massachusetts, introd~ced a like bill in the to the Irish Free State; to the Committee on farming industry have been such that the ·House of Representatives, H. R. 10384, which Foreign Relations. . . ·people engaged in that Industry are practi­ said ·bills provided for amendments to the . A resolution of the Arlington Committee to cally bankrupt; demanding· immediate dras­ Social Security Act so as· to include employees .Defend AmE:rica, of Cambridge, Mass., and vi­ tic action; and - not now covered by said act, and particularly cinity, favoring the delivery of ships, food, · "Whereas the farmers are the largest buy­ extending the provisions thereof to the old­ and war materials· to' countries now fighting ers of commercial products in the Nation age and survivors insurance provisions to the Axis Powers, even by the use of the ·and a return of their· purchasing power is Sta.te and local government employees and . United States Navy, fi necessary, for the ·eEsential before we can have any general and non-civil-service employees of the Federal delivery. of such aid; to the Committee on lasting return of prosperity; and Government: Now, therefore; Foreign Relations. . "Whereas in view of the price-fixing oppor­ "We your memorialist, the Legislature of A memorial of several citizens of the State themselves, but not as Woman's Auxiliary of Protestant Epis­ United States will use its utmost influence to discover promptly a way to end this in­ representatives of organizations, are the copal Church, New York City. human situation. following: Mrs. Mary Ely Lyman, dean, Sweet VIe beg that you will do all you can about The Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick, Briar College, Sweet Briar, Va. it in the Senate. pastor, Riverside Church, New York City. The Reverend D.P. McGeachie, pastor, We remember that during the last World Bishop Ralph Spaulding CUshman, Decatur Presbyterian Church, Decatur, War Prime Ministers Lloyd George and Methodist bishop, St. Paul, Minn. Ga. Clemenceau cabled to President Wilson, LXXXVII--196 3100 ·coNGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE APRIL 15 urgently requesting him hot to allow a the information should be made avail­ to surrender to national insolvency which threatened discnntinuance of civilian feeding able to the Congress and to the country. can destroy every value in the land. in German-Qccupied Belgium and northern We in America face the inevitable Let me give one exhibit on the question France a3ld that 10,000,000 persons were fed burdens of heavily increased taxation, of increased taxation. Mr. Sullivan's let­ by this work which President Wilson sup­ ter to me shows that, according to the port~ d. and I mean heavily, and I mean at once, ·we are convinced, furthermore, that the if we shall maintain a sound public latest tax figures available, taking as a 'Conscience of the plain people of America credit, which, in the final analysis, is the typical example a married person with today wants our country to send food-cer­ first line of national defense. Our people two children and an income of $5,000, we tainly not guns alone-to Europe. in this generation have yet to learn that confront the following comparisons: These Pilgrims for Humanity have brought there is no such thing as painless or in­ In the United States the married per­ with them to Washington this petition, sign­ expensive war or preparation for war, in son with two children and an income of ers of which include eminent leaders in our its ehastly and modern technique. It is $5,000 pays a Federal income tax of $75; churches and universities. But the thing time our people began to face this pro b­ in Australia the person similarly situated that has impressed me most as I have read pays an income tax of $1,052; in Canada, each of the two volumes of names signed to lem in its grim realities, because Con­ the petition is that they are indicative of a gress, acting upon its responsibility, can­ $391; in the United Kingdom, $1,196. goundswell of conscience against war and all not evade or avoid the unpleasant task Taking one other typical example-and its works and of a desire to do the worlts of of soon reaching into every American I think it is of some importance, Mr. mercy that is surely stirring in the rank and pocketbook for new and heavy contribu­ President, that the American people file of the American people. tions with which partially to meet our should begin to think in the terms of the Conscience is an intangible but potent defense expenditures. Mind you, Mr. burdens which they have got to carry­ force once it is thoroughly aroused. It has taking the typical married person with an actuated the bearers of this petition to come President, I am speaking only of pre­ paredness expenditures. If we should income of $20,000, with two children, such to Washington on foot and in the spirit of a person in the United States pays a prayer and penitence to express by their become an active belligerent, the con­ words and deeds the cry of perishing multi­ templation would multiply in its terrific present income tax of $2,143; in Canada tudes in Europe who may yet be saved if burdens. he pays $5,982; in the United Kingdom, America will listen to Christ's command, The Treasury report, which I have re­ $9,426; and in Australia, $8,548. These "Give ye them to eat." ceived today through the courtesy of taxes, however, Mr. President, are only a part of the tax burden which is borne by Dr. J. Holmes Smith, of the Fellowship Mr. Sullivan, is, of course, authentic. It is a preview, Mr. President, of what we these other English-speaking democra­ of Reconciliation, gave expression to his cies now engaged in battle. In addition views as follows: ourselves confront. Therefore I shall ask that this letter from Mr. Sullivan be to the income tax, the United Kingdom The purpo~e of the food-for-Europe pil­ made a Senate document, but before that has a special national-defense contribu­ grimage has been to demonstrate by symbolic is done I desire to point out one or two tion, a special excise-profits tax, a pur­ action the concern felt by many of our fel­ ?hase tax, the estate tax has been greatly low citizens for the pUgh"; of the 80,000,000 high spots for the RECORD. I wish to point out from Mr. Sullivan's mcreased, and customs and excise taxes men, women, and children of the small coun­ have been substantially increased upon tries of Europe who are caught between the letter that the British budget, referring upper and nether millstones of invasion and to the estimates for 1940-41, show reve­ many commodities. blockade and are therefore menaced by star­ nues of £1,360,000,000 ·and expenditures Australia not only has the individual vation and pestilence. We pllgrims started of £3,466,000,000. In other words, the income tax and the corporate tax but it on foot 6 days ago from Wilmington, which United Kingdom, even under the present has a special tax upon income derived may be considered the arsenal of the arsenal from property; it bas company taxes; it of democracy. We are convinced that if our press'Qre of its desperate situation, is nearly on a 40:-Percent pay-as-you-go has supertaxes; it has wartime taxes on country is preoccupied. with armaments to profits; it has a general sales tax. the neglect of such humanitarian issues as basis. food for Europe she may save her hide but lose Mr. Sullivan's figures for the Austral­ Canada has not only the individual in­ her soul. ian budget, dealing with the estimates come tax but also a national-defense You, sir, represent a State which is one of for 1940-41, show revenues of £151,- tax, a corporation income tax, an excess­ the many tn our fair land which raise sur­ 000,000 and a slight surplus. In other profits tax, a sales tax, and excise duties plus stocks of food. On the way to your words, the Australian Government in and taxes which have been substantially office we paused in front of the Bureau of spite of its heavy contribution to the ~ar increased upon practically all so-called Surplus Commodities of the Department of luxuries. Agriculture for a few moJLents of silent is practically on a complete pay-as-you~ go basis. Mr. President, I think this letter from prayer of penitence and petition, that out of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Sul­ our abundance a way might be found to Mr. Sullivan's letter shows that the duplicate what was done so successfully in Canadian budget, dealing with the esti­ livan is a very important exhibit. I re­ Belgium in the last war. mates for 1940-41, indicates a revenue of peat, it shows the American people by This being Good Friday, we cannot help about $650,000,000, ordinary expenditures way of a preview what they must expect thinking of the mlllions of innocent victims of about .