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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 1261' RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORA ament and European federation, all bold TION-NOMINATION OF HARRY A. Mc HOUSE OF REPRESENTATMS words and diplomatic subtleties are mean ingless. DONALD THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1952 Mr. HENNINGS. Mr. President, on Referring to this year's elections, the the Executive Calendar appears the The House met at 12 o'clock_ noon. editorial continues: nomination of Harry A. McDonald to The Chaplain, Rev.Bernard Braskamp, What the voters must decide is simply D. D., offered the following prayer: this: Will the country's strength and sta ·be Administrator of the Reconstruction bility be promoted best by continuing the Finance Corporation. By unanimous Most merciful God, may we now again drift toward bigger and bigger Government, consent this nomination will go over In all humility and with a contrite heart or by putting the control of more activities until Monday next. approach Thy throne of grace where in State and local governments and private none have ever been repelled and from hands? which none have ever gone away with We should like to make it plain that we RECESS are not neutral in this matter. We believe out Thy needed blessings. that the second solution is imperative. Ad The PRESIDING OFFICER. What is We pray that we may be girded with mittedly much of the bigness and heavy the pleasure of the Senate? wisdom and strength for the duties of spending and heavy taxation has been forced Mr. HENNINGS. As in legislative each new day. Enable us to go on upon the country by external events. But courageously as we seek to respond to :for this ve-r:y reason it is time to try to check session, I move that the Senate stand , the grmvth and the spending wherever it is in recess until 12 o'clock noon tomorrow. life's high calling. May we never be dis possible. The Federal Government and the Mr. BRIDGES. Mr. President, before couraged and defeated by obstacles and Federal debt--unlike Dr. Einstein's uni the motion is put, I should like to ask difficulties which we should surmount verse-cannot go on expanding indefinitely. the acting majority leader a question. and overcome. · Keep us from pride when we are suc Evidently, Collier's editorial writer is Is it the understanding that tomorrow beginning to see faintly the coming the meeting of the Senate will be only cessful, from bitterness when we are in distress, from complaint when we are in dawn of a new day. What Co1lier's for the purpose of the usual Washing want, and from despair when we seem apparently, from this editorial, has just ton's Birthday ceremony? to be the victims of untoward and evil discovered has, for a number of years, Mr. HENNINGS. The distinguished circumstances. been as clear to the average toiler and minority leader is correct. Tomorrow In Christ's name we off er our petition. citizen of the Midwest as the noonday will be devoted entirely and exclusively, Amen. sun in a cloudless sky. as I understand, to the reading of Gen Few, indeed, are the people who have eral Washington's Farewell Address. The Journal of the proceedings of attempted to put a roof on a home with The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yesterday was read and approved. out first providing a foundation. question is on agreeing ·to the motion While Collier's has now reached the of the Senator from Missouri. MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE conclusion that the Federal Government and the Federal debt cannot go on ex The motion was agreed to; and <at 3 A message from the Senate, by Mr. panding indefinitely, apparently it still o'clock and 20 minutes p. m.) the Sen Carrell, one of its clerks, announced that thinks that the United States can in ate took a recess until tomorrow, Fri the Senate had passed without amend definitely continue to be the major day, February 22, 1952, at 12 o'clock ment a joint resolution of the House of actor in an ever-expanding one-world meridian. the following title: organization. H. J. Res. 314. Joint resolution designat United Nations and other internation ing September 17 of each year as Citizen al organizations, by calling for ever NOMINATIONS ship Day. increasing appropriations and the ever Executive nominations r.eceived by the increasing conscription of America's Senate February 21 (legislative day of SPECIAL ORDERS GRANTED young manhood and its munitions of January 10), 1952: Mr. CRAWFORD asked and was given war, can just as surely destroy not only SERVICE the welfare and the freedom of our DIPLOMATIC AND FOREIGN permission to address the House for 5 Ellsworth Bunker, of New York, now Am minutes today, following any special or people but the security of our Republic. bassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary As Collier's so truthfully said, there is to Argentina, to be Ambassador