March 14, 2000 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E295 Mr. Speaker, during my own years as a the removal of COMSAT's board and owner- takeover that followed. She and her parents New York State Assemblyman, Malcolm Wil- ship restrictions. Those restrictions are elimi- were able to escape to the West, and eventu- son served as a great inspiration and was of nated upon enactment without conditions. This ally she came to the United States. Kati is a immense assistance to our efforts. I can well change will enable Lockheed Martin to acquire journalist and author of the first rank. She cur- remember that his door was always open to 100% of COMSAT without further delay. I rently serves as the president of the Com- me or to any other legislator who sought his thank Chairman BLILEY and the other con- mittee to Protect Journalists, a nonpartisan assistance. ferees for amending this provision so that nongovernmental organization dedicated to In addition to being an outstanding public Lockheed Martin can more quickly enter the protecting journalists and press freedom servant, Malcolm Wilson was a courageous satellite communications market. throughout the world. She is also the author of veteran, having served in our Navy during I am also pleased that the conference Wallenberg: Missing Hero and Death in Jeru- World War II. He served on an ammunition agreement does not contain fresh look and so- salem. ship and participated in the invasion of Nor- called Level IV direct access, which would Mr. Speaker, I submit the text of Kati mandy. have been confiscatory and punitive. Extract- Marton's Stockholm address ``Remembering Malcolm was also a devoted husband to his ing those provisions, along with the significant Wallenberg'' to be placed in the RECORD, and wife, Katherine, who he married in 1941 and improvements that were made to the House- I urge my colleagues to give it thoughtful at- who died in 1980. passed privatization criteria, have put us in the tention. Gov. Malcolm Wilson was also known for position of being able to pass a compromise REMEMBERING WALLENBERG his dedication to his faith. He was a trustee at satellite reform bill that can be signed into law. I am immensely grateful for this chance to St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City and I congratulate my colleagues in the House talk about Raoul Wallenberg. was an active member of St. Denis Church in and in the Senate on a job well done, and I Fifty-five years after the Holocaust we are Yonkers. He was a major sponsor of State look forward to the enactment of this legisla- still learning things about that shameful chapter in history. The Swedish govern- legislation to provide secular textbooks and tion. ment’s recent admission of its mistakes is bus transportation to students at parochial f both commendable and essential . . . Not schools. only for the sake of historical truth—but to Mr. Speaker, I invite our colleagues to join AMERICAN JOURNALIST KATI put present and future leaders on notice that with me in extending our condolences to his MARTON ADDRESSES THE they will be held accountable. Sweden did daughters, Katharine and Anne, and to his six STOCKHOLM HOLOCAUST CON- misjudge the character of the evil rep- grandsons. FERENCE ON ‘‘REMEMBERING resented by Hitler . . . but this country also Gov. Malcolm Wilson was a giant of New WALLENBERG’’ gave the world Raoul Wallenberg . . . one of the Holocaust’s few genuine heroes. And York State history who will long be missed. today . . . thanks to Sweden . . . we are f HON. TOM LANTOS gathered here to learn not only from the OF CALIFORNIA misjudgements of the past terrible century CONFERENCE REPORT ON S. 376, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES . . . but from its extraordinary moments of OPEN-MARKET REORGANIZATION humanity . . . If those terrible times are to FOR THE BETTERMENT OF Tuesday, March 14, 2000 remain real . . . and cautionary . . . to those INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNI- Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, just a few weeks who are lucky enough never to have experi- CATIONS ACT ago in Stockholm representatives of 40 coun- enced them . . . a great deal of the credit triesÐincluding the Prime Ministers of Israel, goes to conferences like this one . . . for SPEECH OF which I thank the Swedish Government and Germany and Austria, and the President of the American Jewish Committee. HON. CLIFF STEARNS PolandÐas well as Holocaust survivors and The historians of the Century that has just OF FLORIDA spiritual leaders met to focus attention on the ended have the responsibility to tell the story of Wallenberg so that the next genera- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES legacy of the Holocaust. This three-day