$1,148,000,000, deficit of $498- to pay into the -Treasury of the United of invasion and blockade who are being cruci­ a: States without much further delay if we fied on a cross of starvation. 000,000, plus an indeterminate amourit are to maintain the national solvency, At your suggestion we have presen ted to which may bring the figures of the deficit and it shows the Congress of the United the Department of State a petition of some to $700,000,000. In other words, even on States what its duty inevitably will be in 6,440 names of persons, many of them the latter basis, Canada is practically on terms of tax responsibility. prominent, who feel as we do on this issue a 50-percent pay-as-you-go basis. I ask that Mr. Sullivan's letter be and urgently request the author..ties con­ So we face the contemplation that the cerned to do their utmost to find a way to printed as a Senate document. United Kingdom, at war, is practically on The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob­ save these people. Other powerful groups a 40-percent pay-as-you-go basis· Can­ have done the same. We urge you, sir, to use jection, it is so ordered. your good offices to the same holy purpose. ada, at war, is on nearly a 50-percent pay-as-y.ou-go basis; Australia, at war, is EXECUTIVE ORDER ESTABLISHING OF­ WAR EXPENDITURES AND TAXATION on practically a 100-percent pay-as-you­ FICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION AND (S. DOC. NO. 47) go besis; but the United States, Mr. Pres­ CIVILIAN SUPPLY ident, though theoretically at peace, is Mr. TAFT. Mr. President, I ask unan­ Mr. VANDENBERG. Mr. President, probably not better than on a 20-percent imous consent that there be printed in on March 18 I asked the Treasury De­ pay-as-you-go basis. It is rather difficult the RECORD an Executive order issued by partment for a statement showing what to make. a dependable American estimate the President on April 11 establishing is being done in other English-speaking because our figures are shifting so rapidly the Office of Price Administration and democracies by way of taxation to main­ and our appropriations and authoriza­ Civilian Supply in the Executive Office tain national solvency in the face of the ~ions are piling up so constantly; but here of the President and defining its func­ expenditures of war. Under date of April Is a preview, I reassert, of the challenge tions and duties. 12, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury which Congress has got to confront in the It seems to me that this Executive John L. Sullivan has given me a com­ near future and which the American order is in fact an act of legislation prehensive and completely illuminating people have got to confront by way of made without any authority that 1 can and a highly significant reply. I think increased taxation unless we are ready find in the statutes. I desire to read to 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD~SENATE 310l . the Senate for a moment part of the and assistance as may be necessary from the carry out and secure compliance with the order, authorizing the Director to- other departments and agencies of the Fed­ provisions of sections 2a and 2c of this order: eral Government, and utilizing the services (1) Section 9 of the Selective Training and Determine and publish, after proper in­ and facilities of such other departments and Service Act of 1940 (Public, No. 783, 76th vestigation, such maximum prices, commis­ agencies to the fullest extent compatible with Cong.). · sions, margins, fees, charges, or other ele­ efficiency, the Administrator shall: (2) Section 120 of the National Defense Act ments of cost or price of materials or com­ a. Take all lawful steps necessary or ap­ (title 50, U. S. C., sec. 80). modities as the Administrator may from propriate in order (1) to prevent price spiral­ time to time deem fair and reasonable; and (3) Section I (15) of title 49, United States ing, rising costs of living, profiteering, and Code. take all lawful and appropriate steps to inflation resulting from market conditions facilitate their observance. (4) The act of October 10, 1940 (Public, No. caused by the diversion of large segments 829, 76th Cong.). That purports at least to give the Ad­ of the Nation's resources to the defense i. Perform the functions and exercise the ministrator power to fix the price of any program, by interruptions to normal sources authority vested in the President by the fol­ commodity, of any article, manufactured of supply. or by other infiuences growing out lowing-named acts, insofar as and only to the of the emergency; (2) to prevent speculative extent that the authority conferred by such or otherwise, in the United States with­ a,ccumulation, withholding, and hoarding acts will, in the opinion of the Administrator. out any authority that I know of from of materials and commodities; (3) to stimu­ enable him to carry out and secure compli­ Congress. We debated for many months late provision of the necessary supply of ma­ ance with the provisions of sections 2a and 2c the question whether we should permit terials and commodities required for civilian of this order: Section 713 (a) -7 of title 15. someone to fix the price of coal, and gave use, in such manner as not to conflict with United States Code, Supplement V; section 4 ..that power. Certainly the authority to the requirements of the War, Navy, and other of the act approved June 7, 1939 (title 50, .fix prices can be given only by legisla­ departments and agencies of the Government, U. S. C., Supp. V, sec. 98c); and section 5 of and of foreign governments, for materials, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation· Act, tion; and there is nothing in this order articles, and equipment needed for defense as amended by the act approved June 25, 1940· which indicates any authority to enforce (such requirements are hereinafter referred to (Public, No. 664, 76th Cong.); subject to the the regulation of prices. as "mUitary defense needs"); and (4) after disapproval by the Secretary of War or the I may say that I think price-fixing the satisfaction of m111tary defense needs, to Secretary of the Navy of each proposed action measures are necessary. To prevent in­ provide, through the determination of poli­ thereunder. flation I think it will be desirable to fix cies and the formulation of plans and pro­ j. Advise upon proposed or existing legisla­ prices in order to hold prices down; but grams, for the equitable distribution of the tion, and recommend such additional legis­ residual supply of such materials and com­ lation as may be necessary or desirable, relat­ if that is done it should be done aiter modities among competing civilian demands. proper legislation by Congress, . consid­ ing to prices, rents, or the increase in supply b. Make studies of the Nation's civllian and the equitable distribution of materials ering all the things that should be taken requirements for materials . and commodities, and commodities for civil1an use: ·into consideration, and it should not be the supply of goods and services, the status k. Keep the President informed in respect ·done by Executive order. If, under the and trend of prices and factors thereof, and to progress made in carrying out this order; present status of affairs, the President the impact of the defense program upon and perform such other related duties as the 'of the United States· may fix prices and civlllan living standards; exercise the powers President may from time to time assign or of the President in requesting such studies delegate to him. margins and practices in every industry pursuant to secti.on 336 (a) of title III of the in the United States, then I say Congress Tariff Act· of 1930 (title 19, U. S. C., sec. 1336 . 