Extraordi ders heretofore entered. a limit to the ability of the American nary and Plenipotentiary of the United States Mr. SEELY-BROWN asked and was people, which cannot carry the burden of America to Italy, vice James Clement given permission to address the House of an ever-expanding Federal Govern Dunn. for 15 minutes on Tuesday next, follow ment and Federal debt. Cavendish W. Cannon, of Utah, a Foreign ing the legislative program and any spe Service otncer of class 1, now Envoy Extraor Equally true is it that, in the foreign cial orders heretofore .entered. field, we cannot survive if we meet the dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Mrs. ROGERS of Massachusetts asked Syria, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and and was given permission to address the ever-expanding demands of a continual , Plenipotentiary of the United States of Amer House for 5 minutes today, following any ly increasing number of bankrupt part ica to Portugal, vice Lincoln MacVeagh. special orders heretofore entered. ners in a one-world organization. UNITED STATES ATTORNEY It is encouraging, greatly encourag Philip A. Hart, of Michigan, to be United ing, to note that Collier's, which, over States attorney for the eastern district of AMERICAN ECONOMY the last few years, has been an ardent Michigan, vice Edward T. Kane, resigned. Mr. HOFFMAN of Michigan. Mr. supporter of an ever-expanding waste Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ad ful New Deal bureaucracy, at last is be ginning to see the light. Time and CONFIRMATIONS dress the House for 1 minute and to re vise and extend my remarks and include again, it has, editorially and through Executive nominations confirmed by an editorial. the articles it has carried, ridiculed and the Senate February 21 (legislative day The SPEAKER. Is there objection to vilified, somewhat gleefully, those of us of January 10), 1952: the request of the gentleman from it was pleased to designate as conserva DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MUNICIPAL COURT OF tives, reactionaries, isolationists, and Michigan? who have always known and recognized .APPEALS There was no objection. Hon. Thomas D. Quinn, of the District of the fundamental truth that any struc Mr. HOFFMAN of Michigan. Mr. ture must have a foundation. Columbia, to be associate judge of the Mu Speaker, an editorial in the March 1 nicipal Court of Appeals for the District of issue of Collier's carries this statement: Some of us have always realized that Columbia. work and thrift, living within one's The greatest single hope for peace and means, were necessary if either the indi DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MUNICIPAL COURT :freedom in the world today lies in the Hon. John James Malloy, of the District of strength of the American economy. It is vidual or the Nation was to live. Columbia, to be an associate judge of the mu the key to the whole situation. Without It is to be hoped that some of the com nicipal court for the District of Columbia. that strength, all plans for European rearm- mentators and columnists like Tbomas 1262 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE February 21 Stokes, Marquis Childs, Jay Franklin, people who have come to look to a central I do not suggest that the change in Lowell Mellett, and many others, how government as the giver of all good gifts. thought in Collier's editorial is, in any ever sincere and patriotic they may have We believe that many Americans of the degree, caused by the change in public generation that grew up in the last 20 years been, will, like Collier's, sense the turn take that view of the Federal Government. sentiment. I do assume that Collier's in the trend of public opinion, recognize They are preoccupied with a Government editorial writers, like the columnists to and admit the truth that New Deal guaranteed security for the individual. Now whom I have referred, are beginning to policies and the foreign policy which we the desire for security, of course, is about as see the results of some of the policies have been following are both unsound basic as the desire for survival. But neither which they have so long advocated; that and ruinous. a person nor a nation can attain a real se they will begin to concede that some of us Collier's states that the editorial, to curity without some individual effort. To who opposed those policies were just as which reference has been made and be secure is to be safe. And the people of patriotic as were they; and that, per the United States will not long be safe or which is quoted in full hereafter, is the strong if they continue to give over to a haps, maybe-though we were not first of several editor·a1s dealing with paternalistic government a litt le freedom of learned in any particular field-we did the campaign issues which will appear choice here and a little freedom of action have some knowledge of some of the during the coming months.