inter- national conference was organized by the gov- tion can understand humanity’s extraor- Thursday, March 9, 2000 ernment of Sweden as part of an effort to dinary power for both perversity and com- Mr. STEARNS. Mr. Speaker, I think that the raise awareness among young people about passion. Our responsibility is to shape public memory . . . and ultimately to stand against compromise before us accurately reflects the the genocide of six million Jews and two mil- evil by bearing witness. consensus of the Congress that we must en- lion others, including Roma (Gypsies) and ho- Since we are here in search of Historical courage the privatization of INTELSAT without mosexuals, under the Nazi German regime. Truth . . . I would like to say a few words diminishing competition. I strongly support the All who participated in the conference spoke about another Swede whose role in the Holo- satellite reform conference agreement and I of the importance of remembering that most caust and its aftermath has for too long been urge my colleagues in the House to vote for heinous tragedy and of fighting against anti- forgotten or misunderstood . . . buried under rumor and misinformation: Count Folke its passage today. Semitism, racism and bigotry. In his address Bernadotte. Bernadotte’s assassination at As many of you know, for the last few to the conference, German Chancellor the hands of Jewish extremists over half a years, there has been great disagreement be- Gerhard Schroeder said: ``We must support century ago is a tragically prophetic tale tween the House and Senate on how to craft each other in the teaching of humanity and . . . as we continue to search for peace in the a meaningful satellite communications reform civil courage, so that normal people shall Middle East. bill. Under the leadership of Chairman BLILEY, never again, in the name of some criminal ide- In many ways, Folke Bernadotte was not Representative TAUZIN and Representative ology, turn normal places into grim factories of the right man for the role of the United Na- tions first Arab-Israeli mediator . . . not in OXLEY, and Senator BURNS, we have reached execution.'' the overheated emotional climate . . . and the point in the debate where there is finally Mr. Speaker, one of the highlights of this volatile military situation . . . which pre- an agreement that can be enacted into law. I conference was the address by Hungarian- vailed during that traumatic first year of believe that the conference agreement born American journalist Kati Marton entitled Israel’s life. But—whatever his personal achieves the core objectives of everyone who ``Remembering Wallenberg.'' As she explained shortcomings or the weakness of his peace cares about satellite reform without imposing in her outstanding speech, the Swedish hu- effort . . . Folke Bernadotte was a good man substantial threats to genuine market competi- manitarian Raoul Wallenberg was one of the who threw caution to the winds and acted tion or breaching the Constitution. true heroes during this blackest of chapters in out of humanity. In the ’40s . . . as now . . . When the House passed its satellite reform the history of humankind. Against almost in- those qualities were in short supply. He de- served better than he got: death at the hands bill at the end of the first session of the 106th surmountable odds, he went to Budapest at of extremists opposed to any negotiated set- Congress, I expressed some concerns of mine the height of the Nazi effort to extinguish the tlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict. about a provision in the House bill that Jews of Hungary, and through courage, intel- Long before Bernadotte landed in Pal- seemed to place unnecessary conditions on ligence and incredible effort, he was instru- estine, he had proved himself a skilled nego- lifting COMSAT's ownership caps. In my opin- mental in saving the lives of as many as one tiator and committed humanitarian. He was ion, retaining this language would have contin- hundred thousand Jews. responsible for the War’s most unsung, most ued to block the consummation of the Lock- Mr. Speaker, Kati Marton is superbly quali- controversial, and most successful rescue ef- fort inside Germany. heed Martin-COMSAT merger. I am pleased fied to provide this outstanding appraisal of Through many hours of hard nosed nego- that this issue I raised was addressed by the Wallenberg. She was born in Hungary, and tiations with the notorious Heinrich Himm- conferees. The conference agreement now both of her parents were journalists who suf- ler . . . Bernadotte extricated 21,000 pris- before us does not impose any conditions on fered the Nazi occupation and the Communist oners . . . including 6,500 Jews . . . citizens
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