3. The Administrator. may provide. for the may just as well go home. If the Presi­ (a)); and conduct such investigations, hold ~nternal organization and man_!tgement of the· dent has ·that power, he has every other such hearings, and obtain such reports as Office of Price Administration and Civilian power that he chooses to exercise may be necessary or desirable to carry out Supply, and may appoint such advisory com­ through Executive order. this order. mittees as he finds necessary to the perform­ c. Determine and publish, after proper in­ ance of his duties and responsibilities. The I ask that this order be incorporated Administrator shall obtain the President's in the RECORD in order that Congress vestigation, such maximum prices, commis­ sions, margins, fees, charges, or other ele-· approval for the establishment of the prin­ may see legislation that is going on in ments of cost or price of materials or com­ cipal subdivisions of the Office and the ap­ this country, in a matter in which legis­ modities as the Administrator may from time pointment of the heads thereof. lation is not authorized, by persons who to time deem fair and reasonable; and take 4. There shall be in the Office of Price Ad­ are not authorized to enact Jaws. all lawful and appropriate steps to faciiitate ministration and Civilian Supply a Price Ad­ The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob­ their observance. ministration Committee consisting of the jection, it is so ordered. d. Advise and make recommendations to Administrator as Chairman, the Secretary of The order is as follows: other departments and agencies, whenever the the Treasury, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Administrator deems it appropriate, in re­ Federal Loan Administrator, the Chairman of EXECUTIVE ORDER spect to the purchase or acquisition of ma­ the Tariff Commission. the Chairman of the ESTABLISHING THE OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRA• terials and commodities by the Government, Federal Trade Commission, the Director Gen­ TION AND CIVILIAN SUPPLY IN THE EXECU• the prices to be paid therefor, and in respect eral and Associate Director General of the TIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND DEFINING to such of their other activities as may affect Office of Production Management, or suc}l. ITS FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES the price of materials and commodities. alternate as each may designate, and such e. Inform the Office of Production Manage­ other members as the President may subse­ By virtue of the authority vested in me quently appoint. The Committee shall from by the Constitution and the statutes, and ment of the amount, character, and relative importance of materials and commodities time to time, upon request by the Adminis­ in order to define further the functions and trator, make findings and submit recom­ duties of the Office for Emergency Manage­ needed for civiiian use; and advise and con­ sult with the Office of Production Manage­ mendations to the Administrator in respect ment with respect to the national emergency to the establishment of maximum prices as declared by the President on September 8, ment with reference to its procurement, pro­ duction planning, priority, and other actions commissions, margins, fees, charges, and 1939, for the purpose of avoiding profiteering other elements of cost or price of materials or and unwaiTanted price rises, and of facilitat­ the effect of which may be to diminish the supply of materials and commodities available commodities as provided under paragraph 2c ing an adequate supply and the equitable above. · distribution of materials and commodities for for civilian use. · civilian use, and finding that the stab111.zation f. Establish and maintain liaison with such 5. Within the limits of such funds as may of prices is in the inter.est of national de­ departments and agencies· of the Government be appropriated to the Office of Price Adminis­ fense and that this order is necessary to and with such other public or private agen­ tration and Civilian Supply or as may be increase the efficiency of the defense pro­ cies and persons as the Administrator may allocated to it by the President through the gram, it is hereby ordered: deem necessary or desirable to carry out the Bureau of the Budget, the Administrator may 1. There ·shall be in the Office for Emer­ provisions of this order. employ necessary personnel and make pro.. gency Management of the Executive Office g. Formulate programs designed to assure vision for necessary supplies, facilities, and of the President an Office of Price Adminis- adequate standards for, and the most effective services. However, the Office of Price · Ad­ . tration and Civilian Supply, at the head of use of, consumer goods; stimula·i;e the utili­ ministration and Civilian Supply shall use which shall be an Administrator appointed zation of substitutes by civilians for con­ such statistical, informational, fiscal, person­ by the President. The Administrator shall sumer goods and commodities of limited sup­ nel, and other general business services and receive compensation at such rate as the ply; develop programs with the object of facilities as may be made available to it President shall determine and, in addition, stabilizing rents; and promote civtlian activi­ through the Office for Emergency Manage­ shall be entitled to actual and necessary ties which will contribute to the purposes of ment or other agencies of the Government. transportation, subsistence, and other ex­ this order. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. penses incidental to the performance of his h. Recommend to the President the exer­ THE WHITE HOUSE, April 11, 1941. duties. cise of the authority vested in him by the [No. 8734] 2. Subject to such policies, regulations, following-named acts, whenever, in the opin­ and directions as the President may from ion of the Administrator, such action by the Mr. BARKLEY. Mr. President, I feel time to ttme prescribe, and with such advice President will enable the Administrator to compelled to insist that the mornina 3102 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE APRIL 15 hour be devoted to morning-hour busi­ By Mr. GEORGE: ADDRESS BY SENATOR AIKEN AT COLUM­ ness. I have complained numerous times S. J. Res. 67. Joint resolution authorizing BUS, OHIO the purchase of foreign merchant vessels for against the making of speeches in the national defense, and for other purposes; to [Mr. LANGER asked and obt,ained leave to morning hour. The complaint does not the Committee on Commerce. have printed in the RECORD an address de­ seem to have done any good, and I do livered by Senator .AIKEN at Columbus, Ohio, not want to make any point about it now; HOUSE BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTION on April 4, 1941, which appears in the Ap­ but Members of the Senate sit here wait­ REFERRED pe~dix.] ing for the Chair to call through the The following bills and joint resolution JACKSON DAY DINNER ADDRESS BY morning program so that they may intro­ were severally read twice by their titles SENATOR McFARLAND duce bills or resolutions or insert matters and referred to the Committee on the [Mr. LEE asked and obtained leave to have in the RECORD. District of Columbia: printed in the RECORD an address by Senator The morning hour was not set aside H. R. 4057. An act to authorize the Federal McFARLAND at the Jackson Day dinner in for speeches, and I shall object to any Security Administrator to accept gifts for Phoenix, Ariz., on March 29, 1941, which ap­ more speeches being made in the morning the Freedmen's Hospital and to provide for pears in the Appendix.] the administration of such gifts; ADDRESS BY THOMAS D. SAMFORD BE­ hour, because it can be done only by H. R. 4083. An act to enlarge the powers of unanimous consent. I wish the Chair the property clerk of the Police Department FORE THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF would go through the morning-hour call of the District of Columbia to dispose of UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS so that Senators who have other business property coming into his possession; [Mr. BANKHEAD asked and obtained leave may leave the Chamber if they do not H. R. 4131. An act to amend the District to have printed in the RECORD an address want to listen to speeches. After the of Columbia Trame Act, as amended; delivered by Thomas D. Samford before the morning-hour business is over, any Sena­ H. R. 4221. An act for the relief of Charlotte Third Annual Conference of United States tor, of course, is at liberty to make as long E. Hunter; and Attorneys at Washington, D. C., March 13, H. J. Res. 145. Joint resolution authorizing 1941, which appears in the Appendix.] a speech as he desires on any subject the Federal Security Administrator to permit he pleases; but I hope Senators will ob­ the American Red Cross to construct needed THE LATE DR. ANNIE J. CANNON serve the rule in regard to the business recreational buildings on the St. Elizabeths [Mr. HUGHES asked and obtained leave to of the morning hour. Hospital reservation. have printed in the REcORD an article relative The VICE PRESIDENT. Reports of APPROPRIATIONS FOR STATE, COMMERCE, to the late Dr. Annie J. Cannon, which ap­ pears in the AppendiX.] committees are in order. AND THE JUDICIARY-AMENDMENT REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON THE Mr. HATCH submitted an amendment ST. LAWRENCE RIVER DEVELOPMENT JUDICIARY intende.Q"' ~ · ~.0.. "" "" Grade !; ~ a!::; tired) on active duty on March 25, 1941, item. s:l.Q .. 1 s:l §"'!!: ~~ were as follows: (c) The number of men sentenced by court 4) .8 a! '§ 0 ·- "' ~1 ..c:l .. El ::l ;8~;. .s~ martial to discharge is negligible. At present 4) ::l ~ "0 ,Q ::; ~5 Com- Chief the average number is 67. This category ~lot z -< -< -< A via· En- might well, therefore, be eliminated as an mis· warrant tion listed Total ------sioned and cadets men exception. Rear admiraL __ 1 I 70 83 15 0 170 officers warrant (d) There are no men detailed to the Naval Captain ______4 302 357 58 25 510 --- . Mllitia. Commander _____ 8 605 768 114 111 1,021 ------Lieutenant com- Regulars •••• 1, 503 225 ----iss· 38, 551 40,279 (e) The number of men furloughed with­ mander ------15 1, 134 1,486 98 372 1, 914 Reserves .••• 1, 087 12 8, 572 9,829 out pay is infinitesimal 1n comparison with Lieutenant ______30 2, 269 1, 928 62 0 3,828 Retired .•••• 125 8 2 135 Lieutenant (jun------the total strength. ior grade) ______------3,182 e·203 19 TotaL. .•. 2, 715 245 158 47, 125 50,243 (f) There is no Flying Corps. Ensign_------} 42 1, 233 4 g}'5,417 (g) Although men in trade schools were by - TotaL ____ ------Recruiting of enlisted men in the regular law excepted in computing the authorized 100 37,562 7, 058 370 508 412,760 Marine Corps was stopped on December 1, enlisted strength, the Attorney General, in an 1940, on which date the corps had reached opinion rendered June 9, 1931, held that the 1 Maximum number, except during war, fixed by the the limit allowed at the present time. Since provision limiting the number to 14,000 was act of June 23, 1938. temporary legislation only. Actually this 2 58 officers carried in these grades instead of rear February 10, 1941, 2,146 men have enlisted admiral. 1n the Marine Corps Reserve. number is in excess of normal requirements, a 5~2 percent of 137,485. The phrase "authorized enlisted strength" but the committee believe the restriction 4 572 percent of 232,000. as applied to personnel of the Navy is defined should be removed. In view of the Attorney by law (U.S. C., title 34, sec. 152) as the total General's opinion, the Navy Department has Under existing law and under the terms of number of enlisted men allowed by law, ex­ not regarded these men as excepted, and the bill, the authorized enlisted strength of clusive of- they have been counted in with other men the Marine Corps is 20 percent of the so­ . (a) The Hospital .Corps. in computations of actual strength. called total authorized enlisted strength ot (b) Apprentice seamen. While the "authorized enlisted strength" the Navy. With 232,000 and 300,000 made the (c) Men sentenced by court martial to dis­ as defined by existing law is important in peacetime and emergency authorized enlisted charge. itself, it is also important as forming the ba­ strengths for the Navy, the Marine Corps (d) Men detailed for duty with the Naval sis for other comptitations. In this connec­ strengths would then be 46,400 and 60,000, Militia. tion It should be noted that the figure of respectively. (e) Men furloughed without pay. 131,485 men is not used for these computa­ The act of June 23, 1938, in amending the (f) Enlisted men of the Flying Corps. tions, but, instead, the figure 137,485, the act of May 29, 1934, provides in part: (g) Men under instruction in trade schools. difference being occasioned by those laws "SEC. 15. (b) • • • hereafter commis­ The following is the situation with respect which define the basis as the "total author­ sioned officers of the Marine Corps shall be ~o the seven excepted categories: ized enlisted strength of the active list of authorized In number in the same propor­ (a) The Hospital Corps of the Navy was the Navy, exclusive of the Hospital Corps, tion to authorized enlisted strength and established by the act of August 29, 1916, and prisoners undergoing sentence of discharge, shall be distributed in grades, promoted, re­ 1ts strength fixed at 3 Y2 percent of the au­ enlisted men detailed for duty with the Naval tired, and discharged in like manner and thorized enlisted strength of the Navy and Militia, and the Flying Corps." Thus, for with the same relative conditions in all re­ Marine Corps. Under existing law the max­ these computations, 4 categories of men are spects as provided for commissioned officers imum number of enlisted men allowed in the excepted instead of 7, but the only category of the line of' the Navy, by existing law, or Hospital Corps is 7,933. which changes the figure is that of appren­ by laws hereafter enacted, except as may be (b) The exclusion of apprentice seamen ap­ tice seamen, which, as previously explained, necessary to adapt the said provisions to the pears to be historical rather than logical; represents 6,000 men. Marine Corps • • • ." 3108 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE APRIL 15 · The following table is 1llustrative of how men permissible under existing law 205,000. GENERAL PULASKI'S MEMORIAL DAY this law is applied and what the situation At the present rate of recruiting, it is estimat­ wm be upon enactment of this bUl: ed that the legal emergency strength will be The joint resolution sole Senator KILGORE (West Virginia as different course. When we have finished tor any more information as to the yet has no other) calling on him to support our business today we will adjourn until attitude of other Senators in this body this resolution in behalf of the people who Friday, unless my motion is voted down; or of members of the committee on his elected him. and unless there_ is some business to resolution than any other Senator can Please send me a copy. of the resolution. give him, because I do not make it my Yours very truly, transact on Friday and Saturday, we will Mr. and Mrs. JED W. RoBINSON. then adjourn until Monday or Tuesday. business to go around and canvass Sena­ I The Senator from New aampshire can tors as to their attitude. may have PASADENA, CALIF., April 8, 194t. bring his proposition before the Senate fallen down in the performance of my Ron. CHAS. WM. TOBEY, at this very moment by a motion if he duties, but I have never regarded it as a Senator, New Hampshire, desires to do so, and if he thinks well part of my duties to canvass and poll in Washington, D. C. pf the chances of favorable action-upon advance to find out how Senators intend DEAR SENATOR: Want to commend you for to vote on matters which have not yet introducing Senate bill against canvoying or his proposition. patroling of vessels to any bel11gerent nation. Mr. TOBEY. How much chance has even been reported to the Senate-from the committees to which they have been Have written our Senator and Congressman a sri ow ball in hell? referred. asking support of your bill. Mr. BARKLEY. If the Senator desires If 1776 was a measure to keep us out of to compare the Senate to hell, and him­ (The letters and telegrams referred to war, your bill should be voted on favorably in Mr. ToBEY's speech are as follows:) by every Senator and Congressman as I be­ self to a snowball, then let him make the lieve this is or will be our next step toward comparison. AUSTIN APPLIANCE Co., war. Denver, Colo., April 12, 1941. The Senator knows there is no business Senator TOEEY, If I can be of any assistance to you, please on the calendar. The Senator knows it advise. Senate Office Building, Very truly yours, would be useless to meet tomorrow or Washington, D. c. Thursday; and, in fact, we might even DEAR SIR: Congratulations on your resolu­ E. A. GUMMIG, M. D. adjourn until Monday, if it were not tion. We believe that 80 percent of the for the constitutional provision that the Americans are back of your resolution and GREENFIELD, MASS., April 8, 1941. Senate cannot adjourn for more than 3 the other 20 percent should be. DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: I have just been days without the consent of the other Sincerely, listening to your talk on convoying of our W. E. AUSTIN. sh~ps, and I am trying, through my tears, to body. AUSTIN APPLIANCE Co. wnte you my blessing. If the Senator is so anxious to put the As a mother of two sons, my pray~rs will Senate on record with respect to his res­ CHICAGO, ILL., April 13, 1941, be for you and your bill and may God bless olution, he can do so now by making a Hon. CHARLES W. ToBEY, you for your efforts. motion, and he will ascertain how many Washington, D. C. Sincerely, votes it will recei-,e. It might be carried; DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: Congratulations on Mrs. MATTIE MANN. I do not know. I have not made any your resolution to oppose the convoying of canvass of the Senate, any more than I · ships to Britain. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF., April 6, 1941. The warmongers have admitted the con­ Ron. CHARLES TOBEY, have made a canvass of the Committee voying of ships means war. Please use. all of United States Senator, on Foreign Relations as to how it will your influence to oppose and fight convoying. Washington, D. C. vote on the resoluti0n. But the Sena­ Yours truly, . SIR: Now that the lend-lease bill has 1 tor has no right to criticize the Senate or D. J. McDANIEL. - passed, this country is facing one more step 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 3111 in the chain of events that is leading this will be gloriously rewarded by the people. that this absurd state of mind can't be country toward war. Almost to a man, the people are opposed to quickly eradicated. We feel that, had the issue of convoys been our going into this war, and have relied upon I am still convinced that the Swiss system included in the lend-lease bill, the blll would the leaders to keep us out. Many are con­ of universal m1litary training is the best for have been defeated. The American people fused and frightened, and hardly know what us. If every man knew that at a certain age love liberty and hate war. Therefore they to say or do since promises made before the he would be called for 3 months' intensive are unalterably opposed to anything that election by both parties have been so lightly basic training and would be subject to 2 leads this country into a war not of our own cast aside. You may be sure, though, that the weeks' field work a year for 10 years there­ Plaking. people are stm opposed to war. after, that, if he liked the life, he might go Won't you, as a representative of the people Thank you for the fight that you are mak­ to successive noncom and om.cers' camps or in the United States Senate, use every influ­ ing, and I pray that you may be successful. enlist at good wages in the mechanized forces ence and power at your command to see that Sincerely, there'd be none of this horrible uncertainty ~esolution No. 62 becomes the law of the LUCY G. STUART, which now fills the lives of all our young land and prohibits the use of our Navy for WEBsTER GRoVES, Mo. men. Canada, at war, calls for only o{ convoy duty. months, but this is for a defensive force only. Can it be, as President Conant told · Convoys mean war. Democracy cannot live MEIGS, GA., April 9, 1941. 1n war. me last June, that a vote for the Burke-Wads­ Senator c. W. ToBEY, worth bill was a vote to bring us into war? Respectfully submitted. . Washington, D. C. JENNIE V. SCOTT. As I look out on the pleasant, everyday life DEAR Sm: I have learned with deep appre­ of a New England country town, I know that Mrs. CHAS. H. HOLCOMB. ciation of your effort to keep America out of DAVID F. ScOTT. it's towns like that the country over that we war by introducing an anticonvoy resolution. would unite to defend, but there can be noth­ I take this method of showing my anxiety ing but hatred, dissension, bitterness, and MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 8, 1941. for peace. You are doing a much-needed ruin for us in an overseas war for an eco­ Hon. CHARLES ToBEY, work. nomic theory. Senate Office Building, If I knew the name of the House Repre­ I wish you all success in your battle against Washington, D . C. sentative who took a part in your joint reso­ convoys and I congratulate you on your stand DEAR SENATOR: I heard your very good talk lution, it would give me great pleasure to against all propaganda and for genuine over radio tonight and also called several of thank him also. Americanism. my friends to listen in, and we agreed we Respectfully, yery truly yours, should have more Senators like you who are MILDRED HICKS. H. s. STUCKEY. :fighting for the interest of the American (I vote in the white Democratic primary, people. and I wish there were more Democrats sharing your view of war.) DOYLESTOWN, PA., April 9, 1941. You mentioned about 85 percent of the The Honorable Senator CHARLES TOBEY. American people are against America's entry DEAR Sm: We have listened to you on the into the war. I believe the sentiment against EXETER, N. H., April 10, 1941. radio, and I want you to know that we are war is getting stronger daily and people are The Honorable CHARLES W. TOBEY, back of your bill to prohibit convoys 100 per­ getting tired of being taxed for the European United States Senate, Washington, D. C. cent. I am sure that I speak also for 1,000,000 \var. After all thi& is not our war. DEAR Sm: I have watched your efforts to other mothers of America. · If America would mind her own business keep the Government's plighted word to the If this is a country for the people and by instead of pledging aid to all the countries people with the greatest admiration. Be­ the people, and the majority are against us who fight the Axis powers the war would yond a doubt convoys for contraband would getting into this war, how is it we are headed probably be over by this time. All we are be a most provocative step of aggression. that way? doing is sticking out our necks and in the There seems, however, to be little interest in In the name of peace and defense of our end we wlll be the ones who are fighting alone safeguarding the welfare of our own country country being taken into a foreign war ts and paying for it too. What assurance have among the unthinking mass of legislators despicable. If our neighbor's house was de­ we that tne very ones we are helping will not governed by war hysteria and orders . from liberately set on fire we would not make Jt turn their wrath on us? higher up. I want England to win and I worse by throwing all our furniture and our­ America for the Americanfl. should be wUling to do and spend anything selves into it but try to protect our own Yours truly, we may legitimately to accomplish that end. house and also help our neighbor save his. MARY ANN LAST. This in spite of the iniquities of the Ver­ Our grateful thanks to you for your brave· sailles Treaty that brought on this irreden­ stand in these critical days. JAMESTOWN, N.Y., April10, 1941. tist war of vengeance and the wholly in­ I am not a pacifist nor an appeaser but a. Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY, sincere and disingenious part played by the 100-percent American mother whose ancestors Washington, D. C. politicos of England and France during the settled in Newburyport, Mass., in the late DEAR SENATOR: You are absolutely right in past 20 years. They produced in Germany a 1600's. your opposition to convoys. Convoys mean type of behavior which cannot persist in Very sincerely yours, human nature too long, but which must be Mrs. EDWARD HISTAND. war and war means bringing to AJ;nerica the repressed while it exists. But, having warned same conditions we deplore in Europe. France and England of this, are we in any Sincerely, way .responsible or directly concerned? I LEHIGH UNIVERSITY' SAMUEL A. CARLSON. BETHLEHEM, PA., Ap?'il 9, 1941. think not. I should hate to think of Nazi Senator CHARLES W. ToBEY, arrogance after a victory, but do I think Senate Office Building, Washington, D. C. EDGERTON, WIS., March 8, 1941. Americans should die for Britain's tortuous DEAR Sm: The deception of the people prac­ Senator CHARLES A. ToBEY, continental policy? Emphatically not. We have our own politicos' mistakes to pay for. ticed by the President in his pre-election Washington, D. C. The witch doctors of economics say that we promises about war, in the 1776 bill, and DEAR Sm: No, we won't or don't like war at under the William Allen White committee, any time or anywhere, and we don't want could not survive a. German victory as a democracy. Could we survive a war as a now faces an 83-percent majo·rity opposed to c;:onvoys, don't want union now, and we, the democracy? There was abundant economic the final step. people, don't want war. prophecy about the last war, almost all I hereby pledge my efforts to prevent our· Thank you for the splendid talk. entry into any foreign war. wrong. Scientists say that we are only on Yours very truly, the frontiers of our development. If we can­ Mrs. R. A. PETT. GILBERT E. DOAN, Head. MARLETTE PETT. not survive and keep our souls in the 7,000,- (Money included if you need it.-D.) RoY PETT. 000 square miles of the United States and JACK PETT. Canada perhaps we shouldn't. I believe we could, and it is something to retain our na· BmMINGHAM, ALA., tional integrity and not become the appanage April10, 1941. Hon. CHARLES TOBEY, of any bloc. DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: Pursuant to my Washington, D. C. The Army is now apparently in the saddle policy of commending those Members of the DEAR SENATOR TOBEY! I have just listened and behaving with increasing arrogance to­ Congress who are still fighting to obey the to your very fine speech on the radio, and ward those who believe in the value of mere will of 85 percent of the American people, want to thank you for it. I am convinced education-a common step on the road to the and who have the courage to oppose the in­ that the Senators and Congressmen today totalitarian state. The drafted men will now sidious and misleading public statements of have the greatest opportunity to serve their set out at the President's good pleasure. Men the cohorts of this administration, I want country that they have ever had, or perhaps "can't be taught to be good soldiers" in a. to thank you for your effective work, both on Will ever have. I also believe that those who year. It is apparently becoming plain that the Senate floor and over the radio. :fight against the use of convoys or other meas­ the average American, in spite of our lurid I have a son, who in a year and a half ures which will surely get us into this war, reputation, is not interested in killing, and would be of age for the draft; and while he 3118 ·coNGR·ESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE APRIL 15 had injuries in prep-school football that Mothers of America and citizens ·of Orange It surely is a sad state of affairs, as you so would never permit him to be a first-line County, Calif., assembled in mass meeting in clearly stated in your splendid appeal to the soldier, there are other services he could ade· Olive Civic Auditorium, insist that the Con­ American people, that our administration quately manage. There is not a real Ameri· gress of the United States, in keeping with seems bent on again plunging America in can boy nor a patriotic American mother the will of our people, immediately adopt the war, and as Senator WHEELER so well put it, who would not fight to the last farm ditch in Tobey resolution, Joint Resolution 62, bar­ "to plow under every fourth American boy." our own defense; but neither these boys nor ring convoy by any part of our armed forces of Surely, if this is, as Lincoln once said, "a gov­ their parents are willing for them to die in war or other materials to countries at war. ernment of the people, by the people, and for the mountain fastnesses of the Balkans or NATIONAL LEGION OF MOTHERS OF the people" then the people should have a the deserts of Africa to maintain the British AMERICA, COUNCIL No. 2, voice and vote in this all-important matter, Empire. If you could read many of the let­ IvA McCLINTOCK, Secretary. and given a chance to be heard. The people ters now beginning to appear in the local had a chance to vote on prohibition, which papers, it would be apparent that the people DENVER, COLO., April 9, 1941, is by far less important than war. I feel that are becoming aware of the fact that we are DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: I heard you speak the people of the United States are sold bag again about to become dupes of "perfidious over the radio last night and heartily agree and baggage to a foreign policy, which they Albion." A letter in a recent issue of Life with you. I feel that convoying of the sup­ utterly abhor and detest, and it seems to me magazine even contained a suggestion of plies to Great Britain by our ships will be the that it is up to the determined effort of men, which I have often thought, that before the last straw. like yourself, Senators WHEELER, NYE, WALSH, American people are asked to give mobile If we would expend the same amount of and other patriots, to keep us out of war, soup kitchens and ambulances, the Queen of energy and money toward preparing our own in spite of the efforts of Mr. Roosevelt and England and others in the royal family United f:ltates for any emergency in the fu· his associates. I therefore appeal to you, Mr. throw their jewels into the war-effort pot. ture that we are expending -toward other so­ ToBEY, to keep up the fight, use the press, the The question is, Can this overwhelming pub­ called democracies we would be so well de­ radio, and every other lawful means to make lic opinion be crystallized or rather mobilized fended and so well organized that no nation null and void the efforts of those who, while in time to stop Mr. Roosevelt's manifest de· on the globe would look in our direction for unwilling to shoulder the gun, would never­ termination? It certainly cannot, if the Con• conquest. theless like to see our American boys again gress is as gullible and weak-kneed as they We had best look to our own country's slaughtered on the battlefields of Europe. seemed about the so-called lend-lease bill. needs. Again, Mr. ToBEY, I wish to congratulate Exactly what many of us feared has come to What will be the feeling of our people when you on your fine patriotism, and hope and pass. We cannot right the wrongs of the one of our beautiful big battleships is blown pray that you will continue to foil the war­ world; we still have many to set in order at to bits while convoying and taking with it mongers in their wicked and sinful efforts home; and we certainly cannot send expedi· many hundred fine American boys? to plunge America into another European tionary forces when there is not enough Mine is only one small voice, but I do war. Thank you, Senator, and may God bless equipment even for adequate training in the so hope that the thinkers and the people we camps. you richly for your fine work. depend on to guide the course of our country Respectfully yours, I am particularly riled at the slogan that in the best way will look out for this coun­ we are absolutely dependent for existence on try's welfare first. JOHN A. BENDER, Native-born American pastor here the British Navy. If true, then we should My vote is very much against our ships remedy that condition with all pOISsible speed, convoying. at the same church 35 years. and not send our equipment to fall into Ger· Sincerelt, man hands. Mrs. ZANA W. ROBERTS. MANCHESTER, N. H. Just a little more British propaganda and DEAR SENATOR: Being the mother Of five high-handed remarks from their statesmen HANOVER, N.H., April12, 1941. good American boys, three of which would be and I will be as neutral as Lindbergh. Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY, taken in this terrible war. I will give my Churchill asked for "tools"-his last speech Washington, D. C. boys to defend the good United States of plainly demanded .convoys. How can even DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: I have just been America. But, dear God, forbid to lose them. the Members of Congress be so obtuse? And listening to the Columbia radio program, in Keep up your fighting spirit. No convoy why does Britain not call on her own Em· which you participated. I wish to express for United States of America. pire? There are teeming millions in India; my admiration for your courage in the ad­ Sincerely, and the French Provinces of Canada-cer­ vocacy of what are now unpopular views. MRs. W. J. NORTON. tainly in as much potential danger as the I am glad to be a resident of a State which United States-have practically struck. I has one Senator who is not carried away by took especial note of the fact that the class the prevailing hysteria and who is able to see SUGAR HILL, N. H., April 9, 1941. inclusive of the 19-20-year-old English boys the facts of the situation as they actually are. Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY, was just called up a few months ago. Most sincerely yours, Washington, D. C. It is little short of tragic that our. own RAYMOND W. JONES, DEAR SENATOR: I don't suppose that any• Government is not more chauvinistic. Un­ ' thing I may say wm make my viewe in re­ less the President now has a "world savior" THE FmsT NATIONAL BANK gards the present situation any clearer nor complex, it is difficult to understand how an OF SOUTHAMPTON, that I need to restate my· appreciation of official, reportedly so astute politically, could Southampton, N.Y., April11, 1941. your valiant work in behalf of our remaining have been so completely "sold." Senator CHARLES W. TOBEY, out of the war. However, I do feel that your Perhaps a benign fate is intervening to Washington, D. C. public statements have had weight in your save the American people from chaos by a DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: Permit me to say that own State. I have sensed a considerable plunge into what Thomas Mann predicts wiU I was very much impressed with your recent cooiing off in this part of New Hampshire. be a 30-years war. I refer to the accession radio address in connection with your anti­ A few months ago there seemed to be a of BoB REYNOLDS to the chairmanship of the convoy bill. feeling that we could have our cake and Military Affairs Committee. · I would therefore like to take this oppor­ eat it; now there is a feeling of fear that No smear campaign can touch the World tunity to advise you that I am very much perhaps we have been blind fools led down War veterans. During that junket, the able­ against the United States using our ships the road to war by a man who, while he bodied Mr. Roosevelt was behind a desk, not a manned by our American men to convoy any declares he hates it, is sending our boys di· trench. merchant ships to Great Britain. rectly into it. The people want the aid to stop at mate­ I am absolutely in favor of helping England Certainly the work that you have done rial. Apparently nothing changes that in supplying her with any and every article and the work done by Senator WHEELER has opinion; and those who understood the im­ that will help her beat Hitler, but I am not not gone unnoticed and although I know you plications of the lend-lease bill and still in favor of any of our men being killed, nor have been called everything from a "red" voted for it, betrayed their constituents ~ our ships being destroyed by direct inter­ to "fifth columnist" the sane, sober people One Alabama Senator publicly stated that vention. back home know that you are right. he was opposed to convoys or expeditionary Yours very truly, In these days of stress a man has but one forces, emphatically. It will be interesting E. R. MANNING. thing to guide him, his conscience. Regard­ to see how he talks and votes when the ques­ less of how unpopular consciences may be tion comes up-if it is permitted to be put ST. MARK'S LUTHERAN CHURCH, today they are the only guideposts aud signs as per your resolution-f3quarely up to the Scranton, Pa., April 8, 1941. an honest man has. I feel that although Senate. The Honorable Senator TOBEY. the propaganda machinery may not love you Yours sincerely, MY DEAR SIR: I had the pleasure of listen­ that you will have yourself to live with ln ELIZABETH T. WELLER. ing to your masterly and patriotic plea, on the future and it will be a much more pleas­ (Mrs. Thompson Weller.) behalf of your amendment to prevent con­ ant companionship because you have not let voying of American ships, or any ships, for your better self down in thiS crisis·. OLIVE, CALIF., April 9, 1941. that matter, by American ships. You and Very truly yours, Senator CHARLEs ToBEY, your fellow patriots should make a nightly, - MYLES D. BLANCHARD, Senate Office Building: daily appeal on behalf of your resolution, the Minister, Community Church. Resolved, That the members of the Orange sole aim of which is to keep America out of P. S.-I know that you are very busy. Oounty Division of the National Legion of war. Don't bother to acknowledge this. 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 3119 ST. ANSELM'S, April10, 1941. Los ANGELES, CALIF., April 15, 1941, and pray that Britain Is the victor in her DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: You have my sup­ Senator TOBEY, fight against Germany and Italy. My opinion port on your anticonvoy resolution. I ·hope United States Senate, of sending American boys to :fight the wars that you will be able to reverse the trend Washington, D. C.: of Europe has been described by an editor of toward war. Bunker Hill Democratic Club, Forty-fourth a newspaper. The editor wrote: "We do not I shall be in Washington the beginning of Assembly District, unanimously went on rec­ consider it our duty, now or ever, to back up next week to attend the annual meeting of ord at meeting tonight against' convoying Great Britain every time she gets herself into the Catholic Association for International ships by United States Navy. a dog fight over the decaying carcass of Peace at Trinity College. I am planning to D. A. SULLIVAN, Chairman. Europe. If Britain gets the impression-for stay at the Oblate Scholasticate at 391 Mich­ the second time in the last 25 years-that igan Avenue NE. If I have a chance and if we'll run to her aid every time she gets into you are not too busy I shall try to call on LEBANON, N. H., April 10, 1941. a mess, then, to put It bluntly, we're In for you. Hon. CHARLES TOBEY, a hell of a time ahead." Moreover, the fact With best wishes for a happy Easter, Washington, D. C. still prevails, the majority of the American Yours sincerely, DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: Enjoyed your radio people believes that democracy is best served EDWARD F. ANGLURI, 0. s. B. address on convoys. I think your resolution by keeping American boys out of World should be adopted and am advising Senator War II. BRIDGES accordingly. ROSLINDALE, MASS., April 6, 1941. Are we a nation of appeasers? No. A thou­ Sincerely, sand times no. No nation Is being appeased DEAR SENATOR TOBEY: Thank you for all MELVIN B. DUNBAR. your efforts to keep this country at peace. by the United States. I am writing you today to urge you to do Let America fight for her self-interest by all possible to defeat any idea of convoys. JACKSON, MISS., April 1, 1941. building up such a powerful military ma­ Never mind what the newspapers will say Hon. CHARLES W. TOBEY, chine that no nation or combination of na­ about you or about the way the people are United States Senate, Washington, D. C. tions dare attack. Let us serve America. supposed to feel. The common people of this MY DEAR SENATOR: For many months I've and the rest of the world by preserving sanity country do not want war. Convoys mean considered expressing to you my opinions rel­ in America for the day of peace and recon­ shooting and shooting means war. Total ative to sending American boys to fight the struction. Let's be cool-headed, but not soft­ war for this country means slavery for gen­ wars of Europe. As a youth I now express my headed. Today, let the wlll of the masses erations. opinions. be told again and again to the President and Keep up the fight and defeat this idea of Please do not doubt my loyalty to Ameri­ to the Congress of the United States, "Keep canism. No person, party, or organization of American boys out of Europe." convoys. I know you can be depended on Would the slaughter of thousands and to fight for the right. any kind has asked that I write to you. I never have been a member of any political thousands of American boys in Europe be a. Sincerely, curse or a blessing to the safety and strength HELEN KELLEY. party or organization which advocates the overthrow of our constitutional form of gov­ of Americanism? Surely, most of us believe ernment in the United States. And having that the safety and strength of Americanism ST. LoUIS, Mo., transcends every consideration of life, prop­ Good Friday, A. D., 1941. been a citizen of the Untted States during all of my past life, of Irish and Dutch parentage, erty, or foreign interest. MY DEAR SENATOR: In memory of Him who I believe that you believe in the following said, "Blessed are the peacemakers," please and being a loyal American in both thought and action, I trust that I write without doubt great truths, which are printed in every issue do all you can to keep our country from tak­ of a dally· newspaper of my State: "There are ing any part in this grievous war. of my loyalty to my country. Today Britain requests our aid "short of disloyalties' and there are crimes which shock Let us not forget that entry into this war our sensib111ties, which may bring suffering would probably mean the death of our social war." With the maJority of the American upon those who are touched by their im­ order. Please make it possible to feed the people, I believe that our country should aid mediate results, but there is no disloyalty and hungry and the starving in Europe, and Britain "short of war." Undoubtedly aid no crime In all the category of human weak­ work for peace with justice to all. "short of war" is dlfficult to define, but is it nesses which compares with the failure of May God guide you. not possible to give aid without wrath or probity in the conduct of public trust. The Sincerely, appeasement? I do not believe that true breaking down of the faith of a people in GEO. H. BALL, JR. patriotism means that the American people the honesty of their government and in the are to become "yes" people to false propa­ integrity of their institutions, the lowering of ganda or irrational emotions, often controlled the respect for standards of honor which pre­ JERSEY CITY, N. J., April 7, 1941. by selfishness or sentiment. Senator CHARLES WILLIAM TOBEY, vail in high places, are crimes for which We citizens know that some men of public punishment can never atone." Senate Office Building, trust, men who know more about interna­ Washington. D. C. v~ry truly yours, tional affairs than the average man, are tell­ ARNOLD LEE HINDMAN. DEAR SENATOR ToBEY: Please vote against ing America to wake up and follow us. Their convoying ships to England. We want to right and duty is to Inform America about in­ LAKEWOOD, OHIO, April 12, 1941. keep our sons from going over there. God ternational affairs. But these men of public give you strength to carry on. Senator ToBEY, trust must remember that true patriotism to Washington, D. C. Sincerely, democracy means loyalty to the people in Mrs. JoHN GARLAND. DEAR SIR: In listening to the Peoples Plat­ their conduct of public trust. True patriot­ form talk on the air Saturday evening, I ism to democracy means that our leaders are thank God that we have men like you and NEW YORK, N. Y. servants of a free people. Senator GEORGE, Senator WHEELER, that still Bon. Senator CHARLES WILLIAM ToBEY, What are the American people asking to­ believe that the people have and should have Senate Office Building, day? They are asking, Do you think Roose­ something to say as to whether our boys washington, D. C. velt is goin' to send our boys to Europe? should be forced to fight on foreign soil, MY DEAR SENATOR: The President has al­ Many citizens feel and believe that our great which will happen if we are to convoy ship­ ways said "short of war"; please keep him to President is not only for aid "short of war" ments abroad. his promise. but that he is attempting to arouse the people This is not honest nor fair to we Amer­ Do not let the Navy convoy ships to Europe. to war fever in order that youth may soon be icans and think we should have a refer­ Keep us out of war. thrown into foreign slaughter. These citizens endum vote on this subject and not push Thank you. are the same citizens who once heard the our young men into this slaughter. I remain, President promise that our boys would not Please keep up this :fight for us for there Yours truly, fight on European soil unless attacked. The are so many who believe a.s you do on this (Mrs.) LOUISE BANCROFT. deduction of thousands of Americans is that subject and to me is the most vital thing APRIL 7, 1941. our intervention in Europe's war with men is in the world, as I am a mother of one of already planned and promised. God forbid it. these boys. FmST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, The prayer of the maJority is that interven­ God bless you. Norwich, Conn., April12, 1941. tion with men has not been promised. A MOTHER FROM CLEVELAND, OHIO. United States Senator Honorable ToBEY, War propaganda is already widespread. It Washington, D. C. has grown by leaps and bounds, promoted and ALBANY, N. Y., April 12, 1941. MY DEAR SENATOR: Continue to oppose any perpetuated by the good and the bad, by the DEAR SIR: Your arguments on the or all convoying attempts. You will truly patriotic and unpatriotic. Men of public Peoples Platform talk on April 12 were serve your country in her best interests. trust are forsaking reason for loss of temper. wonderful. They were so honest and sin­ May a blessed Easter season be yours. Today Britain is :fighting for the same prin­ cere and real. Sincerely yours, in behalf of the m1llions ciples which we have pledged ourselves to "We the people" are being fooled by English Who tremble at the reckless and provocative protect. I am not anti-British; I am pro­ propaganda and lies. It's an awful thing ventures of our present administration. American. Britain is this country's friend, for a leader to promise the people one thing CARL STOREK, though she-·nas not always be_en ~o. I hope and do another. We will lose faith in our 3120 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE APRIL 15 Government. Here's all success to you and · The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without firmed today, see Senate proceedings of April a vote against convoys. objection, the nominations in the Navy 1 (legislative day, March 31), 1941, under the R. J. LEWIS. caption "Nominations," beginning on page are confirmed en bloc. 2796. BOSTON, MAss. THE MARINE CORPS Senator ToBEY, Washington, D. C.: The legislative clerk proceeded to read You sure are the true type of American and sundry nominations for promotion in the may you have success on your anti-convoy Marine Corps. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES crusade. We, the American people, do not Mr. BARKLEY. I make a similar re­ want our boys to convoy the goods across quest with regard to the nominations in TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1941 the sea. We want peace. That is what our · the Marine Corps. The House met' at 12 o'clock noon. President promised us. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without M. M. BURKE. The Chaplain, Rev; James Shera Mont­ objection, the nominations in the Marine gomery, D. D., offered the following Corps are confirmed en bloc. prayer: BUFFALO, N. Y., April 11, 1941. That completes the Calendar. Senator CHARLES M. ToBEY, 0 Lord, our God, we rejoice that Thou New Hampshire. ADJOURNMENT TO FRIDAY DEAR .SENATOR TOBEY: We Understand your hast made this day, the open sky, the recently introduced a resolution in the Sen­ Mr. BARKLEY. As in legislative ses­ sunlight, and all that is blossoming in ate which would forbid the use of United . sion, I move that the Senate adjourn the wide earth. Grant that as we look States naval or military forces to escort goods until 12 o'clock noon on Friday next. upon the bird, the flower, the heavens to foreign destinations. . The motion was agreed to; and